Trick-or-Treat! Fond Memories of Halloween

Halloween brings memories of jack-o-lanterns, carnivals, trick-or-treating, and lots of Halloween candy. 

What other holiday allows going door to door begging for treats and bragging about all the Halloween candies and treats?

Halloween candy facts

• Halloween nets the most significant candy sales of the year, with more than 2 billion per year spent on Halloween candy.
• Among the favorites in Halloween candy are miniature chocolate bars, Halloween candy corn, and other ghoulish candy treats such as chocolate eyeballs and wax lips.
• According to the National Confectioner’s Association, over 20 million pounds of candy corn are made yearly, not only for Halloween! Candy corn is also manufactured for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Fall (Indian corn).

Other than the fun and sweet treats associated with Halloween, what else does Halloween bring to mind? 

When “history of Halloween” is typed into an Internet search box, facts and traditions associated with this spooky holiday can be found. Most people don’t realize that the history of Halloween can be traced back over 2000 years with traditions that evolved from the Celts, the Romans, Christianity, and Paganism. For example, the first jack-o-lanterns were carved out of turnips, not pumpkins! Jack-o-lanterns were thought to ward off evil spirits that wandered the night on Halloween. 

Costumes were worn for this reason – to scare the spirits into leaving you alone.

Fond Memories of Halloween

• Waiting till sunset to trick-or-treat, then racing home afterward to dump the trick-or-treat bags and plastic jack-o-lanterns to separate the chocolate candy from the other, less desirable, Halloween candy.
• It was bobbing for apples, “fishing” for prizes in the fishing booth, and enjoying a favorite Halloween candy recipe – the red candy-coated Halloween candy apples – at the Halloween Carnival.  
• Browsing the Halloween aisle to see the variety of unique Halloween candy bags created for the season and oohing and aahing at the wide variety of Halloween candy made especially for this time of year.      

A person is never too old for Halloween candy! Everyone enjoys lots of Halloween memories, treats, and fun! What an incredible time of year for young and old alike.

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Celebrating Halloween on a Shoestring

Holidays are about fun, sharing time with family and friends, and creating memories for the future.

Holidays may also be a time of added expense to what may be an already tight budget. Having limited resources for entertaining and sharing doesn't have to mean you miss out on the fun of Halloween.

With some imagination, your Halloween experience can turn into an annual tradition.

.   Invite several couples to your home for a Halloween "costume" party. Each couple can bring a food or beverage item to share. Instruct each couple to come to the party, impersonating some great figures in history. There are no actual costumes allowed. Each couple must act out the role of the person or persons they are impersonating without costumes or props of any kind. The other couples must guess the identity of the character being portrayed. Nominal prizes can be awarded for the best impersonation and to the couple most successful in guessing.

.   Take your Halloween show on the road. Enlist the help of a few friends. Cover your faces with a simple, inexpensive mask or a floppy hat and head on over to the local children's hospital or senior citizen's facility. Pass out treats and spend some time chatting with the residents. Spending time with folks who can't enjoy the holidays without restrictions is heartwarming and enriching.

.   Halloween is a good excuse to organize a cookie exchange with friends or co-workers. Have a dozen or so friends whip up a batch of their favorite cookie recipe, making enough to share with everyone. Get together over coffee and cookies to share your bounty. Each baker gets a dozen cookies from each of the other bakers while exchanging a dozen of their own in return. Freeze your cookies for a head start on the rapidly approaching holiday season. You'll enjoy the Halloween event as a precursor to the even bigger holiday events to come.

.   When it comes to children's Halloween events; remember that you don't have to spend extravagant amounts of money to make kids happy. Gather a group of your favorite kids together along with a parent and have an afternoon party. Let the children make Halloween masks out of construction paper, crayons, or paints. A few games and a fashion show with the newly designed masks will offer all the entertainment needed. Provide healthy snacks and special holiday treats. This might coincide nicely with the cookie exchange group for parents with young children.

