British Halloween Ain't Got Nothing on America
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2020
- As a child of 80s Britain, I used to love trick or treating-the costumes, the chocolate, the money. But after moving to America, I soon realized Halloween was a whole lot bigger.
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“ it would look like I’m giving chocolate to a dog. Do you see how somebody would consider that unethical?” The way I bursted out laughing
You’d think haunted house and other haunted places would have caught on more in Britain with its longer history and the such.
When you have haunted houses every block, every day they aren't as fun.
"Not just the kids, sometimes the humans" LOL! I'm sorry. I laughed so hard over that. I will add that when I was a kid, pay dirt for Halloween was when someone gave out the full sized candy bars rather than the snack sized ones.
Our pay dirt was the couple who lived two blocks over. He worked for Shasta, so he gave out cans of soda. We kids used to try going back in different costumes to get more cans, but it never worked. He always knew which kids had gotten cans and which hadn’t.
Then there was the year that Whatchamacallits, the candy bar, was being test run. My sister’s BFF’s dad worked for an agency associated with the candy company and he was given a bunch to try out on the neighborhood kids to get out feedback. The deal was that you could have one if you came back later and told Mr. B what you thought. He got a LOT of feedback. It wasn’t until it was in stores later that we all realized we’d had this before and had gotten to be the tasters.
Lol same here. Later, I made sure I did the same thing when I passed out Halloween candy. Now I live in a neighborhood where we don’t get any trick or treaters, but back then it was so fun seeing them in their adorable costumes and their reactions to the full sized candy bars.😄
1966-1976. Halloween is the day before my birthday and I ate most of my haul as Birthday Breakfast. It's a wonder I have as many teeth left as I do. Next door, were grandparents, and completely 'out of it'. Full size Bit-o-Honeys. Oh dear lord how I loved those.
That’s what I love to do. Sadly couldn’t this covid year. I was so scared I’d get egged. 😂
Interesting. I'm 73, and as a kid in the 50s, one of our stops was the local Roman Catholic churches. At the rectory the priest would always ask our age, and give a penny for each year, and a nice red apple. I think we all went to confession soon after!
Where you put the coins in the collection? 🙂
Ohhhh, upped your age for more coins, do you😆.
I went to a Catholic school. We always got the day after Halloween off because of All Souls Day. The public school kids were so jealous!
@@martha3445 they never did that at any of the Catholic schools I attended in the '80s and '90s. Damn. :( (Though we did get an extra day off on Easter weekend; the public school kids got three days off but we got four!)
Martha McMichael November 1 is All Saints Day, holy day of obligation. November 2, is All Souls Day. It was cool 😎 to have the day after Halloween 👻🎃🍁 off. 😀
"Not just the kids: sometimes the humans, too." 😂 Okay, fine, I laughed out loud. I have two nieces and a nephew, and you're 100% correct in describing them as inhuman.
😂 my kids too some days!
Big sister to a three-year-old brother here, you got that right!
We used to get money when trick or treating in the US. But it was for UNICEF. We would get candy and had a small box for UNICEF money.
yup those iconic orange boxes. trick-or-treating for UNICEF was pretty popular where i grew up, so it was good to have extra change to hand
My school always told us that we had to choose between trick-or-treating for candy or for UNICEF and presented it as an opportunity to learn the value of sacrificing for others. UNICEF never got anything.
Wow, I never heard of this before. What part of the country, or what decade was this? What a great concept.
"the last Rolo". That reminds me of a Doctor Who short story in the Short Trips and Side Steps anthology entitled "Special Occasions 2: Do You Love Anyone Enough?" in which the 4th Doctor and Romana are at the end of the Universe, watching the same collapse. The 4th Doctor hands Romana a "present" which she carefully unwraps "making sure she didn't rip the paper, just in case the Doctor wanted to put it back in his pocket and use it again later. The object inside was small and caramel-scented, the outer layer of chocolate sticking to the wrapper as well as her fingertips.
"The very last Rolo in the universe," said the Doctor. "Happy Valentine's Day."
