Proper Midwest parents design the Halloween costumes to fit over the snowsuit

@amystreasuresdesign

Ай бұрын

Those of us that are over 50 didn't have that. We had the plastic suits you'd put on over your clothes, with the plastic mask with eye holes and the smallest hole imaginable to breath through.

"It teaches us to lower our expectations” 10000% truth

@SarahRenz59

2 ай бұрын

I felt that one in my soul.

@eringrey9297

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha

Don't forget a bag full of bags.

@kyos8462

Ай бұрын

😢 I have to bags full of bags in our kitchen closet. Paper an plastic

@musclemannnnn

29 күн бұрын

Yes!

@CamlynCotton-lo2zd

26 күн бұрын

Is that like not a regular thing? I mean I live I. Sd

@mirrorblue100

26 күн бұрын

@@CamlynCotton-lo2zd Excellent! Our midwest culture is spreading!!

@CamlynCotton-lo2zd

26 күн бұрын

Sorry I meant to say I live in South Dakota I thought that was just a regular thing lol

Roller skating in the basement was definitely one of my favorite memories of my 80s midwest childhood!❤️

@lorimullikin4649

2 ай бұрын

In the ‘70s I was an Olympic roller skating champ in my sort-of-finished basement.

@bekkifromwisconsin

Ай бұрын

Yes!

I STILL have an old yellow blue bonnet margarine bowl that's over 30 years old that we use as a cereal bowl 😂

Growing up, the cool whip containers were in the garage on the tool bench holding random nuts, bolts, screws, and reused nails

@raea3588

2 ай бұрын

I was going to comment that we keep fish bait in them but maybe that's going too far 🤷‍♂ 😄

@mirrorblue100

Ай бұрын

Cool Whip containers were too valuable to us for that - for random hardware we used Folgers Coffee cans.

@raea3588

Ай бұрын

@@mirrorblue100 That's a core memory for sure! Even in our Lumber Co. miscellaneous hardware was sitting in rusty Folgers Cans ☺

@madusonkeeper

13 күн бұрын

Not to mention, marbles, crayons, chalk anything really.

1000% agree, a Midwest childhood is the best childhood!!!

@RetiredFreeBird

2 ай бұрын

the best. Malta, Illinois

@pooploops

Ай бұрын

And then we all move to actual good places to live like cali or florida 🤣

My mom always made my costume so my winter jacket could fit underneath it. The 91 blizzard was the only time I wore my coat over my costume. My dad and I went home 4 times for more clothes. I started the night in a hoodie and jeans and ended it in boots, snowpants, winter jacket, 2 sweat shirts, stocking cap, and mittens. Still my most favorite haloween ever. Plus, school was canceled the next day, which made it super amazing.

The puke bucket brought back so many memories! 😂

@sigynlaufeyson3631

2 ай бұрын

Same. I now have one for my kids. But….i don’t use it for food. I just can’t anymore.

@TikTokDad5000

2 ай бұрын

It was always a pot. Next day pasta was in it. Good lord.

@jenniferhansen3622

2 ай бұрын

My mom never reused them for food but she did use washed ice cream buckets, the ones with the handle. She would wash them and save them for any time somebody got sick.

@kristinn3367

Ай бұрын

Your parents must have been nice. I got a pillow and blanket on the bathroom floor.

@duphmongus

Ай бұрын

@@jenniferhansen3622yep same here. Kemp’s ice cream bucket

My husband was excited to see a Sweet Martha's cookie container in the fridge, only to be massively let down when he discovered left-over broccoli in it. 😀

@danstrikker6465

2 ай бұрын

It do be like that

@katiedolan14

2 ай бұрын

The biggest disappointment!

@icarusbinns3156

2 ай бұрын

That infamous, blue tin that claims it holds Danish butter cookies. We all know it’s a sewing kit!

@aprilzcorner

2 ай бұрын

That’s a dirty trick 🤭

@tamiturbes3328

Ай бұрын

@icarubinns, you are cracking me up! 🤣🤣🤣 I have had one of those sewing tins for decades 😁

We always threw up into the left over ice cream buckets lol, and showering in the unfinished basement!

Yes the spagetti stains in the container 😂

I grew up in the Midwest and we never went to Mt. Rushmore or the Wisconsin Dells. However, we did go many times to Cedar Point as well as sea world in Ohio.

