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Nestle Family Virtual Halloween Party: Trick or Treat Memories {$100 Walmart Gift Card Giveaway}

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Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet, Give me Something Good to Eat! For me, Halloween was always all about the candy! When we got home from trick or treating around the neighborhood, Jennifer and I would sort our candy into piles. There was a chocolate pile, a sweet tart pile, the gum pile and the ever disappointing and dreaded raisin pile!

Now that I am taking my own kids door to door, we are starting to make some really great memories of our own. My oldest is only five, so she is just starting to understand the whole trick or treating tradition, but she is definitely a quick study and is actively teaching her little sister the ropes (two bags equals more candy, right?).  Last year, my daughters decided to be “poodle skirt girls” and twisted their way around the neighborhood in pink skirts, white tights and pretty hairbows!  Their matching costumes were just too darn cute and while my youngest was quite confused as to why people were giving her stuff, she had a blast. This year, the oldest decided to go with Hannah Montana and my youngest wants to be the “pink Little Mermaid.”  Uh. Um.  A pink Little Mermaid?  I am still at a loss on this one….all suggestions are welcome!

Because my kids are young, we are just starting to develop our holiday traditions and we are looking forward to many more years of collecting candy on Halloween….pink mermaids and all!

Thank you all for participating in the Nestle Family Virtual Halloween party!  I hope you had a great time and learned a few things, too!

GIVEAWAY

For the final day of the Halloween Party, Nestle Family has a “spooktacular” prize for you!  One reader will win a NESTLÉ Family Halloween party package featuring coupons for free products from Stouffer’s, NESTLÉ Pure Life, Juicy Juice®, NESTLÉ Toll House, Nesquik, Wonka, Raisinets and Crunch plus a $100 Walmart gift card.

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1. Tell me your favorite Halloween memory!

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  3. My favorite memory was when my daughter was 1 and a half she dressed up as a beautiful witch, and me and her step dad dressed up as each other! She was quite confused as to why he had on a wig and lip stick etc. but we had a blast!

  8. My favorite halloween memory has to be when I had my daughter and she was two and she went trick or treat for the first time. Seeing her in her little alice in wonderland costume and her little bag to get some candy was something I will never forget. Lots of pics and a few tears!!!

  11. My favorite halloween memory is trick or treating in my neighborhood when I was growing up using a plastic pumpkin with a handle (late 60’s-early70’s) when it was safe and we would bring home tons of candy without any thought of being poisioned or otherwise

    ReggieM1961 [at] gmail [dot] com

  19. My favorite memory is from last year. We had moved to a new state the year before and that first year had been sort of lonely. Last year, our house was filled with friends for Halloween. It was so wonderful to really feel like we belonged.

  23. I remember when my first child celebrated his first Halloween and he was a Hershey’s kiss. He was so adorable! He didn’t know what Halloween was, but I really enjoyed dressing him up.

  30. My favorite Halloween memories are trick or treating with my 4 sisters, running back to our house 1 or 2 times to empty our pillowcases because they were too heavy to carry. lisacarr7 ataol dot com

  33. My fav halloween memory of lately has to be the first time taking my son with autism and daughter trick or treating when they actually understood what was happening, and the magic of saying ‘trick or treat’ and getting candy! it was a great night.

  38. My favorite Halloween would have to be the year my daughter made her own costume up for the very first time. She wanted to be daddy, so she dressed in jeans, a flannel shirt, work boots , smeared grease on her face and carried a spray gun (Daddy does body work and paint) She was a mini me of her daddy that night, too cute.

  44. I have three kids and I have many memories from each of their first halloweens. They each worn a little pumpkin suits and we have pictures of them all at each time. Each year, we party after trick or treating, and they have tons of fun.

  45. my fav memory is of my sons first halloween trick or treating.. he had no interest in the candy..just loved running up to peoples houses and sitting on their doorsteps.
    nannypanpan at sbcglobal.net

  50. My favorite Halloween memory was my son’s first official trick or treat. I felt like a kid again going door to door with him and wondering what kind of treat we would get. He especially loved the houses that were all lit up with pretty Halloween lights. The occasional scare was a giggler to me because I remember how spooked I got as a child and yet those are the homes I remembered going to most. When my son and I got home we went thru his candy together and picked out his favorites and left the rest in a bag on the table for the Great Pumpkin, who would leave a present for the candy. (I came up with this idea so that we wouldnt have so much candy in the house.)
    Sorry I dont have FB or Twitter.

  52. My mom’s birthday is on Halloween so probably her 50th b-day party. So much fun!
    tvollowitz at aol dot com

  53. When I was little (1 of seven siblings) we needed a costume in a hurry for the local parade, my had a green blanket, cut out 7 heads and we were the seven headed dragon! We won first prize!

  62. My favorite Halloween memory is me and my sisters dressed up as lollipops and refused to take them off until next day.

  78. Mine is last year when the adults in the neighborhood made a treasure hunt for the kids and we all became ghost pirates the kids had to defeat.

  79. My favorite Halloween memory is when we were kids, my parents had an Halloween party with my Aunts, Uncles & cousins. My Mom came from a huge family (16 kids) and she was the youngest. What a house full of people. We had so much fun. Everyone dressed up, even the adults. We played all sorts of games, decorated pumpkins and then as a group, we went trick or treating. Now, I look back and laugh, thinking what in the world did our neighbors think when we all came in a large group. Wish we could have a party for our kids like we did back then.
    Thanks so much for this great giveaway.
    rickpeggysmith(at)aol(dot)com

  83. Dressing up like a gypsy for Halloween and spending time w/my lil bro going trick or treating! I treasure family memories.