"You old romantic," said Romana."
“Mulleted spandex people” 🤣🤣
"Trick or Treat" is basically a threat: Give me candy or I'll egg your house/TP your yard/etc.
The best thing about Halloween for me as a kid was that the parents stayed home and the kids roamed the neighborhood in groups. Occasionally, we'd run into friends and compare notes on who was giving away the best or worst stuff. Meanwhile, my mother would make special treats for kids she knew and then also have store-bought for kids she didn't know. Can't get away with any of that these days.
Back in the early 1960s when I was a kid, homemade popcorn balls were a special treat that our dad loved. So we saved all of them for him. Since we lived in a very small town, only rarely did someone’s home get the ’TRICK’ treatment ....... too easy to find out who did the deed!
Remember when you'd get home and dump all your candy on your bed and separate the milk duds over there and the m&m's in it's own pile ,,,etc ...
My dad would always like certain candies that I bought home, especially peanut butter candies.
@@janicesullivan8942 nice memories ~~~~~
I would have 5 thousand smarties, maybe 6 snickers. My dad would always hijack my snickers.
@@RJ-hx5nb
Thank you, I think they were. I dearly miss my dad.
And the Jolly Ranchers sticks and zebra fruit gum. Mmm
In the US, when I was a kid, we'd get notably irritated with people who gave out coins. I want candy damnit.
I didn't mind money. It was getting a toothbrush or an apple that really irritated me. I had both of those at home thank you!
We did too. Until one year the little old ladies gave us silver dimes, wheat pennies & Buffalo nickels
I’d rather have a nickel than a fricken root beer barrel!!!
Trick-or-Treating has been strongly discouraged locally, and yet I'm still buying bags of Snickers.
Guess I'll have to eat them myself...
same
Imma also go get a bag of mini Snickers, and publicly pretend I intend to share them. Catch y'all on February 13.
@@SansAziza Mini Snickers? I shell out for Fun-size, the way Halloween intended!
Amazon had a sale on a 275 piece mixed mini bars including Snickers for 20 bucks... We live in the country, never get trick or treaters, and my hubby is diabetic... Guess who's about to gain ten pounds? LOL
I don't imagine there will be many trick or treaters this year, but I'm separating candy into little sandwich bags and putting them on a table on my front lawn just in case. 🙂 I hate that kids have to go through Halloween like this this year. 😟
For nearly a decade, a group of us designed and built an elaborate haunted “community center” at a housing complex in Juneau AK. I miss the challenge of constructing props. New Patron Laurence...
When I was 9, we moved from northern Minnesota to western PA. To my shock and horror, Trick or Treating was referred to as Halloweenin', as in, "Are you going Halloweenin' tonight?". Things got back to normal when I moved to IN. Trick or Treat!
I'm carving my Halloween turnip.. yup that was a thing back in the day
Here on the East Coast, people talk about Cabbage Night, but no one has explained it to me
"In America it is far more popular to hand out sweets and candy. Ya know stuff that makes your teeth go bad. Must be why it partially caught on in britain." Ooof man.... hahaha
I noticed when my son was still going out for treats, 10 years ago, he'd get sample size toothpaste & a toothbrush sometimes. 😳
But the difference between by
By its and us. Is while we hand out candy. We tend to be a bit obsessive about teeth. And braces. If you can afford them. Most people. In US give their kids braces. And lots of adults. Me included. Have had braces in adulthood. So even with candy. Braces. And cleaning teeth. I am a bit obsessive about teeth as well.
@@kathleenpayne564 You're also obsessive about putting unnecessary periods in your sentences. ;P
Your humor is underrated. "and not just the kids, sometimes the humans too"
His humor is amazing. It’s every other line in this video, too much to keep track of.
FYI: In America in the 1950s, we always collected coins along with the sweets. The money we gathered was donated to UNICEF, the United Nations children's fund. When I studied in England prior to university, (1967-1968), our big day was Guy Fawkes Day, not Halloween. Oh my, the bon fire and illicit beer and cider we snuck on to campus!
