Tell us about Halloween when you were a kid!

Well, the last time I went Trick-or-Treating, I wore this cheesy store bought Ben Cooper leopard Halloween costume, ‘cause I was a furry even back then, although we didn’t have a name for it in those times. The plastic mask steamed up your glasses and you could barely see out of the cut-out eye holes, so you went stumbling around in the dark, but having the time of your life!

My only concern was that my leopard tail would fall off, because we had worn our costumes for a much-anticipated afternoon Halloween party at school, and kids couldn’t resist pulling on my tail then. It wasn’t intended for that kind of rough treatment…

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The suburbs of Silicon Valley. The streets were full of people in costumes and tote bags. It was soooo fun walking by people and seeing the different costumes. Sometimes I didn't know who it was but most of time I did. My younger brother and I always went to our room afterwards and put our candy and such in categories. Then we started trading. :)
 

CallMeKate said:
Oh, you're right! I never realized how gross that was... and not only sticking our faces in the same water as everyone else's spit, but if others tried to bite the same apple and missed... !!! 😳 However did we survive?! Today's helicopter parents would be facing apoplexy! 🤭
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LOL LOL LOL I am laughing so hard I spit my tea out, we had fun back then. Remember touching all the things at those haunted houses, like spaghetti for brains and hard boiled eggs for eye balls etc.. and your right we all touched them and never thought a thing about it.
 
One year in New Jersey, my brother, sister and I went trick or treating and some teenage boys tried to catch us and probably take our candy but we ran and didn't realize how fast we could run but we finally outran them. It was scary and after that, we didn't go out unless it was in our meighborhood but always watching for older kids following us.
 
There was a report in the newspapers in the early 1970s of a babysitter who died of extreme shock (her black hair had turned white) after a Halloween prank done by a pizza delivery guy.
 
I'm a Halloween baby, so growing up it was the best holiday ever. My mother once rented a room at a bowling alley and all my friends from elementary school showed up in costume. I always Trick-or-Treated as a kid. It was an innocent time.

Now it's just another birthday.
 
I'm afraid I dislike Halloween. To me it is a celebration of very unwholesome things.
I've never understood the reason for it and I don't see it as just fun.
 
Whenever I think of trick or treating, I think of the Connoyer kids. There was a family, the Connoyers, who had a bunch of kids. Probably 8 or more. I lost track of how many they were. The Connoyer kids would start trick or treating really early in the evening. They'd go home put on different costumes, and hit the rounds. Then go home, change, and hit the rounds, again and again.
I remember being a kid and opening the door when there was a knock. I'd yell, "Ma, it's the Connoyer kids, again". They'd get candy and would be back. That had to be 70 years ago, and they still have Halloween candy left.
 

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