Thread: Your first trick or treating?

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You have all probably discussed this I would imagine. I was wondering if you could remember the first time you went trick or treating. My daughter, who is two, was just enjoying looking at the pics we took of her this past Halloween. We dressed her as a witch. I remember mine and it was in '74 and I was four. I was dressed as Spectreman! (you all remember Spectreman right?) I fell in love with Halloween right then and there in 74 and have dug it ever since. Just wondering if you all remember your first?.......

I don't necessarily remember the "first" time, but I remember ealry TOT outings. My dad would take my sister, brother and myself out. I can remember going to neighbors and going into their homes to get treats and have pictutres taken. We didn't go far the first few years, just down our street and then to our grandparents where they would pretend they didn't know who we were in our costumes. I also remember getting treats like apples, brownies and cookies and you never thought twice about eating them. The best part was the costumes we'd get at Woolworths or W.T. Grants. The satiny one piece suit and the plastic mask with the elastic string to hold it in place. Made your face swaet like a pig! Good times!

I don't think I recall the very first outing, but I do remember that every single Halloween, my dad suddenly got really cool
We had the perfect neighborhood for TOTing and he would walk me (and any accompanying friends) throughout all the streets, all night long, holding the extra pillow case for when the first one filled up, and it was always the best night of the year for me!

I remember a little bit, probably not my first year, but shortly after... Strangely, I remember getting dressed up more than the actual trick-or-treating. A few years back we were getting dressed up as adults to go out to bars for Halloween. I remember my wife putting on my face paint... The smell of that face paint took me way back to one of my first Halloween's as a child. It is weird the way the mind works.

Well like most of you, I don’t remember my “first” Halloween or trick or treating but what I do remember most was growing up as a military brat, living on base at Rhein-Main A.F.B. Germany. We were living in apartment housings and each apartment building would have Halloween theme, display or spook alley. We would run to each building and go through each display. It was a great time. We too would get all kinds of great treats, like brownies, popcorn balls, carmel apples, cotton candy AND all kinds of German candy. We could fill a pillow case with goodies in a couple of minutes. I’m sure that’s where I got the love of Halloween. The movie “The Lady in White” reminds me of that time of my life.

I think I was around 4 and my older sis took me out. she waited while i walked up to this dark spooky house. i rang the bell and this guy jumped out with a skull mask and scared the holy living **** out of me. I cried and cried. After I calmed down my sis gave me eggs and told me to throw them at the cars. I think that year i was a gypsy, then the following year a hobo, then a fairy princess with homemade wings. We always used pillow cases and only came home when they were full.

I remember my mom wanted me to be a princess or fairy or you know one of those goody goody girly girl type of things. Back then it was the plastic masks with the rubber band round the head to keep it up and the plastic outfit (one piece) I remember asking my dad if he can make me a skeleton outfit and paint my face. I grew up with all boys and I'm the youngest. So yeah back in the early seventies my dad made me out to be a skeleton. Wish I could find a pic of that it was way kewl back then. Poor mom she tried very hard to get me into the girly girl things and I never wanted too. Even up to today I have 3 snakes and 1 tarantula people always say wow you let your kids have those kinds of pets I say nope, they are mine.

Oh wow forgot bout this when we got older almost teens we went to a neighboring city in Downey California where the kewl big houses were and Caren Carpenters house was they gave out the BIG Candies not the little bite size ones.

I too don't remember if it was the first time or not, but in my earliest memory I was dressed as Casper the Friendly Ghost. The costume came from Woolworths, just like the ones jdubbya talked about. My Dad took me, and I can remember falling and tearing one of the knees out of the costume. I was devastated. In later years I would go with my older cousins that lived just a few doors down from us. We would run from house to house, it was all I could do to keep up. Like mementomori said, we would use pillow cases for our treat bags. I can remember it being so full that I had to drag it home........ I guess some of us never grow out of it, God I love Halloween...............

Let's see...the first TOT I remember, my Mom made a clown outfit for me (and the stupid crotch was too tight-aren't mom's always supposed to check that sorta thing??). ANYWAY, I digress...I thoroughly, THOROUGHLY enjoyed the whole experience, costume malfunctions and all, as my childhood neighborhood was the perfect Haddonfield setup with big houses and tall oaks lining the sidewalks--large groups of Halloween characters TOT'ing everywhere, parents sillouetted in the dark by their living room lights behind to give out candy...

I will never grow out of this.

I think back with fond memories of my youthful trick or treatings. My dad usually took me around while Mom handed out the candy. Having a pillow case full of candy. Being upset when my vinyl Ben Cooper costume ripped. lol