So did they celebrate it by smuggling tons of black powder into parliament in an attempt to blow it up?
When I was in third or fourth grade I collected money for Jerry's Kids while I trick or treated. It weirded people out a little bit I think.
I remember the UNICEF boxes. Like little milk cartons.
I collected for Unicef in the Mid '70s- early 80s
When I went as a child, sometimes I would get coins.
They never gave me good coins tho. It was always like five pennies
@@mmmhhm one older woman gave out 50 cent pieces one year.
There was an elderly lady in our neighborhood who gave out nickels. Of course back then a nickel would actually buy you a candy at the convenience store!
Came here to say the same thing. We also went door to door. Not doing that is a more recent thing (maybe 10-15 years?)
@@kristindecker7766 not sure if your last name is Dec but those are my initials, lol
"Trick or Treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat."
"And if you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@J D
Oh, lighten up, it was all in fun.😜
Actually, I'm 70, "Hope I die before I get old" - The Who
@@peterblood50 good one
@@socalgal714 Imagine explaining that one to a jury.....
@@socalgal714 lol that's cute! I grew up with "Not to big, not to small, just the size of Montreal!"
Clifford the Big Red Dog is going to egg Laurence's house.
@Judy G. No. I believe that Clifford the Big Red Dog actually exists, and was just outside Laurence's door begging for candy.
Ya. That was legit Clifford. I could tell by the voice. hes totally getting egged.
The unpardonable sin!
Like a lot of people, Laurence doesn't get that the phrase "Trick or Treat" is offering you a choice. That's why you hand over the friggin' candy and don't be critical of the costumes. :)
It would be even worse if he threw dog's eggs ($h!+)
Back in the 1960's and 1970's, in my town at any rate, the overwhelming majority of little girls dressed as princesses for Halloween.
My Grandpa would get a lot of Trick - or - Treaters, and he'd keep a count of them. He got two rolls of quarters (40 quarters in a roll), and each child's would get one piece of candy with one quarter. Strictly adhered to. Except when my sisters and I came over afterwards and we could raid the candy bowl.
He would take the quarters and would count the remaining ones to see how many kids had come to his house. He loved the kids that came to his house.
“Rest in Peas” - what you say to a vegetarian.
Lettuce prey.
Imagine whirled peas
As a kid in the 60's I used a large paper bag from the supermarket for my treats. It would get so heavy the one year the bottom gave out, spilling my candy everywhere. When myself, my brother and our friends got home, we'd each spill our swag onto the floor and begin trading candies. It was awesome!
There was one year my sister and I (and I think our brother. That or just before he was born) manage to fill two trash bags full of candy. We were just starting elementary school
I would use a pillow case so it wouldn't break and also save money as I'm one of four(and twin) for Halloween with the costumes and such. Looked like lil robbers lol. And we also would set up shop on the floor and trade too lol
Alas, I got just a handful of kids this year, as I expected. Since I live in downtown Salem, MA, I usually blow through a dozen bags of candy on Halloween. The city cancelled all events in October, but many, many out of state visitors came anyway. Well, hope that next year we are back to normal.
Halloween has always been my favorite day of the year. I'm 37 years old & I still dress up & go trick-or-treating, granted I go with my kids now, but I go all out- costume, makeup, wig if needed. After we get home, we watch Hocus Pocus & eat Chinese food & candy.
Many years back, Tootsie Rolls were very dark brown and chocolatey. I was shocked a year or two ago to discover now they are caramel colored and not chocolatey at all. Plus candy used to be cheap. I feel sorry for kids, now. (Cadbury Easter eggs have shrunk, too.)
I also have noticed a lot of changes and not just in candy. Some of my favorite (brand name) cookies are not only smaller but gross tasting. I hadn’t bought some varieties in a few years, so imagine my disgusted shock when I decided to try them again. There was one that tasted like old oil smells. 🤢👎👎. Another was suppose to have real chocolate chips in them, I don’t know what the heck was used but it did NOT taste like chocolate should. Even some of the ‘retro’ candy is not like it used to be.
