Win: Halloween fancy dress for all the family!

Best Halloween memory was going round trick or treating in the dark and feeling really happy as I was with friends and family having lots of fun.

Being on holiday in Cornwall getting the bus with my family dressed as a devil and on the bus back some guys trying to get a lift back with treats from trick or treat “want a love heart”

My favourite memory from Halloween was staying up late, eating goodies, and watching scary films with my older brothers and cousin. We watched The Omen, which I was far too young for but I remember thinking it was all fantastic!

My favourite halloween memory was the food we used to eat.. Witches brew (fizzy blackcurrent with a scoop of ice-cream), Bloody baked beans and fingers in mash (the fingers were sausages!), followed by scary jelly and eyeballs.. this was little plastic spiders in our jelly and the eyeballs were made of marshmallows.. I had the best mum!

I remember going to a Halloween party in the village hall and I was dressed up as a witch. My Mum was dressed up as a clown and I was too scared to go near her! x

My best Halloween memory was when I was I was young and me and my brother were dress up as a cat and he was a pumpkin, we made lots of pennies and loads of sweets, we then went back to my aunties Halloween party what we had every year and played spooky games and Bob the apple, I wish I could go back to the carefree days! Best Halloween yet still to this day x

Not from when I was a child but a few years back a friend and I went to the Prince Edward Theatre (the singalong cinema) to see a hosted showing of the Rocky Horror Show. I dressed in a rather risque Circus Ringmaster outfit which even amongst other Halloween Outfits at Waterloo Station created a bit of a stir as I had a moment of what can only be described as ‘wardrobe malfunction’…..

My best Halloween memory was doing a fancy dress ghost walk when I lived in London. The ghost walk was really interesting & around beautiful parts of London, with loads of people dressed in fantastic crazy outfits. Evening rounded off by going to the pub dressed as a zombie surgeon. Excellent!!!

We went to Wooky hole caves for Halloween when I was 11, there were monsters and ghouls jumping out all over the place scaring people, flashing lights and scary noises and being in a cave made it that bit more terrifying! Loads of sweets and toffee apples at the end though, my best Halloween ever!

All of it .it was so exciting when i was younger i love being a witch some people would say i still am one lol

Dressing up as Amy winehouse, looking almost identical then spending the evening in hospital with a broken wrist with people telling me i looked familiar and was i ‘that amy girl’
Ill never forget that

My mum didnt believe in halloween so I never did anything as a kid so now I go all out with my kids making decorations dressing up and going trick or treating and it still feels naughty every year xxx

As a child I hated Halloween but I love it now and we all dress up and decorate the house , go trick or treating . Such good fun for all the family

I will never forget the last halloween i went trick or treatin with my friends at school. I had just got out of hospital and still had narcolepsy so looked a fab zombie, my best mate had a false leg made by her dad which hurt so she was really limping. We got invited into this elderly couples house while they found sweets, there wasa picture of children on the wall and we asked what their names were and the classic response we got was “Grandchildren” lol lol

i dont know if this is my best memory more like my sisters- i was dressed as a witch and even had my mums brush with me as an accessory- my sister swears blind that i honestly thought i good fly as had brush between legs and yes tripped over flat on my face in the middle of the road- i still say i just tripped but she tells everyone otherwise- she was prob rite i was only 7 x

My favourite Hallowe’en memory is of a family party when I was about 8yrs old. Just before everyone arrived my Mum strung up scones covered in treacle for us to try eat with our hands behind our back but forgot to tell my Dad. He walked right into them, pulling down the string and splashed treacle EVERYWHERE!!

Me and my 2 sisters all kitted in out black bin bag “witches dresses”, completed with cardboard hatsa and brooms! We looked hilarious and got a load as sweets!

the best memory as a child was meeting up with all my mates in black bags and little make up as not much money going door to door having to play trick or treat or apple bopping and enjoying the big bag of sweats at the end of the night as money was tight yum yum

My best memory must be the parties we used to have and the fabulous cakes we used to make. The best was either my chocolate spider or a very strange looking bat. Chocolate buttercream coloured black is a very strange thing!

For me it is always the magic of carving a pumpkin and fireworks!!!

going to the local castle for a halloween evening, being taken on a scary tour and screaming when a huge massive spider landed on me – it was fake of course lol this year i am taking the kids to alton towers for their scarefest as we have wanted to go for years, so winning costumes would be fab xx

My best Halloween was when we started preparing for our Halloween part left everything on the table when out to do some trick or treating after a few hours came back home to find that there was no cheese on sticks no cocktail sausages and a few other bits we found out who the culprit was my dog pipper got to them we had a good time trick or treating while she had a good time feasting I miss her

the best memory for me was definitely that one Halloween when my pappa who is a soldier, came home unexpectedly and surprised all of us!

My parents never made a big deal of Halloween and it used to pass without me even knowing anything about it! I make it extra special for my children though and each year we hang loads of decorations from pumpkin lights to spiders on webs. We all dress up and wait for a knock on the door so we can double bluff the trick or treaters…and they always go away with a treat!

Cutting a hole in a bin bag for my head and using it as a witches cape.

Best Halloween memory was of Halloween was when us three girls came in from trick or treating to find mam lying on the settee with blood all down her legs and over her face, we all started to scream, it took ages for Dad to calm us down, mam had used red sauce to cover her self in, the dog started licking it off her and my sister who was five at the time shouted “”"”"”I wanted that on my tea”"”"snd stormed off to bed……At the time it was disturbing but mlooking back now we can all laugh about it

I always loved to help mum carve out my turnip – it was hard work as the shops didn’t really seel pumpkins! She would always used the carved out turnip to make broth to warm us up before we went out! My dad would always pop a real candle in my turnip but it always seemed to go out as soon as I went out trick or treating because it was almost always windy!

My Dad dressed up one year in a werewolf mask and came to the bottom of our bed at night and grabbed mine ad my sisters foot .we were traumatised and never forgot that!!!
Im just waiting til my dads a bit older and im going to get my own back on him!!!

It was when I was about 10-11 years old, myself, my sister and our two best friends went out to the houses where we lived to say the line that will always be synonymous with Halloween for me… “The Sky is blue, the grass is green, have you got a penny for Halloween?, if you have’t got a penny a haypenny will do, if you haven’t got a haypenny, god bless you” – I have a photo I can share if I win

My mum used to make fab costumes for me for the Brownie’s Halloween party – one year I was a flapper girl and she made up a little poem for me to recite (we all had to do a ‘party piece’). I still remember it to this day: “From a Brownie to a flapper girl in just one crazy leap, I bring the twenties back tonight to give you all a treat”. I then had to burst into the old song “You can bring Pearl, she’s a darn nice girl, but don’t bring Lulu, Hullabuloo loo, don’t bring Lulu, I’ll bring her myself”! All the while doing sort of Charleston moves – hilarious.

the best halloween memory is when my mum threw a halloween party and she dyed all the foods horible colours to look creepy we had green noodles and blue sausages and we had ice cream with lemonade n food colour for drinks called witches brew. It was the best party ever! also coming back from trick or treating an munching on loads of sweets but every kid loves that!

I love Halloween more than Christmas I think it is because as I kid our family used to have one big family get together have loads of Halloween games then all went out trick or treating and shared all the sweets out to the children – oh the good old days lol.

I remember the days when halloween costumes were very ‘home made’. I went to a friends halloween party in a broadsheet newspaper. My parents had cut a head hole and taped up the sides and made me a hat.

When I was a kid in the 80′s we didnt have any of these fancy outfits you can buy now, we had to make do with flour/talc, sheets and lipstick, needless to say there were plenty of ghosts wondering around my village on Halloween night. I have fond memories of making do and the pride you would have when someone said how ‘scary’ you looked, smelled nice too with all that talc

I used to Dress myself, Brothers and Sister up as zombies. I used to use talc and face cream mixed together to smother all over their faces. They looked so yucky that they used scare young children, when we went to peoples doors for trick or treat. good days!

going trick or treating with the kids and ending up at my mums house with her grandkids and her not opening the door to us …at to phone her and let her know it was us…

Favourite halloween memory is a party we had when I was about 12. Pumpkins everywhere, bloody mary punch to drink and playing duck apples.

We never really did Halloween as a family when I was growing up. But one time I got invited to a Halloween party. It wasn’t til the last minute that we twigged that it was supposed to be fancy dress. So my dad stuck a black sack on me, cut holes for my head and arm, and stuck white dots on – I was a Domino!

