We Survived 80s Halloween

For the record, we did not specifically ask for clown photos 😳 Was everyone a clown in the 80s? 100% yes. #halloween #80s #genx
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[@zaynamoore]

Gen Xer here...my mom would always take any homemade treats saying they couldn't be trusted. Found out a few years ago she wasn't worried, she just liked rice krispie treats, candy apples and popcorn balls.

[@theholdernessfamily]

She's not wrong. Those are awesome.

[@tarafocht5470]

My mom would take those treats from us too! Now you've got me wondering!🤔😂

[@raea3588]

My Grandma always gave out rice krispies treats and brand new nickels 😊

[@purplepanties26]

My mom made the caramel popcorn balls to give out and they were amazing!!

[@stephaniebarrows5428]

Yep, I recall folks looking through candy for razors.

[@susansmith3096]

Love this! Not only did we have the “raisin lady”, we also had homemade popcorn balls, and one lady who gave out rolls of pennies. We were so happy to get 50 cents!! 🤣

[@The_Legend47]

Rolls of pennies? That is a new one on me....though that did sound like a good idea, at the time

[@JHaven-lg7lj]

My Mom always handed out mixed nuts, still in the shell. The first-time trick-or-treaters would be astonished and a little disappointed, but repeat customers (costumers?) got a kick out of it and would detour to visit the Nut Lady’s house. I don’t know if nobody around us had ever heard of nut allergies. eta - this was the 70’s, but still. I remember the first time my sister, friends, and I did *both* of our paired neighborhoods. I didn’t have any idea that your feet could hurt so badly ever, but what a haul!

[@carrboro_chapelhillfpv2442]

Cash! Wow you had it great. We had popcorn balls, apples and yes of corse the tiny sun maid raisin box

[@catneedham4913]

One year, old people gave out individually wrapped Luden’s cherry cough drops

[@susansmith3096]

@@catneedham4913 🤣 best one I’ve heard so far 🤣🤣

[@JonesboroughWeatherCam]

You’re exactly right. Going out on our own, going long distances from home, x-raying candy (although I’m not sure if my parents ever did that but Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa did offer it), those cheap and uncomfortable plastic masks and many, many homemade costumes… You nailed it!!!!

[@theholdernessfamily]

And we survived!

[@cassie1264]

We weren't allowed to trick or treat after dark or go out on our own. There was a little girl horrifically raped and murdered in my home town back in the 70s. Our whole community was really careful when it came to trick or treating after that. My parents always had to inspect every candy wrapper before we could eat a piece, which just sounds exhausting!

[@lisasharf1442]

@@cassie1264My God. That poor child. We were never allowed out by ourselves, and it was only around the block, no farther. Dad went out with us, and Mom stayed at home to give out candy.

[@Earth1218]

The plastic boxed costumes from K-Mart or Ben Franklin! The pillowcase candy bags! The open flames everywhere! The risk of tampered candy! The secondhand cigarette smoke that greeted you at people’s front doors! No parental supervision! Gen-X Halloweens of the 70’s and 80’s were truly magical.

[@erinantrim2652]

I loved my plastic costumes and scratchy face masks as a kid. I remember walking so much the crotch tore in my E.T. costume. There was a house that gave out homemade root beer. There was a huge orange cooler with a stack of Dixie cups next to it. It was SO good... can't do that these days. Seriously the 80's was good times as a kid and we survived. 😂

[@sleinadb]

Our neighborhood has a house that does hot dogs and what not...and the parents can go in the garage for an adult bevvy. ;-)

[@WaiferThyme]

😂😂😂 this is great! Im gen x and remember all that! Except the xrayed candy thing. My Dad would dump our candy on the dining room table and go,over it piece by piece. Loose wrappers, candy with holes, flat chip bags all got rejected . In his defence, hes a retired fire fighter and he saw some shit.

[@lisasharf1442]

Yeah. My dad was a prosecutor who handled all the narcotics cases. Went through our candy with a fine tooth comb.