Halloween is a holiday celebrated in many different ways depending on where you live and community accessibility.  And it's not just a holiday for children. There's no need to be limited to the standard traditions of buying expensive costumes and going door to door in search of candy or passing out treats to everyone who knocks on your door. With a little imagination, this holiday can fun and memorable for everyone, regardless of age.

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2017 Best Family Halloween Costumes Ideas and Where to Buy

Halloween 2017 is almost upon us! Time to dust off the spooky decorations and decide on costumes. But, what to wear? What is more memorable than a Halloween where everyone in the family embraces a theme and joins in on the fun together?  More than 20 family Halloween costumes are described in this article.

All the rage for Halloween 2017 is well-planned family costumes. 

Everyone getting in on the Halloween theme (even pets) is easier to coordinate than you may think. 

Halloween fun has a powerful impact that people will remember for years to come. 

If you are an avid DIY-er, making a set of family costumes may be a piece of cake; all you need is a little direction and a fun idea. Consider something original and quirky, like everyone dressing up as breakfast foods, or dressing as farmers with the kids dressed as different crops.

Ask your children for ideas or consider a theme that may have special meaning for your family. The idea here is to embrace the originality that DIY can offer and create unique costumes that others can't reproduce easily.

However, if you can't craft your way out of a paper bag, buying a set of family costumes is an excellent solution. Purchasing ready-made outfits will certainly save time, and it offers the same amount of fun for the household as homemade costumes.

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Below, 20 trendy family costume ideas are listed. Altogether, the collection provides a range of themes, prices, and numbers of garment pieces, so you are sure to find something that fits your family's preferences. Peruse the list and stores for costumes to purchase or simply for ideas.

Band of Pirates from Chasing Fireflies

Star Wars Characters from Party City

Pokemon Characters from Party City

Train Conductors from AllAboardWhistle Etsy shop

Skeleton Family from Target

The Incredibles from Target

Despicable Me from Spirit Halloween

Medieval Family from Spirit Halloween

Avengers from Spirit Halloween

Beauty and the Beast from Disney Store

Frozen Characters from HalloweenCostumes.com

Peter Pan Characters from HalloweenCostumes.com

Snow White Characters from HalloweenCostumes.com

Family of Zombies from Spencersonline.com

Where's Waldo Family from Spencersonline.com

M&Ms from SpruceMount Etsy Shop

Angry Birds from Halloween Express

Flintstones Family from Halloween Express

Harry Potter from Halloween Express

Lord of the Rings from Halloween Express

Of course, there are many more options out there for family costumes, especially if you are creative. But, this list is an easy way to get started and coordinated for Halloween this year.

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Each year as Halloween looms near, thoughts of first costumes and bobbing for apples turn up unbidden by those people who reflect upon the past. Memories of earlier Halloween events are often triggered as they drive through neighborhoods decorated with lots of ugly witches, wide-eyed pumpkins, and flying bats. Halloween memories, treats and fun! What a special time of year for young and old alike.

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Spook-Tacular Halloween Baskets

Halloween gift baskets bring a "ghouly" welcome to your friends and co-workers.  These frightfully delicious gifts feature Halloween products and candies that will bewitch your loved ones - whether young or old!

Send Halloween gifts to a friend's home or bring one or two to the office as a giveaway at your office Halloween party. With chocolates, snacks and ghostly toys, these are sure to entertain anyone!

Halloween is a child's favorite holiday.

Be sure to send a Halloween gift basket to your favorite little 'gobblin' this Halloween. Halloween brings memories of jack-o-lanterns, carnivals, trick or treating and lots of Halloween candy. What other holiday affords the opportunity to go door to door begging for treats and bragging about all the Halloween candies and treats?

Fun Halloween Gift Ideas - A favorite with children, Halloween is one of those holidays that a person can never get enough of throughout their life. From black bats, Halloween costumes, orange pumpkins to green witches, the images that bring minds back to childhood Halloween events are vivid. It is just one of those fun holidays that often remains a pleasant thought as people reflect back on earlier times and favorite Halloween candy.

From long treks through the neighborhood to bustling Halloween parades with lots of colorful costumes to school Halloween parties complete with scary games and sugary treats and confections, the memories of childhood Halloween events bring forth winsome smiles and even spontaneous chuckles. Adults think back to fond memories of stopping on the sidewalk to dig through their Halloween bag for tempting candy bars or Halloween treat bags filled with candy corn.

