8 Reasons Your Childhood Halloween Is What You Want Right Now
Halloween has always been one of the best holidays; between the costumes, candy and parties after dark, there's never really been much to lose on it. The thing is, though it has always been fun, our childhood Halloweens have always been more fun, and here are the 8 reasons why:
1. ACTUAL HALLOWEEN PARTIES (With actual invitations!)
Yes, yes we can drink and drive our own cars now that we're older, but our childhood Halloween parties were actually the sh*t, honestly. There were actual invitations involved, and everyone dressed up. Whats more is that no one dressed up to be slutty, we dressed up to be whatever our little hearts desired.
2. SILLY STRING
Those who never experienced the pure joy of silly string have my dearest sympathies; remember the insane excitement at seeing these cans lined up on shelves in the markets and drug stores? And the smell...that never leaves you. Ever.
3. TRICK OR TREATING
We got to dress up and run around various neighborhoods at night all while everyone and their mothers (literally) gave us candy. What part of that is not winning?
4. ORGANIZING CANDY AFTER TRICK or TREATING
IT WAS ORGANIZED CANDY. NO MORE COMMENT.
5. SCARY STORIES
First off, we actually told scary stories to each other. How badass was that?! Second, you know this book was flying off the shelves of the library (yes, library) when we were kids. If you were lucky enough, your teacher would select it for reading hour (F*CK YES!).
6. HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS
If you didn't have fake spider webs stuck to the inside and outside of your house until the next Halloween, you didn't do it right.
7. AMATEUR HAUNTED HOUSES
The moment you realized you and your friends are actually amazing at this and should make this a career. Then you'd just end up scaring the crap out of each other and wrecking the whole things... *sigh*...memories...
8. LEFTOVER CANDY
There are truly few joys in the world better than the leftover Halloween candy that lasts you MONTHS. Stressed out? Don't worry, Jack-O's got you.