With Halloween almost here I had a few memories as a kid I wanted to share.
I can remember when Halloween was safe, all the homes in my neighborhood had families that watched out for me and my brother. No razor blades in apples, no drug laced candy. The worst thing I probably got was raisins, walnuts or when Mr. Dias gave me pennies. I thought it was cool going door to door with brother Stuart in tow. I think of how fun it was at school on Halloween. We got to dress up and wear our costume all day. Later in the afternoon we had the costume contest. I think it was broken up into two groups, 1st through 3rd then 4th and 5th graders.
All in our group would get in this big circle, then walk single file around and around while a few of the teachers stood in the center and picked the kids with the best costumes. Once the field was narrowed down the rest of us were excused. Then a winner was picked from the remaining few. Talk about disappointment, I was in that contest from 1st grade to 5th before I was finally picked as winner.
The class parties were the best. Mom was always a room mother and made lots of cookies or cup cakes. Another mom always made punch. I remember Denise Hale's mom always brought some dry ice and set in in a cup of water. I could watch that cup bubble up smoke all afternoon.
I recall the carnival they had for Halloween (I think it was in the second grade) they had a real camel that night, and they were giving rides! I remember being sorta scared setting on that huge beasts back, I didn't feel very secure and could imagine falling off, I was glad when my turn was over.
I remember one year dad got this really goofy mask. It kinda was a cross between a caveman and a hobo. I can remember him telling mom, me and my brother to watch as he ran over to our neighbors house where Ethel and Granny McCurry lived. Our neighbors never locked their door and dad just sorta stumbled in on our poor unsuspecting neighbors and yelled some kinda jibberish...ooogah booogah!! You could hear them yelling and laughing!! That wasn't the last time dad ran over to the McCurry place for a laugh. They never did start locking their door.
I just hope my kids have fond memories of Halloween. I've used them all Cody, Tanner and Calli as makeup guinea pigs. Ever so often each of them at one time or another have gotten flack about wanting to be gory monsters on Halloween. I say the gorier the better. The makeup washes off it doesn't stick to your soul. So have fun, be scary, eat lots of candy. Just don't accidentally eat a bunch of pennies.
Happy Halloween!!
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Some of my best childhood memories besides Christmas & Disneyland was definitely Halloween. I love that my parents never bought me one of those cheap costumes in a box, the kind with a flimsy plastic mask and vinyl jumpsuit. Gack! We always had something handmade. One of the favorite costumes I made myself - Queen of Hearts. I spent many days painting giant cardboard posters with the image of a fancy Queen on a card, then wore red stockings underneath and covered my face and hair with gold heart stickers.
What a gyp, there's no Halloween in Abu Dhabi!
I remember saving up a lot of money, (I think it was $50 back in the old days) and buying the "movie monster make-up" kit. Oh the seriosness of it all. It was so cool, making scars and squeezing the fake blook all over some of my white t-shirts and wearing them around. Mom thought i was growing up to be a murderer. The Holloween to follow the purchase, I made myself up as dracula and my best friends sister as a skull-ish ghost. I won my class (7th grade I think) and she won hers (maybe 4th?). We had a very small school, but still, it was a fun day. Jamie had a monster make-up kit also, and we land on that topic from time to time.
My best holloween was when I was 19 though, and we went tricker-treating. I know, but as a kid, I only got to go to the neighbors, which was 3 houses. Mom and Dad never too me out to "town". So 19 it was. We rode around on 20inch bikes until around 10. We got all the leftovers as people were just dumping their bowls into our bags. We ended up with 1/2 paper grochery bags of candy each..and got to ride our bikes in town! Great fun for country kids.
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