The only thing Tootsie Rolls are good for is tossing them in swimming pools
When I was a kid in the 70s we used to collect for UNICEF. Everybody got a box from school. Some kids turned the money in some didn't. I don't remember seeing the boxes in the 80s.
80s fashion was indeed monstrous
Half the time I can't tell if you're joking or being serious -- part of the reason I love this channel. The dry sarcastic humor. :P
For treats I have a variety of chips and snacks in single serving bags and different kinds of soda in cans. Every trick-or-treater can choose a bag of snacks and a can of pop.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN🎃🎃🎃🎃
In St. Louis, MO, you’ve got to tell jokes to get candy. Some folks are rude about it, requiring jokes, but most folks will give candy to any kid in a costume. But good jokes get an extra handful of candy
When our family lived in base military housing, I had to start buying candy in August (and every payday from then on) so as to have nearly enough on Halloween. Our children would come back with what seemed like tons of candy and dump it into a huge basin so that I could sort out the things they didn’t like. Then off they would go again. When I ran out of the candy that I had bought to give out, I handed out the stuff that I had sorted (thereby not wasting it). Even so, we always ran out of candy before the last half hour of allowed Trick or Treating.
FYI: my mom’s birthday is on Halloween, so every year our dad would buy her a new broom (we kids laughed but she was less amused). One year he gave her a new vacuum cleaner to ‘modernize’ her! 😆.
We lived in base housing too ,w
e did they same thing ,giving back out our candy.The best of times.
Back in the '60`s in upstate NY, we used to say "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat! "
I absolutely LOVE you & your humor. I love sarcasm!! And I lived in Britain for a bit; granted, it was at the Priory, but we were allowed to go to movies, clubs, or if you happen to have a minor meltdown, sneak thru an janitor’s door, climb out out of the unlocked window-onto the roof (that had turrets (since it historically was a huge monk’s castle.). I then danced to my music on my Sony Walkman while wandering around on the roof. Awww..memories. (From 21 years ago). Lol
I RARELY comment, but you are hilarious!! I’m going to your website to see how I can help. Laughing is so therapeutic…so thank you for the laughs! Truly. 😊🤣🐒💨.
Japan takes Halloween to an even higher level. I had the pleasure of being in Tokyo for Halloween 2014. I was amazed at how many non-children were walking around the city in costume.
"Trick or treat, smell my feet! Or give me something good to eat!"
We sometimes got pennies when I was little.
Halloween is about as popular as Christmas, anymore. Chocolate sales boom in October!
Back in my day lol
coins were usually given when the homeowner had no candy left or wasn't expecting any trick or treaters in the first place but didn't want to turn the adorable little one with no treat.
When I was young, people handed out candy, homemade sweets and pennies. This was late 70's through 80's USA Halloween.
When my son was going out for Halloween it was candy and very few people giving pennies.
When my sons were young, we had a tradition. After trick-or-treat, my husband and I would go through their candy and select what we wanted. We called this the “Candy Tax” 😂
My dad did that, it worked out great for him because his favorite candy was the candy I didn't like.
My dad did that too...but he took all my chocolate because I was allergic to it. Sigh.
(These days I just take the allergy meds and eat the chocolate, but that wasn't an option back then.)
My Dad grew up with horses and wagons, back when cars were still uncommon. He told me that when he was a kid, the word "trick" in "Trick or Treat" still meant something, only was sort of an implied "Give me a treat or I'll pull a trick on you". So once in a while, when they said "Trick or Treat" the person in the house would reply "Trick!" and close the door. The kids would then come back late that night and pull some sort of trick, or prank, on that house, such as putting toilet paper in the tree, or something. That wasn't really a think when I was a kid.
And egging the house...
@@shorttimer874 Yup.
He told me one time he and his friends managed to get a wagon up to the upper level of a barn.
I was a cop for five years but two shifts a week I worked in dispatch. Halloween was our busiest night of the year.
