My Favorite Halloween Memories, Featuring Paper and Wick’s Fitch 41: The Halloween Collection

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I grew up in a household where celebrating ALL the holidays was important, not only Halloween. And it's something I will always be grateful for.

As each holiday came around, I felt like it was a great honor to be allowed to dive into the boxes of decorations with my brother, resurface our favorite things and find a spot for them in the house. We’d fill the house with bunnies and eggs at Easter, hearts at Valentine’s Day, fall leaves and turkeys for Thanksgiving and, of course, pumpkins and ghosts for Halloween.

I didn’t realize it then, but by creating these traditions for us my parents also gave us something valuable: memories.

Because we made it a point to celebrate each holiday, we were marking the passing of time – something I think is important for us to do as human beings.

Each holiday – whether it’s as religious as Easter, as patriotic as Fourth of July or as commercial as Valentine’s Day (sorry, V Day, but ain’t no one creating a year-round blog for you anytime soon…) – allows us to stop for a moment, see where we’ve been and look forward to what’s to come.

Doing this every so often makes you grateful for what, and who, you have in your life.

And honestly, this is the reason I don’t decorate for Halloween year-round. (Although more and more decor is taking over the Spooky Little Apartment each year…) Opening those boxes each year is a chance to savor the moment, reflect on all the ghosts of Halloween past and welcome another season into my world.

 

You might be wondering what sparked all this, and the answer is simple: being treated to a sample of Paper and Wick’s Halloween collection of candles, called 41 Fitch:

 

 

From paperandwick.com:

The Halloween Collection was inspired by the delightfully creepy 1860 Victorian home that my parents purchased and extensively renovated when I was a child. Although the house was transformed into a beautiful property, it never fully lost its spooky charisma. 41 Fitch: The Halloween Collection is bursting with unique scents inspired by classic Halloween themes. Apparition, Cauldron Bubbles, Full Moon, Haunted Hayride and Trick or Treat will fill your space with the mysterious, intriguing nostalgic scents of a crisp Halloween evening. 

 

As I sniffed each one they smelled like the ghosts of Halloweens past, so as I take you through each scent I’ll share one of my favorite Halloween memories with you.

 

Apparition

A slightly smokey vanilla scent. The smoke element reminds me of ghost stories told around a campfire, while the vanilla brings a touch of sweetness. Buy it now

Halloweenie Roast, my annual party, started completely by accident. It was simply me and four of my best friends sitting around the firepit in my parents’ backyard the night before Halloween in 2009. We were gathered together to go see our favorite band play the House of Blues the next night, and my mom suggested everyone come over for a backyard weenie roast.

We spent the night around a glowing bonfire, sipping beers, roasting weenies and s’mores and enjoying the crisp fall air.

I loved that experience so much, I decided to continue my party. It’s grown to a much larger group, but every year my favorite part of the party is when the bulk of my guests call it a night and my close circle of friends and I gather around the fire, sip our witches brew and enjoy each others company. Apparition brings to mind these moments where my Halloween season is perfect.

 

 

Cauldron Bubbles

Rich, earthy notes blend with dark amber and patchouli for this witchy brew. Buy it now

I longed for Halloween parties as a girl. How cool would it be to go trick-or-treating, then step into this magical world where there were lights and food and music transported you to a Halloween wonderland?

I finally got that experience somewhere around age 10 or 11 when my mom set up a Halloween party for our Girl Scout meeting. We all came to the meeting in costumes. I remember bobbing for apples – something which is MUCH harder than it looks – and all of us shrieking with laughter as each girl came up completely soaked, apple in mouth. We ate ghosts in the graveyard (pudding topped with crushed Oreos and Milano cookie tombstones), and we even made a facial mask using witch hazel…which had me convinced my own mother just might be a witch – a moment the bewitching scent of Cauldron Bubbles reminds me of.

I think this is proof that it doesn’t take much for Halloween to conjure up a cauldron of memories. Even the simplest details can leave an impression on us 20+ years later.

 

 

Full Moon

Warm woodsy scents of cedar and oak mingle with soft floral tones. This scent reminds me of walking through the woods underneath a full moon. Buy it now

This one isn’t a memory, per se, but a feeling I lived every single Halloween. As October 31st drew closer, I always got excited to go trick-or-treating and wear my costume, of course, but I also got excited about the possibilities Halloween night held.

In my mind, it was always magic. It felt like another world was closer, more infused with my own. It always left me wanting something to happen. Just what they would be, I’m still not sure, but I suppose I wanted a werewolf to cross my path or a witch to fly across the moon – something to prove the magic I felt actually existed.

I never had those experiences, and my sense of magic related to other holidays (namely Christmas) totally faded when I hit my 20s. My sense of wonder with Halloween, however, has never wavered. It leaves me wanting to wander the woods under a full moon on Halloween night in hopes I might finally catch a glimpse of that magic. I suppose I can light this candle when I want that feeling now.

 

 

Haunted Hayride

The scent of fresh hay mingles with notes of balsam, vetiver and cedarwood. This is an outdoorsy scent that will remind you of rolling through haunted woods on an old, rusted wagon. Buy it now

October 2008 was one of my best and worst all rolled into one. It was the worst for the horrible excuse for a Halloween party I was invited to, which you’ve probably heard the tale of if you’re a Treats Not Tricks subscriber or signed up for more info on Killer Halloween Party.

But it was also the best because I spent the entire month going to every haunted house in northeastern Oklahoma.

Yup. Your girl who hates haunted houses went to at least five that October. And while I hated 90% of it, I’ll admit that I really enjoyed the magical world I stepped into at the Castle of Muskogee. From an indoor haunt to their Trail of Blood walk through the woods and a haunted hayride, it was what Halloween was supposed to be in my head…and I kind of wanted to live there.

Haunted Hayride is like cracking open that night and reliving it again and again.

 

 

Trick or Treat

This scent is quintessential childhood Halloween. It reminds me of the mingled-candy smell from a trick or treat pail and is different every time I smell it! It is sweet and complex and will fill your space with the nostalgic scent of your trick or treat pail. Buy it now

We all had that one epic year of trick-or-treating. For me, it was my final year. Much like wishing hard for a bit of Halloween magic to happen, I also loved the feeling that Halloween night was my chance to roam the world freely. (Okay, more like my neighborhood – but it felt like the world!)

I was in eighth grade and worried I was a bit too old for trick-or-treating. But when a friend invited us to her house, I leaped at the chance for one last ride through an unfamiliar neighborhood.

I couldn’t tell you what my costume was that year (probably a hippie) and honestly, I can’t even remember the friend whose house it was, but I remember wandering new streets with our group of 7-8 guys and girls with streets bustling with kids. I’m sure it wasn’t actually like this but in my head, it’s like the streets of Salem in “Hocus Pocus”. When we returned to the friend’s house, there was pizza and soda to enjoy while we sorted through our candy.

And I still remember getting picked up and riding home while “Spooky” by Classic IV played on the radio. The entire night was pure magic…much like this candle – it literally smells like the inside of my pumpkin pail all those years ago.

 

 

Review: Paper and Wick Fitch 41: The Halloween Collection

Let me start with this: I’m a picky candle person. I don’t like the fruity or foody scents the vast majority of candle lovers buy, and I’ve found many give me headaches from the scents…so it takes something special to please me.

(I’m also technically not supposed to burn candles in my apartment – like, it’s in my lease and everything – but my landlord will never find this blog, right? 😂)

Paper and Wick’s Fitch 41: The Halloween Collection MORE than delivers on that something special. I genuinely love each scent in this Halloween collection. I can’t stop burning Apparition and Full Moon. I want my entire Halloween party to smell like Cauldron Bubbles, and I cannot get over the pure magic that must have gone into creating Haunted Hayride and Trick or Treat. Both of these stunned me.

