If you showed up at someone's house in costume at this age asking for candy, you'd most likely end up empty handed and with more than a handful of dirty looks. There's a small range of ages you can be when Halloween is at its peak. And while we can still celebrate Halloween now, it's just not quite the same.
1. Making witch hands
Popcorn. Candy corn. Better eat those hands before they cast a spell on you.
2. Anticipating the first couple of doorbell rings before your parents let you go out yourself
3. Vampire teeth and spider rings
If you weren't trying to see how many rings you could fit onto each finger, you were doing it wrong.
4. Not even considering sexualizing our costumes
Come on, guys, sexy nun? Really? There is a such thing as too far. Believe it or not, this is one of the more tame sexy nun costumes out there.
5. Pumpkin seeds
Scooping out the pumpkin's innards and roasting them made for the perfect little snack.
6. Going to the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect porch decoration
I don't know about ya'll, but everything on the pumpkin had to be just right for it to be selected -- a fun stem, the shapely roundness, pimple-free, the whole nine yards.
7. The "Just Take One" bowls left out
Neighbors, if you're reading this, this is purely to resonate with others…
8. Apples: both bobbed for and caramel
There was no other time when it was quite as socially acceptable to dunk your head in a vat of water.
9. Getting booed
When the first print-out ghost appeared in a house window, that's when I knew I could start the Halloween countdown. If you don't know what getting booed is, it's when a neighbor fills a goody bag full of treats and rings your doorbell and hides -- anonymous and exciting. You then return the favor to another neighbor and this game continues until the entire neighborhood is filled.
10. Hay rides
I can't seem to put my finger on why riding around on bales of hay was so entertaining, but it was, and it's another thing that made Halloween-time as a child great.
11. Emptying the loot of candy for the night
Nothing beat when Mrs. Johnson from down the street passed out treat bags rather than single pieces of candy and that one house on the corner splurged for King-sized. Sorting out chocolates from sour candies, trading, counting out the sugary goodness -- it was all part of the fun.
