What was Halloween like for you as a kid?

Pretty simple question. Here are some starter questions.
Did you go trick or treating, or did you celebrate it some other way? Did you even celebrate it? I know that a lot of places don’t celebrate the holiday.
If you went trick or treating, what did you usually go as? Or was it a different costume every time? What kind of treats did you enjoy best?
Tell any story, happy stories, horror stories…Halloween anecdotes that happened to you as a kid. Things that you fondly remember, or perhaps not so much. What about as a teen? What was it like/is it like? Tell us your childhood Halloween stories.