Thread: Fondest Halloween Memories

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I was just thinking back to what Halloween was like when I was a kid. I thought it would be nice for us to share some specific memories from our childhood I remember coming home from school...and as I got off the bus, seeing that big orange pumpkin blow mold in the front bay window. I got so excited, I'd run up the driveway and bust through the front door! After looking through the whole house and checking everything out, I then got mad that my mom didn't wait for me to decorate LOL. I spent the next few weeks, casually re-arranging things (I was anal even as a child). Almost every year, we started getting trick or treaters while we were still having dinner. I remember being so anxious to get on my costume and get out the door! But, can only go as fast as the parents! My dad was a buster and use to take his time on purpose.....which would make me cry lol. I also remember one specific Halloween, I was a vampire that year. Stopped at the first house of the night and I remember looking in the porch window.......and ended up scaring the crap out of a girl a year or so younger than myself and she went running up the stairs LOL. Another year, I remember some gentleman tried giving me an eggplant instead of candy lol.

What are some memories ya'll have?

one time me and brother and sisters came home from school and we were locked out of the house waiting for my mom to get home so we could get our costumes on and get out there trick or treating. i remember crying my eyes out cuz i was losing precious, valuable time. and i remember my costume was that one where you strapped some plastic blow up monster head/face onto your head and the plastic straps tied under your chin. i forget the name of the costume. i was happy a s apig in #@!$ once my mom got home and i was off down the block getting my loot!!!

Aww you poor thing. That must've been pure torture! lol

Going into the attic crawl space early in October to get out the box of Beistle cutouts.

Visiting a local pumpkin farm and picking out the ones we would carve out.

Sitting at the kitchen table with my dad and carving out our jack o lanterns the night before Halloween.

The school Halloween costume parade.

Putting our costumes on around 4 p.m. in anticipation of going out for TOT, but having to wait until around 6 when my dad got home from work.

Having NO designated TOT hours and as we got older, staying out until 10 p.m. when the porch lights went off or people ran out of candy.

Being so excited when my mom opened the attic to get down the decorations (wayyy too late for my liking now). Also attending my grandmother's school's Halloween carnival...frito pie, cake walks, carnival games, fortune telling, etc. Brilliant! Wishing with all my heart to see a witch fly across the moon on Halloween night...I adore my memories! Too many to put into words.

I remember chowing down on supper to try to get out the door eailer. We are lucky someone didn't choke. I wore the same cowgirl outfit for several years. It had an elastic waist band so I could do this. I cried the year it didn't fit anymore. The memory that stands out the most is the year my brother took me trick or treating. He had a bar of soap to soap the car windows of people who didn't give out candy. I was horrified at this lawlessness. We went to a Catholic school and we were expected to go to the convent so our teachers could see what we looked like in our costumes. My brother made me put his soap under my hat. One of the sisters told me to take off my cowgirl hat, and I started to cry and ran out. My brother was mad and took me home and told my mom I was crying cause I was sick. I was sad not to be able to tot anymore that night, but there was no way I would tattle on my only brother. It's great to think back over past Halloweens. Thanks for reminding me MissManners.

I remember mostly the awesome parties that we had in Brownies and Girlscouts.

- The school costume parade. The entire day was awesome. A morning lesson or two, the teacher always dressed up...then classroom parties and decorating, haunted houses put on by the faculty staff. My first elementary school would go ALL. OUT. Tractor hay rides in the playground and everything.
We usually had to wait to change into our costumes until the lunch hour...I can remember everyone carrying theirs in plastic or paper bags under their desks.

- As a young kid, I can specifically remember the Halloween window clings we used. They were homemade and actually taped on to the window...coloured paper. A hissing black cat and moon, a variety of ghosts and pumpkins. I would be SO impatient to start TOTing...the sun would be going down, and I'd keep asking and asking if we could go out yet. My parents were cool...they insisted on waiting until it was mostly dark.

- TOTing was awesome in the old neighborhoods. Crisp night air, leaf-filled streets and towering old trees right out of a storybook. Lots of houses having a blast...I remember best those who would dress up as a dummy and sit lifeless on the porch with the candy bowl...forcing kids to come get a piece. The cool part was, we all KNEW the dummy was real...that was part of the scare, knowing he'd jump out at us at any second...
Oh yes, and the guys who would hide in leaf piles...
I was so fascinated with everyone's pumpkins...

- My candy holder, which was a plastic jack-o-lantern. For some reason I remember the black pebbly texture of it's eyes and how it always smelled vaguely of licorice.

I have many more memories, but sleep is calling...blast this mint tea, though it is delicious. I need to ask...there is one noise in particular that really reminds me of old school Halloween. A lot of props back in the 90's would use it, along with flashing eyes...last year Spirit Halloween was selling pens that lit up and made this exact noise when you pressed them. Anyone know what I'm talking about???

It was sort of like a high pitched warble and then a low one...and then a high one...and over and over. Associated with ghosts I think.

My earliest memory of Halloween, and its also a memory that sticks out the most, is when I was about 4 or 5. We lived in a mobile home park and I remember that practically the whole park was decorated up with lights and blowmolds. There was a center part where they had a fire and snacks. All the kids were dressed up and it seemed that even the adults were having a festive time. I asked my Mom about this one time and she couldnt believe that I even remembered it. She said that the whole park celebrated Halloween and it was a big event. We moved into our house when I was 6. Nothing in our neighborhood really compared to that memory though.

I remember in my very very early years my uncle use to come over every year (since my dad was out of the picture) and bring 2 pumpkins to my house .. 1 for me 1 for him and we would carve them together.. this one memeory i had was one day after school in simi valley ca it was really windy and i kept trying to hang a cool skull prop my mom baught for me but it wouldent stay up! dont know why but thats a random one I have.. the same day my grandmother took me to get my costume and this zombie ( older guy dressed up) walked right across the street in front of our car.. I remember being scared but really excited the same time lol...