Halloween Moms: 80s vs Now

my 80's mom didn't even tell us anything. we just said bye when we left and we came back when we were tired. sometimes I'm surprised we are still alive

"Hold your brother's hand, he's only four and dressed in all black." I died! It's like you were in my therapy session!

I remember being confused, because all year long we were told to come in before dark, and were even shown films on not taking candy from strangers.....and yet one day a year we were told to go out after dark and take candy from strangers. :)

Hold your brother's hand when you cross the interstate...hilarious! Little did we know how cherished the 80's would end up being all these years later.

Ahhh yes the pillow case for trick or treating. I also remember the "find stuff around the house to make a costume " times, which was fun.

Our house was the best house ever. My father worked for Kellogg’s and every year he passed out those little boxes of cereal. We went through cases of boxes. Yes the late 70’s and 80’s were the best. Thank you Dad and thank you Kellogg’s. Small town Michigan.

We weren't allowed to leave the house until 6pm because bothering people between 5-6 was considered rude.. After a couple hours and a few kms, I'd call from my nan's house because we were frozen. The best part was my grandmother making 6+ kids a "Night lunch" while we waited for a drive home.

I don't remember Halloween in the 80s; I was born in the late 80s and grew up in the 90s, but most (if not all) of the things that were mentioned about Halloween in the 80s, I definitely remember happened in the 90s, too. Life just seemed so much easier and simpler in those days...

My parents were the main house that decorated in the 80s. They made kids walk through an entire haunted house before getting to the door to get candy. And they'd have a party every year for all their friends. So, even though I go all out in decorations, because its not as BIG as what they've always done, they think I down play! LOL. And definitely an old pillow case as my bag....and my costume was always old items of clothes from my mom or grandmother. Like, once I was a princess and my costume was a leotard, an old lacy slip from my grandmother, a cardboard covered with aluminum foil and a scarf coming out of the top cone shaped hat, ballet slippers, and a ton of bead necklaces. LOL. I loved it. Still to date my favorite costume.

I remember fighting my mom, who wanted to me to put a coat on over my costume because it was cold. I was like no one will know what I am!

That's it!! Our family is dressing as the Holderness Family for our neighborhood Halloween block party!!

Haha so accurate. 46 year old GenX. Had the pillow case. My sister and I did a good portion of the town, would visit the stores on Main Street. The gas station would give us a full size bag of chips. Went to the Happy Pop store and get a free pop. The other stores gave regular mini treats. And we would always make sure to visit the little old lady who lived with her older son in a rail car by the train tracks. She was always so happy to see the kids and would give us a bunch of apples etc. And my next door neighbour made homemade popcorn balls every year. Remember homemade treats? And baggies of peanuts and handfuls of peanuts in the shell thrown into your bag? That stuff would not go down nowadays. I don’t even get kids in my area of the city. I guess everyone goes to the elite areas.

That was an accurate representation of my life in the 80s. I remember the first year we could afford 1 plastic store bought costume. Then we got a hand me down from a cousin. So my sisters were Alf and a cabbage patch kid. I had to be a homemade hobo. Every year we tell our kids all about trick or treating in our day. I'm sure they think we were raised on another planet.

Pillowcases are perfect for Halloween. You can hold waaaaay more candy that way

As a kid from the 80s its exactly like that oh fond memories

Fantastic video! In 1974 I was in grade school, in Colorado, in the snow (with shoes😂), using a pillow case! We went out at night, all over the housing development! Our parents stayed home and handed out candy😂. We couldn’t eat the candies until mom inspected 😂. How times and jerks have ruined so much. —Seattle 🇺🇸

I grew up in the 60s when anything goes.Mom made our costumes and we went out by ourselves. Out until at least 9pm. Amazing I made it out alive :)

In Michigan, you never knew what the weather would be. Mom bought that plastic costume 2 sizes too big so you could wear your new winter coat underneath, just in case. I was a pudgy, plastic, Cinderella. With Cinderella's face on my chest. And, a pillowcase makes the best trick-or-treat bag because it holds more than a cute bag or bucket from the store.

Sometime in the 70s (yes, you read that right) I was a wee mump in a KMART Cinderella costume, complete with flammable dress and a mask I could neither see nor breathe through. My parents also bought me the plastic pumpkin basket that I used throughout my Trick or Treating career. Good times!

You guys are so lucky with the plastic boxed costumes!!! We had homemade costumes and parents with no imagination so most of the time my costumes were a white bedsheet with two wholes in it!!! BTW, two holes didn't mean we couldn't use them as sheets again!!! Lol!!!