We had extremely strict radio procedure-everything given in 10 codes and signals. Every fifteen minutes we had to say our FCC assigned moniker-KAB 3030 over the frequency. My second year, halloween night-everyone stressed out and I decided to deviate. At midnight I said "KAB 3030, radio clear. It's midnight, the witching hour. Do you know where your children are?"
The phrase became wildly popular and a staple of every Halloween after that.
I liked the homemade treats we used to get from our friends houses.
Here in Minneapolis, Minnesota our Halloween chant in the ‘50’s was, “Trick or treats, money or eats”. I don’t remember ever receiving money, but many of the treats were homemade; then some jerk started putting dangerous objects in the goodies. There is always some psycho who has to spoil the fun.
I collected for Unicef during Halloween, as well as getting treats. Caramel apples were the best treat.
I remember when I was a kid trick or treating on Halloween night, in the 1970s there'd always be at least one house where sounds of ghouls and ghosts screaming and howling would be coming from a record player inside
Laurence did you mean to have a crown of candles hovering over your head? It becomes you. I think your hair looks just fine.
Hope you and Tara enjoy a happy Halloween
Interesting as always, Laurence. Several years ago I met a family's from Nigeria. They had lived in Illinois for a few years. When one of their sons asked the mom if he could go trick-or-treating, she said" Do you mean that holiday when all the children go around and beg for food?" I was taken aback at this foreigners observation.
I agree that the pandemic has been scary enough. I am celebrating at home with yummy food and a Dean Koontz novel. 😉
America has a ton of Halloween Candy ads on tv. I still see Reese’s and KitKat ads every year.
A friend of mine, dyed her daughter's hair bubblegum pink (temporary dye) and dressed her all in pink, then tied a sneaker on her head. Can anyone guess what her costume was?
A piece of gum stuck to shoe. 😂
I'd worked at a theme park haunted house the past six years, the biggest in the world(600-700 performers and 15,000 to 25,000 customers a night) Had so much fun and made so many good friends. So sad it was cancelled this year. We worked 3:00 pm to 3:00 am four nights a week.
My parents always gave out red candy apples. My dad went to the factory in Philly and brought lots of boxes. Hundreds. Our house always get a long line. Kids spread the word. It was such fun to give out the red candy apples; some enterprising kid would ask for an extra one because, "My sister is too sick to go out tonight". Of course, that kid left with 2 candy apples.
Love the fall décor on the fireplace mantle behind you. Happy Halloween!
I'm from the Detroit and Toledo areas, so you can't forget the Devil's Night (the night before Halloween) tradition of torching abandoned houses to finally get the city to tear them down.
Good times!
Effective!
People used to rent penthouse suites downtown on Oct. 30, throw parties , and watch the city burn.
I remember that. I was a firefighter at the time. We had an arsonist in our town but he struck at all times of the year. After he created one of the biggest fires in the town's history (a mansion) he suddenly stopped.
@@The_Dudester "and now for my grand finale..."
'rest in peas' yes, yes when I die, plz fill my casket with delightful small green frozen vegetables! :)
OMG just realized that is why some of my neighbors gave a roll of pennies!!!! As a youngin we got them from a few and I was like why money? I’m guessing they where from there. Lol there are some out there that do well at least in the 70-early 80s. Lol
2020 was the year I gave up giving out candy for good. There aren't that many kids that go door to door Trick or Treating any more. They go to parties and such. Oh well! It was fun while it lasted. Love your videos Lawrence 💕 💞 ♥️ 💜 💙
Thank you for bringing up a short history of Trick or Treating in America. My late mother, who would be 108 if she were still alive and would scare any Trick or Treaters who came to her door, told me that the first time she ever heard of Trick or Treat was shortly after World War II. I guess she didn't even have candy that first time, because, well, how would she know, if the first time hearing about it was when kids rang your doorbell for the first time and said, "Trick or Treat!. I remember her telling me that she didn't even understand what the kids were saying; she thought they said, "Trigger Treat!" and had no idea what that meant.