Even as adults, people still enjoy dressing up to take their children trick-or-treating around the neighborhood so they can join in on the fun and perhaps snag a bit of candy and sweet treats for themselves. Who knows, someone they know might actually insist that they take a chocolate bar or handful of candy corn for the road?

People of all ages often have Halloween parties that they invite friends and family to attend in full costume. After all, it is more fun to watch pirates and witches bob for apples than it is to watch someone who looks just like they look every other day of the week. Of course, Halloween candy is going to have a strong presence at one of these parties with big bowls of lollipops, chocolate candy bars, tootsie rolls, nerds, hard candy, and an assortment of other types of Halloween candy favorites.

Adults who reflect on Halloween remember which neighbors were extremely generous giving out the large-sized candy bars, toys, or cookies with a smile that slipped onto their faces effortlessly. Memories of neighbors who gave out apples from their backyard trees, candy apples, or spice wafers without packaging also emerge. Adults even remember those neighbors who closed their homes up tight for the night watching TV with the shades drawn, the lights out, and quite possible a piece of candy waiting to be eaten.

Thoughts of fun, candy, and good times emerge as Fall arrives. These are pleasant memories for most people. Nights spent trick-or-treating for all kinds of candy have transformed to daytime events for many communities as the safety of the children enjoying this Autumn holiday has taken precedence over tradition.

Typically, these memories are pleasant ones since Halloween is a holiday filled with fun and sweet candy treats. People remember the neighbors who decorated houses, some of whom went to great lengths to create graveyards or witchesÌ dens. Memories of picture windows filled with cardboard cut outs shaped and designed as scarecrows, haystacks, pumpkins, skeletons, bats, witches and more are elicited as this holiday draws closer. Better yet, memories of the chocolates, sweets and other candies that were eaten before arriving home sweeten the memories much like they sweetened the mouth all those years ago.

Fond Memories of Halloween

Waiting till sunset to trick-or-treat, then racing home afterwards to dump out the trick-or-treat bags and plastic jack-o-lanterns to separate the chocolate candy from the other, less desirable, Halloween candy.

Bobbing for apples, ÏfishingÓ for prizes in the fishing booth, and to enjoying a favorite Halloween candy recipe Ò the red candy coated Halloween candy apples Ò at the Halloween Carnival.

Browsing the Halloween aisle to see the variety of special Halloween candy bags created for the season and oohing and aahing at the wide variety of Halloween candy created especially for this time of year.

Each year as Halloween looms near, thoughts of first costumes and bobbing for apples turn up unbidden by those people who reflect upon the past. Memories of earlier Halloween events are often triggered by the images people see as they walk through stores that are attempting to sell Halloween treats and candy or while they drive through neighborhoods decorated with lots of ugly witches, wide-eyed pumpkins, and flying bats.

Halloween memories, treats and fun! What a special time of year for young and old alike. A person is never too old for Halloween candy!

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Fond Memories of Halloween

Waiting till sunset to trick-or-treat, then racing home afterwards to dump out the trick-or-treat bags and plastic jack-o-lanterns to separate the chocolate candy from the other, less desirable, Halloween candy.

Bobbing for apples, fishing for prizes in the fishing booth, and to enjoying a favorite Halloween candy recipe, the red candy coated Halloween candy apples at the Halloween Carnival.

Browsing the Halloween aisle to see the variety of special Halloween candy bags created for the season and oohing and aahing at the wide variety of Halloween candy created especially for this time of year.

Each year as Halloween looms near, thoughts of first costumes and bobbing for apples turn up unbidden by those people who reflect upon the past.

Memories of earlier Halloween events are often triggered by the images people see as they walk through stores that are attempting to sell Halloween treats and candy or while they drive through neighborhoods decorated with lots of ugly witches, wide-eyed pumpkins, and flying bats. 

Halloween memories, treats and fun! What a special time of year for young and old alike. A person is never too old for Halloween candy! 



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