[@WaiferThyme]

​@@lisasharf1442yupyup. Every single sweet got examined

[@mommybreakdown]

Making parents everywhere feel seen 😆❤️

[@theholdernessfamily]

just doin' our job

[@GoodOldGamer]

Relatable. The best Halloweens were when it was so cold and snowy we had our winter gear on over our homemade costumes so half the houses we went to, we had to step inside and take our jackets off and put them back on, and the other half that we didn't, it was pointless to have our costumes on at all because they were never seen, lol.

[@user-pb8bp6sr2u]

Lol I just mentioned that to my hubby last night! Had to put our puffy coats on over our costumes many years so it almost defeated the purpose!

[@DyanHale]

We wore our coats under the costume. So I'd end up being a "fat" Tweety Bird or "fat" Cabbage Patch Kid with my plastic mask that got all sweaty!

[@Cooksongrl]

So true! My mom also made us fur costumes like lions and rabbits lol. But honestly we didn't live in town so we drove to each spaced out house of people we knew so we weren't out of the car that much .

[@tinaperez7393]

To be honest the homemade costumes were THE BEST! One of the pictures shows a little girl dressed as an old lady. We did that too! Only we dressed up as OUR grandma who lived with us - we wore her curly short gray wigs, big shoes, house dresses, and stuffed pillows down our dresses to plump ourselves up! 😂😂😂 And we dressed as the three musketeers - black eyeliner pencil mustaches, blankets as capes, made our own swords out of sticks and paper cups! Great costumes! ❤😂

[@wendylee1213]

I'm going on 51 and can absolutely verify, the accuracy of the facts presented in their song. We'd sometimes have to just throw out stuff. Like the houses that gave out 🍎. We weren't taking any chances of razor blades. It's grim, its horrific but yeah. Every year it was something. Had to inspect every part of every piece. One Halloween my mom made my a beautiful costume. She was a seamstress so she didn't leave out any details. I was a Pilgrim 🤣. Hat too. It really was a beautiful costume. I grew up in a mostly German/Dutch towns Wyckoff and Franklin Lakes, NJ. EVERY house I went to, were the sweetest grandparents. Like, off the boat and they'd say "OH LOOK! IT'S A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL!" So thrilled. After the 10th time of saying "Im a Pilgrim", plus I was getting the full size candy bars, I just just rolled with it "Yeah, I'm a Dutch girl" 🤣🤣🤣

[@crystalbowman5616]

Story time about my "Nightmare Fuel"- I had the same Gene Simmons costume that was featured. It had a sharp plastic mask. Near the tongue area was the breathing hole ( these masks had small lima bean-sized holes that would allow us to breathe). I was four years old, and I felt it necessary to stick my tongue through the breathing hole. This resulted in my tongue being cut by the sharp edges of the breathing hole. The cut led to bleeding. So, my four-year-old self went door to door asking for candy and popcorn balls with real blood slowly creeping down Gene's tongue.

[@victoria7t]

Don't you mean breathing slit? I did not have a kiss costume from the store, I and my mother made mine that year, but the costumes I did have bought that had the plastic face mask it was just a split. It wasn't even a decent hole.

[@sauce2000]

Those plastic masks cut up more kids than any razors did. 🤣🤣

[@kristyandcowreact]

🤣🤣🤣

[@marjoriecook7556]

I rarely got a store-bought costumes because they were “expensive”…a couple years we got them, but I did hate that plastic masks! And yes, EVERY piece of candy was checked to ensure there were no sus holes!

[@susanherbert3014]

Gen X Halloweens are yet another reason we are so resilient! 🤘🏻🤘🏻 I also wanted a store bought plastic costume too! Ours were always homemade. Oh and for those of us who live in areas where it can get cold - ugh all the layers of clothes UNDER our costumes which made you look like the Michelin Tire Man wearing a pirate costume! We would get apples and tiny boxes of raisins too. And there was a house that would give taped nickles then you could buy your own candy. The best part of the night was dumping out all of your candy and sorting it out and trading with friends - after it was thoroughly inspected for those darn razors!