Haunted Hayride is like someone tucked fresh hay into a jar and preserved the scent perfectly, and Trick or Treat? Wow. I trick-or-treated with a pumpkin pail most of my youth, and as my candy sat in my pail through November, it developed such a specific scent. I’ve never been able to recapture that, but this candle does. My jaw literally dropped when I first opened it.

Each of these candles is available in Paper and Wick’s Etsy shop for just $10. You can grab them each here:

 

Apparition | Cauldron Bubbles | Full Moon | Haunted Hayride | Trick or Treat

 

Erin offers free shipping when you spend $50…just saying. Or, if you want to take your chances, you can try your hand and winning the complete collection from me!

 

 

Paper and Wick Fitch 41: The Halloween Collection Giveaway

Enter to win your own set of candles from Paper and Wick’s Fitch 41 collection by leaving a comment on this post sharing YOUR favorite Halloween memory.

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THE GIVEAWAY CLOSES Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 AT 12:01 A.M.

A winner will then be drawn at random and announced on Spooky Little Halloween’s TwitterFacebook AND Instagram accounts on Tuesday, Sept. 11 no later than 9  p.m. CST (Convert to your local time.) The winner will also receive an email notifying them of their win with additional instructions for claiming their candles from Paper and Wick. International entries are welcome.

Best of luck!

 

Happy haunting,

 

Miranda | Spooky Little Halloween

Miranda is the Houston-based writer, blogger, and Halloween lover behind Spooky Little Halloween, the blog celebrating October 31st all year long. Her favorite Halloween things include pumpkin guts, chocolate bars in her trick-or-treat pail, real haunted houses (including the one she lives in!), and historic cemeteries.

122 Comments

  1. Reply

    Lyndsay

    September 3, 2018

    Favorite Halloween memory would be trading Halloween candy with my brother. Everyone has a favorite when it comes to bartering!

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    Katie

    September 3, 2018

    My Favorite Halloween memories are going over to my Great Aunt Marie’s house and trick or treating in her neighborhood with all my cousins. My Maw Maw (Grandma) would hand out candy with Aunt Marie while we were out getting our candy. My Mom and Aunts would take us. My Mom always hand made me the best costumes. When we were done trick or treating we would have a pizza party and all go through our candy and trade. We’d then go back outside and play hide and seek tag in the dark. As it got later we’d come back in and watch scary movies. It’s some of the best memories of my life. Aunt Marie, Maw Maw and now one of my Aunts have all passed away and I cherish those memories even more now. Until my Maw Maw passed she always made me and my fiancé up bags of our favorite candy on Halloween. I miss her so much 🖤

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    Kellee craig

    September 3, 2018

    My absolute favorite Halloween memory was dressing up like a scarecrow with a super spooky alien mask over my head when i was about…8 or so? And after trick or treating my brother’s friends stopped by and I scared the living crap out of them. It was the first time i really spooked someone and i remember feeling so happy about it! Haha.

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    Becky T

    September 3, 2018

    The countdown to Halloween and the excitment as more decorations went up and candy was bought for trick or treaters , costumes finished up and our pumpkins sat on the porch awaiting carving on Halloween after school is the feeling and memory I treasure most in the fall.

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    Aleeshia

    September 3, 2018

    In love with your blog

  6. Reply

    Richelle

    September 3, 2018

    I only have memories from last year when i celebrate halloween for the first time. I I’m hooked now haha

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    Andie

    September 3, 2018

    When I was growing up we lived in an apartment complex on a super busy street in not the best part of town. So for Halloween all of the moms in the apartment complex would coordinate a Halloween Party for all of us. Every year from 4 to 10 years old we would have it. It would be in the parking lot and fun games were set up and it was a potluck so everyone brought fun delicious food and then after games and food the parents did a trunk or treat type line up and we would just walk round and round until the candy ran out. We always ended up with a ton of candy. We never felt unsafe or less than during these parties. And still to this day all of us that grew up together will reminisce about these celebrations. I think it’s what sparked my love for the holiday.

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    Nina

    September 3, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is from when I was about 10 and my aunt threw the coolest Halloween party ever. I vividly remember the games we played, the decorations, and food. I had the best time. No one in my family has had a Halloween party since so that memory stands out to me the most.

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    Adair

    September 3, 2018

    I love Halloween so much, that every year as a kid I would hold off having my birthday party almost two months, so I could throw a Halloween blowout. My favorite Halloween was my 16th birthday party. By then, most of my friends had been coming for years and really got into the spirit with super elaborate costumes. I had a friend show up as a farmer with a live chicken, an Oompa Loompa that was spot on, and a girl who was grapes and had so many balloons on her costume she couldn’t sit down. I have a terrible memory and I can always pull up moments from this night. We all had such pure genuine fun that it reminds me of the joy and wonder of cihildhood.

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    Danielle Klassen

    September 4, 2018

    One of my absolute favorite Halloween memories was getting the chance to see a triple feature with a very dear friend at my local theatre. I hadn’t planned on wearing a costume but at the last second, I thought that I would throw something together to get in the spirit. (Until that point, it had been a pretty lame week and I was grumpy.) So I sifted through my closet and threw on a bunch of my favorite shawls and stole my roommate’s decorative witch’s hat. I felt more festive after that so I rode off to the haunting grounds of choice for the evening: a historic theatre in my hometown that is always up for theme nights and events. For Halloween, they always have Dead Fest and that year it culminated with a triple feature of Terror Express(with the wonderful Christopher Lee), House on Haunted Hill (with the irreplaceable Vincent Price) and finally Night of the Living Dead (Romero’s original, of course). In between, we grabbed candy bags from the lobby and watched spooky Disney shorts in between the films. It was one of the best Halloween nights I can remember as an adult because it gave me the chance to truly be a kid again!

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    Kaitlyn Bedford

    September 4, 2018

    One of my favorite Halloween memories is one year in high school when one of my good friends threw a small Halloween party at his house (I was a flapper). We played games, walked through a cemetery that was beside his house, watched movies, and ended the night roasting marshmallows and telling stories around a campfire.

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    Sean Telepo

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory has be my first fright fest experience back in 2014. I was terrified of haunted houses but my friend literally kidnapped me into going and now it’s my favorite thing in the world. That year is the year I learned to love Halloween so much

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    Wendy

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is when my son was 4 and dressed up like Mario from the Super Mario Brothers games. He talked in an “Italian “ accent all night and it was the cutest thing ever!!

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    Keeley

    September 4, 2018

    Halloween had always been a major part of my life. My parents were married on Halloween and when I grew up my husband and I also had a Halloween themed wedding. From a young age I was fascinated by witches and my fondest memories are of hunting down new decorations to add to our witchy collection. The smells of blow mold plastics and Beistle cutouts hold a special place in my heart!

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    Lauren

    September 4, 2018

    I was never one of those kids in school whose favorite holiday was Christmas mine was Halloween and it still is! My favorite Halloween memories always included shopping for decorations and especially the candy! The best part was putting up the new decorations and seeing the old ones that we grew up with. Halloween is filled with a lot of great memories but the best part is it’s the one time of year I’m at my absolute happiest!

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    Evelyn

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory didn’t come for me until later in life. Growing up, I lived in the woods with no neighbors. I would have to drive to my cousins house and go out with them. Sadly, that rich neighborhood only gave big candy and fun treats to the neighborhood kids and I got fun sized or fruit. It’s not the size but the segregation that stung. But Halloween was ALWAYS my favorite. In later years, I always still dressed up or hung with friends. In college we handed out candy and threw small parties. But last year, was my favorite memory. I know, silly, but I still talk about it like it happened yesterday. My boyfriend and I went to the Sleep No More McKittrick Hotel party in NYC. PLEASE look it up. It was insane. We danced with go go dancers, ran around and took pictures and just loved the spooky spirit. I’m so glad I have a man who loves me and all my spooky stuff and have a Halloween memory with him and for myself that I will cherish forever.

