Some of my best Halloween memories were at spook trails with my friends. We would go to two or three in one night. Then we would go back to someone's house and watch scary movies all night!

I remember gonig trick or treating while pulling a sled because the snow was like two feet deep.

and what might I ask did you do to him first?

Did anyone ever go to the mall for Halloween? We did one year, and the only thing I liked about it was that it was warm.

But after we moved, I got to trick or treat in an awesome neighborhood. We'd start out by going to the houses on the river and on the back street, and since no one ever went back there, they'd give the best candy, full sized bars, cans of pop, etc. Then we'd stop by Mr. Hoover's on the corner, where he'd have this huge tray of candy, tell us to take a handful of each, and then say, "hold on a sec," and go in and give us more candy. We'd drop that load off at home, then a couple streets over across from the park was the place to be. There was one house that would put speakers out and play creepy songs and noises, yards were decorated, the people giving out the candy were dressed up, it was so much fun. There was one house that would give out 5 nickels taped to a construction paper pumpkin. On the next street over, a guy would put a speaker in his jack-o-lantern and have a microphone inside, and so the pumpkin would talk to kids when they came to the door.

One year we tried to trick or treat the bar on the main road, just for the heck of it. They wouldn't even come see us. :(

I am old enough to remember trick or treat when you weren't scared about tampering with the candy and you didn't get a treat if you weren't in costume. It annoys me when kids make no effort at all, not even a little of mom's makeup or clothes, and they come to the door asking for candy. I know some kids are broke, but there's always SOMETHING they can do.

Anyway, we used to get homemade popcorn balls, chocolate suckers, pumpkin muffins and other special treats in addition to all the good candy...wax bottles, redhots, Bit O' Honey, Slowpokes, Hershey Bars, Pop Rocks...

The only thing I envy of kids now is that a lot of communities are allowing night trick or treat...we never had that because parents worried some crazy would kidnap their sweet children from their comfortable suburban neighborhood.

We always went trick-or-treating at night....it was usually dark by 6:00. My mom would take us around the neighborhood, then we'd walk over to my grandparents home to get our treat from them. My grandma used to make homemade donuts every Halloween, and we'd have some of those with apple cider. On our way back home, my mom would tell us spooky stories....she had an active imagination and would scare the crap out of us with her stories, but the endings were always something silly to make us laugh. I think she changed the endings because she didn't want us up all night from nightmares, haha. I miss my mom's stories most of all.