What's Your Favorite Childhood Memory of Halloween?

Dressing up as Munchichi and walking in my school parade!

I loved dressing up, and going to my god moms parties! Halloween is her birthday, so she always went all at! And then at the end of the night my brother and I would pour our candy into one big pile, and split it all equally.

the school parades though I didn't get to go trick or treating much, because I always got sick around holidays.

Halloween is just my favorite! My favorite memory was in second grade, I was a witch and my dad painted my face green and I had a fake nose, a straw broom and everything! ( I was channeling Elphaba at an early age ) I grew up in the Bronx so we didnt really trick or treat that much..but we had a block party that day! It was awesome..

Also, my sisters and I watch Hocus Pocus religiously around Halloween..I am going home tomorrow to watch it with them!

basty, I still have my Monchichi's!!

My favorite memory is The first year my mom didnt go with us, my older sister Kristine was old enough to take us all by herself. so all four of us went around trick or treating and Kris just let us go wild! There were the houses that just left a giant bowl out with a note, because they went out to dinner or whatever, and we would just take handfuls! we stayed out WAY past our curfew, and used someones phone to call my mom and tell her that we were all the way on the other side of the nieghborhood and would be back as soon as we could.

back then? she wasnt worried at all. We felt so free and alive and happy!

Watching Hocus Pocus with my Dad, it's our favorite movie and the source of SO many quotes and inside jokes between the two of us! Whenever it came on TV, even if it was half over, we had to sit and watch it!

I looove Hocus Pocus! SO funny!

I absolutely love Halloween, it is SO my thing. One of my favorite memories is two years ago I dressed up my cubicle as a spider web and had webbing on EVERY wall and a 10 foot spider above my cubicle that looked like he was standing on it. People were comign from all over the building to look and take pictures hehe.

When I was a kid I loved planning out a route for trick or treating and getting a whole pillowcase full of candy and then sitting with my brother and sister and trading candies (I'll give you three licorice strips for that KitKat! Okay, I'll give you all of my gumballs for all of your Sweettarts? NO Deal!) hehehe

Its sad but I can probably recite 90% of Hocus Pocus..my sister sent me an email this morning saying Happy Halloween and to be careful tonite..(the weirdos are out)..lol..we always quote that movie

Memories as a younger Halloween lover: Having my mom paint my face and get my costume ready and then going out with my sister, neighbors and dad to trick-or-treat around the neighborhood.

Memories as an older Halloween lover: Going out to see the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" 4 times in college and doing all the dances and sayings!

The only thing I 'liked' other than free candy was the school carnivals. Loved the cake walk...never bobbed for apple...all that drool! GahRoss!

Dressing up as cleopatra! Loved that costume!

"Going out to see the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" :

UrbanBohemian... my mother was one of the people who dressed up and went to the theaters in Minneapolis, MN.. she was a wild child.

I was a person who went to the RHPS all dressed up. I still know all the responses. ...i miss going now.

I'm talking in 1975 now... not the remake. She was one of the original people in full costume acting out the movie while it was playing...her stories are wild! It was the same time she literally ran into Gene Simmons at a party, who stuck out his tongue at her and she turned and ran into a door.
She's why I'm so boring... who could top all that? LOL

I remember dressing up as a genie...it was my fave costume!
but definetly the swapping candy at the end of the night..also stealing some it without him noticing was fun!

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

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

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....

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.

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.

allourregrets....thats not cool

my parents always said halloween is sacrilegious ):

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!)

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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it's weird that i love halloween so much, yet every year it sucks and i'm just in a bad mood and crying.

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

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!

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!

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.