You aren't a serious baller unless you used a pillow case. Paper bags were for the unambitious and using a plastic pumpkin for your candy was for little kids.

I beg the internet gods for Rainman to make a poll based on this, AND ONLY THIS, quote...

GO ON, BALLER!

Did any of you characters get rolled for your candy?

I had a full pillowcase of candy, must have been 10 years old, and some older kids rolled me for my stash. Still mad about it today

shit - uhh; which town?! :(

As a kid our neighborhood was considered safe (other than getting the ever-loving-shit beaten out of me.) I grew up as a blonde haired, blue eyed, DEUTSCH kid in a mostly black and white-prison-guard/factory dominated neighborhood.

Once me and my friends were freshmen we would play nice for candy (mostly to scout houses with girls we wanted to bang) and beg some younger bully to give us an excuse to beat the piss out of him (JUSTIFIED.)

The circle of life.

Hakuna matata...

Oh stop...

I miss and love you.

Easily the second best holiday, absolutely love it

I can still remember the smell of opening one of those 70s premade costume boxes with the little mask

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It wasnt always those though, got a little older and started to get creative... always loooved getting those vampire/zombie makeup kits with the fake blood, the more expensive the better, and making something up

Absolutely loooved it

Theres always just been something in the air that time of year, IMO

Some of the best memories are from Halloween. Especially around the Chiefs SB IV win. I was 9. Back then open burning of leaves was still allowed and the smell was directly connected to fall, football, and Halloween.

There were no predator monsters at the time, kids ran from house to house with no parents in tow and no fear, all in the pursuit of the best candy.

The houses that played along by playing spooky music and dressing up in costume to hand out candy were mobbed by kids. I wish I could go back in that time just once to witness it again.

Much later, when we lived in town my wife would dress up as a witch to hand out candy. We were a popular house. We then built far out on an acreage where the nearest neighbors are a mile away. To this day our porch light comes on at 6 and shut off at 8 with nobody stopping. 22 years running no trick or treaters other than the neighbors stopping for a trick or beer.

Then that douche Bush changed daylight savings time change to the first week of November which means now where I live a lot of the trick or treating happens in daylight or dusk. BULLSHIT.

Did someone say gays?

ROFL

Love that cancer smell.

Yep. Funner as a grown up I think.

Red, I've got similar memories of treating with a pillow case, literally sprinting to the next house. Best years where when there was an early fall dew/fog/drizzle going on. When I'd get home, I'd stick my head right into the pillowcase and rummage through. Eventually sorting all candies by "type".

Then it was barter time with my siblings.

Nice! I like it.