No matter what age you are, Halloween is the one night of the year that you get to be whoever or whatever you want to be. However, with age comes change and the traditions celebrated in our younger years are replaced with new ones. Here is a list of ten things we all miss about Halloween as a kid for you to reminisce on the good old days!
1. Candy tolerance
When your “time of month” was a positive thing because it meant October 31st, the day you had been training for all year long. The day you could finally show off your ability to eat bottomless amounts of candy, and not worry about getting bloated while doing it!
2. Warm Costumes
No matter what your costume was your parents had you ready in layers upon layers weather-permitting. Superheros cannot freeze.
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3. Getting sugar high
When the easiest way to get a good buzz going was a pack of skittles. Coffee has made college students immune to the effects of sugar.Â
4. Binge-watching Halloween movies
Getting to watch Halloween-themed movies over and over again without having to worry about not getting your school work done. The only worry was deciding which movie to watch next: Hocus Pocus or Halloweentown.
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5. Trick-or-treating
Knocking on dorm room doors yelling trick-or-treat will not get you anything but a door slammed in your face.Â
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6. Home-made Halloween costumes
There’s a difference between home-made and make-shift. Nowadays in our teens and twenties a “make-shift” Halloween costume usually entails things you scrounge up in your room in order to make basic costumes like a baseball player, or  a the typical “Risky Business.” As a kid, home-made meant sequins, sewing kits, fabric, and your mother slaving away to turn you into the most believable superhero/princess/animal she could.
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7. Wearing your Costume to School
Nothing compares to the pride you felt walking down the halls in your costume, even if you were amongst five other witches.
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8. Family costumes
I’m not saying you can’t dress up with your family anymore, but I’m definitely not saying you should.
9. Costume Contests
It didn’t matter how cool you were considered. If you placed in your school’s costume contest not only did you win a sense of pride you won bragging rights.
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10. Monster Mash
I love house music as much as the next guy but when it comes down to it, no song gets the party going quite like the Monster Mash used to. And yes, you should stop reading this right now and go listen to it for old time’s sake. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcM3nCsglA )