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    Christie Reynolds

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is the year my Mom lovingly made me an Ewok costume. No pattern or anything, straight from her own creativity because she knew I was OBSESSED with Star Wars and especially the Ewoks. I’d say it was a 50/50 reaction around the neighborhood, half the people knew I was an Ewok but the other half thought I was a bear. My 5 year old self was seriously annoyed when they thought I was a bear, to the point I put my hands on my hips and exclaimed: “I’m not a BEAR I’m an EWOK!!” I also refused to take their candy if they thought I was a bear. I can’t say if I was just upset people didn’t get it, or because I knew my Mom had worked so hard on it. Any way, became something of a family favorite to bust out that story for every guy I’ve ever dated!

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    Pam

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is from middle school, when my friend and I raided the box of old Halloween costumes and made our own unique, hybrid costumes. I believe I was part alien, part monster, part witch.

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    Rebecca dankewich

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite halloween memory.. it is more like my favorite October memory. I’ve been going to haunted houses since i was 14.. I am now almost 29. I am obsessed. My entire family gets together 1 night in october and we go to at least 2 haunted houses. Sometimes we even go to local haunted locations to poke around and have fun. Its the best night of the year. There’s nothing like 30 of my family memebers enjoying a haunt together. Thats my favorite memory… every year for 15 years.

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    Meghan

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memories all stem from the carport of my parents’ house. I get asked often why I love Halloween so much, and there are a million reasons. But for sure one of the main reasons is that carport. My family (parents, grandparents, an uncle, and an aunt) would all come over for Hotdogs and Chili and my dad and uncle would take us through the neighborhood for trick or treating. It was always a night filled with so much joy and excitement. And for me it was the official kick off of the Holiday season. We always got together for Halloween, and those same people returned to our house again for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was the start of family togetherness that was just magical!.

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    Christopher

    September 4, 2018

    Oh so many memories but my favorite was the year that I decided to stop Trick or Treating and stay at home to be the one to greet the Trick or Treaters!

    I grew up in the middle of nowhere so trick or treating for me consisted of hopping in the car and being driven around to family and friends houses to trick or treat.

    Around 11 years old I realized it’s more fun to stay at home. I loved Halloween decor and I enjoyed setting up my displays which over the years grew from just some
    Hay bales, Halloween blow molds, and mums and turned into a full out cemetery display.

    I loved knowing that people enjoyed my displays. A local church would always drive their Halloween Hayride past the display.

    Afternoons spent setting up the display always consisted of the local school bus driving by and hearing the kids shriek in delight over what we had added each day.

    This only fueled my love for decorating and haunting more.

    Last year I moved into a condo. Unfortunately I don’t have a yard to set up a big display in- but I’ve turned my attention towards transforming my home with indoor decor.

    To this day home is where I want to be on Halloween Night. That is where the magic is.

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    Sarah

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is every one I was blessed to share with my older brother. He passed away 12 years ago but the whole Halloween season was his favorite. He loved dressing up and decorating and spooking me and my other siblings. Every time I think of Halloween I think of him and I celebrate as a way of honoring him because I know he would love it. My mother really instilled a love for it in me as well. She would always make sure we were able to do things like carving pumpkins, throwing Halloween parties, and of course trick or treating even though she raised four of us as a single mother. It’s always been my favorite time of year and I have so many special memories of spending it with my family.

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    Devon S

    September 4, 2018

    I live in Michigan, and every October Greenfield Village has their Hallowe’en nights.
    Its amazing. You walk along a path lit by over 1000 hand carved pumpkins. They have actors read classics like “The Tell-Tale Heart.” They have projector screens playing vintage Halloween cartoons at the cider and donut station. At the end of the path is an open field where actors are on horses and play out “Sleepy Hollow.” I look forward to it every year.

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    M. Anne

    September 4, 2018

    Oh how I love Halloween! My favorite memory is the year my husband proposed to me on halloween. Our son had just turned 1, and wasn’t walking yet. His dad gave him something and told him to bring it to me in the kitchen. Our boy comes crawling into the kitchen to me with this little box in his mouth, and takes it out and hands it up to me. I didn’t register until my husband came around the corner, and looked at me expectantly and said, “open it.” I said ” is this what I think it is?” And he goes, “I wanted it to be on your favorite day of the year…. Well? Are you gonna marry me?” Of course I said YES!

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    Adam

    September 4, 2018

    I have so many amazing Halloween memories I could probsbly also conjure up one for each candle. One the stands out is during my second year living in Barcelona. The Catalans don’t Celebrate Halloween as a rule and the previous October had been very low key.
    I’d spend the day teaching my class about Halloween traditions ; the costumes, the Jack O’Lanterns, a little bit of the folklore. That year Halloween fell near the town’s Saint’s Day, and the whole town got involved in the town party to celebrate. There was a little market, parades, music and an event called the Correfoc, where young people dressed as devil’s and wielding flaming umbrellas and fireworks on pitchforks danced through the streets (something pretty Halloweeny in its own right).
    Some kids and teachers of the school decided to turn Can Ramís, an old building in the town square, into a ‘Tunel del Teror’.
    It was themed around La Castanyera, a benevolent old woman in Catalan folklore who hands out roasted chestnuts on October 31st, being driven mad by Halloween spirits and massacring her village. We worked hard all day transforming Can Ramís into a slaughter house; smoke machines and dim lights, fake blood and dismembered mannequin limbs. Shredded blankets and spattered plastic sheets hung from the rafters. We then settled in and rehearsed our roles. Mine was to prowl the staircase, hands clutched to my stomach to stop my ‘guts’ (fake blood and reams of sausage links) falling through the gash in my stomach. The townsfolk loved it and we had a continuous stream of visitors well past midnight. Even though I was faraway from home and my friends and their famous annual Halloween celebrations, I made new friends, had an amazing expirence and plated a small role in a new community getting into the Halloween spirit!

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    Tina harris

    September 4, 2018

    I was a orphan, and I never knew what Halloween could be like or how it was celebrated until I was 13. At thy age I knew about the holiday but figured I’d never get to celebrate it, but I secretly was obsessed. I was adopted to a family who I couldn’t stand and who didn’t really treat me right, but then my foster mom got remarried and everything changed. My stepdad took me trick or treating for the very first time. He helped me pick out a costume, I was a spider queen, he took us to the rich neighbourhood, and I got more candy then I’d ever had in my life. Most of the candy I’d never even tried. From that moment on Halloween has been my holiday, it’s about me being who I am and expressing myself and finding myself. Also, it’s about the candy!!! Of course!!!

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    Katelyn

    September 4, 2018

    Although I have many fond memories of Halloween from my childhood, my favorite Halloween memory is last year. I have very bad anxiety, which I’m trying to overcome through therapy and exposures. Last year I decided to use Halloween as an exposure. I went to my therapy appointment and to Starbucks in my costume (Lydia from Beetlejuice) and handed out candy on my own for the first time.

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    thequeenofsiam

    September 4, 2018

    So many amazing memories, but my favorite Halloween tradition is a silly one! My mom is an artist and both my folks are a tad eccentric- every year since we were little we would “dress up” all the people in the paintings and sculptures in our house with little eye masks and party hats made from construction paper. Now that I’m an adult and married, my husband and I continue this funny little tradition.

