Hobos and Halloween

I was remembering Halloween from my own youth. When we were little children we had those costumes from the five and ten cent store. The one piece suit with the plastic mask. We were thrilled with them. When we got " too old " for them we made our own. Hobo's were particularly popular as I recall. Borrow your older brothers shoes, stuff newspaper in them to keep them on your feet, put on some old ragged clothes, blacken your face with burned cork, a bandana and you are set ! They were good times. Tried being a mummy one year but that didn't really work out. You might say I came unwound. I can recall years when it was cold and rainy. We went anyway. Those of us that lived in the country went into town. All those houses lined up like that were something. Hardly had to walk far at all. It was a bit different out in the country. Those houses were spread out so Dad gave us a ride.
Yes, things were different back then. You might get homemade cookies, candy apples or in a few instances money ! I remember an older lady having a large bowl of pennies and you could just reach in there and get a handful. Amazing, she must have been rich ! Mom and Dad checked your candy, checked to see if there was any they wanted, and we got to eat it all. The majority of it wasn't wrapped and sealed up. We didn't have a set time either. We would go when it started to get dark and finish when we were tired or the house lights were turned off.
Because of the visit of Sandy, Halloween has been rescheduled to Friday night. I don't recall if it was ever rescheduled when I was a kid but I don't think so. The kids don't mind so much. Parents are happy because it isn't a school night. I've been expecting that to become a regular thing. We reschedule all sorts of holidays to be more convenient, why not halloween ?
Some things don't change though. The kids are just as excited about their costumes as we were. Kids will eat too much candy.