Memories of Halloweens past…

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Fyrefox

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With Halloween nigh, what are memories of Halloween from the past that you have? It could be something scary or gross, or simply a recollection of how you celebrated…

I remember stumbling around the streets Trick-or-Treating in the cheesy store-bought Ben Cooper type costumes with a brittle plastic face mask that steamed up your glasses if you wore them, so you’d go around half blind. My leopard costume even had a tail and was a favorite, and the mask looked like this. Realistic, huh?- -Rawr! 🐯

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I remember dressing like a gypsy every year in a homemade costume. As I got older the skirt got shorter. I loved it! My brother was always a ghost made with a white sheet. In the little town of Harpursville (NY) where we lived every year there was a Halloween party at the school. My mother drove us around the town Trick or Treating. Back then we got a lot of homemade goodies that were really good, like fudge, brownies, cookies, popcorn balls, caramel apples, etc. It was safe back then. My mask was a cloth one that just covered my eyes. I think it was red to match my skirt.
 
Fyrefox said:
With Halloween nigh, what are memories of Halloween from the past that you have? It could be something scary or gross, or simply a recollection of how you celebrated…

I remember stumbling around the streets Trick-or-Treating in the cheesy store-bought Ben Cooper type costumes with a brittle plastic face mask that steamed up your glasses if you wore them, so you’d go around half blind. My leopard costume even had a tail and was a favorite, and the mask looked like this. Realistic, huh?- -Rawr! 🐯

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I remember those as well!
 
I remember going trick-or-treating with my sister, no adults accompanying us, when I was 9. It was so different. No one thought anything of it if someone invited us into there house to give us homemade treats. These were usually grandmotherly people.

My mother would make our costumes. Afterward, she would take off the decorations and they would become pajamas or nightgowns. She wouldn't let me be a (good) witch. :-( Probably because the costume would turn into a black nightgown.
 
I can recall going trick-or-treating, only once, with my 2 older sisters, when I was around 5 yrs. old. We were all ghosts, as there was no money to spend on costumes. Houses were fairly spaced out in our little town, so, I don't think we got a lot of candy.

After we moved to a city in another Province, we would take my little brother trick-or-treating. People always commented on how cute he was .. and, he was particularly adorable. The problem was, they wanted a "trick" before giving a treat. He was a shy little boy, so, it was not so much fun for him. I doubt people do that these days - at least, I hope they don't.
 
As a youngster, Halloween was about fireworks and bonfires. No real health & safety worries then. We saved our pocket money to build up a stock of fireworks (squibs as we called them) for Halloween night. One thing we would do was to make "ballistic missiles" by inserting a banger into the top of a cheap rocket. When fired off, as the rocket fuel burnt out it would ignite the banger fuse which would explode as the rocket landed.

Trick or treat was regarded as a foreign term , but we had similar things called "Halloween knock" and "Guising" where children would dress up and perform songs or tell jokes in return for sweets or a few pence. When we came back north, we made sure we had a supply of sweets in for Halloween, but nobody here seems to celebrate anything except Hogmanay and Burns night, even Christmas was not recognised as a public holiday till 1971 in Scotland.
 
I remember one Halloween was at a party by one my friend's grandmother.
There was a molasses taffy pull that we did.
don't think I've had good molasses since then.

Another time the large girls that I knew talked my mother into going trick or treating with us.
She was small & could pass as a child.
We stopped at my grandmother's,, talked her into going with us,, which she did.

One of the houses we stopped at discovered that there were adults in the group.
Wanted Gram to sing for her treat,, which was a mixed drink.
She had to talk her way out of that.
 

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