https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 17:34:57 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912540 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:59:41 +0000 loki 1912540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our Halloweens were always super fun but varied year to year. When I was quite little my mom always made really creative costumes... I never had anything store bought. When I got to be older I would make my own costumes. I don't even remember the last time I went with parents, I usually went with a group of friends to one of their neighbourhoods. Lots of houses would do these elaborate haunted houses in their garages and went all out so we would make sure to hit up those houses. I loved Halloween.<br /> I had to miss a lot of years because I ALWAYS seemed to get super sick at the end of October... lying in bed sick when I had a costume and all my friends were out trick or treating KILLED me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912493 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:44:06 +0000 Somebunny 1912493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't do anything Halloween related. My parent thought it was evil or something. I'm totally looking forward to making dd cute costumes when she's old enough to understand what the big deal is. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912309 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:38:52 +0000 TheSwissWifeStyle 1912309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Awesome! When we were really little, my aunt made all of our costumes. I was an angel, a clown (many times.) Then one year I BEGGED my mom to let me get the cheap plastic Jem costume and she did! It bugged me though, that it said "Jem" on it, because why would the real Jem wear a costume with her own name on it. (Sidenote, I'm totally being Jem again this year!)</p> <p>I loved having Halloween at school, when we'd have a party in class and do a parade. And TOTing was great of course! :)</p> <p>I hate that I live in a place now where Halloween doesn't really exist. We've thrown a party every year, but this year I'm not sure many ppl will come since it's on Friday night. Oh well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912289 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:26:00 +0000 Boheme 1912289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was lame. My parents were (are?) wildly overprotective, and my mom was always afraid someone would poison us or something. We always had elaborate costumes made by my grandmother, but we were only allowed to go to my two sets of grandparents houses, where they gave us candy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912237 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:02:42 +0000 nana87 1912237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Halloween in my neighborhood growing up was the BEST! It's a neighborhood where the houses are all pretty close together, everyone would decorate their homes and get super into it, and literally families drive in from other areas to trick-or-treat there. Literally, my parents would have to buy more than 500 pieces of candy to give out, would only give out 1 per kid, and would still run out before the end of the night. THey used to try to bribe my brother and me for our candy when we came home so they could keep passing it out. anyway, it was SO FUN! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912162 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:43:15 +0000 snowjewelz 1912162@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Didn't have Halloween as a child since I lived in Asia and no one I knew did anything. The first time I ever "celebrated" was when I moved here at age 13. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912128 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:33:28 +0000 alohaorchid 1912128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So much fun! My school had a "dance" usually a couple of nights before Halloween, and we dressed up like witches and ghosts and wore simple costumes. Then on Halloween night, we would go out with friends (never parents) and go trick or treating in the neighbourhood. We would get so much candy and spend the next couple of days at school showing off and eating our candy. We also did tricks if someone didn't say treat!</p> <p>Halloween today is lame.</p> <p>ETA: I forgot to add that sometimes we would go to parties and there would be tons of candy apples and Halloween games. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912082 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:13:46 +0000 illumina 1912082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From about ages 7-14 we would go trick or treating around the neighbourhood with a bunch of other kids. We only did basic costumes (think witch, ghost etc.) but it was super fun and we got so many sweets (and money!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1912072 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:06:08 +0000 JerricaBenton 1912072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom made us awesome costumes (some I remember are cheerleader, 50s girl, Jem :-D) We'd go out with neighborhood kids and friends who drove over with parents trailing behind. As we got older we'd go with big groups of friends, sometimes with a parent driving around behind us. Then usually a parent would plan a little party after trick or treating with dinner and games. Lots of fun memories. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911990 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:34:04 +0000 anonysquire 1911990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Halloween is the best! My mom would make our costumes, we would eat S big bowl of my mom's chili, and trick or treat for hours. My mom always put our candy in a tote thing and we could pick 1 piece to eat a day lol. But halloween is still the same now as it was growing up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911961 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 05:26:54 +0000 mediagirl 1911961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: oh, I wanted to be smurfette so badly!! </p> <p>My mom made my costumes for years. We would go around our neighborhood with pillowcases for candy. We got to eat it all and my brother and I would have candy fights, throwing candy we didn't want at each other from our bedrooms. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911874 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:50:46 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 1911874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom made all of my costumes when I was little, but back then that was cheaper than buying them. Our neighborhood was pretty quiet so we'd go over to friends' neighborhoods. I think we used plastic Halloween bags. It was always candy and my favorite part was organizing it afterwards. My parents did trick or treat with us for most of what I remember. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911861 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:33:53 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1911861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My dad took us trick-or-treating every year. I don't ever remember my parents buying us a costume, so I always had to come up with my own with whatever I had lying around. I never thought anything of it though! We would sit around the table sorting our candy with our dad... we usually ate some and hoarded the rest, but nobody dictated what we could/couldn't do with them. My mom was always working so she never participated, but I have fond memories of the holiday with my dad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911760 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:55:00 +0000 ALV91711 1911760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Baby Boy Mom: We always had hot dogs for dinner too!</p> <p>Our costumes were mostly store bought. We never hit up a lot of houses until I was a bit older. I always got to keep all my candy. We gave our parents what we didn't like and would trade with each other. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911719 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:33:55 +0000 birdofafeather 1911719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my mom always made our costumes and we went to the rich neighborhoods where they handed out full candy bars! ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911084 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:00:51 +0000 mrs. tictactoe 1911084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never lived in a good neighborhood for trick or treating, so it was either kind of boring or we would go to a different neighborhood and then it was more fun. My mom always went with me. I would usually wear costumes my mom or I put together with real clothes and accessories or old things she had from when she was young (a flapper dress, a 60s floral dress that I used as a Juliet costume). I know she made me a very simple witch costume once that I wore many times. I also wore my dance recital costumes some years. I got to eat as much candy as I wanted. I remember one year (I think 6th grade) I was sick on Halloween, but just couldn't miss school or trick or treating, so I stayed home the day after eating candy on the couch all day, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911083 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:00:38 +0000 MediaNaranja 1911083@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a big box of play/dress-up clothes so I usually just raided that for a costume. It was usually a moot point, since I grew up in the mountains and it was very cold and often times snowy the night of Halloween--my mom would make me wear a ski suit with hat, gloves, boots, the whole works. 95% of my halloween costumes wound up being "skiier" by default. The local middle school had a community spaghetti dinner that we always went to, and then my dad would take us trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. I used one of those plastic buckets that a happy meal came in back in the 80s. :silly:</p> <p>[attach=2770/14/nduy13.252x200.mcgoblin.png] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911081 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:00:17 +0000 autumnlove 1911081@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Basic masks and we went TOT around the neighborhood! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911068 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:57:46 +0000 photojane 1911068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Ha! When I was like 7 my mom stopped taking me trick or treating, because some pastor preached on how trick or treating was evil the Sunday before Halloween! My mom sat me down and told me we couldn't go because Jesus doesn't like Halloween, and I lost my mind. So upset. I already had my costume and everything! My brothers were older, so they didn't care. We did "trunk or treat" every year after that. </p> <p>My mom has since come around, thankfully! She was a young Christian then, so she was easily influenced. She went trick or treating with us last year, and she's going again this year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911055 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:56:00 +0000 LuLu Mom 1911055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom made our costumes every year, they were always simple but very creative. When we were younger we went TOT together as sisters, but as we got older we met up with friends and went around town knowing which were the "best houses" and always went to "Valley View" which the whole neighborhood gave out full sized candy bars (in our kiddie heads, probably one 1-2 houses really did.) We lived in a town of less than 2K people, it was a honest small church centered community where everyone knew everyone, totally safe. </p> <p> I remember when we went with my sisters we would sit on the living room floor and dump our Pumpkins out and exchange candy. "I'll give you a snicker for your 3 Musketeer" kind of thing. My parents let us keep all the candy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911045 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:53:11 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1911045@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Leialou: yes, i am. my mom has kept her mouth shut about it, but she's probably not a huge fan. luckily she's loosened up since my childhood! but my daughter was gifted a halloween coloring book that has some (friendly) ghosts and skeletons in it, and my mom was mortified and hid it. :shocked: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911039 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:52:07 +0000 Anagram 1911039@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only remember going TOT a couple of times. My parents would vacillate between deciding TOT was okay and deciding it was the devil's work (haha), and then by the time I was about 10 they thought it was too old and we stayed home and handed out candy to kids that came to our house.</p> <p>I was also a shy kid, so I kind of died a little every time I had to ring a doorbell so I don't think it was my thing, anyway. I'm pretty sure just me and my brother and sister went TOTing...parents never went with us. And we just went on our little road, so maybe 8-10 houses total. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911037 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:51:29 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1911037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We usually had home made costumes. Always had hot dogs for dinner before trick or treating. Then friends and dads would meet at our house to go trick or treating. Moms stayed home to hand out candy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911035 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:51:10 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1911035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: are you going to take your LOs trick or treating? I'm looking forward to doing it one day. I'm not looking forward to my parent's reaction to it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911027 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:49:28 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1911027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we went to church harvest parties, then handed out evangelical gospel tracts to the people who came trick-or-treating at our house. :( </p> <p>needless to say, it was very, very sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911026 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:48:43 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 1911026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Non existent. My parents didn't want us celebrating Halloween. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911024 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:48:05 +0000 photojane 1911024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom made our costumes! I had a plastic candy bucket, but my brothers used pillow cases (more candy!). We lived in a neighborhood of old people that loved children, so we got lots of good stuff... dollars, quarters, full-size candy bars, bags of chips! My mom always went with us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911017 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:44:53 +0000 fairy 1911017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: I was Smurfette a bunch of times too with the plastic mask &amp; costume! :)</p> <p>We had a little box of costumes to pick from, different masks like smurfette, a devil, maybe a dog or something, raggedy anne, etc. One time my mom cut holes in a sheet for my eyes and I was a ghost. :P When I got older, we somehow got rid of the box of costumes and I tended to either always be a witch or get a cheap costume from the pharmacy like Pocahontas or a bride (thinking back I'm not sure how a child bride was cute though haha). I would trick or treat around my neighborhood until we moved out of a neighborhood and then my mom would just drive me and my brother around trick or treating at places who rarely get any kids so they would give me tons of candy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1911013 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:41:06 +0000 Mamaof2 1911013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think my mom bought any costumes for me</p> <p>I was a baby one year -pigtails and a pacifier and doll<br /> Witch- mom painted my face green I wore black clothes and had a hat<br /> Cheerleader - wore my sisters uniform</p> <p>that's all I can remember</p> <p>I went with friends - no parents</p> <p>One house gave out dollars - we loved that house!</p> <p>We also ate all our candy! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-was-halloween-like-when-you-were-a-kid#post-1910993 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:33:26 +0000 mrs. wagon 1910993@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very similar... plastic masks with plastic smock costumes... I wore Smurfette (hi @smurfette: !!) every single year for like 5 years in a row I think? Then one year my dad made us dice costumes with cardboard boxes. That was fun. But then once my brother entered high school, I never got to celebrate halloween again... for some reason Parents Weekend was held on Halloween EVERY YEAR and I had to stay home and hand out candy. While my friends came and trick or treated at my house. Haha. I comforted myself by choosing the candy we handed out and eating tons of it all night. </p>