Yes, in early 90s I also used to go trick or treating for money in U.K. usually dressed in a rubbish costume like a black bin liner with holes cut in it.
As someone who spent about 15 years working at haunted houses, it doesn't surprise me that Halloween isn't as big a deal anywhere else.
Who says I'm not voting for Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and science?
@J D That means she voting for justice.
I love Halloween even more than Christmas. In years past I would dress up to hand out candy. I always have out tootsie rolls, they're small and cheap so giving out handfuls of them made the kids happy. Plus I love them so any leftovers gotten eaten by me.
Maybe next year u can mention that the custom of begging on Halloween is referenced by Shakespeare: "like a beggar at Hallowmas." (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene I)
On the upside, the UK is "getting bigger" with Halloween. I watch a lot of UK UA-camrs and they are actually rivaling some of the store selection in places around the US now. That is, if you don't count this year with that one home improvement store having the 12 foot tall skeleton.
I live in a town with a population of 612 in Wisconsin, US. One of my neighbors has a Jack Skellington inflatable in his yard (it's at least 12 ft tall), accented with purple lighting at night, that has been up for the last 2 weeks with a bunch of other decorations.
And I love it!
Matt I watch a guy in PA that was talking about that 12 footer how he couldn't find in in any of the stores near him. Found one on line for $400 & it was missing something. Crazy 😜
Some 90s kids used to trick or treat with a UNICEF box collecting change..
I worked for a major candy company and we had to schedule Halloween fun size candy all year, when ever we.could fit it into the schedule, as it is impossible to make enough fun size prior to Halloween.
I have acted in a haunted house for 10 seasons. This year it would have been my 11th season but alas because of the pandemic my haunted house did not run this year...I will be home on Halloween for the first time in 10 years...kinda sucks.
Remember, folks, “Samhain” is pronounced close to “saw-when”
Are you family? Practitioner of the old religion Witchcraft (not wicca)?
If so merry meet my brother! 🎃
@@ArcadiaOccult nope, just a polyglot 😄
Agreed
@@JoeBonez Crap! I got excited there for a second!
Well happy Samhain and happy New Year! 🎃
@@ArcadiaOccult Hello there! This curious person has a question for you...how does Wicca differ from the Old Religion of Witchcraft? I'm not a member of the family but I find it interesting.
“Rest in Peas!” Now I’m imagining a corpse laying in a casket surrounded by frozen peas
At least Mozart isn't decomposing.
Frozen or Mushy Peas?
@@julierauthshaw8556 frozen initially, but I imagine they’ll get mushy pretty quickly
@@eoinPalmer or just buy them that way in the International section of the supermarket.
I live a few blocks from Anoka, MN, which is billed as "The Halloween Capital of the World". In the 1920s the town put on a big celebration to distract the kids from pulling pranks and vandalizing. It is believed to be the first town to do so. Today, it's a week-long celebration that turns downtown into a carnival and culminates in two parades that draw thousands of people.
There are Halloween-themed items for sale year-round and and many of the local businesses have pumpkins and other Halloween related things on their signs. The local liquor store has a lit, 20' diameter pumpkin as a sign. It's the county seat of Anoka County, but the criminals in the county jail don't participate much. However, their jail uniforms are blue, because someone walking down the street in an orange jumpsuit wouldn't attract much notice in that town.
When I was a kid, 1960s, we DID get money. Coins mostly, but often Bills. ;-)
Thank you for the history of Halloween. Also the dark hair version of you looks like E A Poe!
As an American the main thing I think of when I think of Halloween Is actually Haunted Houses alongside Pumpkins Children dressing up as Spider-Man I also think of the Nightmare before Christmas
In the 50s and 60s Halloween was barely celebrated in England and November 5th Guy Fawkes Night was much more popular. However in Northern Ireland and Scotland Halloween was the main event and probably also in Wales. Over the years Halloween has got bigger and bigger in England and more and more of the American Halloween has crossed the pond. I was in Chicago exactly 2 years ago and celebrations were virtually identical to those taking place in England. Things have changed a lot since you left the UK in 2008 and it's not just Mexican food that's grown in popularity!