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    Hilary

    September 4, 2018

    Since I lived in a very rural area and trick or treating was nil, every year on Halloween I would get off the bus at my house, pile into my mom’s Cutlass (wearing my favorite Holly Hobbie costume usually) with my sisters and head to my grandfather’s house. His neighborhood was a treasure trove of fantastically festooned homes with full size candy bars to match. My cousins would also join in the mix: we crunched the leaves, smelling bonfires and trick-or-treating until our bags were heavy then returned to my grandfather’s where bowls of candy corn awaited our arrival as did old Disney toons played on tv and blazing jack o’lanterns flickered in his windows.🎃

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    Sierra Stucz

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was from my childhood. Every year my spiritual center would throw a Halloween party. One specific year I created a giant “human Frankenstein” with a person, a table and a lot of random foods to recreate Frankenstein’s body parts! I have wonderful photos of this and it still brings joy and laughter to my heart. I love reading everyone’s Halloween memories, so heartwarming and fun!

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    Angie L

    September 4, 2018

    Weirdly enough my favorite memory is getting home from trick or treating with a full bag of candy, sticking my head in the bag and smelling it! There is nothing like that smell to me. It makes me so nostalgic.

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    Tiffanie

    September 4, 2018

    It’s funny how you mention Girl Scouts because I have been one since I was around 5. So that makes 20 long years. Fun fact: The woman who created Girl Scouting , Juliet Gordon Low, her birthday is Halloween.
    I’m saying all this because my favorite memory is working in a rickety old cabin at a Girl Scout camp, during the Halloween season in the haunted house we created. I loved working in the different scenes and scaring the kids and adults. I fondly remember working with one of my closest friends, and being drenched in fake blood by the end of the night. It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. Sadly, I don’t get the chance to work in haunted houses any more.

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    Gianna A

    September 4, 2018

    I loved Halloween at my grandmothers house. My family is huge, and we’re Italian, so when we would go over there the house would be full of people and you could smell food cooking. I’d go trick or treating with my cousins and then come back and eat candy with spaghetti. Sometimes, I’d hand out candy for neighborhood kids. I think another reason why this is my favorite memory is because of the decorations she put up. They were so simple, but I loved them. They were everything I loved about Halloween. Happy Halloween!! 🎃🖤👻🧡

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    Penny Snark

    September 4, 2018

    OH GOSH. We were definitely a DIY/grocery store costume family when I was growing up, so one of my best Halloween memories was the year my mom caved an ordered me the amazing SPIDERELLA costume that I fell in love with in a glossy Halloween catalog. In retrospect of course, I’m sure it was cheaply made and way over priced, but I felt like a spooky princess.

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    Samantha Collins

    September 4, 2018

    My grandmother loved h alloween, and I feel that she has shaped the way I love Halloween! We would always start at the beginning of October, by watching out favorite scary movies. On h alloween we would have pizza and cider and doughnuts and she would have spooky m9vies on al night. These are some of the best memories I have with my grandmother

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    Becca

    September 4, 2018

    I have so many wonderful Halloween memories! One year in particular stands out to me though. My mom always took my sisters and I to get our costumes in early October (usually around my birthday, October 7th). I was in 5th grade and it was so rainy as we drove to party city, so it actually felt like fall, which is saying something because I live in Southern California! I picked a witch costume with spiderwebs all over it and LOVED it. I loved it so much that everyday after school I would come home and change into it to play! 😂 I loved wearing it to school on Halloween and trick or treating that night with my mom, dad, sisters, and childhood best friend. I remember sorting though my candy and feeling so cool to have the most Reece’s peanut butter cups! What I would give to relive a childhood Halloween! 🧡💜🖤

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    EmilyI

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is basically all of the Halloween season when my Daughter had just turned 1 year old. Halloween has always been my absolute favorite so just the excitement of being able to start to show her everything there is to it, is such a nice memory. Taking her to boo at the zoo, pumpkin patch, kid friendly haunted houses, trick or treating as a little Ewok. This year might surpass though, it’ll be our first year together being able to set up my Halloween town together! Can’t wait 😍

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    Dionella

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is the Halloween I got engaged while wearing a Wednesday Addams costume. We then celebrated by going to my neighborhood’s Halloween crawl.

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    emily stanson

    September 4, 2018

    I am Born Nov 1st. So naturally every years birthday party theme has been halloween related, expect that one year a close friend had her wedding on my birthday and i got a bat cupcake (Im easily satisfied with little cute things). Anyways growing up my childhood family friends set up their entire front yard dressed as witches and tried to gobble up the neighborhood children. Big caldron and dry ice, eerie lighting and creedy boom box sounds set the mood. Had to walk through the scary yard to get your hard earned treat. They let me stay and help for a short time to help scare the incoming guests. Help continue my love for halloween and helped cultivate my need for creep and so spread a holiday scare.

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    Samantha L

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory and something I will cherish forever is spending it with my grandmother and cousins. My grandmother loved Halloween and would go above and beyond every year to make things extra magical. Every Halloween night after my cousins and I went trick or treating, my grandmother put on Halloween for is while we enjoyed our candy and homemade goodies she prepared for us. She is the reason I am so passionate about Halloween and I hope to be as awesome and creative as her one day.

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    Mickey

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is watching all of the Halloween specials my mom had recorded on a VHS Tape for me. I’d watch Disney’s Halloween Treat, It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and Boo! to You Too, Winnie the Pooh. It always got me in the festive mood for Halloween.

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    Brooke Y

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is when I was younger my dad had broken his legacy work and couldn’t take me trick or treating, so my mom took me. I remember going a couple houses up our street and then wanting to go home and give my dad the candy.

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    Cassey F

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite HALLOWEEN memory was going to my first haunted house with my family. Walking through the house then going on a haunted hayride was the coolest thing ever to me! My love for all things HALLOWEEN has grown ever since !

    That and making our costumes and watching Hocus Pocus 🎃

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    Tess

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memorie is of my first Halloween I got to pick out my own costume. I adored esmeralda so my mother crafted an amazing gypsy costume for me!

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    Emily S.

    September 4, 2018

    When I was about 10 or 11 I went full on DIY and made a Jack-in-the-Box costume, that I had found in American Girl magazine. It was the first time I had successfully completed an elaborate costume all by myself so I was beyond excited that year to show off my handiwork and hit the streets for some free candy!

    My mom, in her old man costume (old man mask and a flannel farmer type outfit), and I set out for our trick-or-treating adventure, where we came across two of the most memorable houses I’ve ever been to on Halloween. The first house, we walked in and in the foyer there was an open door area but there were long black streamers, acting as a curtain between you and the room behind it. Someone’s green-painted monster-like hands were sticking out from a high point, behind the curtain, and dropping candy to the floor. At the bottom, near the floor, there was another pair of monster-like painted hands grabbing the candy. So you had to try and grab and scoop up the candy before it fell to the floor and the hands at the bottom snagged it from you. Seriously one of the coolest, unique trick-or-treating challenges I’ve ever come across. They really made you work to get that candy!

    Further down on the same street, my mom and I came across another house, where there were two old ladies sitting out on the porch with a bucket of candy. My mom had taken her old man mask off because it was getting kinda hot and hard to see and we walked up to the porch together. Immediately, one of the old ladies exclaimed, “aww are you two sisters?” and of course my mom was thrilled at being identified as my older sister instead of my mom. I blushed with embarrassment and shyly accepted a handful of candy. While embarrassed in the moment, I now love looking back on that moment.

    That Halloween was certainly one to remember!

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    Amberly

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is when I was about 14. I spent the six weeks leading up to it planning a scary maze with my best friend. We envisioned trick or treaters having to wind their way through a cobweb filled tunnel, and reach into bowls of gross-feeling foods. We made tombstones and created invitations, but we never executed! The planning was fun enough b

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    Jordan

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is hopping on a hayride to go trick or treating through my neighborhood. All of the neighborhood kids would ride from house to house, and some of the parents would hide in the woods and jump out to scare us!

