Halloween, then and now

 Photo from the Past:

 

So for today

I remember Halloween before trick or treat was popular. I never went door to door for candy, WE turned over trash cans (back when people had old 50-gal drums and set them out on the street for the city to collect.)

Oh, and we went to town and ‘soaped’ store windows. Most of us had an old bar of soap and carried it to town to write on store windows. Lemme tell you there were no ‘dirty’ words written, that was a NO-NO even for the worst of us.

Now if you really wanted to be mean, you carried one of mama’s wax squares that she used when sealing homemade jelly. That sucker wrote on windows good and the store man had to work the day after Halloween.

YES, we went down town to make noise and look around to see if we could ID anyone we knew.  Most kids had a nickel/dime mask they had bought at the dime store (some saved from last year).  Most kids made up their Halloween costumes to go with their mask. There were some GREAT ideas, and it was a fun time to try to scare people.

I am NOT downgrading preachers and churches that shun Halloween, Saying it is ‘devil’ worship.  BUT..... I was a preacher’s son, and I NEVER considered it evil to have fun on Halloween.  Evidently my dad did not, he never castigated me for wanting to dress up for Halloween, unless it happened to be on a church night. LOL (I hated it when that happened!!)

This year I am glad for our church back home in NC, they had a Trunk or Treat night in the church parking lot. Giving out candy and inviting the kids to church. Maybe some churches miss a time to contact and show kids that do not attend church; church ‘Ain’t so bad,’ after all.

 

Nite Shipslog

PS: I hope you had a chance to see Chatty’s Halloween blog.   https://chattycrone.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-29-i-love-halloween-can-you-tell.html.

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