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[Cakers3]

Yes I do.🎃👻🍫🍬🍭

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[cookie16]

@Stray @Growing up in Brooklyn NY we also had many of your Halloween "traditions."  Maybe it was a City thing but the flour in the socks which the boys would chase us and then hit us with the flour was one.  Also coins in the apples and the balls from the trees were called "itchy balls."  We did go trick or treating but no store bought costumes. We would raid dads old clothes to be a hobo etc. We were given coins too, which was great because we could go to the candy store and buy what we liked. Candy and snacks were not readily available in our homes back then so the candy from Trick or Treating and the coins we got were really a great thing for a kid back then. The simplicity of the time made it all so special. Great Memories.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I have all kinds of memories related to trick-or-treating.

- When I was little, living on the south side of Chicago we used to go out on Beggars Night (the night before Halloween) and get candy then too.  When we moved to the suburbs they didn't do that there.

- I remember some of my costumes and going blocks away from home with my same aged friends, without a care in the world about safety.  There were always a ton of kids out. 

- Sometimes we'd head back home for a break and dump out our candy.  A quick sort through and our parents could give out the stuff we didn't like.  

- Old pillowcases were great for collecting our haul.

-  Full size candy bars were awesome.  Remember Nestle's Crunch Bars wrapped in foil? 

- As a mom, our kids had some great costumes that I made for them.  

- There were a few years when we'd do a bonfire on our property and the neighbor kids (and some of the parents) would come over after trick-or-treating and we'd have a weenie roast, chips, cider or hot chocolates, and simple desserts like s'mores, brownies or Rice Krispie treats. 

[jubilant]

Oh, yes I remember. It was so much fun. My sister, brother, and I and a bunch of kids in

the neighborhood, lived in the city and there was a lady on the street behind ours... and all the kids in the neighborhood tried to get to her house first....before she ran out of those delicious popcorn balls! We learned every year that you had to be quick or we would miss out!

[LyndaGee]

• Mostly good memories.  I liked Trick-or-Treating in my Grandparents' neighborhood best, because it was a block of two and three family houses.  I wasn't allowed to cross the street, but still made out very well candywise!

[ScrapHappy]

Yes!  We had sooo much fun.  I'd change into my costume after school and stay out until late at night.  I'd go out pretty far and circle back and go to the same house I went to earlier.  I'd get to much candy ( I had a HUGE pumpkin) that my hand would be hurting so bad by the end of the night but 'd keep going.  Lots of kids all night long.  My Mom would buy so much candy.  Those were the days.

[Burnsite]

Very happy memories of Trick or Treating.  80% of our neighbors were so generous and had as much fun as we did.  I don't mean they showered us with candy, necessarily.  Some would put a few candy corns in a bag.  We didn't live in a rich town!

If people couldn't participate some years, they just darkened their lights.  No one ever "tricked" them.

My neighbor 3 houses down had a child stricken with polio.  Sometimes the little girl was happy to see other kids, but sometimes not. 

My parents were very broke for a while after they bought our house, so my mother would make costumes.  One year, the three oldest of us went in cardboard byplanes as "The Spirit of St Louis."  My mother always wanted me, the only girl among many bros, to array myself in a "fairy princess" outfit she had in mind.  I always wanted to be a witch.  My bros. only cared about raking in their candy. 

It was, to kids in my rough-ish town, the biggest holiday of all.

[chrystaltree]

I do remember trick or treating with my brothers and our cousins.  Our moms made our costumes and they always said "stay in your group".  We'd start at dusk and stay out until around ten.  We usually filled our bags, went home to dump them out and we'd go out again.  Out stash of candy would last past Thanksgiving.  I know life wasn't perfect back then but nothing bad ever happened on Halloween.  It's was just fun.  

[Stray]

@ on the bay - I hated Halloween. We would run so fast from school & stay inside in the evening. It was not a fun time in JC. We didn’t decorate houses like today but we would carve a pumpkin & put it in the window. Now, I like Halloween.