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    Ivy

    September 4, 2018

    I thoroughly enjoyed this post Miranda!
    Unfortunately as someone who grew up in New Zealand then moved to Australia, i had very little Halloweeniness in my childhood.
    Me and my husband started doing Halloween parties when we moved into our first home together about 10 years ago, so my favourite memories are spending warm Australian nights hanging out with our friends in (mandatory) costumes :P

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    Kaitlyn Miyawaki

    September 4, 2018

    When I went trick or treating with my best friends when I was a little kid, pre- 9/11. We had a blast, received so much candy, and had so much fun. We still talk about it to this day!

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    Michelle Teel

    September 4, 2018

    Ahh, I just love Halloween! All of my childhood Halloweens were AMAZING! I would have to say, my favorite one though would of been when I was in 6th grade. Me and my best friend went trick-or-treating for close to 4 hours. We each has SOO Much candy. We were having a sleepover at my house and we spent an hour trading candy lol! We finished the night with some pizza and scary movies! The next morning we woke up and watched Most Haunted Places on Travel Channel, and binge ate all of our candy!

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    Jess

    September 4, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is going to Salem MA with my family and my fearless 1 year old daughter sitting on Frankenstein’s(monster)lap and giving him a high five. She has done it every year since🖤🎃🖤

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    Laura pagliaro

    September 5, 2018

    Halloween has always been y favorite day of the year, so I have dozens of favorite Halloween memories. My number one favorite though, has to be just this last Halloween. I married the love of my life and celebrated with our friends and family in our own backyard with a Halloween wedding reception. It’s my favorite because it was about so much more than Halloween. It was a celebration of a union between me and someone who loves Halloween as much as me and also someone who has the same beliefs has me. We have too many loved ones that have passed away, so celebrating on Samhain was extremely important to us because we wanted them there with us and we know they were. Not to mention, all wedding decorations became regular household decorations because everyday is Halloween in our home <3

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    Heather

    September 5, 2018

    My memory was not one of spooks and scares but more of bonding and CANDY!
    I was seven years old when the Halloween blizzard of 91 hit Minnesota. We got 37 inches of snow that day. My sister, who is nine years older than me, shared the love for Halloween. It was about the only thing we could agree on. We decided to ditch our plastic masks and bundle up in our snow gear and go trick or treating. We ventured out in the wind and snow to battle the blizzard. This storm wasn’t going to ruin our Halloween! We went door to door. The neighbors were shocked to see us out. We were the only trucker treaters out in our neighborhood. We received all sorts of goodies and even some nice neighbors welcomed us in for hot cider and to stand by a warm fire. We got so much candy we were eating it still by the new year. I am now an adult and have two children of my own and even though I special memories of my children Halloween’s, but nothing compares to the Halloween blizzard of 91. My sister and I became very close after that and share a matching tattoo of skeleton snowflakes to remember that day!
    Happy Halloween!

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    Jes N

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is dressing up and trick or treating with my younger brother. We had so much fun just the two of us.

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    Abby Broome

    September 5, 2018

    Halloween has always been my family’s favorite holiday. I was lucky enough to have an older sister and mom interested in all things spooky and of course that interest rubbed off on me. It’s so hard to choose a favorite memory because every year my parents dressed up—my mom as a ghost or vampire and she would sway creepily in front of our picture window, my dad faking as a dummy on the porch. Several years kids were scared to get candy from them and would run crying for their parents who would then either get mad or laugh. But probably my favorite memory would be when I was in 6th grade and most of my friends had stopped trick-or-treating. I hadn’t even gotten a costume. When I got home from school that day, however, my dad had gone to our local Fruth and picked up a Marilyn Monroe costume (lol), and he went trick-or-treating with me. I remember walking on crunchy leaves with it drizzling rain. It was still a perfect, last childhood Halloween.

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    Kelsey Basso

    September 5, 2018

    In love with your blog and instagram it is giving me all the feels! Fall is my absolute favorite time of year and Halloween is the beat holiday in my opinion. I too grew up in a house where every season/holiday was a HUGE deal, I am talking baking, decor, crafts and movie marathon. Now that I am starting my own family I can’t wait to pass on all of my family traditions. I have always been fascinated with the creepy spooky things in life so this is all right up my alley. Also slightly obsessed with candles (I follow a lot of candle blogs) and have been eyeing up the collection above !

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    Kelsey Basso

    September 5, 2018

    I guess if I had to pick a favorite memory it would be my mom hand crafting my costumes every year to whatever I asked her to make up, she is the best!

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    Ashlyn

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memories are any and all that I have with my dad. It’s the first halloween season without him and remembering the good times of hayrides and carving pumpkins is helping me get through. The memories of us picking pumpkins together is probably my favorite to pick just one.

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    Kaila

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory… my grandparents and one of my uncles (moms side) passed away actually on Halloween years ago (natural disaster in their hometown island, sorry if this is a little somber) Halloween has always been my favorite day regardless and my favorite memory has to be one Halloween my mom finally decided to make the most of it regardless of what it also means to her. We went out and bought costumes together, she took the day off (she works nights) and we got dressed up, I did her makeup, we took photos, had decorated the house, we gave out candy to the kids and stayed up and watched family Halloween movies and had hot chocolate and ate a bunch of the candy ourselves. It was a pretty simple night but just to spend it with her finally after years of her not doing anything fun on that day and seeing her smile and build happy memories on that day has got to be my favorite Halloween memory.

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    Ashley Donaldsin

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite memories and memories to come is to see my daughter Stella smile and enjoy Halloween as much as her mother does! We always go to my moms house which is the house I grew up in having her trick or treat in the same neighborhood I did growing up is pretty damn awesome! Her first Halloween she was a skeleton and lady bug when she was only 1 month old. Her second Halloween she was hello kitty. We haven’t got a costume yet for this year but I saw the cutest butterfly costume at target! 🖤

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    Cecily Lee

    September 5, 2018

    Oh goodness, I have a ton of favorite Halloween memories. When my brother and I were kids our mother would go all out for Halloween. Everything we had in our home was alllllll made by her and us! One of my favorite projects to do with her was cut up old white sheets, stuff them with cotton, and make them into little ghost and hang them in the trees. Another favorite memory was my daughters 1st Halloween. I made a homemade Chinese takeout box outfit and a fortune cookie headband 😂 Cutest little takeout box ever! And then last year, we wanted to make her a pumpkin…the whole time she was trick or treating she was screaming up and down the streets “IM A PUNKIN IM A PUNKIN IMMMM AAAA PUNKINNNNN!!!” 🤣

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    Allison

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is trick or treating with my cousins and carrying back pillowcases full of candy just to play what we liked to call “candy poker”. I was about 10 at the time and made up all the rules because I was the oldest. I always “won” the good stuff and let the younger ones have the tootsie rolls.

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    Amber

    September 5, 2018

    I love fall candles almost as much as I love your blog! Pick meeeeeee 🎃🖤🕸💀🕷

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    Liz Murphy

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is carving pumpkins with my daughter, and taking her to the pumpkin farm for the first time.

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    Jessie T

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is taking my kiddos trick or treating! We always have a blast. I also love taking them to truck or treats on the weekends before Halloween so they can get the extra candy and play some games!

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    Kiki Carnage

    September 5, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memories have been visiting Knott’s Scary Farm every year with my sister. Eventually we both worked the event and I worked in ghost town as a possessed nun for 13 seasons. I now celebrate Halloween 365 days a year :)

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    Fran N Merrett

    September 5, 2018

    I have so many wonderful Halloween memories as a child and as an adult! My favorite childhood memory was all the Halloween classroom parties we’d have at school! My mom was always the class mom during this time of year and she would HOOK UP my class with homemade Frankenstein cupcakes, Witchy brownies, Spooky Spidey Chocoate Covered Pretzels, Halloween themed munchkins, all kinds of yummy treats! She’d make a big bowl of bloody fruit punch! She’d decorate our class room with all the creepy, cool things! And the best part of all, she’d make us the GHOULEST goodie bags filled with Halloween erasers, pencils, candy, stickers, slime! Ugh, I miss these times so much!!! I’m a mama now and I try to make my kiddos Halloween as SPOOKTACULAR as my mom made mine! I can only hope to be half as cool as she was!