Winning the apple bobbing competition when I was about 7

My best memory was when a new student arrived from America, she was used to having huge halloween parties so her mum arranged one for all her friends, It was fantastic.

being the best dressed witch at my school disco!!!

i remember dunking for apples and not doing a very good job of it

Trick or treating wasn’t around when I was young lol. Halloween wasn’t celebrated very much at all, however we did have a halloween party one year at Brownies where I had my very first attempt at bobbing for apples. Not a great success!!

we didnt celebrate it when i was young, but my husband is mad for it and even comes home early on 31st to decorate the front door and windows and get changed into his outfit to await the doorbell – everyone knows to come and knock our door – all my son ever moans is that he doesn’t get to go trick or tr
eating himself!

Best Halloween was when my Dad dressed up and scared the living daylights out of me and my friend by switching all the lights off in the house and coming up the stairs in the dark whilst we were playing in my room

In 1981 when I was 10 I was staying with relatives in America for a couple of months which included Halloween. Everything was so much bigger and so much more made of it than I was used to living in a little village! It seemed like the streets were full of kids all dressed up, the sweet haul was incredible and there were partys everywhere.

My best halloween memory is a brownies halloween party – loved the ducking for apples and treacle doughnuts!

The best Halloween memory I have is going to a party in this big house at the bottom of my village. I dressed in a black bin bag, made a witches broom from a long stick and twigs at the end and my mum painted my face green and black. We had green jelly and a lot of fun We scared ourselves walking back in the dark…I don’t know what I enjoyed more, the walk back or the party hehe x

My best childhood memory of going trick-or-treating was both my dog and myself dressed as matching witches =)
With her being the type of dog she is as well, she howled non-stop, making me a super scary halloweener. We even got a full Terry’s Chocolate Orange that year!!!

For me it has to be with my older brother and my now late sister who was younger! The school had put on a Halloween disco and we went fancy dress! My mum made all our costumes I for some reason went as Pink Panther, my brother was Tin Man and my sister was a spider. Those were the days! Now I have my own family at every opportunity fancy dress it is!

Oh no! I’m going to have nightmares just writing it down and reliving it! My mum and dad are very into 50′s music and when I was about 5 or 6, they had a potter friend. My mum got the potter friend to make her a pot head with a DA hairstyle and pot hands. She then made an authentic 1950′s velvet drape jacket, drainpipe trousers and beetle crusher shoes to go with it. This thing was the size of a small child, and I have to admit, it looked really good. We called him “Rock on Tommy”.

Anyway – this Halloween I’m thinking of, I would have been about 6 or 7. I had kicked up a raging storm to be allowed to stay up and watch “Hammer House of Horror” – they didn’t scare me and I loved ghost films.

So, one big bag of sweets and bottle of Dandelion and Burdock (for me) and a Party & lager (for my dad) later, we had enjoyed the film which was the one about the hand that kept haunting the family of the man that had removed it from its owner. My dad, in his slightly inebriated state, decided it would be hilarious to remove Tommy’s very realistic, lifelike hand and place it on my mum’s pillow as a surprise for her when she went to bed.

Unfortunately, he didn’t realise that she had put all the clean washing in their bedroom, ready to be put away. In I went, looking for my pyjamas – yes, you guessed it. *I* found the hand, not my mum! Did I scream? I’m surprised the echoes aren’t still audible all these years later!

It’s hard for me to pick a favourite, because as a child, although we didn’t have much, my parents always did there best to make all our holidays special. Halloween was my dad’s holiday so Mom would feed us (pigs-in-bankets EVERY year, dress us up, and dad would take up out trick or treating until we were too tired to do anymore) He was also in charge of carving the pumpkins with us. These are memories that will stay with me forever.

I never had or attended a Halloween party when I was younger, but my friends and I dressed up every year for trick / treating. We loved this, collecting sweets and sometimes money from the local nieghbourhood. There were some nieghbours who tricked us local kids by dressing up, dressing their gardens houses spooky. This was all before the craze from the USA had taken hold here in the UK.

I went to a girl that lived down my streets party in a Garage, it was ace, bobbing apples, spooky music & Treacle toffee

My friends had a party when I was about 7 or 8 and we bobbed for apples, had to put our hand into boxes full of nasties (turned out to be peeled grapes in one, raisins in another and cooked spagettie in the last) They had a bonfire going, lovely food and we stayed until it was dark – so very exciting.

We always had a big party for Halloween and my best memory is helping my gran to make toffee apples and toffee pears – they were delicious!

Making pumpkin lanterns

My best memory was when I went trick or treating for the very first time with my friends without my mum, we were walking up a neighbours path and the bush ran down from the door, never ever have I screamed as loud or ran as fast, still frightened of bushes besides doors even now lol x

I remember going to the school disco dressed as a dice in my handmade cardboard outfit – ie box lol

Going out with my big brother trick or treating and coming back with lots of sweets and money

my older brother taking me and my friends out trick or treating, we felt very grown up with my brother, even though he was an adult, but he wasnt my parents, so was more cool being seen without your parents, and we were alloweed out in the dark, which was fun and getting lots of goodies was of course, the best bit

My Halloween memory isn’t so much my favourite but sticks out the most because my community had decided to have a Halloween party and I had spent ages deciding on being a cat and and i think i looked really good with my homemade costume including tail made of tights stuffed with newspaper…my dad was supposed to be coming back to collect me and take me but he forgot to and i waited in for him. I was gutted and someone won the fancy dress as a cat and think i may have won something if I had been there… will always remember and it didnt take long for me to forgive my dad for not getting me.

Best halloween memory is of being a child and sat with my mam and dad and sister, the smell of candles burning in a pumpkin whilst sitting telling spooky stories and then bobbing for apples, really fond childhood memories.

Only went to one Halloween party when I was about 6. I remember doing apple bobbing for the first and only time. Great fun.

I remember one halloween coming across a strange lady who invited us in her house, made us do a chant with her and then pick a painted stone each out of a bag and didn’t give us anything else!

I remember my mam and dad spending all day carving out pumpkins. They also never bought me any decent outfits as we were a fairly poor family. My mam used to make me outfits out of black bin liners, buy me the cheapest mask she could find and send me out with my younger brother! I don’t want Halloween to be like that for my family and this year I want to throw a party for my neighbours!

We didnt really do much for Halloween as children as we gre up in a racist area and my parents didnt like us going outside after dark to go trick or treating. But now we are older, i love dressing up for parties with my family and my son loves it too!

Not being aloud to go trick or treating, going anyway and hiding the sweets in the garden

Bobbing for apples at the Brownies Halloween party and playing loads of fun games and getting sweets as prizes

When I was Little we only ever went out with hollowed out turnips with candles inside. I’ll never forget the one year we got a pumpkin to take out. We were the only kids in the street with one and I loved it!

I remember going to a Halloween party dressed as John Virgo back in the Big Break days. I even had a mini pool table as part of my outfit. I was really upset, though, when I took a drink of juice and my painted on facial hair melted into my cup of juice!

My birthday is around Halloween, and I remember my parties as a child were always halloween themed – with apple bobbing and spooky stories, and fancy dress (and a pumpkin cake!)

It was when I was 10, 1982, and at the school disco , the headmaster came, dressed as Satan claus! A reverse Christmas, warning us all to behave, or we’d not see Santa claus again!

Trick or treating with my older sisters

Dressing up in a black bin bag and a homemade witches hat, we never had bought halloween costumes when I was little.

i use to have dancing lessons and my mum made alot of the outfits, so we use to wear them out on our trick or treat, the looks on peoples faces when they opened the door to baloo from the junglebook and a fat fluffy chicken was priceless!!!!! the good thing also the outfits were very warm so no hidding under coats for us!!!! now my neqhews are wearing them out with the same effect.

MY best memory was when me and my sisters had our first proper halloween party when I was 9 and dressed up with bin-bag dresses and old sheet ghost outfits, I even wore an old skirt as a cape! We still have the photo as proof!

Best memory was fighting with my sister when we got home for the sour cherries.