@Whammytap

Ай бұрын

Lucky. My family only ever took road trips to visit distant relatives whom I'd never see again, who even Mom and Dad seemed stiffly formal with. 😂

@joekoz3815

Ай бұрын

Cedar Point was the highlight of every summer.

@luckyduckwoodcraft5567

18 күн бұрын

Did all three...can't forget Macinac Island, Wall Drug, or any of several Mystery Spots.

We don't call them "hot dishes" here in my part of Iowa. We call them "casseroles."

@saramarie516

2 ай бұрын

I am from southwest Wisconsin, and I agree! Hot dishes are made on top of the stove. Casseroles, like the tater tot casserole, are baked in the oven.

@chelsye4929

2 ай бұрын

Same in Michigan!

@Jack-Vack17

2 ай бұрын

Same from Northeastern Wisconsin, but I have heard both

@fredtrunce5931

2 ай бұрын

Yeah well Iowa is full of dumb people (my cousins, mostly) who don’t know what they’re talking about. 😆 -Minnesota gang

@jacobarnold2178

2 ай бұрын

Same in Texas

Midwest childhood BEFORE cell phones, social media, internet even is what it's all about. 80s and 90s FTW!

@pooploops

Ай бұрын

ok boomer lol

We had an unfinished basement and would roller skate all day long - steel skates with leather straps, concrete floors, steel support poles, ping pong table, workbench, thick 2x4 wooden shelves, etc., it is a wonder any of us survived. Then my parents got it 3/4 finished (1/4 was unfinished backroom with W&D, cast iron sink, work bench, water softener, half finished toilet and shower), carpet without padding, fake wood paneling, 2x4 fiberglass ceiling tiles, can lights, and pool table. Hide and seek became the new pastime. Spent hours upon hours with my brother and sister - love them dearly.

@annhysell6064

2 ай бұрын

Same here. Loved it. Had to shower down in the basement after a long day splitting wood. Also did my difficult gymnastics beam routine on the railing of the back porch I helped build when I was 7.

I was born in south Alabama. If you think the butter container has butter in it, you’re wrong virtually every single time.

@chrisp308

2 ай бұрын

Same in South Carolina 🤣

@jerryjanik480

2 ай бұрын

Western New York is where the Midwest starts Buffalo New York Rochester the surrounding areas this is where the Midwest starts

@CyndieAmala

2 ай бұрын

My mom always brings me food or sends me home with leftovers in butter containers lol

@merpius

2 ай бұрын

The butter cookie tin is a lie. Universal law. Why is it in the pantry, despite being filled with sewing notions? No one knows.

@jpecorel1

2 ай бұрын

Butter containers are for cranberry sauce after Thanksgiving. Everyone knows that.

Last month I was given Snickers salad in a Cool Whip container to take home from a get-together. Gotta love Wisconsin grandmas. The "salad" table at potlucks is always half-filled with sweet things chopped up and mixed with Cool Whip.

I am from Wisconsin and I approve this message!

@annhysell6064

2 ай бұрын

If I could give this 1,000 👍 I would (although frugal family from Ohio)

Ping-pong in my friend's basement in Illinois. Filled with spiders. No containers ever tossed out.

The only recipe you need is "this will probably taste good together".

@CrazyMomma007

2 ай бұрын

& cheese for anything 🔥

I’m old and I’ve lived in Detroit nearly my whole life, and yes, the love of containers is 100% real. It hurts my soul to put a container in the recycle bin.

The unfinished basement! 😂

Took me three tries to find the butter at Mom's house the other day. Not bad considering I had 7 choices of butter tubs to choose from.

@loveofeagles003

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

As someone born and raised in Wisconsin - this is 100% correct.

We always had rice Krispies My mom's big thing is using zip loc bags for like 5-10 years and washing them over and over. I told her we would bury her with her collection someday.

@annhysell6064

2 ай бұрын

Of course, I still do that, we were lucky to have ziploc bags..and if you threw one away..oh noo!

@aprilzcorner

2 ай бұрын

My mom does that, and I just started. 😂they’re so bad for the environment and it’s so wasteful not to

@melanieruddy399

2 ай бұрын

I've been reusing them my whole life but have you noticed they started making the zippers to break?? I still have a Ziploc from my childhood that's still totally fine but I can't get the new ones to last very long

@madtownangler

2 ай бұрын

@@melanieruddy399 I use the plastic containers and wash them then I never have any leaks. My mom also saved butter tubs. I don't eat butter except at their house.

