What was/ is your worst thing about Halloween? me---having to wear a coat over your costume when it was cold.

[debm55]

[Permanut]

1. My big sister always traded candy with me..

Guess who got the best stuff?

No grudges though, we were best friends for about 60 years before she died in 2021.

[debm55]

4. Thank you Permanut. Sorry about your sister. We traded too. Not all the times equal though.

[Mister Ed]

2. Along those same lines, my least favorite thing was two feet of snow ...

...in the howling blizzard of '91 here in Minnesota.

[debm55]

6. Thank you Mister Ed. Did they cancel it or just let it go on. That would be a bummer.

[Mister Ed]

15. Well, a lot of the kids tried to struggle through at first, but it eventually proved impossible.

It began with wind-driven torrents of rain that eventually turned to wet, sloppy snow, and then to drifting powder, driving even the most determined kids from the streets.

I was in my early thirties at the time, and far past trick-or-treating age. In the morning, with the streets impassable, I set out on foot to cover the two miles to the home of my then-girlfriend, the present-day Mrs. Ed.

When I had finally waded through the drifts all the way to her house, I found her standing atop the snowdrift that concealed her front steps, bundled up and clutching her only snow shovel. Tears welled up in her eyes as she cried in despair, "How can we ever move all of this snow?!"

"A shovelful at a time", I smiled, gently brushing a frozen tear from her cheek and taking the snow shovel in my hand.

And, a shovelful at a time, I proceeded to work through the day to clear her steps, then her walks, then her driveway. To this day, on a rare occasion when we find ourselves daunted by adversity, I'll tell her softly, " A shovelful at a time, Love. A shovelful at a time."

[debm55]

16. Very beautiful post, Mister Ed. May your life journey with Mrs. Ed always weather the storms.

[hlthe2b]

3. Oh, yeah... Earliest days in Missouri when fall could be quite cool/cold..

Coats and often long pants and shirts UNDER the costume. Geebus. But my happy memory was the (quite dangerous for a 5 or 6 yo) GLASS little pumpkin lantern. LOL (Giving a kid glass to carry, but that was the time).

I'm sure mine eventually broke or was passed on to others, but damn if they don't go for $$$ on ebay. This one is $70 current bid, but it will go much higher!
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/90cAAOSw5ihm~s1e/s-l1600.webp

[debm55]

7. Thank you hlthe2b. Those are very nice. We wore them over. One time we wore onder and kids look like pumpkins

[Walleye]

5. I hated that costumes always restricted your vision. I was klutzy anyway. Tripping and falling in a costume, not fun.

[debm55]

8. Thank you Walleye. I hated the sweated masks that restricted your vision too.

[displacedvermoter]

13. Plastic mask always cut into my face

Went with maskless costumes pretty early on.

[debm55]

14. Thank you and they made you sweat.

[Sequoia]

9. As a child never going trick or treating

Just a regular day.

[Walleye]

10. We didn't live in a very residential neighborhood. More or less out in the country.

My mom hated trick-or-treating. She said it was begging. But we were allowed to go out and trick-or-treat for UNICEF with little milk cartons with orange labels on them to put the change in.

[debm55]

12. thank you Walleye. that was a great idea.

[debm55]

11. Sorry Sequoia. We had very religious neighbors down the street who believed it was Satan's Night. They gave out those

little books of bible verses.

[Alliepoo]

17. When my kids were young

We had an across the street neighbor that would greet the trick or treaters with a booming “praise the lord” (he was hard of hearing so he shout talked in normal conversation) and passed out religious tracts instead of treats. Needless to say the kids weren’t thrilled.

[debm55]

18. I would agree with the kids

[Archae]

23. We had one of those too.

Older woman, she would hand out those little "Chick Tracts," when we began ignoring her house she'd run out seeing us, screaming at us about us going to Hell, several parents called the cops, eventually she ended up going to a mental institution.

[debm55]

24. I think every neighborhood has one.

[LuckyCharms]

19. Homeowners putting cigarettes in my bag instead of candy.

[debm55]

20. That's nasty

[LuckyCharms]

29. I was just joking, Deb.

Sorry I'm such a wise ass.

[debm55]

31. I have a wise ass on my jelly thread. Put K Y jelly down

[LuckyCharms]

37. KY Jelly?

Kentucky Jelly?

[debm55]

38. Lubricant.for couples K-Y jelly.

[LuckyCharms]

39. Why not just use butter, like everyone else?

[debm55]

40. I don't know, I never thought of it . Wait a minute, wait a dag nam minute. You know what I am talking about.

[LuckyCharms]

41. How about Yogurt? Would that work?

WD-40 maybe?

[Pink Hyacinth]

21. Worst thing is

that Halloween is always the 31st. I wish it was something like the last Saturday of October or something. It would be more fun then. It sucks doing Halloween on a school night.

[debm55]

22. Totally agree. In my area, if it falls on a Friday, they will switch to Saturday . Reason is football is played on

Friday nights.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Just Found Out Today...

...I found out that the schools here are doing early release.
12:30.
So, they are helping to get rid of some of what you are rightfully seeing as an issue.
I was there subbing 6th grade science today and I saw the 1st semester schedule in the classroom.

[Elessar Zappa]

25. Can't think of anything bad.

I love everything about Autumn and Halloween. Oh, I know! I hate when our house gets no kids trick or treating. . It’s a real bummer.

[debm55]

26. Me too. Less and less kids. But you do get all that leftover candy---hehehehehehehehehehehehehhe

[ProfessorGAC]

27. That's A Good One

The first post-COVID Halloween around here was badly marred by a cold blast.
Windy, cold, snow/sleet.
Hardly any kids came by & those few that did, we had no idea what their costumes were.
You're right. Cold can ruin Halloween.

[debm55]

30. Thank you ProfessorGAC. They did not cancel Halloween during Covid. Then we left a not and a bowl of candy onthe porch.

but just think . You and Mrs.ProfessorGAC had all the candy, hehehehhhehehheheheheh

[ProfessorGAC]

36. I Don't Remember If The Canceled Uf Or Not

I do recall though, in '20 we had NOBODY show up. Absolutely zero.

[NBachers]

32. Being short and carrying a paper shopping bag with those little rope handles. The bottom of the bag got wet along the

ground as I walked with it. The bottom of the bag opened up and left a trail of Halloween candy behind me. I discovered it in time to still get a nice hoard, but I know I left some of it behind.

[debm55]

33. Oh I'm so sorry NBachers. I'm glad you got some back.

[Freddie]

34. Not me but as a mom

When my son was 7 (he’s 34 now) he was so excited to trick-or-treat and on Halloween night the poor kid started running a fever and asked me to take him home because he felt so crappy. I made sure he had plenty of candy.

[debm55]

35. Thank you Freddie. That was wonderful of you.