My fav Halloween was the year my mum couldnt afford costumes so we made out own

when i saw lots of sweets on my bedroom floor

My daughter was born on Halloween so that has to be my best ever Halloween memory and possibly at the time the scariest lol.
We even named her Jamie-lee after Jamie-lee Curtis in my favourite scary movie Halloween.
Halloween will always be extra special as its the day my very own little monster was born. ;-p

On holiday in a caravan in Ireland. My Uncle had told me and my brother really scary stories about the ‘banshee’ – an old hag who appeared to people just before they were going to die. That evening me and my brother were alone in the caravan when my Dad and Uncle thought it a good idea to creep back and rock it whilst wailing. It was funny for them until we called the Guarda (police);)

Watching ‘Goonies’ and then going Trick or Treating with my bessie friend.

Back in the 90′s we had one of those joke arms that you hung out of the loo so it looked liked someone was stuck in it, my dad always the joker decided to scare us all to death on Halloween one year. He took the arm attached some rope and snuck upstairs with it, while we were all watching tv in the lounge we heard a knocking and scraping on the window, as my brother drew back the curtain we all screamed as a severed arm appeared tapping on the glass. Needless to say none of us got a good night’s sleep that night !

best Memory was me when i was about 10 or 11 i would be dressed up in my costume and i wait behind the door with my killer chucky doll ready to scare my brothers !!! those days were so much fun

My all time favourite memory was when I was 10, me and my mates went out trick or treating and this grumpy old man opened the door and foolishly opted for a trick, and that is exactly what he got. YES, a bucket full of cold baked beans all over his face!!!!!

When I was kid trick or treat was all about fun ticks not treats. I remeber throwing flour over the nearby school headmistresses windscrean. She just smiled and turned on her screen wash as if that would clear it. We just smiled back as it turned in to thick dough.

Apple bopping when i went to a Halloween party as a youngster

I remember being off sick from school and watching lots of Halloween themed programs on the television. I loved all the spookiness! Other memories include counting all the sweets after trick or treating!

Pumpkin carving at a spooky old farm

I remember going trick or treating down my street with my friends dressed as a pumpking and acquiring almost a years supply of chocolate!

when i was growing up, we had a joint halloween party, on the nearest non school night,we took each year in turn, it was costumes (home made), apples in a barrel (bucket), and a fantastic night was had by all

running down the street with a sheet over my head with the eyes cut out, ringing doorbells and running away!

bobbing for apples at a friends party

my best memory was none cos we never used to do anything exciteing for halloween as kids boohoo!, so since having my own kids we get them dressed up do pumpkins and decorate the house followed by a bit of friendly trick or treating x

my best halloween memories are all about when my oldest two were younger , we used to throw halloween house parties , the decorating would take a few days the whole room was blacked out using black bags across the walls and ceilings , then the spider webs etc streched over , before adding many other things including hand painted grave stones and even one ear a full size mummy the the kids spent weeks making ! the parties would envolve all our friends and included apple bobbing and man other games

I had this doll puppet that looked like a clown with bright orange hair, was pretty nasty to be honest. I used to scare my brother with it and howl laughing when he ran off crying. Sat on the naughty step at least once per day in the run up to halloween

Duck Apple definetly! we would all try to get the apple with the money in it. Great fun.

sweets,sweets & more sweets loved visiting all the neighbours and terrifying them! (or so i thought)

I remember when Trick or Treating first came out when I was about 8. In them days there were no costumes sold in shops you had to make your own! Mum made me wear a black bin bag, ratted up my hair and painted my face green with eye shadow to make me a witch! Im so glad there are so many types you can buy now!

Every year my friend and I would dress up as witches & go guising we would always sing the same song Hagalina Magalina

Back in the (cough) seventies, Trick or Treating was something the Americans did but myself and a few friends decided to chop up some sheets and make ghost outfits. Too polite to even suggest to neighbours that they should give us sweets or get eggs pushed through their letter boxes, we each instructed our parents that they had to give us sweets! My poor mother, only being informed of this about 8.00 pm and before the benefit of 24/7 shopping could only come up with some Arctic Roll hidden in the depths of the freezer. It may have been unusual but it was the most popular of all our haul!

My best Halloween memory from when i was younger is trick or treating with my friends and bobbing for apples!

Mine has to be, being the youngest of 4 children, we all got dressed up, went trick or treating and came home to have a family night in to watch a scary film and eat all of our goodies. Mum and dad went round the pub and left my eldest sister and her boyfriend to babysit. She thought it would be a great idea to watch Salem’s Lot. At the part of the film when the vampire comes knocking on the window, we had a power cut!! Her boyfriend went off round the pub to get my mum and dad and we sat in the dark waiting when….the cat decides to jump up at the living room window…you can imagine the screams!!!

going round the houses in the street with our hollowed-out turnips

Best ever loads of 30 plus yr olds apple bobbing in neat alcohol punch then drinking said punch that was full of fake scabs and scars false hair and all manner of horrific things ace night in.

When I was young (7/8) I lived in the USA for a while, and Halloween was much ‘bigger’ there than it was here at the time. I remember being astounded when decorations appeared outside peoples’ houses, and the excitement as I realised plans were being made to take us Trick or treating.

I can’t remember my costume, but I can remember about 8 of us being piled into the back of a pick up truck and driven around (at the time it seemed we went everywhere but looking back I suspect we were taken to houses where it had been prearranged) with my candy bag, which was absolutely BULGING by the end of the night. I’ve been a huge fan of Halloween ever since

I remember going trick or treating & sharing out the treats, then making ourselves sick on the sweeties!

My family never celebrated Halloween when I was young, so I make sure my children enjoy it now. So my best memories are more recent. My and the children love being creative pumpkin carving and always love the moment when you first light the pumpkin in the dark

I remember being about 6 and asking if I could go out with my brother trick or treating. He was 7 years older than me so a true “big boy”, I felt safe, well I did for the first 10 minutes until we passed a couple of ghouls (not real ones you understand) and I just screamed and screamed to go home.

Watching a load of scary films in pitch black terrifying x

A halloween party my friend had which we did apple bobbing and played a game blind folded where we had to put our fingers in an eye socket (turned out to be an orange lol) x

when i was little my mum and dad would dress me up as a pumpkin and put me in my buggy, and take me out trick or treating. I think because i was cute and little i used to get far more many sweets than any of the other kids xxxx

My brother putting a leg from a pair of tights over my head then looking through the mirror! I actually scared myself to death!

I loved going to the school Hallowe’en disco and dressing up as a black cat.

My best was when I was about 8 and a friend of my aunts threw an amazing party and had decorated literally every room in the house, it was so spooky and absolutely brilliant

My best Halloween memory is of a party with one of those indoor fireworks that shoot out toys and sweets. I was so excited to get my prize!

not really best but my strongest memory of halloween was my neighbours halloween party when we were little and she made grapes with toothpaste on them, supposed to be “eyeballs” and it was so disgusting!

apple bobbing as a brownie – loved it!

Getting ready to go trick or treating and sticking rice krispies on my chin as warts whe my older sister called me and told me a witch had flew into the garden. I was petrified but she took me to the window and made me peep out. Sure enough there in the garden was a witch in full clothes crouched down on the grass. I was hysterical until they all started laughing and my Dad stood up and removed his witches hat. The memory of that withc crouched down srill gives me a shiver to this day!

My favourite memory is when my brother was only 6(myself) and my brother who was 4 at the time.
We had been away for the week before and we had completely forgotten about Halloween. So when we saw the houses on our tiny estate we cried at the thought we couldnt go out. Being that my mum is super crafty she grabbed some black bags, some paper plates, string and colouring pencils.We all sat down and listened to Halloween themed music on our tape player and made masks. It was so much fun!!

When I was 10 I had dressed as a vampire, using hairspray to slick my hair back. All went well until the next morning when I lifted the hairspray to do my hair again, but decides it was fun to spray my dog instead. She jumped at me, bit the hairspray can and it burst into flames and basically melted a huge area of skin on my leg. It was so bad I needed to go into hospital, and have skin grafts.
I wasn’t about to admit to having teased my dog, so instead played daft. All I know was that the can had burst into flames and then the dog grabbed it out my hand! My mum then came to the conclusion that the dog has saved my life and had taken the can out my hands after seeing it burst into flames. I went along with that, because it got me off the hook and earned the dog a steak.
Hilarious part is my friends, my husband and my kids all know the truth but my mum doesn’t. And every now and again she’ll start to tell the tale about the dog that saved my life. The looks darting about the room are brilliant, but my mums never tweaked! I still have a huge scar and my mum still thinks our dog was a hero!!

