Halloween Discussion Forums, Costumes, Horror!

bag snatching could be a part of some people's halloween tradition lol like the bullies from Hocus Pocus

Oh right!

i mean i guess it could be lol

Nope noda noway, cut the under side of the bag & let it all fall out!!

hahahahaha i'll defend the ToTs

The last time I went trick or treating was when I was 15. I went with a friend and I didn't realize until the last minute that we were going to be doing that. Luckily, I worked in a costume shop at the time, but most of the good stuff had been picked through. I ended up taking the Elvira costume with the intention of pinning it up in a few places and going as Morticia Addams. My hair is black and at the time it was really long, so it seemed like a good fit. Unfortunately, even with the low cut and the high slit being pinned up to make it more modest, everyone thought I was Elvira! The only person who got it right was my old Belgian neighbor/family friend. It was so cute hearing him call out in his thick French accent, "Wait! Jillian, I know who you're supposed to be!! You're uh, uh, uh, the mother from the Addams family!!"

I was 16 the last year I TOTed to collect candy myself. I took some younger neighbor kids out as a cover. Over the years since then I occasionally went to a costume party, but my Halloween celebrations kicked into high gear when I had my own kids. Now my youngest is 14, so I'm not sure if she will TOT or not. If she does, she will likely go with a friend of hers in another neighborhood. I am sure I will costume to hand out the candy, and perhaps I'll sneak away from the house to stroll down the highly-decorated street near us. Even as a child, I never really cared about the candy. I used to feed it to my dog in February. It was the street masquerade, and the license to wander about after dark, that I adored, still do.

My last official year of legit trick-or-treating was I think 3 years ago (I was 20).
However, my friends and I just like to walk around the neighborhood in our costumes, for the atmosphere/nostalgia I guess.

I stopped when I was 18. My friends and I would just go to a party and drink till we thought we were actually what we dressed up as. My tradition hasn't changed much since.

I'm 18 and I'll stop when I wanna stop.

I remember one year, a grown man dressed as a child in footie pajamas came TOTing to my house. The group he was with waited at the end of the walkway and thought it was a riot. I was both amused and disturbed at the same time but I gave him a few extra pieces for being bold enough to do it