Then & now
There's a lot of pressure now to give out good stuff at Halloween. Name brand candy is essential, and our bite-sized candy bars probably didn't impress any of the couple dozen trick-or-treaters that knocked on the front door.
It reminded me, though, of the Wasco tradition when I was a kid.
A day or two before Halloween, we'd get together to assemble treats. You'd open a paper napkin, toss in a few pieces of candy corn, a little box of raisins, whatever it was that dad bought that year, and maybe a few pennies, then gather up the napkin and twist it closed at the top to make a little sack of goodies.
Try that nowadays and suspicious parents would probably toss it in the trash.
What was your Halloween tradition? Share your memories below.
