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Gen X Halloween: Costumes, Candy and Pure Chaos

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Halloween looked a little different when Gen X was growing up.

In this episode of Sugar, Spice & Spirits, Natalie, Mindy, and Kelly are swapping Halloween stories that somehow get crazier the longer the conversation goes.

Kelly remembers a teenage trip to Stratton Ridge Cemetery that ended with a cemetery caretaker standing in front of their car with a shotgun. Mindy tells the story of neighborhood kids getting scared so badly they practically launched themselves into a minivan. Then the conversation moves into creepy clowns, haunted houses, classic horror movies, and the scary movies that Gen X still remembers.

Natalie brings back memories of those plastic Halloween masks we could barely see or breathe through, along with homemade costumes including a bubblegum machine, a mime, deer in headlights, and the Holy Ghost.

The ladies also talk about how Halloween changes when you grow up. Think neighborhood cocktails, pumpkin wine dispensers, boxed wine, adult treats, creative costumes, and Halloween parties.

Of course, no Gen X Halloween conversation is complete without candy.

Which houses gave the good stuff? Who handed out full-size candy bars? Did your parents inspect your candy? And did they take their share afterward?

Natalie has a name for it: the tax.

The episode ends with a new Halloween challenge. Natalie, Mindy, and Kelly are competing to see who can bring in the most new Sugar, Spice & Spirits subscribers on Halloween.

Who do you think wins?

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Halloween memories hit differently when you grew up Gen X

• Homemade costumes may have been better than anything bought in a store

• Haunted houses, clowns and horror movies still divide the room

• Halloween can be just as fun for adults as it is for kids

• Every neighborhood had a "good candy" house

• The Sugar, Spice & Spirits Halloween subscriber challenge is officially on

CTA

Tell us your favorite Halloween memory, your best costume, and the one candy you immediately traded away.

Then subscribe to Sugar, Spice & Spirits and tell us who you think will win the Halloween subscriber challenge: Natalie, Mindy, or Kelly.

FIRST COMMENT

We need to settle three things:

Candy corn: yes or no?

Haunted house: going in or staying outside?

And who wins our Halloween subscriber challenge: Natalie, Mindy, or Kelly?

Drop your answers below.

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Natalie Pilkinton

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Mindy Price

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Kelly Williams

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