Kent might have had its Halloween blowout last Thursday, but the real Halloween holiday is not until this coming Friday. Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. I love Halloween so much I named my cat Binx after the movie “Hocus Pocus.”  

It’s still crisp and fall-like outside, there is candy, costumes, scary movies and all the pumpkin things in the world — what’s not to like about this? And yes, I left out haunted houses because those are not fun. I don’t care how much I love Halloween, I won’t do them.

Saturday was not only Kent’s Halloween, it was also my apartment complex’s trick or treat — which was the most adorable thing I have ever witnessed. After all of the kids finished running around, I realized Halloween is so much better as a kid. 

Candy is so much sweeter when it’s free

Sure you can go out to the nearest Walmart, grab a whole bag of fun sized goodness and hoard it in your house for yourself. As a kid though all you had to do was dress up and run around for a few hours with your friends and you got three times the amount. Halloween candy, for reasons I cannot explain, always tasted better at 10 p.m. after trick or treating. 

The costumes were cooler 

I feel like at 23 whenever I want to wear a funny costume, it doesn’t come of as sweet as it did when I was five. It’s like you have two options: run around freezing with your boobs out or look like a hot mess of fabric and not nearly as cute as you were going for. When you were a kid your mom stuck you in a princess dress that cost $20 bucks and you were on your merry adorable way. 

Disney Halloween movies were the bomb

Don’t get me wrong, I am all about the scary Halloween movies — especially the old 80s versions. When I was little though, Disney Halloween movies were equal part scary — for an 8 year old — and equal part hilarious. Halloween Town was my Halloween jam — after Hocus Pocus of course. 

Happy real Halloween, Kent. Make it a great one! 

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