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Hey, I know it's a little early but I was hoping to get a lot of replies. So, what was Halloween like for you when you were a child? Did you trick or treat, go on hayrides, or decorate your house/yard? Has Halloween changed a lot from when you were a kid? How do you all celebrate it now? Do you take your kids trick or treating, carve pumpkins, or still dress up even if you don't have kids? Finally, what is the weather like in your area at the end of Oct.? Have the leaves changed colors, is it cold, if far north, have you ever gotten snow? I love Halloween and would love to hear how you all celebrate it and how it differs from region to region. Take care, lil red.......
I'm in Indiana so the weather is pretty much unpredictable.
My BF and I usually go to a halloween party. My son is too old (his words) for trick or treating. He'll usually go with us if he's here but normally he's with his dad.
We do carve pumpkins together though. He loves doing that!
I like to set the candy on the deck for the treaters while we're out. At least that way they won't be met with an empty household!
Halloween is fun for us. We usually come up with our own costume ideas. Very rarely buy any. I was Madusa last year. I had to staple snakes to my hair just to get them to stay. It was a sight but a very great costume!! Everyone loved it!
When I was a kid before the Civil War things were alot different and parents didn't need to be quite as protective of their children like they do today. I would roam all over town with my friends and collect as much candy as possible and also engaged in minor mischief. I remember one year when I was soaping somebody's windows and the guy caught me and threw the soap so far it seemed like it landed a block away.
I've really noticed how different it is in different cities I've lived in. When I lived in Denver I had herds of children coming to my house every year. I had to buy a ton of candy because my first year there I ran out. But last year in Nashville I bought quite a bit of candy and not one single kid showed up.
Oh, man. We go all out for Halloween. We're even letting our 5 year old have a Halloween party this year. We're even letting her invite all of her friends from school.
For me, Halloween was always something my oldest sister and I loved, but because our parents were religious we were really limited to how much we got to do with it, or what we got to dress up as. It was mostly just dress up and go out for an hour or so before coming back home.
Now, with my kids.. we go over the top. We usually have costume ideas panned out by August, LOL. We drive 30+ miles from our hometown to my sister's place. She makes each of my girls their own bucket (Last year each bucket weighed 8 pounds. *faint*), and then we go trick or treat whatever spot she's scoped out for the year. We usually take goodies with us for the walk, including hot chocolate in a thermos. lol After that, we go to her father in law's farm for a huge picnic.
We live way back on an old dirt road without any nearby neighbors, so we don't actually get any trick or treater's here. That's the downside to living in the woods.
Oh, man. We go all out for Halloween. We're even letting our 5 year old have a Halloween party this year. We're even letting her invite all of her friends from school.
For me, Halloween was always something my oldest sister and I loved, but because our parents were religious we were really limited to how much we got to do with it, or what we got to dress up as. It was mostly just dress up and go out for an hour or so before coming back home.
Now, with my kids.. we go over the top. We usually have costume ideas panned out by August, LOL. We drive 30+ miles from our hometown to my sister's place. She makes each of my girls their own bucket (Last year each bucket weighed 8 pounds. *faint*), and then we go trick or treat whatever spot she's scoped out for the year. We usually take goodies with us for the walk, including hot chocolate in a thermos. lol After that, we go to her father in law's farm for a huge picnic.
We live way back on an old dirt road without any nearby neighbors, so we don't actually get any trick or treater's here. That's the downside to living in the woods.
Your place is perfect for a haunted house. Have you ever thought about it or is it too much trouble for where you live?
When I was a kid before the Civil War things were alot different and parents didn't need to be quite as protective of their children like they do today. I would roam all over town with my friends and collect as much candy as possible and also engaged in minor mischief. I remember one year when I was soaping somebody's windows and the guy caught me and threw the soap so far it seemed like it landed a block away.
I've really noticed how different it is in different cities I've lived in. When I lived in Denver I had herds of children coming to my house every year. I had to buy a ton of candy because my first year there I ran out. But last year in Nashville I bought quite a bit of candy and not one single kid showed up.
I was a kid in the late 60's early 70's and we could get away with a lot then. I feel so bad for the kids now days. They get in trouble for such small stuff. What they get in trouble for now, we surely would have been in jail a hundred times for what we did! Those were that good ole days, huh?
I once had a very Charlie Brown-esque Halloween party when I was a kid. Bobbing for apples, neighborhood scavenger hunt, pumpkin carving, seed roasting, etc. I was a pirate, complete with a stuffed bird on my shoulder (pre-Johnny Depp days). That is my big childhood memory of Halloween. Other years was all about running around the neighborhood dressed up as something and then going home to sort out my loot. And elementary school parades where everyone would walk around the playground and up and down the halls in their costumes. My kids did someting similar when they were little...some things never change.
My kids did someting similar when they were little...some things never change.
There is one major thing that's changed since I was a kid and that's the fact that today the children are usually accompanied by an adult. I mentioned about all the kids that showed up at my house when I lived in Denver. Almost every single group of kids had at least one adult who would keep an eye on them, often from the street, while the kids knocked on the door. They also tended to come in large groups, sometimes a couple dozen at one time, and I don't remember ever seeing a child by themself just wandering from house to house. It's a shame that parents have to worry about the few individuals who might be a danger to a child but it's just a reality that people have to deal with today. When I was a kid I wouldn't have been caught dead being escorted by my parents and I really don't remember any of my friends being escorted either but times have changed.
But last year in Nashville I bought quite a bit of candy and not one single kid showed up.
That seems to be the trend here the last few years. When I was little, we would go walking around the neighborhood trick-or-treating and there would be tons of other kids out doing the same. Now the few I see are being driven around by their parents. And I think they only go to the houses of people they know. Seems like that would take all the fun out of it. I haven't personally had any kids come to my door in probably at least five years. I don't even bother buying candy anymore, because I'll just have to eat it all myself.
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