  90. My special memory… It’s so special in fact that if memories were worth dollars, this one would have at least seven figures attached to it. Honestly.

    It was Halloween of 2004. I remember the street we went trick or treating on. It was the same street as every year. They give out the best candy – full size candy bars at the majority of houses! Usually the children would beg to stay out later. Who ever wants it to end, you know?

    It surprised me this year, and truth be told hurt my heart a bit that my daughter asked to come home so soon in to it. We hadn’t even gotten up and down the entire street. But I knew she was tired. I knew she didn’t feel well. She looked so pretty…in her wheelchair that was all done up to look like a queen in her throne. The wheelchair was a new accessory that required some ingenuity in selecting a costume. She could walk earlier that month. But not now. She had cancer and it was spreading rapidly. Next month….she’d be gone.

    I remember so much about that time and all other Halloween memories will pale in comparison to that one, because every minute was so special.

    I sincerely hope I do not cause anyone discomfort with my sharing of this story. I had to be true to my memories.

  97. My favorite Halloween memory is 1989 – the year my son was born. He was 6 weeks old on Halloween and it had been a difficult pregnancy, but my little “pumpkin” was the best treat I could have gotten! He was adorable in his pumpkin costume (I still have it).

  100. I was in the marching band when I was in high school and one year Halloween fell on a Friday night, the same night of a home football game. We performed the National Anthem in uniform as usual. We then all sneaked back to the band hall to change into ghosts and goblins for the half-time show. It was great and the audience loved it! That was my most memorable Halloween ever!

  101. When I was a kid, we lived in a very rural area in the South and there weren’t very many neighbors to go trick or treating. One year we visited some cousins in Chicago and went around their suburban neighborhood with them to trick or treat. We each came home with huge shopping bags full of candy. I’d never seen so much candy in my life! Made myself sick eating all I wanted to eat. 🙂

  102. My favorite halloween memory is going trick or treating with my friends when I was younger. I felt so grown up when my parents let us go by ourselves.

  103. I remember the day I opened my door to find a tiny little Jack (from Jack in the Box) on my doorstep…sooooo cute!

  107. My father-in-law passed away the day before Halloween, so we were traveling on Halloween. When we returned from our trip a week later, one of the neighbors had arranged with everyone up and down the block for us to take our 4 year old son trick-or-treating a week late. He didn’t really know the difference, but it meant a lot to us!

  109. My favorite Halloween memory is from last year. It was the first year our children celebrated. We went rick or treating and attended a relative’s party. We had a spooktacular time!

  118. It has to be my little one’s first Halloween (when he was old enough to know what was going on). He was so excited!

  125. My favorite Halloween memory is a party that I had one Halloween in junior high school. My parents let me have the party in the garage, so all of my friends and I felt so “grown up” because my parents stayed in the house and we had the garage all to ourselves.

  131. Okay, so this HAS to be my favorite and most embarrassing Halloween memory. My now 10 year old son was 4 years old. He was a very shy kid, and was always afraid to go knock on doors to trick or treat. This year, he was making an attempt at being a bit more outgoing. Well, he was doing a great job with his “Trick or treats” and “thank you’s” when we got to a house with a little girl dressed as a witch handing out candy. There was a large group of trick-or-treaters who witnessed this, btw… Instead of saying trick or treat to the little girl, he said to her “That’s a pretty costume. Did you know boys have a penis and girls have a vagina?” I was MORTIFIED!!!

  139. My favorite memory is the year I dresed up as a gypsy. The little kids who came to the door for their treats were a bit hesitant because they didn’t know it was me. The parents got a kick out of it. And every year after that, the kids looked forward to my new costume.

  140. This is a little embarrassing…my favorite Halloween memory goes back about 40 years–when I was first kissed by a boy (while outside of the Grange Hall).

  145. When my children were very young I took them tricker treating around our neighorhooh. Rang the doorbell to a house and the women was dressed up like the wicked withc from Wizzard of OZ. My children were so traumatized that was the last house we went to that night and forget about them ever watching the Wizard of OZ ever again. Still to this day when they see anything related to the Wizzard of Oz the talk about tht night (LOL)
    tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com

  152. My aunt didn’t have kids, so she had the time to have elaborate Halloween parties for us kids. She helped with costumes if needed and was detailed with the decorations. Her favorite was fake ice cubes for the “blood” punch with fake flies inside. We miss her a lot. (Not just for the Halloween parties)!

  153. I remember the first year I gave out candy – it was incredibly fun and rewarding, which I wasn’t expecting!

  154. I was a hobo in the 4th grade. My mom made my clothes from my step-dad’s old work clothes, and she used an old rope for a belt. I also had a stick with a bandana tied on the end, and painted on whiskers. I was awesome!

  169. my favorite memory is when I was old enough to go with just friends and we could fill up a pillow case because back then there wasn’t any time limit

  173. my favorite memory is trick-or-treating with my son for the very first time when he was little. Holding his hand and walking door-to-door was soo much fun 🙂

  179. My favorite Halloween memory is the night I went trick or treating with my now deceased brother. Our family didn’t do Halloween-mom didn’t make or buy costumes, etc. He thought I should experience it once so he threw together a hobo outfit for me from stuff around the house & out we went. I loved it..we had so much fun! Now that I’m older, I always dress up & celebrate Halloween in a big way because of it – so thanks, Rick! sammiejanL40 at aol dot com

  185. I’d get so excited at Halloween whenever someone gave us full-size candy bars for treats.

    Thanks for a great giveaway!

