HALLOWEEN, THEN AND NOW
THEN WAS BETTER!

First.., leave us talk about NOW, okay?

1. Store bought costumes that cost a LARGE amount of moolah.

Actual cost...$677.67.

2. Parents fearful of taking their chitlins to houses where they don't know the inhabitants, intimately.

What are they so scared of?

3. Checking the gathered candy under a microscope to make sure there are no foreign objects embedded deep inside the nougat. (Just what is nougat, anyway?)

4. "Trunk or Treat" areas where the kidlets can safely obtain candy from the trunk of a certified, vetted, designated candy giver. 

NOT a designated candy giver on the right.

5. Many parents in to the Halloween celebration MORE than the youngsters, with costume parties, indulging in "liquid Halloween cheer"and running around like big silly folks with reckless abandon! 

Now we'll go back to Halloween in the fifties...which we will call..."THEN."

1. No, stinking, store bought costumes, except for maybe a mask. The challenge was to make homemade costumes from things around the house. 

       Okay...one oddball with a store bought costume.  

2. We went to ALL the houses in the neighborhood and beyond! With NO adults accompanying us, whatsoever! 

If we would have ever suspected some creepy adult trying to grab a tricker treater, we would have egged the perp to intensive care...and beyond!

3. We ate the candy too fast to check it. We were eating it as we trick or treated! You might think we were REALLY dumb back then, but actually we were.

4. The candy givers were NOT vetted, but they were verified talent scouts, I think, because they would force us little monsters to sing a song, or recite a poem, or tell a joke before they'd give us candy. Try that today, and the kids parents would sue you for malicious intimidation or SOMETHING! 

5. The parents did not get involved in Halloween back then, except for handing out the candy. Okay, a few crazy ones, like my mom, did...but she was hysterical! I'm not gonna tell you who she dressed up as, even though the statute of limitations has run out, I'm quite sure.

No such thing as political correctness back "then."

Our independent panel of unbiased old folks have come to the conclusion that "THEN" was better, when it comes to Halloween, however, I'm quite sure that the youth would vehemently disagree. 

Tell us what YOU think in the comments section below. Is Halloween better NOW or was it better THEN. Go ahead, it's Halloween...and the curse of the "horseless headsman" will be upon you if you don't!