My Halloween Memories
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
My Halloween Memories
Growing up in my hometown in Michigan, I always looked forward to Halloween.
All of us kids did really.
It was a day to stuff ourselves with candy and wear costumes to school.
I have Halloween memories of those school parties being an absolute blast because we did nothing all day.
Such Excitement!
I would plan my costumes weeks in advance.
Once I got to be around 8 years old, I started making my own costumes. The ones in the stores were pretty crappy.
One of my favorite Halloween memories, and I think my most successful effort, was the
year I went as a Disco Duck. I wish I had a photo, but I had these HUGE sunglasses…duck shoes and stripped tube socks…that is about all that I can remember.
Actually, I remember I had wanted flippers, but it got exhausting trying to walk in them so I switched to my duck shoes.
My mom always thought the duck shoes were ugly…but they fit quite well with this costume and were a great alternative to the flippers.
Halloween Memories of Trick-or-Treating at Night!
Another one of my Halloween memories was that in my town, we also trick-or-treated from 6pm-8pm.
That was it.
Just two hours.
I am still stunned by the cities that have day long trick-or-treating…like Chicago.
They trick or treat all day!
No Joke…
All Day Long!!
Man are they lucky.
I can only imagine how much loot I would have had if I had all day to trick-or-treat.
So right about now…about 9:00 in the evening…. my parents would be going through my bag of goodies!
Dad would steal my jelly beans.
And my mom would tell me I could only have 3 pieces.
THEN she would put the bag on the top of the refrigerator.
Like really?
I snuck candy out of that bag all day and night!
But I guess you can’t blame her for trying…I did (and still do) have a wicked sweet tooth.
Halloween Memories of My Last Trick-or-Treat
AND
I went as a BABY!
DON’T LAUGH… it’s not as bad as it’s sounds.
I actually took my little cousin and decided to dress up too.
I must admit I was more than a little embarrassed going up to the doors.
Clearly, I had aged-out of this tradition a long time ago.
But still it was fun!
But, prior to that…my last trick-or- treating excursion was when I was in 8th grade!
My last hurrah!
I really cleaned up too!
I dressed as a tennis player.
NOT very original at all considering I played tennis everyday.
But hey…by then I was out of ideas and just in it for the candy.
(I always like the Black-Jacks..they’re like black and pink taffy…but I haven’t seen those around in a long time.)
And wearing tennis shoes helped me cover more ground more quickly…so hey.. it worked out quite well.
I had way more candy than any one person should be allowed to eat.
And I wasn’t.
My mom still tried to hide the bag.
She did move it from the refrigerator.
But it didn’t matter.
I had the nose of a bloodhound when it came to sniffing out candy.
And when no one was looking…I’d happily unwrap candy bar after candy bar.
I have to say, I really have some very fond Halloween memories.
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