  188. my favorite halloween memory would have to be of my daughter who is now grown but at age 8yrs she wanted to be puff the magic dragon so being a seamstress i made her costume and for her dragon feet wek taped green poster board cut out like long clawed feet and taped it to her tennis shoes to hide them, and she said her feet were sweaty so i added baby powder to her shoes thinking it would cool her feet and keep them comfortable and it did but each time she would step a big puff of powder would shoot from her shoes toe end and it was so funny and we thought it matched her costume perfectly, thing is tho her shoes puffed at school for a whole week until the powder got out, so funny at the time
    sewitupjulie at gmail dot com

  193. My Mother made me a ballerina costume one year and I wore it to school for our Halloween party. I was so proud of it.

  200. My favorite halloween memory is being able to eat as much candy as I wanted for that one day out of the year. My parents limited our candy and sweets consumption, so this was a special treat for us.

  202. it was my daughters first holloween, she was a velvet bunny with a so soft furry bunny bonnet she was so small its one of my favorite memories

  206. Two years ago, we took our son to this big Halloween event. You carve your pumpkins at the state park that hosts it. Then all the pumpkins are lit and sent out on the lake on a raft. It’s so amazing to see!

  213. My first Halloween taking my kids Trick or Treating. My 3 year old was Minnie Mouse and my son was a baby wearing a cow costume. They were so cute and surprised that people kept handing them candy.
    ape2016(at)aol(dot)com

  219. I loved the excitement my son had when he realized he could go to people’s houses and get candy just for being cute.

    lkish77123 at gmail dot com

  223. Our fav Halloween memory is when my four children dressed up as the Wizard Of Oz….they were so cute and everyone remarked about how neat they looked.

    leahforlove(at)aol(dot)com

  225. My fave memory is halloween 2005 when I brought my new baby home from the hospital. He was dressed as a bear.
    rmartinclarke at gmail dot com

  230. My favorite Halloween memory was the year we had to trick-or-treat in the snow. Our parents made us wear snowsuits under our costumes. I remember losing a lot of candy in the snow but it was fun.

  232. My favorite Halloween memory would have to be going trick-or-treating as a young child and being really facinated by the whole thing, the costumes, walking down streets at night, the darkness, the CANDY!! I loved it!!

  233. My favorite memory for Halloween is growning up on a farm in Kentucky, we raised lots of field corn for the livestock, so we would go into the field and gather corn, sit down and shell it all. Then we would go down by the road and find a real good place to hide and (throw corn at cars)corn some cars. LOL! I loved doing that!!! Fun Fun Fun!!!

  244. My favorite memory was when I was a child our neighborhood would go all out. The people across the street had a fire pit and served hot chocolate, another was grilling hot dogs, those were the days!

  248. i remember one year we drovw to pacific heights to go trick or treating and got king sized candy bars and stuffed animals! it was awesome when you were little!

  251. My favorite Halloween memory: When I was about 12 years old, a boy who lived around the corner from me helped me make a scarecrow out of clothes and stuffed with newspapers and we hung it from the roof. When the boys’ father came home and saw it, he was mad as all get out, but it was funny to us.

  252. My favorite Halloween memory is of our firstborn’s very 1st Halloween. We dressed him as Mickey Mouse and he was stinkin’ cute!

  254. my favorite halloween memory was my oldests when she was Esmerelda…I found the costume online and it was also jammies….she wore those jammies until they were way too tiny for her.

  255. My fav. Halloween memory was having my neices and nephews over for halloween and sitting around the table with candlelight telling ghost stories, we had it pre-planned for our friend to show up dressed as the man we were describing in the story and scare them by barging in our house. It was so funny.
    sweokgrl@gmail.com

  260. My favorite memory is watching my son see another small child dressed up like Elmo in the mall… he wandered after the little boy saying, “Elmo, it’s me. Hey, Elmo?” He was sure that we had to go over and say hi. It was too funny!

  266. My favorite memory is on my sons second Halloween his first house he went to he said “trick or treat” and then tried to give them candy from his bag! 🙂 So cute!!!!

  269. my favorite memory was when I was living on my own in the city as a young adult. I was boarding in an older lady’s house,and she wanted to give out treats to children but she couldn’t get around very well. So I helped her prepare the treats and then we sat and visited, and every time someone came to the door I’d get up and hand them out candy.
    It was a great way to spend halloween and I enjoyed the time with her too!
    aigcanada7 at hotmail dot com

  278. My favorite Halloween memory is dressing my infant son up as a Tootsie Roll! He was so funny & cute! And, then we took some adorable pics of him in his costume with candy scattered all around him.
    silverbella11 at gmail dot com

  284. Walking through the neighborhood with my best friend, her little brother and both of our Dad’s. It was somehow special – as girls we didn’t get to do much with just our Dads.

  289. My favorite Halloween memory is of my two grandsons going trick or treating for the first time. Their wide eyes when they seen all of the other trick or treaters and going to the door not knowing what to do other then hold their bags out without saying a word. They were so innocent then and now they are old pros at it and I still love watching them go trick or treating.

  293. Taking my youngest brother to a haunted house when he was about 7. He jumped,and screamed, and had a great time. That was 25 years or so ago, and he mentions it every halloween.