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    Chasity

    September 5, 2018

    Always loved spending the Holidays with my Mawmaw when I was a child; Halloween had to be the best. We’d make treat bags, cookies and candy apples to pass out to the other trick or treaters and after we handed everything out we’d go lounge on the couch and watch Halloween Town and Hocus Pocus marathons until I passed out.

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    Jessica

    September 6, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was when I was probably in my freshmen year or late 8th grade. (I do not recommend any youngesters doing this)
    I had a group of friends and their neighbors were crazy, as in they always had parties and always were smoking and drinking. Unfortunately yes I did end up drinking underage because of the environment and mindset I was in at that moment. It was Halloween, I was dressed as a lady bug. Before going out my friend decided to go to the neighbors house (she was actually good friends with the brother there) so we went. Coming into the house it was filled with people in such a small space. Him and his friends asked if we wanted to smoke. I agreed as did my friend. This was probably my first time smoking. We lit up and started passing it around the circle. After a while I started feeling really light headed and dizzy. Everyone else was fine, but I was getting nauseous and loosing balance. I ran to the bathroom and began to start puking my brains out. The older sister living in that house comes in and basically kicks me out the bathroom because she wanted to do her makeup. At that point I looked at her like she had 7 heads cause I’m head deep sick in a toilet like … really?? Anyways I run outside to the side of the house. I’m now by myself and start puking in their rose bushes. My friend comes out moments later with water and asking if I’m okay. I have no idea what happened but this happened in front of a good 20-25 people in that house. I felt so embarrassed and till this day I have no idea what caused it. Everyone else was fine, I was the only one that got sick like that and I felt fine all day aswell. That’s my embarrassing weird scary story.

    Moral of the story and a piece of advice, don’t go to sketchy house party when you’re like 15 and smoke with hoodlums that call you ma and ask if you’re good while you’re vomiting in the bushes. Oh and don’t do drugs kids. 😂😂😂😂

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    Shelby W.

    September 6, 2018

    Every year my family has a Halloween party at my grandparents’ house. My fondest Halloween memory is the first memory I have of one of those parties. I was probably about 5 or 6 years old and my mom made me a scarecrow costume and painted my face. My cousins, my brothers, and even my mom dressed up in their costumes and we all went to my grandparents’. We played Halloween music and danced around together. We ate the delicious chili that my Granny made for supper. She always fixed the best crockpot hot chocolate that we would drink out of the little styrofoam cups. We went on a haunted hayride with a big blanket and got scared half to death (which was so fun!) The grown ups told us fictional scary stories and real scary stories that happened to them. That was also the night I remember watching John Carpenter’s Halloween for the first time and absolutely loving it. We had treats and desserts and we all played and had so much fun. At the end of the night all of the kids put on our pajamas and spent the night at my grandparents’ house after such a fun and magical time. I wouldn’t trade that memory for the world.

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    Mandycatlol

    September 6, 2018

    My husband and I hosted a 7 deadly sins party where every room was turned into a sin. It was also required that the guests dress up as horror icons.. My husband and I dressed up as the Grady sisters from the Shining. He stole the show, obviously, but it was a night for the books! Wish I could post a pic here! 🎃👯‍♀️

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    Rain San Martin

    September 6, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is when… I first took the chance to set up a keyboard outside. From which I played eerie music while cloaked in a spooky costume. A green light illuminated the keys. I continue this Halloween performance from time to time.

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    Marie Doyle Green

    September 6, 2018

    All of my Halloween’s have been great and I’m 40! I’d say the spookiest, most surreal was the year 30 days of night came out. My guy and I went to a midnight showing and on the drive home, a heavy fog had descended. We were sitting at a stoplight surrounded by fog. The red light was hovering above us but the fog was so dense, the fixture wasn’t visible. I was staring out the passenger side window at the streetlight glow when another vehicle, an S10 truck, pulled up next to us. The window slowly rolled down revealing a person wearing a super creepy mask Nosferatu mask. The head under the mask turned slowly and just stared at me. It stared. I stared. Prolonged eye contact. The light changed to green. We went one way slowly. The truck peeled off the other way, slowly. We rode in silence the rest of the way home.

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    Alexandra

    September 6, 2018

    My favourite Halloween memory was when I was 6 or 7, all the other girls in my class were princesses and such and I was Ghostface from scream with a pump for blood to pour down my mask. Spooky girls do it better <3

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    Destiny

    September 6, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is probably going to my local ymca, where they turned the entire gym into a haunted house. And it would morph into a new theme every few feet. At the very end you’d get a whole bag of candy and have a little Halloween dance party.

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    Natalie Bernhisel

    September 6, 2018

    I have so many fond memories of Halloween! My favorite was going up to my grandmothers house on Halloween night. She would open up the door with a creepy Skelton hand and scary clear plastic mask on. Pumpkins would be lit, don’t you just love that smell? Candles everywhere, & buckets of candy and platters of donuts for everyone.

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    Lena

    September 7, 2018

    My favourite Halloween memories are definitely all the times my big brother would come home from college or the city he lived in, to take me trick or treating. He’s 13 years older than me and I always thought he was so cool and having the tradition of spending Halloween with him always made me feel extra special, and I would get to stay up late and watch Hocus Pocus with him and eat extra candy. Now he has a son and I was 17 when he was born so I make an effort to visit every Halloween and trick or treat with him :)

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    Jeffery

    September 7, 2018

    So. My favorite Halloween memory is actually in the making. My partner, Christopher, and I have been decorating our condo, preparing for a halloween party and going Halloween shopping a lot. Its heaven. I have always loved Halloween but coming from a deeply religious Louisiana family I was never really allowed to celebrate. Now as an adult I have someone who loves this amazing holiday and me too. I’m cherishing every second of it and hope for many more years together creating Halloween memories.

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    Karen Crawford

    September 7, 2018

    Love Spooky Little Halloween and this great opportunity! I didn’t get to trick or treat much when I was a kid, but in my twenties (after I developed a mad love for all things Halloween) I entered a costume contest at a bar and won (I was a creepy vampire and looked really ookie)!

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    Amanda

    September 7, 2018

    My fave childhood memories would have to be trick or treating with cousins, with the neighborhoods full of kids and spooky fun. I also remember wanting something “magical” to happen and everything you said could’ve been something I wrote, I feel/felt the same!

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    Tiffany

    September 7, 2018

    Always going over to my Grandma’s development to trick or treat! One house always gave out full size candy bars! 🍫Another house you would always receive two big handfuls of roasted peanuts! 🥜 One lady always made you sing a song for your candy! Then coming home at the end of the night sorting out all my candy into keep and trade piles and then trying to barter with my big brother for candy I liked!

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    Judy Lizarraga

    September 8, 2018

    Crossing fingers, toes and eyes that we win!

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    Carolyn

    September 8, 2018

    These candles look amazing! The scents sound so interesting too!

    When I think of Halloween as a child, I think of my mom having a huge saucepan of apple cider warming on the stove with cinnamon sticks and cloves. The whole house smelled like apple cinnamon on Halloween night. All the neighbors and their children would always stop in for cider before trick or treating. I carry on the tradition in my own home now by serving the same warm spiced apple cider at my annual Halloween party.

