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MontanaMama

(23,238 posts)
31. My favorite holiday hands down.
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 11:39 PM
Oct 2019

You all would be shocked of I told you all the hours it took me to get my outside Halloween decorations out....it takes at least two days. I won’t even go into inside decorations! I loved it as a kid...my mom hated it....it’s probably one of the reasons I loved it as much as I do. I spent weeks planning my costumes. October feels like magic to me that lasts through Dia de los muertos which I also celebrate. My birthday is the 29th so when I was a kiddo it seemed like a big long celebration from birthday through Day of the Dead.

Fun (also, no one x-rays candy. Lol!) demmiblue Oct 2019 #1
I read somewhere that some parents were going to hospitals to X-ray candy steve2470 Oct 2019 #2
no it just happened later qazplm135 Oct 2019 #5
It defintely is a "thing"--just not during the time period of the OP (nor even several years later) hlthe2b Oct 2019 #8
yes I never heard of it when I was a child, and only starting maybe in the 1980's ? nt steve2470 Oct 2019 #9
Speaking for myself, it seemed to be one of those over-produced TV scare stories. demmiblue Oct 2019 #13
In your wildest imagination, can you envision hundreds of parents, lining up outside the E.R., 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #30
yes excellent points nt steve2470 Oct 2019 #38
No, This Actually RobinA Oct 2019 #69
Yes, I believe it was. I never, ever saw or heard of families in our town amywalk Oct 2019 #72
I love sweets so fun qazplm135 Oct 2019 #3
great costume! nt steve2470 Oct 2019 #17
Loved it! Always made our own costumes and makeup. Also remember collecting pennies for unicef Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 #4
yes! imagine that today. unblock Oct 2019 #10
Not sure if they still do it. Certainly not in my area. I do recall a few years ago reading letters Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2019 #14
yes I remember the little UNICEF cartons, I never collected very much steve2470 Oct 2019 #12
So much fun! Did it every year until I was 12 in 1964. 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2019 #6
Always turned so cold we had to cover our costumes with coats--bummer. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #7
Yes... I hated wearing a coat LeftInTX Oct 2019 #52
what are you talking about? the free razor blades was the best part! unblock Oct 2019 #11
old enough to shave? and still trick-or-treating? stopdiggin Oct 2019 #15
As kids we did black face for trick or treat. That was in the 50's. So much of what we did was wasupaloopa Oct 2019 #16
Fun, for the most part Ohiogal Oct 2019 #18
I always thought it was fun, but I remember one year when it was very cold, my parents made me smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #55
poison candy and foreign objects are mostly urban legends stopdiggin Oct 2019 #19
Halloween, 1978 - Luke Skywalker. Aristus Oct 2019 #20
Loved it! I started about 1957. We went in a small group of just kids. What a great way to have dameatball Oct 2019 #21
Lived in a small farming town TlalocW Oct 2019 #22
yup remember the plastic costumes. EricaGriswoldAuthor Oct 2019 #47
We always had the day after Halloween out of school - so we did it up big time rurallib Oct 2019 #23
My friend and I used to go to the rich neighborhood where they gave out the full sized candy bars ProudLib72 Oct 2019 #24
We trick or treated for Texasgal Oct 2019 #25
I did that too radical noodle Oct 2019 #36
The complete idiocy of the "razor blade in candy" nonsense... jberryhill Oct 2019 #26
excellent points, yes nt steve2470 Oct 2019 #39
Ranks right up there with the missing kids on the milk cartons. llmart Oct 2019 #62
In the fifties. Fun. Baton twirling majorette. Ma had to put an empty sprinkleeninow Oct 2019 #27
Well,not exactly a kid,.. Permanut Oct 2019 #28
only did it when I was in America Skittles Oct 2019 #29
My favorite holiday hands down. MontanaMama Oct 2019 #31
In our town, it started with the costume parade assembly at the elementary school. 3Hotdogs Oct 2019 #32
Loved every minute of it as a kid. Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2019 #33
Yep. I'm 60 and did it until I was about 10 as well. Maybe 11. PatrickforO Oct 2019 #34
In that instance, I think we can all safely say things were better steve2470 Oct 2019 #66
I always did Trick or Treat for UNICEF radical noodle Oct 2019 #35
#1 Miss Willie Mae's home made popcorn balls yellowdogintexas Oct 2019 #37
Yes indeed shadowmayor Oct 2019 #54
My siblings and I always found things to make our own costumes and marched in the parade and ran all appleannie1 Oct 2019 #40
Oh yes, I'm 67 and Fundamentalists hadn't turned against Haloween when I was a kid. lark Oct 2019 #41
33 and still dress up... EricaGriswoldAuthor Oct 2019 #42
We had "mischief night" before Halloween randr Oct 2019 #43
We would call ahead and only go to people we knew IronLionZion Oct 2019 #44
Meh. Blue_playwright Oct 2019 #45
We did not celebrate Halloween when my mom was a Jehovah's Witness. hunter Oct 2019 #46
"Trick or treat for Unicef" oswaldactedalone Oct 2019 #48
when my late mom was a litle girl( great depression era 1.0) she would listen to spookey shows on AllaN01Bear Oct 2019 #49
Great fun bottomofthehill Oct 2019 #50
We were not allowed any candy that was not wrapped or things like applegrove Oct 2019 #51
Fun...I'm almost 63 LeftInTX Oct 2019 #53
1960's - Lame, uncomfortable, store-bought costumes, mostly crappy candy, cold weather. ThoughtCriminal Oct 2019 #56
A family from Poland moved in across the street a week or two before Halloween world wide wally Oct 2019 #57
Fun and safe for us wnylib Oct 2019 #58
Fun. My mom made great costumes LakeArenal Oct 2019 #59
Halloween fun in the 40's northoftheborder Oct 2019 #60
I celebrated Halloween as a kid, and still do Niagara Oct 2019 #61
I only got to go trick or treating a couple of years. llmart Oct 2019 #63
Recall fondly benld74 Oct 2019 #64
Anyone know what Corning a House is? benld74 Oct 2019 #65
Haloween as a kid in the DFW area imavoter Oct 2019 #67
It was really fun in the late 50s. Mr.Bill Oct 2019 #68
I'm 62 RobinA Oct 2019 #70
My brother and I did it until we were in our 30s! bif Oct 2019 #71
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