We had a spooky party one year in our garage, with trick or treating followed by toffee apples, bobbing for apples and a pinata (halloween themed of course). It was great fun and all the kids in the street came along!

Going trick and treating. Our neighbours would make us sing for our treats! Great times among good friends and neighbours.

Best memory was when we were younger, was going round to my Grandma’s and seeing bucket loads of treats! We weren’t allowed to trick or treat so this was instead and defintely better. Having evening feasts whilst watching scary (or child-scary) films!

My sons birthday is 29 October so we always had Halloween parties so trick or treaters were always scared of our costumes

My favourite memory was when i was at brownies and we had to bob for apples and eat doughnuts hanging on string without using our hands.

My very first memories of Halloween were from when I was so young that I didn’t even know what was going on. All I really remember was that my two younger brothers and I were wrapped in these sheets with a paper bag with eye holes over our heads. Of course, we couldn’t see, but we thought that it was a lot of fun anyway. We only went to our grandmothers’ homes and a couple of aunts and uncles houses to trick-or-treat. But we got lots of candy. And that’s what we wanted.

Going trickn treating with my mum and she dressed up too and as she is not very tall everybody gave her sweets too

I was allowed to go and stay at my friends house and her mum knew that my parents refused to let me go out trick or treating! They had bought me a costume and they let me & my friend go out for a couple of hours without saying anything to my folks! It was fantastic!

DRESSED AS A PUMPKIN BY MY MOTHER WE WENT TRICK AND TREATING WITH OUR TORCHES AND WERE GIVEN LOADS OF SWEETS.

My best Halloween memory is of a party we had one year when I was about 8. All my friends and I were dressed up and my Mum went the whole hog and got us loads of treats and a buffet which included green bread roll for the sandwiches! They looked fab. I always remember my best friend not wanting to eat them because she thought they were mouldy!! We convinced her in the end that it was food dye. Good times

Best memories ever Trick or treating with my friends and dressing up as a ghost? (I was always a ghost) not sure why, and eating sweets till you were sick xx best days ever!!

My best Halloween memory was (oddly!) when my now 16 year old daughter was five and in hospital after an asthma attack. The ward staff turned the whole ward into a haunted house and put a real effort on for the kids – we’ve never really been big on Halloween and apart from trick or treating don’t ‘celebrate’ it as such. That year was so much fun though!

I remember the only year I actually trick or treated, my Mum made me a costume out of a bin bag, hahaha. I had plastic fingers (which I still have today!) & fake blood but I still looked pap x

My best memory of Halloween is going to Haven for a spooky weekend.

I remember visiting family when I was about 7 dressed up as a witch, and they helped me carve a Cantaloupe melon rather than a pumpkin lol…I remember it catching fire and still remember the smell to this day! haha, it was actually rather pleasant lol xxx

Going trick or treating and someone throwing water out of their bathroom window at us, I thought we were supposed to be doing the tricking lol

when i was younger, my mam used to carve potatoes instead of turnips or pumpkins, as it was cheaper and there was 8 of us girls, it was just as much fun and i loved it x

I remember when my mum made me a cat outfit for my primary school disco, i wore a black leotard which my mum costomised all sparkly and girly had whiskas a tail the works. The picture of this makes me cringe today but i love her for all the hard work she put into it.

it actually has to be 4 years ago with all the children and as everybody callls me shrek we had a shrek halloween party and hired an old castle type building so it was as if we were actually in the movie

best halloween memory is coming back home with all the neighborhood children and the trick or treat sweets and watching fireworks and having hot dogs and soup while eating ALL the sweets yummy.

We did not celebrate Halloween when I ws little (it had not arrived from America) So my memories are of my children My youngest loves being ghoulish and we went on holiday one year My son was frankensteins monster we used roller skates and put cardboard around the bottoms my eldest wa a mummy we used loads of toilet rolls for that one !!!

my favourite Halloween memory I must have been around 8 the age of my middle boy Adam – my family would take turns to host a halloween party for all the kids – this year was my uncle Denvers turn – the food was great and we had those wee indoor fireworks my fav being the ashy worm thing – sparklers in the garden but best of all dunking for apples which all us kids found hard to do – so my gran got down on her knees and showed us getting her false teeth stuck in one of the apples – the older kids found it funny the younger kids were scared witless when grans teeth came out – happy memories and my wee gran has since passed away this year it would be lovely to have a great party in her memory – my kids love halloween and this competition will make some wee family very happy x

Best memory was being away in Devon staying with my parents, brother n sister & another family (our best friends) and our dads dressing up and chasing us around the cottage & playing hide and seek! in the dark – so scary ! But so fun !

My best memory of halloween was throwing a party last year, had a fantastic time and managed to scare my other half (who is afraid of anything) absolutely hilarious:)

has to be when i was 5, i so wanted to be a wicked witch but as it was mydads local footie teams party youve guessed it, i was a footballer lol was devasted before we went but the attention was amazing

My best halloween memory is when I went to the eden project with my boyfriend we spent the day exploring and taking snaps of our

My mum and dad always used to go to a halloween party, one year my mum made her own pumpkin outfit and my dad went as dudley moore for some reason with something stuck to a skateboard – never really did get it haha us kids went out trick a treating, then came back to bobbing for apples and loads of halloween games )

Halloween as a kid was amazing,,,family party every year with a bonfire, bobbing for apples,,,’snakes in blood’ aka spag bol jacket potatoes, chilli beans. i can smell it now!
I was always a witch though,,,didn’t have much choice of outfits like you do now!and it was always made out of a bin bag!
i remember the copius amounts of sweets we got from trick or treating and always moaning about that one house that ALWAYS gave you an apple! lol
i really need to win these outfits! we’re having a party and NEED to be the best dressed! xx

Instead of going trick or treating, the parents of a friend had a Halloween party and set up a ghost walk in their plot of land, it was so well decorated and so spooky, we fell about laughing and terrified at the same time. Good times with good friends getting dressed up and creating memories that last a lifetime

When I was little I dressed as a witch, black pointed hat, mask and my grandma made me a black long dress and a magic wand, we went to my friends halloween party with scary things hanging from the ceiling all the house was done up it looked amazing and scary and lots of food, scary cakes in green slime (jelly) all sorts one of games and trick and treating, loads of us, one of my best times as a kid xxxxx

Ahhhhhh the best one was when my lad was at infant school & I ended up having to dress up as a witch, got my biggest Jam pan out & made every one who came to my door dunk for apples including the parents the kids were way smarter they all went for the apple stalks to pick up, while the parents were trying to get at the body of the apples & consequently got drenched in water

When I was young we didn’t really do anything at Halloween but when I had my daughter we did something every year. When she was about 5 I decorated the house with Cobwebs and spiders, we had pumpkin lanterns and Ghosts galore. We mixed spaghetti, peas, sweetcorn and rice pudding so it looked like sick and wrapped treats and the children had to dunk there hands in to find them, we played Bobbing for Apples and pop goes the pumpkin. I made lots of spooky food like bat shaped sandwiches, Devils on Horseback, Cheddar Cobwebs and spooky cobwebs. I then took all the children trick or treating. They had a great time. I love halloween and am planning something super special for this year

having my friends scared out of their lives on our haolloween party because my dad made a worm pie! (not real, its was actually sweet laces) but to an 8 year old, it was so real!

Loved every Halloween my birthdays the day before so my mum always through me a fancy dress party looking forward to getting the whole family dressed up this year!

My Halloween memory is having a mini kiddy Halloween party with green tomato sauce on the hotdogs and bobbing for apples in red food dyed water. Then afterwards going around the street trick or treating then one of the houses were straight neck god loving Christians and gave us a lecture about how Halloween is the devils night and girls shouldn’t be out. Off of those people we had a bible each added to our sweetie stash next day had a tummy ache from all the sweets I had consumed lol

CANDY !!!