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    Jennifer De La Cruz

    September 8, 2018

    One of my favorite Halloween memories (I have a lot) was seeing and hearing kids cry because they didn’t want to come up to my house door to get candy because they were too scared. Since I was a little kid, I loved decorating outside and making everything spooky.

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    Erin

    September 9, 2018

    One of my favorite Halloween memories is of when my mom would make my brother and I our costumes, one year we were both California Raisins, which she made out of black trash bags! They came out so awesome though, and we got so many compliments that night, and SO MUCH candy!

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    Maddi Neuman

    September 9, 2018

    Hi Miranda! I love that you say each holiday gives us a moment to reflect on where we’ve been and what’s to come. I love every holiday for that reason.

    Growing up in Idaho, Halloween was usually cold and often snowy. As kids, we’d Trick or Treat for a bit (never the fun part for me as I hate knocking on strangers’ doors), but we’d eventually get cold and head to the bowling alley. The owners would put on a black light event complete with candy and raffles. I always had a lot of fun with my family and friends bowling all night.

    Thanks for sharing your memories! It’s so fun to see how people celebrate differently.

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    Stephanie Burns

    September 9, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is from a few years ago when our sons begged my husband and I to Haunt our Trunk for their school’s Trunks and Treats. It was an elementary school, but they wanted it to be “okay for school scary.”. We were happy to oblige and won 1st place for best trunk. (All three years.) Our sons had a blast helping, and their friends couldn’t get enough.

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    Sophia

    September 9, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is getting into my Wednesday costume (I wore it for basically the whole month of October every year for at least 4 years in a row as a kid lol), laying out a tarp in the living room to carve pumpkins, watching scary movies, and eating cute creepy snacks with my brother. I have LOVED Halloween for as long as I can remember and it was nice to get my family involved in the creepy things that I did and loved year round. It was the one time of year I got to share something that I loved so much with them🖤

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    Chloe Lobosco

    September 9, 2018

    Trick or treating in our backwoods community. My friend is a werewolf and she’s realllly into the role, growling and running around and telling everyone to have a happy Samhain. I’m a space pirate, painted green with pipe cleaner antenna and a stuffed parrot taped to my shoulder. The last house we go to in far down a dark driveway, but it pays off because when we get there the residents have had no trick or treaters and gave us their entire bag of mini Snickers.

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    KerryB

    September 9, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory would be 2 years ago when I married my husband. It was extra special because we had purchased a home earlier that year and we had the celebration right in our backyard. It was magical and so very special being surrounded by close friends and family. This year new memories will be made because we will be taking my niece trick or treating for the first time.

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    Britt

    September 9, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory involves my dad who passed when I was 17. I was in 4th grade and had the idea to be a really scary vampire! So my dad got me a spooky costume dress from the local Kmart and a set of face crayons. He said he would help me get my face painted and I was super stoked. I’ve always loved art and makeup and the spooky and took to drawing out my perfect creepy vamp face! I took the drawing to my dad and he gave it his best shot but it was nothing like my picture, but I still LOVED having my face painted and my dad and I giggled about it all night while he took me trick or treating! I still have pictures from that Halloween and they still make me giggle to this day!

    Xoxo

    DaggumBritt

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    Rebecca

    September 9, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was when my dad did a full on haunted house at his house. He lived down a dirt road surrounded by trees . He had my mom pick up our friends and park down the road and we had to walk up the creepy road to his house which was fully decked out the a rigged car and detailed cemetary that we played put put golf in. We had such a blast!

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    Kayla bordelon

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was my first Halloween with my son. Being able to share something I love so much with him made me so happy. Creating new traditions with the next generation made Halloween even better for me. He was Batman and I was bat girl. And my sister in law was pregnant at the time and I painted her belly as part of her costume. That’s what started my love for face painting and body painting💕

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    Amanda Mitchell

    September 10, 2018

    Halloween has always been an important holiday in my life & even now, at 46, is my favorite time of year. My favorite Halloween memory happened 11 years ago, watching my then 4-year-old son figure out what Halloween was & truly reveling in the holiday. It was magic to watch his sweet face glow with excitement (and sugar) & truly made the holiday even more special to me.

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    SouthernGothic

    September 10, 2018

    One year I came home for trick-or-treating to find that one of the elderly ladies in my neighborhood was giving out Hungarian gummy bears that my Dad hadn’t had since he was a kid (this was pre-internet shopping). After that, every year was a mad dash to her house to get some gummy bears before she ran out. After trick-or-treating was over I would organize my haul, my Dad and I would haggle over who got what, and we would end the night watching ‘An American Werewolf in London’.

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    Kelly

    September 10, 2018

    I have so many great memories of Halloween, it’s hard to choose one. When I was in high school I worked in a haunted house and that was amazing fun! As a parent, my favorite memory is probably from a couple years ago when after trick or treating, several neighbors set up in one driveway enjoying drinks and candy, while the kids hid in the spooky decorations trying to scare the others still out trick or treating. I love that my kids enjoy Halloween as much as I do!

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    Christina

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is finally getting my mom to go to a Haunted House with me. She’s not a fan of horror or scary things in general – she thinks they’re silly. We were living in Hawaii at the time and there was something called The Haunted Lagoon over at the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was really the most unique haunt I’ve been to as all the scare actors were in the water of the “lagoon” and around the sides, and the guests were all placed in these large canoes. She ended up loving it! It was a really special night because it felt like I was sharing my love for Halloween and haunts with her, and we were FINALLY able to do it together. We talk about it often now.

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    Amanda

    September 10, 2018

    One of my oldest friends and I always celebrated Halloween together when we were growing up – watching scary movies and dressing up and trick or treating. Now that she lives across the country from me, we don’t get to celebrate in the same city very often. But two years ago I went to visit her at the end of October and we got to visit Disneyland together. We’d talked about riding Haunted Mansion together since we were kids and finally got to do it – AND when it was decorated in Nightmare Before Xmas style, no less!

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    Brenda rose

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was when my fiance surprised me with tickets to Disneyland’s Mickey’s Halloween party! I was off school for the day already and we had plans to spend the day carving pumpkins for the first time while watching Tim Burton movies. However the surprise tickets were amazing! We had a memorable time at Disneyland and at a second surprise for a romantic Halloween course meal at the exclusive Blue Bayou restaurant!

    PS. Following both accounts 🖤

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    Rachel Green

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was going house to house as a child on Halloween night! And getting tons of candy and now that I’m older we continued to do the door to door tradition with my kids and they had so much fun doing it, I really enjoy to see how happy my kids are when they receive candy I also love dressing them up in which ever costumes they wanna wear and then hearing the people say aww because they love my kids costumes last year my kids wore homemade costumes and they really were the cutest costumes ever! So for my Halloween memories I really enjoyed continuing on the door to door traditions because nowadays people go to events at a church or something and also not alot of houses like to celebrate Halloween and give out candy but for the ones I’m very blessed about that there is still some good people around that still don’t mind giving away candy 😃 so I love that I can continue on going door to door for candy and hearing my kids say trick or treat and also the fact just Because I’m older I will always celebrate Halloween and continue to dress up if I want to lol Halloween lover for life🎃👻🖤🧡
    I am very excited about Halloween this year and i truly think it’s gonna be the very best! Ever
    Stay spooky everyone!
    Rachel Green
    (IG- Halloween_Horror_Queen)

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    Sarah

    September 10, 2018

    I did not trick or treat growing up, as my parents did not acknowledge Halloween. My favorite Halloween memory is when I bought my first house when my kids were 1 and 2 years. I decorated our front patio and door and put on a spooky costume. I filled a wagon with dark blankets and put my kids in their costumes and into it, and we sat in our driveway for hours handing out candy to the kids in our neighborhood. It was amazing seeing all the costumes, from store bought to handmade, and was great to watch all the kids experience the fun and excitement of Halloween.

