Halloween....You Know It is Fall

Wow, time is rushing by and it is almost Halloween.

As a child, I loved Halloween.  Didn't you?  We didn't buy a costume.  Rather we went to someone's closet in our house, pulled out someone else's clothes and figured out what we could BE...like a farmer, or a ghost or a beauty queen.  It seemed to work and frankly, we didn't know any better.

Then on Halloween we would rush around our neighborhood, collecting candy (of course, our favorite), cookies, apples, rice crispie treats and whatever someone's mom had made to give out at the door.  People decorated their porches with pumpkins and sometimes scary critters.  No blow up characters, no lights, no store bought items.  I am not criticizing what people do today.  In fact, Halloween costumes and decorations are really BIG TIME now and people do have a lot of fun putting ideas together.

When we first bought Sweet Tooth, Halloween candy was more popular purchased at our store.  Now days, Halloween candy of the sort we carry is candy grandparents buy to give to their grandchildren....with the warning from parents not to give the kids "too much sugar".  Sometimes people find a decor item or candy to give to a friend, or bring to the office.  Our candy orders these days for Halloween are a lot smaller than at that earlier time.

When we were at The Farm Shopping Center, some merchants participated in a Treat or Treat evening.  Kids from all over Tulsa would come to The Farm and have a great time running around from store to store, gathering candy.  Our store was somewhat special...we always had the most interesting and unusual candy and we also loved to dress up in costumes just like the kids.

This year, at our new location, we will still be dressing up and at the end of the day, if we have any left over wrapped candy, it will go home with us for the Trick or Treaters who might show up at our front door.  I have to say that those kids are wide-eyed and delighted with the candy we put in their pillow cases, their plastic pumpkins or their decorated bags. 

And we continue to smile and laugh the entire evening, even when the teenagers show up for their treats.

Halloween.....you know it is Fall when it is time to Trick or Treat.