[@tngirlz4622]

In Canada, we worried about sewing needles in the candy. Parents would inspect wrappers for tiny holes. Apples we just threw away unless we knew the family. We were given little orange cardboard boxes at school to collect change for UNICEF. A pack of kids, entirely unsupervised, walking down dark streets (no sidewalks, it was a new subdivision) with our plastic masks misaligned so we could sort of see out of one eye and the nose hole. In the ‘70’s we weren’t even given flashlights. 😂

[@juniper617]

Yeah, I don’t remember any flashlights. There were street lights, so you could see fine-like, every 50 yards, you could see. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@cltinturkey]

You paint a vivid word picture. I'm sitting here laughing at a bunch of little kids bumbling around in the dark. One year my mom made me a die costume--as in one of a pair of dice. I walked around in a box with my arms sticking straight out to the sides, but at least I could see where I was going.

[@penny971]

I remember UNICEF boxes too!

[@blenk9607]

@@cltinturkey I made my daughter a die one year. She might have been 4 or 5. I had to carry her candy bag cuz her arms stuck straight out the sides lol

[@cltinturkey]

@@blenk9607 I can just picture her . . . and feel her frustration, if her nose itched while trick or treating!

[@user-lh4ug8ex2z]

Thank you so much for including my pic! I’m the smaller ape with the flammable wig. I didn’t tell my cousin I submitted it. She saw it and flipped out. Who would have guessed our Poppy would be a viral sensation! 🤣🤣

[@deborahgreenwood9558]

I found a group picture of me and my siblings. I thought my brother was a clown. But my mom corrected me…he was the devil 😂

[@theholdernessfamily]

the makeup was confusing back then

[@bridgetbanerjea7588]

True story. I definitely had costumes with that plastic. Yes, Mom made us dump all out candy out on the floor to check it for razors before we could eat any of if it 🤦‍♀️🎃

[@Narutocoolcat]

“No im not stopping” 💀😂. The face when she realized she said “kids these days” 🤣

[@vctrsigma]

Not trying to imply anything else, but Kim talking was definitely a highlight.

[@theholdernessfamily]

he has all this music writing talent... but I can talk!

[@WarrenVanWyck15]

I had a dream last night that I spotted you guys at a Taco Bell and you started singing about their menu items. Maybe not a terrible idea.

[@jerrieanderson2245]

Absolutely lost it when she said “kids these days”!

[@trinaq]

I love your songs, 80's Halloween was from a whole different universe entirely!

[@theholdernessfamily]

doesn't even seem real

[@ryanmacdougall4651]

The razor blades were largely an urban myth, but the plastic masks were the jam.

[@theholdernessfamily]

you're right. I think there were some cases reported but then it was madness.

[@Mama_Bear524]

@@theholdernessfamilyit turned out to be a hoax. But it messed us all up for ever! 😂

[@The_Legend47]

I think the razor blades were (allegedly) "stuffed" in like apples and similar fruits

[@cassie1264]

It was almost always parents tampering with their children's candy either for attention or a lawsuit. Also, there was that one guy who poisoned his kids' pixie sticks so he could collect life insurance money.

[@kimnicks8590]

Not an urban myth, the news reported on it, they were slid in apples, and would just leave a microscopic line in the Apple .

[@tinaperez7393]

Come to think of it, the added fear and need to check through all your candy sort of weirdly added to the fun of Halloween. I mean it was scary but we weren't TOO scared (i guess we always thought that if we checked through everything we'd be okay!). And yeah we knew we could always just chew slowly! 😂 Our dad also came with us when we were little and knew most of the houses but at one point when older we went out on our own.

