What's Your Favorite Childhood Memory of Halloween?

October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Since you're probably watching the clock in anticipation of your Halloween plans, I thought it'd be a good time to ask you all to take a trip down memory lane with me! Since Halloween is typically a kids' holiday, tell me, what is your favorite childhood memory of this day? Was it the candy? The costumes? Or swapping your sweet treats with your siblings at the end of the night?

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Frenched 4 years

I guess my best Halloween was one when I was about 7 years old. I was tired of always dressing up as cutesy princesses, lovely bumblebees or ladybugs so I decided, very last minute, that I was going to be a "scary ghost." I think I made my own costume. I took a bad sheet, cut two wholes for my eyes (they weren't very even!!) and just wore that thing and felt so proud that I wasn't a "pretty princess" like the other girls, haha. I just remember feeling a little embarrassed that everyone was laughing at my two uneven eyes but, I was still proud that I did it :) My second favorite Halloween was one where I was actually giving out the candy in Mexico. My dad used to work as this toy/candy factory so we got to take a lot toys and candies home with us. We had SO MUCH stuff that we decided to try and get rid of it all on Halloween Day. Word spread around WAY TOO FAST and I had the longest line of people asking (and double-asking) for candy and toys. It was pretty fun.

Frenched 4 years

I guess my best Halloween was one when I was about 7 years old. I was tired of always dressing up as cutesy princesses, lovely bumblebees or ladybugs so I decided, very last minute, that I was going to be a "scary ghost." I think I made my own costume. I took a bad sheet, cut two wholes for my eyes (they weren't very even!!) and just wore that thing and felt so proud that I wasn't a "pretty princess" like the other girls, haha. I just remember feeling a little embarrassed that everyone was laughing at my two uneven eyes but, I was still proud that I did it :)My second favorite Halloween was one where I was actually giving out the candy in Mexico. My dad used to work as this toy/candy factory so we got to take a lot toys and candies home with us. We had SO MUCH stuff that we decided to try and get rid of it all on Halloween Day. Word spread around WAY TOO FAST and I had the longest line of people asking (and double-asking) for candy and toys. It was pretty fun.

ilanac13 4 years

my best memories were of my mom making my costumes. she's a GREAT seamstress and i loved that i could be whatever i wanted and it always looked so professional. i was a flapper and a french maid - and the best were the years that i was a traffic light and a shower. those are the random ones, but they were so much fun!

sushibananas 4 years

When we were little, my brother and I would have a competition as to who could eat their candy the slowest...who could keep it longer (and really who had more self control). We would actually count all of our pieces the night of Halloween to make sure we started with the same amount. He would always win because I have WAY too bad of a sweet tooth! But every year I'd enter the competition with all the positive thoughts and total belief that I could beat him. Not once!

PiNkY PiNk 4 years

the halloween parades in school were always fun. and I'm the oldest of 5 so we always had lots of candy! my brother (2nd oldest) and I would take our little sisters' candy away... we were both bullies! lol

aka Daria 4 years

none. it's weird that i love halloween so much, yet every year it sucks and i'm just in a bad mood and crying.

aka Daria 4 years

none.it's weird that i love halloween so much, yet every year it sucks and i'm just in a bad mood and crying.

leeluvfashion 4 years

The annual parade around our grade school (from grade K-5th.) Those were such fun! I was random with my costumes (in order): K - Cat, 1st-Cat or Witch ( :? ), 2nd-Out Sick (blah), 3rd- Pink Lady from Grease, 4th- Grim Reaper (everyone thought I was a boy because no girl choose dark costumes,lol) 5th- The "Scream" Killer. In 6th grade (and my final year trick or treating) I went as a 50's Bobby Soxer. Much fun! Also going out trick or treating w/ my mom, dad or grandmother are memories I'll always have.

leeluvfashion 4 years

The annual parade around our grade school (from grade K-5th.) Those were such fun! I was random with my costumes (in order): K - Cat, 1st-Cat or Witch ( :? ), 2nd-Out Sick (blah), 3rd- Pink Lady from Grease, 4th- Grim Reaper (everyone thought I was a boy because no girl choose dark costumes,lol) 5th- The "Scream" Killer. In 6th grade (and my final year trick or treating) I went as a 50's Bobby Soxer. Much fun!Also going out trick or treating w/ my mom, dad or grandmother are memories I'll always have.

ms jamerz 4 years

Trick-or-Treating around the whole neighbourhood with my sisters, my dad and my papa. After we'd collect tons of candy we'd walk to my great-grandmas for special treats! Going home and sorting through all the candy was so much fun! I also loved the halloween parades at school. good times.

allourregrets 4 years

and it was pretty funny when we found the bags of candy in the attic, when we were much older. It was fun to reminisce and by then my mom had lightened up a little, so we teased her for being so mean to us! ;)

allourregrets 4 years

sun_sun- My mom never really let us celebrate halloween (being raised in a pretty strict southern baptist home) usually the most we got to do was go to whatever activity the church was having. So it really was pretty exciting for us still. Even though we were upset we didnt get to keep the candy, we got over it.

pippins_halfling 4 years

There was this family that had made their house a haunted house! They really went all out. It was amazing.

Muirnea 4 years

I remember sitting at the kitchen table after trick or treating and my sister and I would trade candy and sort everything out. That was fun.

Hiding55 4 years

Trick or treating in grandma's neighborhood where they had street lights and then coming home and fighting with my brothers over who had the best/most candy.

bluestar 4 years

Trick or treating with my friends and the pillowcase thing! ha ha, I loved that, who could get more in their pillowcase?

skigurl 4 years

probably organizing and counting our candy and putting it in all the various bowls and trading and giving our parents the stuff we hated (black licorice!)

ohkate 4 years

my parents always said halloween is sacrilegious ):

Sun_Sun 4 years

allourregrets....thats not cool :(

allourregrets 4 years

this isnt really my favorite memory. But one year we went trick or treating and me and my sisters all got lots of candy. When we got home our mom let us choose 3 peices each and then took our bags and put them in the attic. We found them years later when we were moving out of that house.

bbkf 4 years

When I was young, my family grew giant pumpkins. We'd have about 10 full grown by Halloween and would a whole day carving them. When I was 8 we grew one so big I could sit inside it.

Fallen85 4 years

I remember when my mom said she got me a costume and I was so disappointed because I thought she was going to get me the wrong one and I wanted to pick it out but when she got home she had this really amazing Witch costume which was JUST what I wanted!! I thought she was psychic!! But it probably had to do with the fact that i'd dressed as a witch every year for the past 4 years....

Sun_Sun 4 years

oh all of it....halloween was just the most exciting day ever!!!!! everything from the school parade and parties to going trick or treating with out friends....just love it and im so bummed out that there r no kids in our building to hand out candy to :(

Sun_Sun 4 years

oh all of it....halloween was just the most exciting day ever!!!!! everything from the school parade and parties to going trick or treating with out friends....just love itand im so bummed out that there r no kids in our building to hand out candy to :(

Fixe 4 years

i was in seventh grade and there was a parade and i dressed up like a cow!!! It had fake utters and everything!! everybody loved that costume!! i love cows so it was awesome!!! When I was little, my twin sister, my cousin and I would all match for halloween, we would always be the same thing together. I remember one year, we were all brides, and my cousin decides to put on a pink turtle neck under her dress while me and my sister wore white, so she can be different. looking back on those pictures, i crack up :)

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