[graciegirl]

I am sure that a lot of people remember how much fun it was to dress up on Halloween and wear our costume to school. I remember we marched into other classrooms and then sat and watched as they marched into our classrooms.. The room mothers saw to it we had candy and there was much fun trying to decide who looked the scariest and the funniest.


I don't recall too many out of the box costumes and there were a lot of bums and fancy ladies witches and princesses and things made out of boxes our mom's got at the super market trash bin. If a child didn't have a costume, I am pretty sure the teachers were prepared for that too.


And then Halloween was changed to a Harvest Festival and the costumes were out the door.


It seems that fun was cancelled because it hurt someone's sensibilities I never thought of it as a Devils anything, I loved trick or treat and I still have all of my own teeth after eating all that candy.

[tomwed]

I don't know why but year after year I dressed up as a bum. Halloween was not changed into harvest festival anywhere I lived.



ooops the ADD kicked in and I side-tracked.
When my kids were little our town had a parade that anyone could enter. People made floats. My younger son was born on Halloween and we entered 3 years in a row. I turned my old toyota pick-up truck into a Bat-mobile, Fire Engine and Monster Mash Truck. I would paint it with tempera paint. My teacher friends and neighbors would also get dressed up and join us walking along the side of the truck. All the kids were in the truck and throwing candy to all the kids that came to watch.

[Boomer]

Alllllllllllll I needed was one of those $1.99 witch costumes from the dime store.

BUT, NOOOO......I had to wear my dad's sailor uniform, carry a can of spinach, and be Popeye. -- hitched up and stitched up by my frugal, talented seamstress mother -- who always knew best. (sigh)