[@t.j.7574]

My parents made us look over the candy ourselves for razors or needles 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣 Any open candy we were supposed to throw away but 99% we still ate it. We survived 🤪

[@Fox-Mann-Fam]

Ha ha ha! Yes. This was my childhood Halloween. We were required to dump our candy out and carefully inspect it, discarding any with wrappers that were not clearly fully intact.

[@ashleymckinney2002]

This was my childhood! My parents both worked long hours, so I got the plastic costumes with the plastic masks. The cheap plastic would rip apart so that by the end of Halloween night, I was a cabbage patch doll covered in duct tape. Woohoo!

[@peggyharris7849]

Nailed it, Kim. Love, Mom (aka Peggy)

[@theholdernessfamily]

You made some great costumes!

[@BurstingVeins1]

Seeing those old costumes brings me back, my family had a bunch of them, I'm surprised there were no Chewbaccas. The razor thing came from 1 or 2 incidents where there was a razor in an apple and one in a snickers bar or something, then the news media blew it up across the country just like the needles incident a decade ago.

[@EricaGamet]

And like the Tylenol scare that killed Halloween that year.

[@steampunkstereohead6960]

When we would run out of candy to give out, my dad would take the opportunity to clean out the pantry.. yep 😂 you'd get a can of soup, box of hamburger helper, packet of kool-aid.. my "Dad!!!" was THAT guy..

[@junevertucci3420]

Well that was a fun, little "Mom Rant" courtesy of Kim at the end there. I'm a Boomer and we can totally relate to those costumes, razor blade in candy scares, etc. Happy Halloween, yall!

[@maryroberts589]

I grew up in a very rural neighborhood in NH in the 70s. My parents & I knocked ourselves out sewing & creating awesome costumes that always got hidden under a winter coat & boots. We went to fewer than 10 houses where i received an assortment of odd candy, toothbrushes, pencils, apples homemade treats & (my favorite) a silver dollar. There was no concern about the dangers we heard of on the news because we knew all the neighbors so well. Good times!

[@ressikman]

The razor excuse was brilliant! My parents used it to go through candy and remove candy that was either poisonous or had razors. Now I've realized that they were just taking the good candy for themselves.

[@lisasharf1442]

Same in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The bags got dumped on the kitchen table and everything that was homemade got thrown out. We never had our candy x-rayed, but there were always PSAs that the local hospitals were opening their radiology departments to x-ray candy.

[@machtmer]

Proud Xennial. I definitely remember the razor thing! Oh and trick or treat at the local mall, with all the costumes, and all the stores had candy. My favorite costume memory was the one my parents made by hand of the Headless Horseman; had a cape that wrapped around me, with a freestanding cowl, and one of those plastic handheld pumpkin decorations that lit up. 😀

[@marabookstagram]

The store bought costumes were brutal! I had a Yogi Bear one. I still remember how uncomfortable it was.

[@theholdernessfamily]

And HOT

[@TheOriginalZetsumei]

Thank you for making this seasons Halloween spirit so much more powerful by reminding me of the horrors we lived through. Love.

[@marshman997]

100% correct. Love this video.

[@rebeccacurtiss7737]

Don't forget that one house that would give you a penny or nickel. 😂

[@Beckers40]

Yes-always got a nickel

[@dandeliondreamer3365]

To this day my mom is not completely sure Halloween candy is safe to take from strangers 😂

[@Galloway278]

I literally used to check my kids’ candy when they were little because of the fear the 80s-apple-razor-people did to MY mom when I trick or treated. 🤣

[@jonathanlochamy6679]

I straight up ate homemade popcorn balls without even checking. How am I even still ALIVE!

[@theholdernessfamily]

omg! I remember those!

[@gempalm2003]

its the rads man lol

[@gempalm2003]

i didnt care for them lol

[@vickifeick3877]

Love this!🎃. I’m a gen x that went trick or treating in the late seventies. Scary!! Once my mom made me a tail out of old socks and newspapers. I was a kid with a tail that year! Lol

[@betsysanders4524]

We were never allowed to keep the homemade candy. Half way through our rounds we’d go home & dump the bags to make room for more & usually go to the bathroom 😂. I didn’t know it but my mom would go through the candy & pull out the stuff we didn’t like & hand it out to get rid of it. 😂😂😂 She made the best popcorn balls & only gave them out to family friends.

