Trick-or-Treat - A Halloween Guide to Costumes, Ideas, Parties and More

Halloween 2009: Halloween Recipes and Halloween Activities

My joining camelclutchblog.com happens to coincide with Halloween which means I’m able to write about one of my favorite holidays and I couldn’t be more excited. I always loved Halloween and couldn’t wait for October 31st to come around. I got to dress up as my favorite character and get tons of candy from every house in the neighborhood. What child wouldn’t love that? It was even more thrilling for me because my parents didn’t let us eat much candy or junk food, so to my brothers and I it was more like Christmas!

I can remember going to the store and picking out our costumes. How many remember the one-piece cloth (if you could call it that) outfit and the plastic mask with the rubber band attached to it? When you tried to put on the mask one side of the rubber band would pop off and you’d snap yourself! Being so excited to get in your costume (which always went over your winter clothes) and inevitably ripping the seam in the arm or leg! The great thing about those costumes was you only needed one tool to fix them, a stapler!