My best Halloween memory was my little sister dressed as a cat trying to be scary, she looked too cute but tried her best at hissing at everyone with her little claws and tail (rolled up tights) everyone tried their best not to laugh

my best halloween memories were always the ones when me my brother n sisters would make our own costumes we would b so proud of them n always gt compliments, now i have children of my own ive tried to keep up tradition like last year my 10 year old daughter dressed up as a bunch of grapes with purple balloons all over her every1 said how great she looked she was so proud bt so uncomfortable as she couldnt sit down all night lol

I remember eating half the sweets we got as kids walking round because we knew our mums wouldnt let us eat them all

The best halloween memory I have was attending a party that is a notable event in our area and has been running for primary 4 school children for over 30 years. You make an effort with the costumes for this party – so what did my parents send me dressed as – a bag of frozen peas !! Even to this day I still get ribbed about it – on my 40th birthday my cake was a replica of the costume ! And I didnt even win ! My twin sister did – dressed far more sensible as a ladybird…..

my favourite memory was when i went trick or treating and we had to walk through a dark passage and one my friends and gone through first and the rest of us walked through after and he had lay down in the passage and grabbed my 1 of my other friends leg and she screamed that much she wet her self

Sounds nasty but my best memory of Halloween is when trick or treaters came to the door and my little brother (he was 4 at the time and didnt know much about halloween) answered the door to them with me, my brother took one look at the masked children the other side of the door and flew up the stairs screaming, at the time we all felt so sorry for him but once he’d calmed down and we explained, the laughing hard started, I still laugh now when I think back.

I had a Halloween party when I was 8 and my mum and I decorated the basement. It was very scary and everyone loved it.

trying to make toffee apples with my dad, it set rock hard and too thick so we were all chipping away for hours…. I don’t think the trick or treaters that got given them were very impressed!

Just dressing up in a home made costume from a bin bag etc and going trick or treating and having lots of fun with friends and family, and seeing who had the most sweets and who got what in there bags

Best halloween was when we went to guisbrough Forrest in the dark they do a scarefest omg I was 8 and terrified I remember every scary little detail #scarredforlife lol

Waiting for trick or treaters to approach the house, then throwing cold soggy tea bags at them!!! Until one time an insurance rep was calling round, and he nearly got one in his face.

its not my memory but my kids we used to live in germany and on our street one house got totally decorated in halloween gear and the owners invited everyone in and they has a buffet laid out for the kids and lots of things going on. My kids always remember it x

Mine is dressing up with my sister in a bin bag, a plastic hat from woolworths and the kitchen broom and going trick or treating. We use to have so much fun and didn’t have money for fancy costumes but we rocked them bin bags x

For me, Halloween was always one of my favourite times of the year and from a young age, I always wanted to get involved. My mum was quite protective and because we didn’t live in the most secure of areas, she didn’t want me out after nightfall. So, for my first year of trick or treating (or guysing as we call it in Scotland) she wouldn’t let me out at night with everyone else, but promised we would do it the next day. Instead, on the morning of the first of November, my mum got out the devil costume she had made for me and painted me lizard green (there was a shortage of red paint in our town that year, probably unsurprisingly) and we embarked on our Halloween adventure. Most people would feel slightly embarrassed, but I was always quite the attention seeker, so I loved the fact that I was the only one dressed up.
Now, when I’m trudging home from a party on November 1st, still in full costume, I remember the little green devil I once was, skipping round the houses with my mum on the day after Halloween. It makes it easier to see the funny side of the situation, and I just smile in response to the baffled looks I get from passers by as they shuffle off to work.

Dressing up as a “serial” killer with cereal boxes, plastic knives and lots of fake blood.

bobbing for apples, loved it & now i do it every year with my boys

carving pumkins with my dad!

I can remember in the 1960s dressing up and having a party where we put string up and had sweets hanging from them and we had to try and eat them, with hands behind our backs and just using our teeth!! We also bobbed for apples from a washing up bowl. It wasnt as popular as there wasnt as much advertising about, but can still remember halloween celebrations fondly.

i use to love halloween when i was younger dressing up as a witch and other things , me and my brother use to go together knocking on doors seeing if we will get sweets or money , my mum getting pumpkins for the window and carving a face into them and lighting them up then me and my brother would share our sweets out and see who got the most

My favorite Halloween memories were the ones spent at my Grans, She would bake for us then she would tell us spooky stories, we would bob for apples and then peel them in a oner and throw the peels over our shoulder and what ever letter the fallen peel resembled would be the first letter of the the name of the person that we would Marry, mine always fell as an “S” (I married Stuart )
We would carve out an apple or a small turnip and put a birthday candle in as tiny versions of a Halloween lantern, It was always and still is my favorite time of year.

My favourite memory was when me and my sister covered our faces in uv glow paint and turned off the lights. as our brother was walking up the stairs we jumped up in the dark and screamed. when we turned on the lights he was at the bottom of the stairs hugging a shoe. my brother was 18. Funniest haloween to date.

I remember when my sister’s and I were young teens and our parents were going out to a Halloween Party. We decided to decorate there bedroom and made a really scary person w/ mask to put in there bed. I still remember the screams that came from there room on arrival home

EVERYTHING from just been able to trick treat round the doors not like today the world is a scary place from when we where kids. watchin scary movies the fancy dress and best of all havin loads of food and APPLE BOBBING = BRILLIANT loved it all !!!!

Best memories ever is trick or treating with my friends and wee cuzing and we all loved dressing up and having gd laff and affter we whent trick or treating we all come home in cont owner sweets and stuff ower faces to we where sick x

I remember the first time my mum and dad took me out trick or treating I was about 8 years old. I had gone as a spooky potato don’t ask!) and everyone thought I was a sack! I was so upset I ran off tripped over on the ground and smushed my Halloween cup cakes into my face, what a disaster! But easily one of the best Halloween memories for me! Hahaha

Born a witch! Halloween is a big celebration for me from dressing up trick or treating the parties and of course the first time I made pumpkin and apple soup which went down a treat!

Mine was doning a black bin bag, wearing the plastic witch fingers, plastic witch nose and having my face painted green. Walking round my close and knocking on neighbours doors. Then later bobbing for apples in a bucket of water and my green paint has ran all down my face

My fondest memory is of wanting to go trick or treating back in the 80′s and me & my brother who lived just with our Dad expected him to pull something out of nowhere so we could look the part! so being creative my Dad transformed a black bin liner into a witches dress for me and my hat was made from paper and painted black, my brother also had some diy accessories and off we went, happy just to be out and enjoying halloween……..!

My birthday is on the 30th and my sisters birthday is the 31st (5 years apart) and my Mum always did a joint party for us, she loved going all out and had a stockpile of grey/black netting and halloween decorations, but the best time was when she cooked lots of spagetti and let us throw it up on the ceiling like they were worms, but she forgot that the pasta would eventually fall and so ended up with a nice splash in her cup of tea classic i <3 my mum.

Halloween outfits weren’t so popular when I was a child but I remember improvising and wearing a black sack, making a wig out of green wool and borrowing my Mum’s make up!

Every halloween my Mum used to make me a fabulous outfit and I would go trick or treating with her

best bit was everyone was always kind and i felt really safe and loves all the smiles i got of ppl and some yummy yummy treats

the best halloween was when i was allowed to go trick or treating with my friends and not parents.i was so excited and we got loads of sweets and ate most of them before we got home.

My best Hallow’een memory is from the 70′s. We got home from school, and made our own withses and wizards hats. Then Mum would hang strings with apples on and fill a bowl with water and float some apples in it. You had to try and catch an apple with your teeth, whether bobbing for the hanging ones or getting drenched doing ‘Duck Apple’! Such happy memories! There were powercuts one year so all was done by the light of the coal fire, then we toasted Marshmallows for our treat!

My best halloween moment was when me and my best friend made pumpkins and carried them round for miles and miles knocking on peoples doors trick or treating ! we got 2pound each from one lady and it was as if we had won the lottery ! i remember walking up the street high fiving !I love to take my kids trick or treating xx

My mum making my brother & I witch outfits – bin bags for dresses & blu tack for warts!

My best Halloween memory was walking along the windy front at Whitley bay and my witches hat blew off and my poor Grandad had to chase it across the beach to catch it. Bless him!x

my favourite halloween memory was playing apple bob and my brother getting soaked because someone dunked him in

we used to go to a witches party every year – it was in a field around a fire and they did pretend spells and stuff

My first school disco I went to was at Halloween, I thought I was really cool. My Dad turned up to collect me and got out of the car, he was dressed in a witch dress and mask – I was so embarrased!

going to a big halloween bash at my mums work when I was younger, everyone had put loads of effort into their outfits & my mum made me feel really special by making me a fantastic outfit

Carving out potatoes because no one had bothered to get pumpkins was definitely memorable! They started going off straight away, creating some creepy looking heads!