[@rksnj6797]

Halloween was really crazy in the 60's and 70's!!!

[@bethannslusser4254]

OMG! I remember it well! I call my Halloween costumes the Halloween death suit! I remember waiting in anticipation for the Halloween costumes to arrive in the window of Woolworth’s! They came in a box! We thought that it was great!

[@johnnymcpherson8493]

3:33 I like how he jus got outa frame 😂😂

[@jamiebianco]

Literally the most accurate video ever 😂😂😂! My sister was the plastic strawberry shortcake one year, I was a clown….the raisins! I am laughing out loud for real. 😂😂🤣

[@beththecatlover]

OMG Kim, the little box of raisins.....🤣😆🤣😆 YEs I remember! SO FUNNY!

[@penny971]

My mom (now in her 70’s) really had a razor scare in her small town when she was a kid. Our candy was always closely inspected. This also gave my dad the chance to pull out the snickers. Lol

[@alyciaosante5492]

OMG I remember the “razors” in the candy lol

[@justnerdystuff]

And don't forget all those teenagers who were absolute jerks and ran around either grabbing kids' bags or slyly cutting the bottom of the pillowcase you were carrying (because, the bigger the bag, the more you got, and who can afford to buy a Halloween bag back then). The fear of them was real.

[@tinaperez7393]

YES! I was just thinking about the razors the other day. RAZORS IN HALLOWEEN CANDY WAS A REAL THING. AND WE ALL HAD TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS!!! THEY COVERED IT IN THE NEWS, NEWSPAPERS, AND AT SCHOOL. People used to actually give out home made treats or not hermetically wrapped items, like homemade or bought caramel apples, things you could technically unwrap and re wrap if you really wanted to - but the point was anything not store manufacturer sealed wrapped items could be potential things with razor blades in them. Some people are saying the razor blades are an urban myth. But they're not because there were actual multiple incidents that really happened in the 70's and maybe 80's? that made the news, caused a panic and changed Halloween safety rules forever after that.

[@Rose-kj7rz]

I'm adding this to my Halloween songs playlist. Ah, the memories and nostalgia...

[@angelatocco6839]

We had a lady who gave out cans of pop. Try carrying that in your pillowcase for a few hours. 😂

[@juniper617]

Oh wow, I’d forgotten about the candy razors! And the raisin lady. Yikes. 😂

[@Shakeitoffgirl513]

Kim excitedly coming in at the end always makes me smile love these veidos ❤

[@carynsire3578]

Totally remember the razor in the candies scare. And all the rest! Thank you SO MUCH for confirming with your videos that we GenX people exist and that our experience is not just in our head lol OMG I remember the little boxes of raisins! ark!! I still hate raisins to this day!

[@sharongerlach8792]

OMG I did not know you were looking for photos or I ALSO would have sent you a sad improvised clown costume I wore in the 70's because it's all I could come up with at the last minute! And I can also vouch for EVERYTHING Kim added at the end (though the trip to the X-ray machine seems a little extreme)!

[@bmanske1]

You remember the razors but not the pins and needles? Those made holes that were much smaller and harder to detect. That's what got things really sturred up around here.

[@KM-lu7nh]

I most definitely remember the razors. My parents seemed to only suspect the fruit and homemade treats (and boxes of raisins), not the pre-packaged candy. Yes, and kids have so many choices now!

[@logandoodle]

AHH! All of my photos made it in the video...amazing! Great job!