  296. My favorite Halloween memory was when my Mom dressed me up as a Ballerina, it was my favorite costume as a kid! She went all out, glitter, ribbons, sequins, it was too cute!
    I only wish I could make my own daughter such a pretty costume!

  301. My favorite halloween memory is when I was 10 and my Mom made me a lion costume and I went trick or treating with my Mom and her BFF and her son who was my BFF. He was a dalmation puppy. We then came home, each dumped our candy out on the floor and began trading candies that we didn’t like with each other. It was lots of fun and in the times when it was safe to eat what the neighbors gave you.

  327. I loved Trick-or-treating when I was a kid. I would go around my neighborhood with my neighbors and some of my siblings, then I would head over to another friends neighborhood and would finish off the night. We would have so much fun and get loads of candy that we would sort out and trade with each other.

  328. My favorite Halloween memory is getting ready and trick or treating with my brother, best friend, and her brother. We had years of Halloween fun. 🙂

    denise_22315 at yahoo dot com

  331. My favorite Halloween Memory is the one where my daughter dressed up as Barney and my husband and I watched her at a small age go up to the doors for candy.

  337. I loved the year I was an ice fairy. I looked so cute. My little brother was a spider that year. I love the picture my mom has of us together.

    txhottie_86 at yahoo dot com

  338. I loved haunted houses, so one of my fave memories of Halloween was when I was too old for Halloween but old enough to volunteer my time at the local haunted house… boy, was it fun scaring people…the best part was scaring the heck out of my friends who didn’t know it was me!

  342. I made clown outfits for my 3 kids and our daughter’s was made from hot pink with big white dots she was so cute…..
    dessiemae10(at)yahoo(dot)com

  352. My favorite Halloween memory was taking the boys trick or treating and one of the houses had their whole yard decorated with everything you could think of, including a full size gorilla. All of a sudden the gorilla started chasing after me with me screaming my head off and my boys laughing their off.

  356. I think every year was memorable. It was such great fun gathering clothing and accessories to make our own costumes. And some of the looks we came up with were hysterical. I did this with my kids too, and they loved it. Thanks.

  361. My favorite memory is of a neighbor who didn’t give out candy. He gave out dimes, and we thought that was the very best thing!

  365. When I was a little kid, one year we went on a vacation to California, and we just happened to be there for Halloween, I remember being excited because it wasn’t cold outside! So I could wear my costume without om complaining about me needing to wear a coat over it (hiding the costume, which of course makes no sense! 😉 ). It was exciting at the time!

  369. My favorite Halloween memory was going up to the campground when we (all my cousins/sisters and I) were all kids. They had a Halloween parade and costume contest each year, along with trick-or-treating, horse back riding and tons of other fun stuff…it was the BEST time! We’d all sit around all weekend after all the activities were over and roast marshmallows around the fire pit, too. Now that we’re all in our 20’s/30’s with our own kids, I look forward to bringing those memories back and passing them on to our little ones. 🙂 Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, for sure. 🙂

  373. My favorite Halloween memory was 7 years ago when my son went to his first Halloween party. He was 1 year old and had so much fun playing a bean bag toss game.

  377. My mother was the creative sort and she choose my halloween costumes according to what she wanted to make! Every year our church had a Halloween Party and most of the time I won. One I can remember was being an organ grinders monkey and playing a jack in the box. I was never cute and clever with my children but my sons are probably glad I wasn’t!

  379. My family and I lived in the Bronx NY while I was little. We didn’t have much money nor were we allowed to Trick-Or-Treat. My Mother and my Grandmother made costumes for my sister and I to wear to the community Halloween party. Every year they would make us a new Halloween costume. My sister and I never felt like we were missing out on anything. My Mother and Grandmother ensured we had a safe and fun holiday every year while we lived in the Bronx. This is my favorite memory because it shows that you don’t need money all you need is a little creativity and a glue gun!

  383. making that special costume with mom from grandmas old things thanks for the giveaway minsthins at optonline dot net

  385. One year when my son was very young we dressed both him & his stuffed Mouse as vsmpires. The stuffed mouse was Count Squeakula.

  390. I remember going on a haunted hayride with some friends in 2nd grade. It scared me out of my mind! It was my first “scary” Halloween experience, but I loved it nonetheless. 🙂

  394. It was actually as a grown up. I took all the plastic fruit off my mother’s Christmas wreath, made a Carmen Miranda costume and won first prize in a contest!

  400. My favorite Halloween memory was the year my daughter (about 4 at the time) got a lion costume! Complete with mane (on a hood – nice for cold evening) and tail! I painted her face and she went around roaring at everyone!

  402. My favorite Halloween memories are the first time each of my kids went trick-or-treating. They would get all excited and then when it was time to go to a door they would seem confused…but once they got that candy put in their bag…WOW! They were excited and ready to go to the next house. So fun!
    ljatwood at gmail dot com

  409. I have so many favorite Halloween memories, but my favorite have been since my son was born. The second Halloween, when he was actually old enough to walk, is my most memorable. He was a Winnie the Pooh and was so cute in his costume. He knew he wanted candy, but wasn’t quite sure how to go about it, besides opening his bag. He did say thank you though!

  410. My fave Halloween memory is getting my “plastic” costume/mask lol(Dating myself haha) and going trick-or-treating with my mom/dad/brother! I had Jaws one year and Gene Simmons from KISS(why?!ha) another year!