There was a house in my neighborhood that gave out $1. My cousin one year had multiple masks and kept going to the house, until they caught on. My last year Trick-or-Treating was in 1993. I was 12. I had fun doing it.
Money for Halloween in the US is mostly limited to putting them in cards for your children, grandchildren, or nieces and nephews in my area, same as Easter.
This is my FAVORITE video of yours. I don’t know if it’s actually as amazing as I think it is (it probably is) or if it’s my lifelong obsession with Halloween.
A variant of the Haunted house experience is the Projection Light Show, which might involve coordinated lighting effects or 3d building projection technology. I found a good selection of examples, but I'll note the already spooky Winchester Mystery House hosts an example of this kind of experience they call "Unhinged"
The ending of the video legitimately scared me 😅 Not the end card, but the bit before it
".....and not just the kids, sometimes the humans too......" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm a haunter (I work at a haunted house) here in the Austin, TX area. We only have the one haunt in the area, and it's outside of the city. We've got 4 houses, 2 bars, food, and live music (on Fri and Sat). We've made changes for the current world situation, but we are still going. For only having 4 houses, et al, our Saturday's have been quite busy with over 1500 people the last two weekends, after the other haunt in the area announced they would not be opening this year.
You can tell you haven't been to UK for a bit, house decorating had massively ramped up in the last few years!!
When I was a kid in the 50s we many times received apples and other fruit and handfuls of pennies. Of couse, the candy was unwrapped in those days.
We make props that run off pneumatic and motors, scare the crap out of people. Our house is the haunted house that the kids kept going back to trigger the props, and get a laugh.
In Des Moines, children tell a joke or riddle to get candy. It's a great tradition!
We certainly dress up as anything. This year I'm doing The Bear With (Blair Witch pun) but I've also done Marty McFly and Bad Horse (Dr. Horrible)
I absolutely loved Halloween! As a baby boomer, we had no time restrictions to Trick or Treat. So, every October 31st, I couldn’t get home soon enough from school to dress up in a costume my mother made, and I would literally run door to door from 3 pm until no one opened their door around 9pm. My only break was going home to empty my bag of treats a few times so the yucky ones could be recycled, and grabbing a bite to eat, but there was really no stopping me. I think now, the aging baby boomers continue to get into it, but, alas, no more for me.
What a great costume to wear to celebrate Undertakers 1990 debut at Survivor Series.
813 thumbs up and 0 thumbs down in early going ... I have *never* seen 0 thumbs down on YT before --- good going, Laurence!
Have you ever seen The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown special? Listen to the kids while they’re trick-or-treating; some announce they have candy and popcorn balls, at least one says they got a quarter, and Charlie Brown gets a bagful of rocks. Case in point: maybe at least many decades ago, coinage was a thing in US trick or treating.
“80’s fashion ware”... Top of the Pops enters chat!
Cheers and thanks for the chuckles. Peas and love🍻
We used to collect for UNICEF on Halloween 🎃
For holloween I'm going with my every day costume a disappointment I have no idea how to take it off
Our local paintball park is doing shoot the zombies this year.
In Scotland we have done this for ever / but we call it guising and its accompanied by some form of small entertainment - mortifying
I grew up going door to door as a child in San Francisco. Adults rarely dressed up. The biggest thing is we made our costumes, only neglected sad children had purchased costumes. Creativity was key. We would go out at dusk and run the streets. BTW, Halloween is not the second most commercial holiday following Christmas.
With peas it sounds more funny and less actually morbid. Happy one! 🎃
When I trick or treated back in the 80s and 90s in the US (my last year was 1991), there was one house that gave out change, but honestly, I probably got a total of 25 cents, and not an actual quarter, either. I thought it was a bit odd, but at that time, you could buy a regular sized candy bar for 25 cents, so I guess it wasn't a bad haul.