[@IamwhoIam333]

I survived the 50's Halloween. My first costume I remember was being a hobo. My mom used Elmer's glue and coffee grounds for my whiskers and I had a cigar. 😂🤣😂🤣 big green stinky cigar

[@lindseychan5493]

80's/90's kid here! Yeah....my Mom, took my siblings & I to the fire department to have our candy X-rayed. It was kinda of cool. The ppl there gave us candy & let us play around in a fire truck. 😄 When I got older, (like 9), my Mom just told me to look at my younger siblings candy for anything 'suspicious'. I took the job very seriously & tossed out any candy or treats that were homemade or had a 'weird' wrapper.

[@chadcook3709]

Good thing is, all the things you say were bad didn’t hurt us a bit. Made us immune to softness 😂

[@Jring-goofy]

I have told so many people about the costumes my sister and I had when we were younger! Then when a picture popped up on the screen during this I lost my mind!!!😂 It is the one with the big inflatable head mosquitoes. I was the green one and my sister was the yellow. We looked just like the two kids in the photo! No one ever believed me about how big the heads were, so now I have proof! You are helping us in ways you never knew you would.😂😂😂 Thank you. BTW this was hilarious and so true!!!

[@AudreyStar17]

So....i was born in '81, and my family didn't celebrate Halloween when i was young, really...HOWEVER! I distinctly remember having candy checked from friends, etc, from the Fall parties and stuff, for razor blades!... AND those plastic masks that would cut your face!!! Like, WHY?! 😆😆😆🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Great song, and photos, and right on rant at the end, Kim! 💖💖😆

[@piiinkDeluxe]

I'm a 90s kid from Germany, we didn't celebrate Halloween back then (nowadays we do too). So I know nothing about 80s Halloween in the US, but this is still so hilarious 😂😂😂

[@Nola_Travel]

Oh yeah. Razors in candy. Definitely a thing my parents searched for.

[@lisasharf1442]

Pins and needles, too

[@gogirl709]

Besides the razor blades any candy that was slightly unwrapped got thrown in the trash. BUT we were allowed to eat homemade popcorn balls and candy apples. That house rocked

[@alindasue]

Does it make me weird to say that I always liked the little boxes of raisins? But then, I like Necco wafers too. 👍

[@Christinamariamuller]

80's were the best. I absolutely love clowns and home made costumes. And all those hand made popcorn balls!

[@andrewtracy6965]

This is one of my favorite videos you have made

[@raea3588]

This was so much fun to watch! Usually we made costumes or just put something fun together literally an hour before trick or treating but I was a clown one year with one of those masks 😄I thought I was so cute 🤡Yes, there were two types of parents. Those who made you get your candy x-rayed or those who searched your bucket at home and didn't let you eat anything homemade. But you know, the razor doesn't sound so bad after all of Penn's facts on those costumes and facepaint😶One year the neighbors gave me cough syrup while I was out because I had the sniffles! That was the scary we faced 😱 We were one tough generation 👍And now I feel old too 🤗Trick or Treat Everyone! 🎃

[@marciadarby3]

We were living in Frankfurt Germany (third grade) when the razors and needles became a “thing” in candy. My siblings and I were not allowed to trick or treat-we could pass out candy, though. The next Halloween I participated in was in junior high when my brother and I helped put together and run a haunted trail. Still my favorite holiday 🎃👻🤡

[@Z-LightfulMemories]

I busted out laughing at CLOWNS! I still remember the year (early/mid 70s) that my mom took a pair of her pajamas and made my brother and I MATCHING clown suits. Yeah. Yeah. Ah, the memories. And yes, Kim, our parents checked our candy for razors/etc. before they let us eat it.

[@PlatinumMyst]

We only went to houses in our neighborhood of people we knew. Small town, so there were plenty. Every year, we got a full glass bottle of Coke from the guy that ran the bottling company. And yes to plastic masks and homemade costumes.

[@shadowfax9177]

Being poor, we never bought costumes. However, my mom did have a hand me down book on homemade costumes. My favorite was the hobo. It suggested burning the end of a cork and rubbing it on your face to imitate a beard. Loved it.