    Thanks for the chance to win!!

    ajoebloe(at)gmail(dot)com

  425. I remember when I was 8 we went trick or treating and had sacks full of candy,we came home and the neighbor had brought lots of terrific treats from a party she went to! Such fancy pastries and fun gift packs too!!!We got to stay up late and watch Disney movies.That might be my most favorite childhood memory
    jacksoncrisman@yahoo.com

  431. I remember trick or treating to the carnival at City Hall and then back home again My mom wouldn’t let me go to the houses that did not have their porch light on and that disappointed me
    bepoia(at)hotmail(dot)com

  432. My fave Halloween Memory is: going trick or treating to all the local restaurants as kid. My fave restaurant was always Taco Bell because when I was a kid they always gave out free Soft Tacos in my area.

  455. I’ve been around for a lot of Halloweens so I have quite a few memories. One of my favorites was when I was a room mother for my youngest and had three kids in that grade school. I decided to be a beat-up karate person, so I dressed in oldest son’s gi and put some dark “bruises” on my face and blackened one eye. I thought it was funny, but although it didn’t scare any of the kids, they were asking all my children how I got all beat up. I guess it was a little too realistic.

  456. My favorite Halloween memory is a time I was a very little girl and wanted to be a clown soooo badly! I remember my dad taking me to a drug store to try on silly clown wigs. Every time I think of Halloween I get a warm feeling remembering how hard he tried to make me laugh! 🙂

    Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

  460. Hi and Happy Weekend! 🙂 Well, there was this one time that for Junior year of high school, I did dress up with the Star Trek: The Next Generation shirt. Was an Admiral, no measly Captain for me. 😉 Nothing unusual happened, but pretty sure no one was actually surprised when I did show up that way… 🙂

    Lois
    OV_099@yahoo.com

  468. My favorite Halloween memory is when I was 27 and my father & I tricked my grandma. I dressed up in a wig, men’s hat, long overcoat and scarf and my dad
    drove me to my grandma’s house (my dad loved playing tricks on my granny!). I rang the doorbell and she handed out the candy, saying, “I don’t think I know you. Where do you live?” “Who’s kid are you?” etc.etc. I started laughing and she recognized me then. Silly, but a memory I hold dear now that my dad & grandma have passed away.

  483. I was upset at 10 years old as we did not have enough money for a good costume. My dad whipped up a creepy costume using stuff we had around the house and I ended up winning the scariest costume contest. I was elated.

  487. My kids are grown now,but the best memories are helping them get dressed up an walking with them to the houses we knew,they had so much fun but got tired really quick from running
    vlbelk(at)hotmail.com

  506. Boy will this show my age!!! I went out, unchaperoned. One of the things I liked was that you got to go into everyone’s house. About 1/2 the people made stuff for you to eat there (or they’d wrap it up for you). The other half had store bought candy. Not all wraped. I remember at one house you bobbed for apples and then if you got one, you got to pick what you wanted. I got one and picked the caramel apple. Halloween was so much fun back then and no worries. If I got tired and was too far from the house, or had gotten lost, someone took me home. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

  518. I remember dressing up for Halloween with my sorority sisters in college and going to a Halloween party at my brother’s fraternity. We all looked ridiculous, especially my brother!

  524. My favorite Halloween memory I wore a Renaissance Princess Costume my mom handmade. Everyone I passed commented on how pretty i looked…
    and It was the first time I actually FELT pretty!

  529. My favorite Halloween memory is when my mom made me a cat costume and I won the best costume contest at our church. So fun!

  531. I loved dressing up as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in the 6th grade… my grandma made my entire costume and I got to wear red sparkly high heels! What 6th grade girl wouldn’t love that!? 🙂

  551. To be honest, I don’t have an all time favorite Halloween memory, it’s not one of those occasions I think much of, but I used to enjoy taking my son out trick or treating when he was small.
    vlbsweeps at gmail dot com

  562. My memory of my childhood was going from house to house and playing the game of scavenger hunt……and using masks…..how crazy we were!!!! But, it was fun!!!

  565. My favorite Halloween was when my friends and I visited a haunted house for the first time. I will never forget being so excited and scared. We go almost every year now; I think we’re obsessed!

  573. My favorite memory is always when my kids were little and trick or treating with them, watching them have childlike fun!

  578. My favorite Halloween memory is the year I went to a party as Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. A lot of other people had great costumes and characters, too.

  583. My favorite Halloween memory is the the year my daughter dressed as Nala from Lion King. She was so precious! She got to walk in her pre K parade and then took pictures with each neighbor as she trick or treated that night.

    Thanks for reminding me, she’s 12 now and still quite precious to me but those memories of her being so little are nice to conjure up still.

  585. I loved eating clam chowder and oyster crackers and mugs of warm Nestle’s hot chocolate at grandma’s after all the trick-or-treating.

  609. My favorite memory is dressing up as the Wizzard of Oz. It was our first Halloween as new parents and we went all out.

  612. my fav halloween memory was a last minute arrival at grandmas house, run thru her closet and mom made me an adorable gypsy outfit. I racked out with all the elderly neighbors (werent alot of trick and treaters) and came home with a pillowcase FULL of candy and fun stuff!

  632. My favorite Halloween memory was my very first Halloween party at my house. I was 11 and had 10 friends. We danced to The Monster Mash and bobbed for apples. Music was played on a square box record player that played 45’s- one at a time!
    OMG- that was 47 years ago! I’ve seen some spooky things since then! 😉
    hondaray6 at hotmail dot com

  643. My favorite Halloween memory is when my husband was away for 22 month (military), came home the end of September – this was last year – and our 4 year old son dressed in his Army gear complete with boots, patch, hat, etc…and matched daddy for Halloween. They were both so happy to be together!!

