With Halloween Weekend behind us, I thought I would recap all of the stages of Halloween we’ve gone through in our lives
Ages 0-2
Oh, the good old days when you were too small to speak and tell your parents what you wanted to be for Halloween, so they would just dress you up in a cute little costume, like a pumpkin, or a bumble bee, and they would just bring you around to your grandparents to show off your cute little self, because they couldn’t bring you trick-or-treating yet. (Which I will totally be doing with my future babies so I can just steal all their candy -- because babies don’t have teeth, duh.) Is it just me, or does anyone else wish they could go back to this easy stage in life where we didn’t have to think and stress out about our costumes? Just for the record, when I have children, this time in their lives will be when I dress them up as food items, like a burrito. (Because I love food, and babies as food are just so adorable.)
Ages 3-8
Now, I don’t know about you, but 3-years-old is about the time in life where I started telling my mom what I wanted to be for Halloween, and I started going trick-or-treating with all the neighborhood kids and our dads. I started off with my favorite TV character, Barney, and I have to say, I was a pretty cute purple dinosaur. Then for a couple years in a row (because that was acceptable when we were young and I could wear the same costume for multiple years and no one said anything about it), I was Britney Spears. Which was by far my favorite Halloween costume. In my opinion, these years of my life were my favorite time for Halloween.
Ages 9-13
Before you got to high school, Halloween was still a pretty great time for dressing up. But the trick-or-treating started to dwindle around eighth grade, because that was when trick-or-treating was no longer cool, so everyone would go out and wear all black and spray each other with shaving cream and throw eggs. (But not me, because my parents wouldn’t let me be associated with such bad behavior -- hi, mom).
Ages 14-15
When you were a freshman and sophomore in high school, most of the time, dressing up for Halloween was the lame thing to do, so instead, you would all hang out in someone’s basement on Halloween with your friends (or if your friends were really fun, you’d have a costume party).
Ages 16-18
When you were an upperclassman in high school, you were the odd man out if you didn’t dress up for school to celebrate Halloween. People would go all out and come to school in full makeup and costume. (Some people were sent to the nurse’s office to change if their costume was too inappropriate, which was always a buzzkill). I just so happened to recycle my Barney costume for my senior year, and it was still pretty awesome (although I’m sad that I cut it all up, because I kinda wish I saved it the way it was).
Ages 19-22
Once you reach college, Halloween becomes an entire weekend of celebration, and you need a new costume for each night (no more wearing the same costume you bought for each party you go to -- that is frowned upon). Another thing that happens for a lot of girls in college is you have to make whatever costume you’re wearing as sexy as possible (no joke, I actually saw a sexy Spongebob costume at Party City). Which means there are a lot of girls wearing a low-cut shirt, a tight skirt, and some sort of animal ears (“I’m a mouse, duh” -- "Mean Girls" reference). But for me, I never went the sexy route, because I get cold, so the more clothes, the better.
Ages 23+
Whether you’re going out to the bars with your friends or staying home to hand out candy, costumes usually become less about the sexy and more about the funny (or awesome). Either way, Halloween is still fun.
