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In reply to the discussion: Halloween when you were a kid: fun, not fun, never did it, etc ? [View all]yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)you had to get over there early before they were all gone. THose things were legendary. Other folks had home made goodies but those popcorn balls were the ultimate.
Every house gave out something. One old lady sent us home with 2 bags of candy: one for us and one for our dad. First thing he wanted to know was if Miss Jessie gave us candy for him, and we gave it to him. It turned out his candy was bourbon balls!!!
When I was in second grade, our teacher invited everyone to stop at her house for trick or treats. First, you have to know she lived with her mom and old maid sister in a fairly creepy Victorian right across the street from our school. Big wraparound porch etc
So we get there, knock on the door and here comes Miss Walker in a full blown witch outfit, with a broom and everything. In the living room is an old lard pot ( huge cast iron cauldron) with dry ice in it to make it smoke. Her sister was also dressed up as a witch and she "stirred" the cauldron. Their ancient mother just sat in the rocking chair and slowly rocked back and forth with this tiny smile on her face...it was a hoot.
I did Halloween up untl I went to college. Just about the time I got to the point where I might have stopped, my baby sister was 3 and ready to go out so my friends and I took her trick or treating..
We had older boys hiding in bushes to jump out and scare us, of course.