[@Augustbeauty69]

Yup. Any and all candy had to be examined more closely until mom and dad were satisfied.

[@brooke_reiverrose2949]

We had a little old lady who would make us popcorn balls. They were like rice krispy treats but popcorn and they were the BEST. Loved that lady.

[@thealextrifier]

Yeesh no need to keep CLOWNING around

[@christinapotter227]

Yup, definitely had that blue & pink plastic bunny getup. And stepgrandpa & great grandpa both smoked pipes 😂

[@ehlucky13]

This is spot on 😂

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

Another Gen Xer here (who's bday is actually on Halloween, just turned 50 this year, yikes!). My mom also made me a clown costume (glad I wasn't the only one living that experience). I still have the mask from my ET costume, safely tucked away in an old shoe box. Ahhhhh nastalgia. Thanks for all your videos. They crack me up cause I can totally relate.

[@emilyk2278]

We were witches with bin liner dresses 😆

[@MidnaAzusa]

I had some of this in the 90s (Millennial here). My mom wasn't super worried about the razors in candy thing, but she did check my candy when I got home. I also remember there was this one house that set up a haunted house type of display on their sidewalk and you had to walk through to get a homemade treat like popcorn balls or candy apples. It was easily everyone's favorite house. Strangely, it was one of the few homemade treat houses that my mom didn't worry about.

[@Karenforcompassion]

Lmao 🤣 these take me back and also are alot more terrifying then I remember 😂

[@Greens5511]

Living on a farm all my life I never once went trick or treating, we got enough candy at school....our kids growing up on our farm only went trick or treating to grandparents and aunts and uncles who also all lived on farms, took forever to drive them around, and in MN it was always freezing, had to figure that out with jackets and hats. THEN , a surprise blizzard on Halloween 1991 made u question what the H*LL am I doing driving my kids around getting caught in a BLIZZARD to get candy??? Memories 😂

[@ibthewink1]

One of the big scares was the razors in apples. Many people gave out apples for Halloween because the were less expensive than the candy. We weren't allowed to eat the apples unless we cut them into slices to make sure nobody put blades in them.

[@DawnDianaDIYandStuff]

My mom made all my costumes for Halloween, and I never wore those masks. One year I was Raggedy Ann, and my mom dye my hair red instead of getting a red wig. And I went trick or treating with my dad, so there wasn’t any danger of getting hit by cars or encountering razor blades in the candy as far as I knew.

[@kellygerber9394]

Spot on!! Well done!

[@BigE-qx1jb]

This is great 😂

[@seanmahoney2671]

The razors getting xray'd was definitely a thing. At least for a couple of years there. Funny looking back and knowing that it was an urban myth and how much money was spent on fighting it (like, look at the cost of one x-ray right now).

[@musicalsportsgirl3075]

Penn: "You just said kids these days" Kim: 😧 Me: 🤣

[@sleinadb]

My best homemade costume was a christmas present. Different boxes wrapped in paper on each limb and body...red and green leggings and curling ribbons in my hair. Hilarious. Creative. But also very difficult to march in the band in the halloween parade. 😂

[@lostwizard]

"Smurfs" ....beat.... "Nightmare fuel!" :)

[@maggiepanning356]

I have pictures of me and my friends in more than one of the costumes in this video. I love it!

[@jeffreyhurley3243]

I had karate kid and a transformer mask. Karate kid I feel was more uncomfortable with the "contours" they added in. Razor candy was just chalked up as a "mom tax"... Because she ate all. ALL of the good chocolate. "No one's hiding razors in Smarties, hunny. You can have those!" 😂

[@staceyames1748]

0:47 not me in the pic, but I had that blond princess costume costume.😂

[@wendyg.2664]

Gen-Xer here--I absolutely remember the razor blade scare in those days. And I certainly recall sweating up a storm in my Raggedy Ann & Skeletor costumes while trick-or-treating! 😅

[@csviolin0516]

SKELETOR!😂❤