I remember one Halloween I went trick or treating on my estate and as I knocked on one door I greeted “trick or treat?” and the lady looked at me and said “ooh treat please” but instead of putting sweets in my basket she took some out and put a 20 pence piece in. I didn’t know how to take it so continued on my rounds and went home thinking nothing of it. Later on there was a knock on the door. It was the lady apologizing to my mum for what happened. Apparently she had never understood Halloween before, so she came to say sorry and brought me lots more sweets too!

I lived in an old farm house so my parties were extra spooky! I remember getting more excited about Halloween than even Christmas! This has changed now but I’m still mighty excited!

My favourite Halloween memory has got to be getting dressed up in my cat outfit and my bestfriend dressed up as a witch(so we matched) all my other friends also came to my house and we all did a bit of apple bobbing, and played hide and seek. Before going out into the darkness and going trick and treating to all my Grandma’s friends, I remember going to one house in particular, a man that I had always been scared of for years, he gave me a big bag of sweets and made me have the biggest smile ever! I was never scared of him after that haha!:)

I was never allowed to go trick or treating so all I remember is being in the house in the dark with the door going every few minutes! boring mum and dad!!!

My best Halloween memory was when I was about 9 or 10, and we didn’t really have any money for shop bought costumes so me and my brothers tried to be super creative and make our own. My mum had one of those polystyrene heads that people used to keep their wigs on. So obviously I ‘borrowed’ it and then rolled my polo neck jumper to the top of my head and carried the head under my arm. I had the best night ever, and everyone thought my costume was great so we all got extra sweets.

My Mum had a nasty fall when I was a kid and she ended up with a finger that doesn’t bend. Her friends were all very concerned but she thought she’d play a trick on them. When they came round to dinner she put a fake hand on (like a werewolf, all hairy and black fingernails) and when they went to say hello she got it out. They screamed their heads off. Very funny and great that my Mum was able to make a joke out of it.

my best memory was going to my step mums house she used to throw us wicked partys and was only time i was aloud a toffee apple x

I remember dressing up aa a shark – just because we had that outfit – and I couldn’t eat or drink as the mouth was covered with a piece of net. The only way to eat was to push it up from the bottom!

My mum always made us make our own costume! Every year I’d have to be either a witch or a devil. If I was witch she’d give me a couple of bin bags and some tin foil! I loved it, but looking back it probably was a bit tight! Haha

Halloween ghost walk around Dudley castle, followed by hot chocolate, scary movie and lots f sweet treats that was a really great Halloween

my best memory of Halloween was when I answered the door in the evening, forgetting that it was Halloween. To find a youngster dressed in a scary outfit very close to the door . I screamed in shock and the poor child ran away in terror

The halloween party my cousin had, fab games fab people and a fab time.

Unfortunately my parents didn’t agree with halloween so it was a very low key, uncelebrated occassion for us. I never dressed up and never went trick or treating. Now I have a family of my own I get the opportunity to make-up for lost time! It is fantastic we all dress up and go out trick or treating as a family. We are very lucky to have an American neighbourhood in the town (where all the American squaddie families live) and they really do go all out, its like a huge street party. Houses are decorated and everyone is dressed up and embracing the day. I really look forward to Halloween every year and constantly trying to seek out new costume ideas so we can look like the most ghoulish family!

Playing duck apple with my 2 brothers and sister with Mum and Dad – then toffee apples all round – nothing like the american themed activities that happen at Halloween now!

My favourite holloween is also my worst holloween, i was 7 years old and that year i got alot of sweets and chocolate, but my mum only let me eat some of it, so that night i crept downstairs in the middle of the night and took the rest and ate it, only to make myself sick and have my mother look after me all nigh……there’s a lesson in that somewhere!

making up ghost stories for trick and treat

Trick or treating when I was young was wonderful. Everyone had hand-made costumes and myself, my siblings and all of the neighbourhood kids went out trick or treating as a group. There was never two costumes the same, it was lovely Too commercial now sadly – though still my favourite holiday x

I remember going trick or treating when i was around 7 years old with all my friends, i was dressed up as a witches Cat (not very scary huh) after going round all the neighbours houses and collecting sweets me and my bestfriend (she still is my best friend 30 years later) went back to my house and stopped up until midnight thinking that this was the time that the witches came out, looking out the window to see if we could see them flying around in the sky, we ate sweets and hid under the duvet x

Hallowe’een is my nan’s birthday, so always involved a family get together, far too many sweets, fizzy pop galore and indoor fireworks if we were lucky! When I got married and had children of my own, I would take them to their great nan’s house trick or treating last of all and my favourite memory is still that of the first year we did this-with my ‘pumpkin’ in her pushchair, tired out but very happy to show off her outfit, pushed along by her proud ‘big sister witch’ with a sparkly witch’s hat that bit too big atop her head, that kept slipping over one eye at a rakish angle!

I loved Halloween when I was younger! My birthday is the 30th and I always had a Halloween birthday party. We would spend hours hollowing out and carving a turnip (cause that’s all we could get in those days) I remember having blisters but it was worth it when you placed in the candle and it lit up. I can still smell the aroma of the smoldering turnip. Then we would get dressed up in our scariest outfits and walk the streets, the freezing cold nipping our noses and fingers we mostly got pennies from people in those days but it was really exciting. Finally we would get home where it was warm and cosy and play spooky games eat spooky treats and best of all apple bobbing!

I didn’t really celebrate Halloween as a child but the favourite thing I love doing for my children after taking them trick or treating is to fill the bath with Gelli Baff and put in an array of plastic worms, spiders etc and they have to fish them out.

It has to be going with my friend and her parents to a pub that was all decorated for Halloween the pub had organized a walk through the woods with lanterns telling ghost stories. I remember them saying that there was a really scary ghost that only came out on Halloween if it was also a full moon which of course it was and being 12 i believed everything they said. We then went back to the pub for a nice hot buffet and disco. I wish i could find what pub it was as i would love to take my own children if they still do it x

Withces are always fascination to a child and as a child I remember being very frightened and yet still wanting me of the ssme fear.

It’s not so much a memory of when I was younger, as I don’t remember us even celebrating Halloween, but it’s of when my kids were younger! My youngest daughter’s first Halloween, We were all dressed up in our costumes, hand made by me!I have a wonderful imagination lol! I was a corpse, complete with fake blood dripping from a real scar on my neck! The boys dressed in black from head to toe with masking tape bones stuck to their clothes! You wouldn’t believe how good they looked in the dark! My oldest daughter was dressed as a dead Disney princess! The only costume we had! And mu youngest daughter was only 18 months, so we cut a hole in a large white bed sheet wrapped her up nice and warm and sat her on my oldest son’s shoulders and stuck the sheet over her head! Everyone loved it, including her! It was a gr8 night! One to remember!

My best Halloween memory is actually last year. Our daughter was just old enough to understand trick or treating (and could just about say ‘trick or treat’) and we had a great time going round the neighbourhood bumping into her friends. Then my mine and my husbands best friends came round for a little Halloween buffet. Hope this year will be very similar!!

My favourite memory is going trick or treating with my sister, we had a fab haul by the time we got home. Off we went to bed when we were just nodding off we heard ghoulish noises coming from the wardrobe, we were scared half to death, neither of us would get up to switch the light on to investigate. Then the wardrobe started shaking at which point we were screaming at the top of our voices. Out of the wardrobe jumped my dad, laughing his head off! He must have been in there for at least 2 hours waiting to scare us!

Mine was answering the door one halloween two 3 very well dressed up monsters, taking one look at them and screaming my head off until my mum came gave them some sweets and closed the door. I was petrified…….lol.

the funniest memory i have is when we were kids we had a big halloween party and the adults were dressed up too, my uncle was dressed as a werewolf and my mum had a cat teacosy…. there’s photos of him pretending to eat it lol

awwwwww wow, these would be fabbbbbb for our little Halloween disco.. my three loveeeee it. nearly everyone on our street goes trick or treating, it fun going out in big groups with all the kids.

i remember when i was about 13, me and all my friends went to a Halloween disco. the boy i fancied was also going, so of course i was really nervous. we played apple bobbing, watched scary films, had pizza, great fun… BUT then someone suggested we played spin the bottle… i was mortified as i hadnt kissed a boy before.. and typically it landed on the guy i fancied…… anyway i puckered up and OMGGGGG it was the worst kiss ever!! i stopped fancying him after that haha.. it put me off boys for a while.

it makes me think… my eldest is 10 so she will soon be doing things like that! SCARY THOUGHT.. heehee…

thanks guys. xxx

My two older sisters taking me trick or treating, think it was the very few times they where happy to take me out with them.

