Trick or Treat.How did you do this in your earlier days.

@amadeo (111938)
United States
October 17, 2017 11:00am CST
What kind of trick did you play in your early years. Did you dress up,if so share us your stories on this. I myself did not play any tricks.In the depression years we were happy to get anything.Mostly fruit for us and very little candy. Most people did not have the fund for this. But lot of them made home made treats. Those days were fun and I mean fun. We had a blast and running home to show mom and dad. Look what we got? No we did not play and tricks. Tell us your experience on this.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
17 Oct 17
As small kids, my sister and I would dress up and go around the neighborhood we lived in to trick or treat. Our Mom would walk with us. Other kids & Moms' did the same thing. One year my sister & I dressed up as ghosts. My Mom had old white sheets.She cut out holes for the eyes and mouth. It was fun.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
18 Oct 17
@amadeo It was fun, a great memory.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@LeaPea2417 sounds fun there.
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@marguicha (222809)
• Chile
17 Oct 17
When I was a child, I only had one Halloween on the time we were in the US. We did not have Halloween in my country.We got dressed up by a costume my mother made for us. And we went for treats.
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@marguicha (222809)
• Chile
17 Oct 17
@amadeo She made a gypsy costume for me as I always wanted to be a gypsy when I was a girl.
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@marguicha great and what kind of costume that she made for you?
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
18 Oct 17
When I was a kid, in Italy, Halloween was not even known to exist. We did not dress with costumes and we did not go out trick or treating.
@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
18 Oct 17
@amadeo Even in our days only a few young people celebrate, but it's not something popular through Europe.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@LadyDuck yes this I know.
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• United States
17 Oct 17
We would dress up usually as hobos (we didn't have the costumes the kids wear these days) took a pillow case and sent the day going from house to house and would come home with a bounty of candy. We didn't play tricks but certainly have fond memories of those days when we could go out trick or treating without parents
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@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@Marilynda1225 I love being a hobo such fun.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
17 Oct 17
I haven't experience trick or treating because we don't use to celebrate this here.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@JustBhem I see.No Halloween there?
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Oct 17
@amadeo Nope, we only have All Saints and All Souls day where we visit our loved ones in the cemetery.
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
18 Oct 17
@amadeo I see, Guatemala also celebrates this kind of thing? I didn't know that.
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Oct 17
It's not something done over here though I watch it in movies.It looks fun for the kids minus the scary parts!
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@chunchunwadaddyYou do not celebrate there.?
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
• Nairobi, Kenya
18 Oct 17
@amadeo No we don't.
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
Time flies by and November is really coming, I hope people have save enough money for candies.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@LK2017 I am sure they will find a way there.
@jstory07 (139521)
• Roseburg, Oregon
18 Oct 17
I used to hit every single house that I could and stayed out really late since I had two older brothers.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@jstory07 you must had bags of stuff?
@Juliaacv (51060)
• Canada
18 Oct 17
My mother didn't like Halloween, so we weren't allowed to go out for it. I always let out son pick his costume, and we'd have so much fun with decorating and getting the candy ready to be passed out as well as him going door to door.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@Juliaacv Lot of people do not like Halloween.At least you enjoyed it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50188)
• United States
23 Oct 17
We wore costumes and went door to door getting homemade goodies, fruit and candy. Usually it was cold and I wore longjohns under my costume.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
23 Oct 17
@Tampa_girl7 smart woman there.Long john good idea
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@Poppylicious (11133)
18 Oct 17
I'm pleased to say that very few people over here actually *celebrate* it. More little children go out now with their parents, but tend to stick to each other's homes when knocking. Teenagers have only ever been interested in the trick part.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@Popplicious yes.this is mostly for the little ones
@spiderdust (14761)
• San Jose, California
17 Oct 17
I never played any tricks, but when I was a kid there was a thing called "corning". Teenagers would hide in the dark near the road and throw kernels of corn at passing cars. I've heard that some people would corn houses too, but I mostly just knew about corning cars. I guess bored rural teenagers had to figure out something to do.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
18 Oct 17
@spiderdust I see this is something I never heard.
@Shortail (845)
• Philippines
17 Oct 17
some selected place in our country only celebrate that, during the Halloween almost all of the people here stay in the cemetery and visit their love ones, some of them have their tent to sleep in the cemetery.
@Megukim (87)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
19 Oct 17
Trick or treating is not usual in the Netherlands where I come from, so I don't have such stories :( But I moved to Scotland and does anyone know if it's usual here? I'm not sure.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
19 Oct 17
@Megukim not sure there.This is big in America.
@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
19 Oct 17
Halloween went by unnoticed when I was a child, it's only recently gained popularity in England.
@NJChicaa (119523)
• United States
17 Oct 17
I went out until I was in high school. Then I was too old for it. It was fun when I was a little kid.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@NJChicaa yes it was fun as a kid.
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17 Oct 17
we don't celebrate that :(
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
17 Oct 17
@ipe where are you from?