    I’ll be on unpaid maternity leave in two weeks, so here’s crossing my fingers… $100 would definitely come in handy!! 🙂

  658. Huge parties in our church basement – I’m amazed still at some of the things I saw and experienced in a church – VERY SCARY! But fun and great memories.

    susitravl(at)gmail(dot)com

  660. One year we dressed my daughter as a bag of Jelly Beans because she wouldn’t decide on a costume that was within our budget. She was mad the whole time, funny part was everyone thought it was part of the costume and she was a bag of sour beans or sour gumballs. They gave her extra candy.

  663. I went to my first boy-girl party on Halloween when I was in eighth grade. It was very wholesome and romantic…full moon, bobbing for apples (I won) and handholding. Brad, wherever you are, I hope you remember as fondly!

  667. Every Halloween my brother and I would make popcorn balls with my dad to hand out on Halloween. That is my favorite memory. Good times.

  676. I gave my 10 yr. old son a Halloween party. We live next door to my mom, dad, and sister (who still lived with my mom). I told my son and his group of around 10 boys they could roll my mom’s yard. When they were sneaking next door to roll the yard my sister jumped out from behind a tree wearing a Jason mask. You would not believe how fast 10 boys can run and how loud they can scream! It was hilarious!!

    gailong13@aol.com

  689. When my kids were little, the church is our neighborhood hosted a Halloween costume party-the highlight was all the kids in costume marching around the block! Too cute!

  700. My favorite Halloween membory is the last year I went trick-or-treating. I was deemed old enough to be out on my own with my friends and we went to more neighborhoods than we ever had. This was back in the days when it was safe to ring those doorbells.

  724. Favorite Halloween memory – Taking the grand kids out for Trick & Treat!
    barbara dot montyj at gmail dot com

  738. I was an army brat. Every Hallotween there would be a “parade” of the kids who lived on the base; our parade was the 30+ kids walking together around the housing portion of the base together. Those were the days of the plastic masks with tiny slits for your eyes and mouth and a flammable, non-descript fabric. Those were thrilling days for me at that age. I felt like I was floating on air when I walked in the parade. My favorite outfits were Cinderalla (all pink and silver) and Roadrunner (a vibrantt purple outfit).

  748. One year my brother dressed up like a mom…robe, curlers and a shower cap over the curlers, everyone really thought he was a girl…it was hilarious! That was my favorite halloween!

  751. I rmemeber the Halloweeen that my brother got sick just before us going out to trick-or-treat. He threw up, and I threw up because of it. Both of us stayed home. Blahj

  760. my favorite halloween memory was the first time my friends and i got to go trick or treating without our parents. we had so much fun

  769. When my daughter was younger the man down the street wore a gorilla coustume
    and she would not go to his house at all and she knew him. Was lots of laughs later in life.

  772. My fave halloween memory is when my mom organized a small Halloween party at my house and invited my friends. OUr basement was the haunted house and it was so fun! 🙂

  819. my family does a haunted hay ride and the first year my husband helped us we were both 17. We got married this March after 14 years apart and he did the haunted hay ride this year. It’s an amazing tradition and my fave memory

  830. With all three of my kids, my favorite memory was when they were just old enough to realize that their dreams were coming true. They were given candy by everybody they saw and I said it was okay to keep it and eat it. The look on their faces as this fact sunk in was priceless. 🙂

  837. my favorite Halloween memory is when my husband and I had a Halloween party for my daughters and their friends… they were 8 and 11. We had an acre yard and we started with a spooky story about the house that burned down a block away (this really happened a few weeks before the party). We then sent the kids on a hunt through the trees and graveyard we set up and they had to find clues and go all the way down to the burned house and down the alley behind our house (where parents dressed as monsters jumped out at them) and back to our house. We even had a parent submerge himself in our jacuzzi and jump out when the kids came by. They got a good scare and that party will go down in history!!
    billdebstanton at hotmail dot com

  857. When we were small, my parents would egg cars on Halloween. It was fun then but now that I’m an adult, I can’t believe they did that. I would have a cow if someone did that to me. lol Thank you!

  874. at my old office we would do a theme day, slumber party was my fav, nothing like going to work in your fuzzy slippers

  896. My favorite halloween memory is my first halloween with the love of my life. He made me giggle to no end, was so silly, was so great with friends…I knew he was my love that night!

  910. My favorite Halloween memory was making cut-out Halloween sugar cookies with my grandma. I was eight years old and we had the best time!

  913. My favorite Halloween memory was going trick or treating in my favorite costume ever when I was little: a cheerleader! For years I wanted a cheerleading costume and finally got one! Needless to say, I was completely thrilled. Thank you for the chance! 🙂

  921. Kinda weird but I remember when I was about 8 and we were trick or treating with my Aunt who is a year younger than me, because of her parents age she didn’t get out much. She was so excited that the first house we went to had no railing around the porch, and she hopped up the steps to the door and right off the other side. She didn’t get hurt, she was wearing a costume with a hoop skirt, but we had something to giggle about that year, and every year since.

  953. Always having to figure out what costume you could put over your snow suite when we were younger because it was always so cold out for Halloween.

  967. my favorite halloween memories are that of my dad taking me trick or treating. We would walk untilmy feet were tired and he would help me get as much candy as possible, i just had to make sure I gave hiom some baby ruths when we got home from my bounty.