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    Kris Barrutia

    September 10, 2018

    My fav Halloween memory is when I was a little girl and with my parents, sisters and I watched Halloween movies during all month of October by night, sleeping late even when my parents worked next day and we had school. We buyed Halloween candies (which we of course still love) and made cakes and cookies inspired in monsters or scary movies. Also my sisters and I tried scary makeup and went to a near mountain to take photos haha. We were so happy back then than now we’re all older and know how hard life can be, we keep these memories in our hearts always. This Halloween my mom, sisters and I are planning on doing the same things we did as a children since my dad left us and I’m very excited about it. We will be strong womans and queens of Halloween haha ❤️

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    Sarah Sellas

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was probably two years ago! It was me, my two nieces, my nephew, and my Bestfriend and her boyfriend. We were all dressed as vampires during the late 1800’s. We all had fake fangs, red/blue painted viens and infection sites running all over our necks! And of course we were covered in tons of blood!!! Then my friends boyfriend was actually a giant scarecrow and walked around the neighborhood on stilts. It was really cool because I nver Seen that before but also people were asking to take pictures w/ our group. It was a pretty memorable Halloween

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    Amanda Eide

    September 10, 2018

    Favorite memory has to be sitting down with my brother and sister trading/bartering for candy. Negotiation skills st a young age!

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    Emily Ashton

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memories are all about wearing costumes that my mom made me or gave me out of her own childhood closet. Highlights are princess (with veiled cone hat), cheerleader (my mom’s uniform), bride (my mom’s wedding dress), and mad scientist (my mom’s lab coat). She’s always supported my love of Halloween.

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    Brittany Bates

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was when I was a teenager (too old to trick or treat and didn’t have a party to go to) a friend and I rounded up some excuses for costumes and trick or treated her neighborhood. She wore a wonder shirt and went as a “wonder bread truck” and we ended up with a good decent pile of candy. Haha

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    Suzy

    September 10, 2018

    Halloween has always been a big deal in my house growing up. My mother is a huge Halloween fan and I naturally got that bug too. Our house was always known for having crazy decorations inside and out, including a graveyard in the front yard complete with rolling fog and spooky sounds coming out from upstairs window by a CD player placed up against the window screen. All tombstones were made out of styrofoam by me and my mom with funny names on each. To this day Halloween/halloween decorations bring me the most joy 🎃❤️

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    Jesrbug

    September 10, 2018

    Oh my gosh! When I was young, my mom threw me and my brothers a really cool Halloween party! It was a big deal since we didn’t have much growing up! Idk if this is considered my favorite memory , but one I need to share of the party! Lol
    So we had the fake spider web stuff on the glass door and I thought it had a fake spider on it…. so I went to tap on it.. Idk why.. but omg it was a freakin real spider! I’m terrified of spiders and ever since then i haaaate the fake Halloween spider web decor lol

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    Ashley Brant

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is definitely last year! We took our son trick or treating for the first time. He was only six months old, but it was still so so special to me! He was wearing a pumpkin costume since I call him ‘pumpky’ & it was perfect!

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    Krystal

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory would be when my mom let me wear a beloved dress she had saved from her childhood that looked exactly like the dress Sarah wore in the ballroom scene from Labyrinth. I’ve been obsessed with that movie my whole life and feel honored that she let me wear it just so I could be Sarah for one night ♥️

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    coffeecatscrafts

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is decorating! I loved getting to go through the boxes and pick out my favorite things to hang up! I also loved trick or treating because I have a serious sweet tooth!

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    ana banana

    September 10, 2018

    i would say my favorite halloween memorie is going trick or treating in the 90’s. I used to live in a apartment when i was young and knocking on 100+ door was a lot of work but the amount of candy at the end was well worth it. Me and my siblings used to get back and look through our candy while watching stick stickly host ‘are you afraid of the dark?’ marathon! Oh i miss those days 😭

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    Eva

    September 10, 2018

    My birthday is on Halloween so it’s hard to pick through my favorites. Yup, I’m a Halloween baby! It definitely fits. One of my favorites from when I was young is when halloween was on a Friday. We had a Halloween school party and later went trick and treating with my friends then I also got cake that night too.
    One of my recent ones is 2 years ago on my 20th birthday. I have my own apartment and I had extra money so I went all out of decorations and decked out my apartment. And then I hosted a party for my friends. Using some tips from your blog. I made all my own Halloween themed food and I spent the night we close friends, Harley quinn birthday cake, and Halloween all around me. It was the best!

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    Kasey Ashton

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memories are of staying up late all October long, watching classic horror movies in the dark in my room with friends. I love sitting curled up in blabkets, clutching pillows, spilling popcorn with each jumpscare & laughing at ourselves.

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    Erin Conrad

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was wearing out the Lollipop Princess (from Candy Land) costume my mother made for me by hand. She spent hours sewing lollipops to a dress for me!!

    Runner up memory: going to see Evil Dead: The Musical with my husband on Halloween, two weeks after we got married. The tickets were a wedding present!

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    Becca Hollm

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was dressing up as a cute little bunny when I was 5 years old and going trick or treating down my street. My next door neighbor answered the door and said I have just the thing to add to your costume….So we headed into the backyard and into his garden. He reached down and pulled out a HUGE home grown carrot that was a foot and a half long or so! I carried that thing around with pride the rest of my trick or treating. Then when I got home I couldn’t resist eating it. No way I could finish it all though! Halloween is by far the best holiday EVER!

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    Laura

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory was the year that my mom dressed my first dog ever up as a clown (she sewed all of our costumes), and dressed me as the saxophone-playing California raisin. My dog got spooked halfway through trick or treating, and decided he wanted to go for a run. I, of course, gave chase. To this day, it still brings tears to everyone’s eyes as they joke and laugh about the very turd-looking 💩 💩 raisin chasing a clown dog around the neighborhood.🤣

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    Kenzie Cunningham

    September 10, 2018

    My favorite Halloween memory is going trick or treating for the first time. My family always went to our church fall festival Halloween night. I always had a blast. There were lots of activities and “trick or treating” inside. But when I got a bit older, I asked my parents to take me and my older brother “real” trick or treating. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. It always brought me such joy at that time of year even from a young age. I remember going door to door felt like the Halloween you see in the movies. It was almost magical to me.

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    Eva

    September 15, 2018

    It’s so difficult to choose just one great Halloween memory! I remember one year when I was 5, I dressed up as a princess and my dad dressed up in a really great Spongebob costume that my mom made for him. Every time we walked down the street everyone would comment on his costume, and nobody even gave my princess costume the time of day, I was so jealous! It’s a great memory looking back, too funny that I thought my dad was stealing my spotlight, even when talking back about it, my dad insists that I got just as many compliments on princess costume, lol! My second favorite memory was just last year, when my boyfriend and I returned back to the floor he was on when he was diagnosed with pediatric cancer, where we were able to go trick or treating with the kids on the floor and give them candy and see their costumes! It was so amazing to see them enjoying a holiday even though they can’t enjoy it traditionally with their friends at home

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    Charlotte

    September 7, 2019

    My favorite childhood trick-or-treating memory was this. Usually, I went trick-or-treating with my friend Esther, but this year, my cousin Harper begged me to go trick-or-treating in her neighborhood, so we did. I was Peter Pan and she was a guinea pig. At first, we trick-or-treated with everyone else, but then we got permission to give our cousins and little siblings the slip and to go off by ourselves. It felt like magic. The two of us wandering her neighborhood together. We crossed the boundary a little farther than we were supposed to, and it paid off at a house that gave out little animal erasers. We eventually got back to her house, dumped our candy out on the floor, and traded. Neither of us wanted to be done. When I think of Halloween, I think of that magical night.

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