My most memorable Halloween was when I was 7 and my mum and dad had a party just the 3 of us. Me dressed as a witch, mum as a cat and dad as a skeleton and his bones kept falling off.

We lived in a neighborhood in Rome where lots of Americans lived and we drew up a list of houses where they lived because the Italians hadn’t cottoned on to the whole Halloween thing and all the Americans had fantastic American candy : candy corn, cinnamon gum, Hershey Bars, etc.

Bobbing for apples at a party when I was a kid, wasn’t as easy as it looked on the tv.

My memory is of fostering a tiny baby the year before last. We went to a Halloween party at my friend’s house. Baby was in a little skeleton costume and as I lifted him out of his car seat to show everyone he produced a huge projectile vomit and covered 3 of the guests. It was like a scene from The Exorcist! Not funny at the time but hilarious looking back.

When I was younger there was a really conservative, religious family who lived up the road from us. On Halloween the dad would hide in the wheelie bin next to the door and jump out to scare trick or treater’s when they would knock. It frightened us to death the first time it happened to us and every year afterwards we would sit and watch screaming kids come running back down the street.

I had a fantastic witch’s costume complete with fake broomstick and authentic looking wart for my nose. I pleaded to wear it on ANY special occasion, loved it so much!

The best part of halloween when i was a child was making your own costume, you couldnt buy costumes in the shops like you can now, we had a great time fasioning bin liners and messing about with make up

I remember having a pumpkin carving competition once when i was younger, and i won! I was so chuffed!

I remember going out one year for halloween and knowing on this one particular ladies door. “Trick or treat” I said in my scary ghoulish voice… after some hesitation the lady replied “treat” and disappeared for a couple of seconds. On her return she dropped a 20 pence piece into my sweet bucket and took out a packet of sweets that I had been given from other neighbours. Not knowing how to react to it I said goodnight and continued on my rounds thinking nothing of it. I told my mum what had happened when I got home and laughed it off with her. Moments later there was a knock on the door. It was the lady. She came round to apologise to my mum for what she had done as she did not realise how Halloween quite worked. She returned my packet of sweets and brought me lots more to say sorry too!

My favourite memory is when my mom bought me a swede to carve out instead of a pumpkin! DO YOU KNWO HOW HARD A SWEDE IS???

My fav memory is when I was 5and I visited my nan, I had forgotten my halloween costume so she wrapped me in toilt tissue and as I was out it started raining and I became a ball of mush!

Going to an all-nighter at the cinema with a group of friends when I was a teenager!

carving pumpkins with my siblings and scoffing sweets!

no real memories from when i was a child as in Italy we don’t celebrate Halloween but great memories as a grown up: wondering about Glasgow dressed as a pregnant ghost!!!

Making dummies out of the fallen leaves. Bobbing for apples. Its the great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. The generic plastic mask with matching costumes from when we were little. Egging peoples houses. Bonfires. Hot Chocolate. I could go on.
Its THEE BEST!

My favourite halloween memories are of when I was young and my auntie and uncle who lived in a very big house would always have a fantastic halloween party every year for adults and children. Everyone would dress up, and the food and nibbles were always halloween / spooky themed (as my auntie is a fantastic cook!)! Even the drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) always had a spooky twist – like children’s fruit punch with eyeballs in! I used to love it. Us children would always play lots of halloween games, from the traditional snapdragon and bobbing apples to more modern ‘manhunt’. Because the house was so big, there was so many places to hide and we weren’t allowed to turn the lights on, which made it all the more spookier! Fantastic times!

Getting dressed as a Spanish senorita with all my mums jewellery on !!

With portable stereo and friends in tow – re-enacting the thriller dance in a grave yard at midnight -at halloween

I remember bobbing for apples at Brownies. I laughed so much I inhaled some of the water and nearly choked!!

my best halloween was having a huge family party, decorating the house and playing games. especially when it came to apple bobbing and it came to those who’d worn make up’s turn. It turned into a funny halloween.

My first apple bobbing, it just seemed to American!

i used to love going trick-or-treating with my older brother and coming back and eating all the sweets we were given

Best halloween memory was when i spent it with my family in america they go over the top on halloween over there and its brill!!

the first party i done for my children i turned the flat into a spooky creepy haunted palace we had friends an family over and it was fantastic to c all the childrens faces took me 2 days 2 clean up but was well worth it

My best memories are of our family fancy dress parties

I made up a mixture of my mum’s best foundation and porridge oats and slapped it on my face. I looked really scary, but my mum wasn’t pleased at all. Then I had a major allergic reaction to the foundation and my face went all blotchy and swelled up! Not really my ‘best’ memory, but thought I’d share!

Brownies Halloween party with made at home broomstick and costume

my memory is only two years ago (I was younger then!), when I took the children to a fancy dress family party at a pub during the day, and I dressed up as a witch. I was the only adult dressed up, and the many children clearly decided i was hired to play with as they chased me round screaming ‘get the witch’ and brought me down to the ground, de-wigged me, and all bundled on top! Quite scary but also laughing a lot! I had to be rescued by multiple parents of all these children (who I didn’t know!)

When I first started teaching, I had highlighted hair and went to a Halloween fancy drees as a witch. I thought it would be fun to colour my hair, but only had cochineal to hand. It looked great for the party, but would not wash out and I had to go to school with pink hair for some time afterwards.

mine has to be when some one said trick and shut the door on me when i was ten, so i pinched there gate! and when i got back home my mums gate had gone as well lol

Best halloween moment from when I was younger was when a group of friends and I got into an empty house that was being revamped by builders. They had taken the doors off during the day and hadn’t boarded it up so on halloween we sat in a cold, dark, creaky house telling ghost stories and scaring ourselves silly!

I used to love apple bobbing, we always used to go to my uncles house, he was lucky enough to have an orchard.

They turned the school disco into a Halloween Ball at the last minute and I didn’t have a costume so my mum put me in white leggings and t-shirt and wrapped bandages around me and dabbed red food colouring everywhere and I went and won first prize

Going to a fancy dress party in a garage when I was 10. I had cut my jeans into shorts which later laddered through the seems and fell off!

Best halloween memory was when i was 14 or 15, i stayed round a friend’s house and she had a little party. We dressed up and had loads of fun. Then when everyone but us and the boys we liked had left we curled up on the sofa and watched one of these “live” ghost shows. My friend was really into it and believed every word. The boys disappeared to get drinks, and then we heard screaming, the lights flickered and there was loud knocking on the door. My friend was proper scared, thinking there was a ghost. It went on for about 10 minutes, and she was really freaked out. Then we realised the boys hadn’t come back, so she sent me to look for them. I found them rolling about on the kitchen floor, laughing their heads off as obviously it was them that were behind it. My friend wasn’ happy when she found out it was all a wind up lol.

Trick Or Treating!

My favourite Halloween memory is insisting on dressing up as Count Duckula (much to my mums disapproval) and having my head shoved under the water when apple bobbing ( I was 7!)

We made witches hats at a friend’s house, then played hide and seek inthe garden until it went dark. Spooky fun!

We used to always have a bonfire and roast marshmallows and hot dogs. Great fun.

my sister in law had a halloween party one year and it was so much fun trying to figure out who wasn dressed as who. we didnt recognise anyone!

I remember one Halloween we were invited to a party, mum and dad made fantastic costumes, dad was a skeleton and mum was a witch, they arrived at the party to discover they were the only ones in costume, it was brilliant!!

I remember going trick or treating to a neighbours house and the man answered the door and really shouted at me I ran home crying to my mum as the man really frightened me and as I was crying the mans wife walked up the drive apologised and gave me £10 which was a lot of money in my day.

Apple bobbing and decorating a spiderweb cake (an idea supplied by Jane Asher!) when I was in the Guides

There was an american family in the town where I lived, they have always changed their whole house into a horror house and had groups of people going through. It was so good that there were actually big queues infornt of the house every year.

My mum didn’t believe we should go out Trick or treating. But we did carve a turnip and have a bonfire

Didn’t celebrate Halloween when I was younger, but had good Guy Fawkes bonfire nights when I was a kid.