  985. Mom dressed me as a bag of trash as last minute costume idea. The banana peel she stuck to my head stunk to high-heaven by the end of the day and made me so nauseous I couldn’t go trick-or-treating that night. I did win the school costume contest though! (so not worth it so don’t do it to your kids!)

  998. favorite Halloween memory is last years Halloween haunted porch…we ran out of candy so I started handing out my collection of Beanie Babies. Thats when things really got started… the kids kept coming back…over and over and over..lol

  1008. My favorite halloween memory was in jr high, when our church youth group went trick or treating collecting money for UNICEF. More fun than any other Halloween I remember

    nblexp at gmail dot com

  1042. My favorite Halloween memory is taking my little brother trick or treating every year. He’s 8 years younger than I, so I got to dress up and still act like a kid at heart taking him out every year!

    paradise459 (at) sbcglobal (dot) net

  1047. When I was a kid it was safe to get homemade goodies…we new everyone in our neighborhood. People would go crazy trying to make the neatest stuff like homemade taffy apple, candy apples, popcorn balls, cookies and brownies. One year a Mom made chocolate fudge with orange swirls…45yrs later it is still the best fudge I have ever eaten in my life!!!

  1113. When my youngest (and shyest) granddaughter was about four I made her a Christmas tree costume from green net, with tiny ornaments and bells sewed all over it. She was the hit of every party she attended and “discovered” that being the center of attention could be quite a bit of fun. That’s one of my fondest Halloween memories.

  1120. My favorite Halloween memory was the last year I went trick or treating. I was old enough to go on my own and went to more houses than I ever had before. My bag was almost too heavy to get home.

  1143. My favorite memory was visiting my best girlfriends house to go trick or treating with her and her kids! I follow and tweet as DotMarie1 and liked too.
    Thank you for a chance.

  1153. My favorite Halloween memory is the year my older sister (14 years older!) took me trick or treating. it was a very special treat!

  1166. When my daughter was younger she had a white velour suit with black spots and we decided to dress her as a dalmatian for Halloween.
    We painted her face with whiskers, a little black nose and long eyelashes and made puppy ears out of her long hair.
    She was truly adorable.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

  1176. my favorite year was when my boyfriends daughter was 3 and we took her trick or treating ALL OVER and she was cinderella! She looked so cute! Now she is into being zombies and mummies lol!

  1185. my fav memory was about 10 years ago, the last time our gang got dressed up. guess it’s official, we’re too old now

  1196. My favorite Halloween is my first Halloween to go trick or treating. I had lived in a rural area for my first few years and homes were far, far apart. Then we moved to a subdivision and I was so excited to go out for treats and wear my first costume.

  1209. My daughter’s first Halloween that she could walk door to door by herself. I got to sit in the van and pick her up at the end of the street and take her to the next. It was so much fun! Usually she is rushing from place to place and I didn’t get a chance to see all the other kids costumes. This time I did.

    tdlsfm(at)gmail(dot)com

  1223. Getting the entire bowl of candy dumped into my bag when the lady at one of the houses I went to decided she was too tired to keep handing it out!

  1230. I loved being driven around by my dad trick or treating. We would go what seemed like EVERYWHERE. So many more people participated in the fun back then.

  1236. My favorite halloween memory was making my stepdaughter’s costume about 5 years ago. She loved it and it was unique

  1244. When I was 10, we had a huge halloween blizzard with almost 3 feet of snow! I was only able to trick or treat at our closest neighbors because of the weather. And they gave me all of their candy since there were no other trick or treaters!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  1264. My favorite Halloween memory were both of my childrens 1st time trick or treating (chucosbabygirl(at)yahoo(dot)com)

  1268. I usually went trick or treating with my friend. One year her uncle took us. He let us dress his dog up in a t-shirt and hat. The dog left it on all night. 🙂

  1279. A memory from my childhood is when my cousin and I dressed up as mice, but everybody kept calling us cats!

  1283. I loved going trick or treating with my friends. My favorite memory was the year I got to go 3 different nights, it was a blast! Thanks for the chance!

  1290. My favorite memory is of myself trick or treating when I was very small many moons ago. We used to carry pillowcases to hold our loot.

  1324. I actually was not allowed to go trick-or-treating as a small child because my father didn’t approve of Halloween. So, I went for the first time when I was 13 and I went as Hermione. It was a good time and I really enjoyed myself when I went trick-or-treating with my friends. I guess it was my favorite because it was my first.

  1327. I remember my friend and i dressed up in my dads work clothes one year(city shirts w/his name and city).
    We trick or Treated in the city he worked in and we got extra from some people because he was my dad:)

  1340. Halloween was my Favorite Holiday!I have two boys,We made homemaid costumes!Boy it Fun.
    One year Sam ,my oldest dressed as a Scarcrow,I put old bib overalls on,a fannel shirt,lots ,lots of straw and a Fannel Hat made with fannel guild together!My youngest was a Clown,I made him a moke dot coustume ,the hat was the same
    We went all over the neighbor hoods,and we went to the richie hoods too!My oldest walked Steven to the door,the Hollar HAPPY HALLWEEN!I remember I stop and went don the street.They walk up to a small mobilhome. A old man opened the door.He laughed at them.He said well boys I’m affraid I don’t have any Candy,Sam said Sir that OK.He said waite boys,he went to his kitchen,he came back with two cans.I said now boys Thank Him,they did.
    The funnist part was when we got in the car,Steven said Mom that man gave me a can of spagettee,them Sam pull out another can,he said a can of pinto beans!I laugh,the boyssaid its not funny mom.I said I’m Sorry ,I’m not laghing on what he gave you,It was seeing your faces when you pulled out them cans!LOL

  1342. One year my Mom asked me what I wanted to be, because she wanted to make my costume–I told her I wanted to be an ostrich. I ended up looking more like big bird then an ostrich—but every house I went to they made everyone come out to see me in my costume–and at the end of the night when we dumped out our bags for my Mom to inspect our candy I had twice as much as my sister.

  1384. My favorite Halloween memory was my Dad showing reel-to-reel movies of old scary movies in our driveway for neighborhood children.

  1385. My favorite memories are of when I was a child in a small town, many years ago before so many fears were public, where we were allowed to wander all over town to trick or treat. Once we were old enough to basically know our way around town, we went on our own, usually in sibling or friend groups, and pretty well hit every house in town.

  1394. When we were younger and all of 3 us siblings dressed as hobos. It was my moms favorite costume because it was so easy to make.

  1396. this year we had a halloween party for our kids and friends and it is my favorite memory!
    ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com

  1403. fav memory is easy for me…making haunted houses on my front porch as a kid. I did the trick or treat thing too, but always enclosed the porch and made it all crazy. so much fun!

  1413. My favorite Halloween Memory – It’s hard to pick just one. Halloween was my mom’s christmas – we went all out… Maybe the year we turned our first floor into a big haunted house for trick-or-treaters

  1416. While its not necessarily a favorite memory, it is very memorable to me! LOL I remember the ONE time I got a really nice costume. It was a huge fluffy baby chicken costume that someone my mom knew rented for their kid. I got to use it after their kid did as they had trick or treat on a different night. I loved it…huge fluffy body and orange tights and big feet. uh yeah…those big feet tripped me up going down a hill and I fell and tore the you know what out of the tights. LOL My mom was SO mad as she had to pay her friend for the damages.

  1435. When I was 10 making smore’s at Halloween at turkey run
    park with my brownies troop! Nothing better & I was introduced
    then to my favorite all time snack-smore’s! barb g.
    directorylanesuperstore(AT)gmail.com

  1436. I receive your email newsletter updates which I’m catching up on today
    so glad this was still open! barb g.

  1451. My favorite Halloween memory is trick or treating with my friends and my favorite butterfly costume when I was about 6.

  1456. My favorite memory is one that really upset my daughter (at first). She had gone to most of the houses in the neighborhood and had her Halloween bucket pretty full. Now mind you, this was back when you could trust that your children could go out with friends and not with parents along. Well, along came some older boys and stole all of her goodies. She came home crying and we didn’t have another bucket for her. She took a pillow case and went back to all the houses and told them what happened and she ended up with twice as much candy and other goodies. Our neighbors were so awesome. They went out of their way to make sure a little girl had a great Halloween.

  1458. One year me and my best friend went trick or treaking and vowed not to stop untill our pillow cases were full of candy. We must have walked for 3 1/2 hours and my feet were hurting but we were so excited that we got so much candy.

  1469. my favorite memory is going to a haunted house when i was younger and i was absolutely terrified. it seems kind of funny now..but my best friend and i were holding onto each other and screaming.. but we had so much fun

  1473. Thanks for the giveaway…favorite Halloween memory was our parents driving my sisters & I to a local farm each October to pick out our Halloween pumpkins, and drinking fresh apple cider !

  1479. My favorite Halloween memory is of being about 11 or so and running out of the side door of a haunted house because I was so scared. I still won’t go in one today, lol, but it makes me laugh to think of how I got out of there so quickly.

  1507. Okay not sure what happened, I just typed out a bunch then it gave me an error… My favorite memory is when my daughter was 3 we took her trick or treating, and she got a bag with a pencil and coupon in it she handed it back to the lady and told her she wanted candy, I wanted to crawl under the porch and stay there

  1520. Seeing kids reactions when offered candy from a friend who was wearing fake rotten looking teeth – priceless!

  1528. Mine is when my daughter was a princess and it was so cold that I had to carry her inside my jacket and all that was poking out was her pointed hat

  1529. my favorite halloween memory is having clam chowder and oyster crackers with my grandma once i finished the trick-or-treating — and modeling my outfit for her before going out. she died when i was very young, so that halloween with her was very special to me.

  1530. When I was in high school, one of the radio stations aired Orson Welles’ broadcast of “War of the Worlds” in its entirety. It was the first time I’d ever heard it, although I had heard OF it. That was really cool.

  1531. My favorite Halloween memory was taking my kids out for their first Halloween trick or treating and seeing the excitement they had.

  1536. My fave memory? My Mom helping us get ready to trick or treat while pumping us full of yummy 7up/Hawaiian Punch Halloween Punch!

  1538. I remember trick-or-treating around our neighborhood as a kid and then traveling across town to attend our Grandparent’s house party and trick-or-treat around their neighborhood.

  1542. My fave Halloween memory was when we lived in Vegas and it was actually warm at night which was awesome! I pushed my kids around in the jogging stroller and we went door to door in just our own culdesac and got so much we had to go home. I sure do miss that weather, we will freeze this year!

  1546. My favorite Halloween memory was last year’s..it was my son’s first Halloween. He was Wolverine & was super chubby & cute in his costume!

  1549. My favorite Halloween memory was my daughter’s first Halloween. Her first costume was an Indian princess. She was so cute.

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