I remember shopping for pumpkins with my dad, then me and my brother would draw our design out on paper, scoop out all the pumpkin inners and my dad would carve out our design for us!

Best Halloween memories are from when i was little and we spent halloween with relatives in a small town in USA. They decorated everything and went really overboard with it. I was fascinated just sitting on the wall outside and watching everybody.

It has to be when my work said we could dress up but i had nothing to wear so decided to just decorate my face with a bandage & lots of blood. When i was driving home i was actually pulled over by the police & asked if i needed help as my ‘injury’ looked like it needed medical assistance !! After showing them it was all fake we had a giggle about it & they even took a photo of me

My best Halloween memory is when I first let my kids go trick or treating and they loved it. They dressed up and only went to the houses with pumpkins outside, I couldn’t believe that there were adults dressed up as well as kids – a really lovely experience

egging houses who didnt open the door to give us treats haha

Best Halloween memory is when our friends from USA were staying with us, obviously Halloween is huge for them and we had a huge party and went trick or treating USA style!

best halloween memory going out trick or treating with friends and family and then getting together for a fun halloween party

They were always great. Dressing up and trick or treating

carving pumpkins with my mum

going trick or treating with my dad

My best Halloween memory was back in 1991 when we were in america. I was 13, and Halloween was never a big thing in the UK, but our holiday to the USA meant that we were over there at that point in time.

I was, even as a teenager, absolutely fascinated how everyone made such an effort.. even more so than Christmas in the UK. My aunt took us out trick or treating, a concept that we had never done or contemplated over here. Given my pale complexion, I got to dress up as a dead cheerleader, adn my pasty skin helped me pull off to look brilliantly!!

Best Halloween was the first time i took my kids trick or treating they loved seeing all the other kids in their costumes and the different pumpkins on the doorsteps

My favorite halloween was last year when i want out trick or treating with my son and daughter i think i had a little too much fun lol . Cannot wait for this year x

my favourite halloween memory was in brownies, we would have a big fancy dress party with games like bobbing for apples, and the the brown owl would take us out onto the streets to go trick or treating. those were fun times

Best Halloween memory was playing trick or treats with my group of friends and knocking on all the doors in the neighbourhood

I remember getting dressed up in traditional gypsy clothes, two of my brothers were old and new tom morris and my wee brother was a mexian with a crocquet ponchoi. We had a great time and got loads fo apples, oranges, monkey nuts not monwy at this time in the 70s but well worth it.

Halloween always used to fall in half term and my friend Georgina always used to sleepover on Halloween. One year we were sitting downstairs watching that “documentary” Ghostwatch and I remember just sitting there glued to my seat with fear and all of a sudden Georgina screamed and ran out of the room leaving me there on my own, I was sooooo scared!

Back in the 70′s Halloween wasn’t quite as big as it is now, we moved into a new house when I was 7 my mum and her friend dressed up in sheets and put colanders on their heads with utensils hanging off them and frightened visiting trick or treaters as they opened the door. they got names for themselves as the local nutters but we thought it was hilarious.

My best Halloween was when the entire extended family got together and had a massive fancy dress Halloween bash and I had two young children at the time, so got to dress them up all cute and like pumpkins!

Being the only child in our village I never got to celebrate Halloween so I’m glad my children get to enjoy a party and sweet treats with their friends.

My best halloween memory is from when i was 10 and i went to a special halloween party at the local high school. In my eyes the school was so big and scary it didnt need the trimmings or ghost hunt lol. We were given directions and had to find different places I was so scared it was exciting and the best halloween party that ive ever been to.

My favourite halloween memories are the childrens happy faces when they’re given goodies.

Best memory has to be when I was 10 or 11 and my parents didn’t have much money so my mum made me a witch’s outfit out of black bin liners and silver spray paint…..and I won best competition at school

plucking up the courage to walk through the graveyard, then watching my OLDER brothers face when I said “See, told you I could! now its your turn”.

We didn’t have pumpkins so we used to carve out turnips and put proper candles in them – they smelled lovely. One of my best memories was taking the little boy I used to babysit halloweening with his friend – they made £20 and offered a share to me of course I refused but the next day they came to my house with a big box of chocolates to say “thanks” –

This always makes my smile. I was about 10 and had to make my own costume. My dad had a houseparty. I wore a black bin liner and carried a Belisha beacon. painted my face in black & white stripes (Very random my dads friend had)
Everyone said I looked Great! I won best costume prize. A huge bag of mixed sweets and some girlies things! And the coolest boy from school asked me on a date.

it was Halloween night and the gremlins was just about to come on tv, i begged and pleaded my mum if i can watch it she said no but then as we were in bed the light were off curtains were closed and all of a sudden the curtains started opening i screamed so my mums best mate who lived with us (just like a big brother) had dressed up as a zombie he came in the room and i screamed even louder it was him who set up a trap with the curtains to scare me lol i will never forget that night, i even got to watch the gremlins. god bless his soul he is no longer alive he will always be in my memories funny and scary times lol xx

My best memory is from when I was 6!! I had a little cowgirl outfit complete with plastic guns, and kept making my dad crawl around on the carpet so that I could pretend he was a horse!!!

As a child of the 50′s Halloween was not really celebrated. I joined the army in 1969 and there was an American Guy running the Naafi & had a ‘Halloween Ball’ to remember there was an awful lot of apple bobbing and bed sheet floating around as ghosts that night!!!

Was a few years ago when we first took my little brother and sister to see the fireworks. It was a great display that year and it was lovely going as the whole family. They didn’t like it however, and were frightened of them at the start!

How carefree you could be 10 years ago, Now you can’t walk about on your own, knocking on peoples doors for sweets, back then, you could just go out on your own, in your costumes hoping to get plenty of sweets. xD

I accidentally rocked up to a party in a black bin bag, not realising everyone else would be in ‘proper’ costumes … bit embarrassing!

Halloweening around my local neighbourhood singing, ‘the sky blue, the grass is green, do you have anything for Halloween?’

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apple bobbing with blue hair mascara in made the water rather interising at our party!! x

My best memory was after trick or treating ending up at my nans cuddled with her on the sofa watching ghostly films! Wish I could do that again!

Me and my friends were all out trick or treating around our neighbourhood (I was definitely 10 or under) anyway we went to this one house which was all decorated around the door and when it opened all of this smoke started seeping out and green lights were beaming. An alien appeared and did not say a word to us, they just put the goodies in our bags and went back into the smoke really slowly and closed the door – from that day on we were convinced a real alien lived in that house as it was so life like haha!!! Childrens imaginations!!xx

Going trick or treating with my sister’s gay best friend and his little brother dragged up! And being given an ORANGE as a treat x

We used to have Halloween parties with bobbing for apples, sparklers and indoor fireworks and apple pie it with coins hidden in it.

Me and my family never went trick or treating, i’m the youngest by 10 years so my brothers were grown up. That wasn’t going to stop them from spending time with me though, my parents and brothers decorated the house every year, they’d help me bake cakes with ghools and ghosts decorated on them.Then we’d watch Tim burton films like Corpse Bride every year. We still get togther now we’ve grown up and watch a film or two.

I don’t have any memories of Halloween. Would love to make some. X

This will sound bad, but my parents didn’t believe in Halloween and we were not allowed to go trick or treating as children. Hence, I don’t have any good memories…..but if I won this price it would help me build some with my step-children

My parents had a Halloween party. We had just moved house and they gave their friends our neighbours address. We hid in the dark and watched the shock on their faces when they knocked at the wrong house in full costume. Also, later they were eating what they thought were chicken legs but they were frogs legs!

My best memory was when my mum organised a party for me and my friends we had werewolf burgers and witches fingers and danced round a pumpkin in the garden

My best memory of Halloween is last years fancy dress party at a friends house, everyone dressed up and we had a fab time!

I remember “helping” – mostly getting in the way – whilst my mum was trying to make me a Christmas tree costume – managed to kick PVA glue all over it. Fortunately it came off pretty easily – won a prize for the costume as well.

My best memory was the year I dressed up as Britney Spears … when she was an air hostess in the Toxic video. I made the costume to the finest details from screen caps and even sported a blonde wig. My favourite memory was the whole night as I met so many people and danced with many other “pop stars”

I loved going round all the houses in the street trick or treating x

my best Halloween moment was spending it in Chicago they really know how to decorate and celebrate

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