@RetiredFreeBird

2 ай бұрын

that's awesome😂

My brother and I ate cereal out of those emptied butter and Cool Whip containers. Those "bowls" were only thrown out after they'd eventually crack and fail to retain milk.

@loveofeagles003

2 ай бұрын

Lol same

Oh my gosh my boyfriend grew up in California and I told him about how jealous I was of kids who lived in California or Florida because here in Michigan it was either you wear your costume over your coat or yes wore it under your coat 😂😂

@CyndieAmala

2 ай бұрын

I'm from Michigan too 🤜🤛 I always wore princess, ballerina, butterfly type costumes so I hated that it ruined my whole look lol

@Fullsendfilosophy

2 ай бұрын

Most families can’t even afford Halloween in places like California. You just roll around in some dirt and say your dressed up as a homeless person like everyone else did.

My grandfather owned Arrow Plastics for decades, the maker of the "puke bowl" you have... LMAO. Let me know if you need a care package with extras! I have the hook up.

@cspat1

2 ай бұрын

Your Grandfather the proud producer of medical equipment ❤

What else are you supposed to do with empty food containers, put them in the recycling? Blasphemy 😂

@Aileil

2 ай бұрын

This can't be limited to the midwest. Surely everyone does this?

@Chris-ut6eq

Ай бұрын

everything ended up in the burn barrel eventually....

BLIZZARD OF 91 GANG

@bethaniefrederickson3305

2 ай бұрын

Yup😊 That was the last year I went trick er treating! Trekked through the snow down the block and then back home 😊

@mattz1230

2 ай бұрын

YO.

From Minnesota and 100% did EVERYTHING you talk about

@leapinglizzard7125

19 күн бұрын

YESSSS!!! 🤣

The ping-pong table is so true haha spot on as usual Miles😅

The halloween one hits hard

@TheH454

2 ай бұрын

I'm a veteran of the Halloween Blizzard of '91. Still got half a pillow case filled.

@mariowinsky5680

Ай бұрын

I started going as a zombie hunter my winter coat was orange I stipend have a halloween picture of me in it with snow pants on

My Canadian childhood sure had a lot in common with your Midwestern one. 👍

Floor hockey, Nerf wars and PS1 in our Michigan basement......take me back

Michigan here, Miles described the good ol days to the T

My goodness, that ending "I turned out fine" is peak MN parent/grandparent

3:35 this was my parents basement. It was unfinished and had a toilet in the middle of it. Right above it was the hole in the upstairs linen closet where they would drop dirty clothes. So if you were sitting on the toilet and they opened the door they could see you 😂 In one section we had an old area rug with an old living room set with an old 70’s console tv. On the right side was a 8 track under the lid and the left had a record player. If we weren’t playing a video game we were watching mtv videos. I spent most of the 80’s down there with my friends.

@youbetcha…. I hope you and your families are all ok after the outbreak yesterday. God be with the people of Iowa and Nebraska!!!! 🌪️💔 was one of the most incredible things Ive ever seen.

So I thought the midwest side dish was green jello mold with shaved carrots on a bed of lettuce. Ever church function had at least 5 growing up.

@cynthiajohnston424

2 ай бұрын

Yep ! As a boomer in Illinois , grew up w/ the " Joys of Jello " recipe book & a year's worth of seasonal jello molds . As recently as a few years ago at my mom's Lutheran after-funeral lunch served by the L. ladies , there were jello dishes - my mom would have approved !! 😇😅

@deekang6244

Ай бұрын

At least five different jello recipes. We had a big family.

Those nights where you and the friends go in the basement and clear out a spot to do whatever shenanigans we had planned.. memories

You'd think that growing up here and experiencing all those halloweens would have taught me to buy my kids a size larger costume, but to no avail.

I love the popcorn-vomit bucket

@justmewhoelse85

2 ай бұрын

My family it was an empty gallon ice cream bucket.

@puremaledark8305

2 ай бұрын

Hey you mix your baked goods in there too. Dont under sell the bucket

@lunaoak6741

2 ай бұрын

@@puremaledark8305 so true. We also stored watermelon in there too

The butter containers 😂 specifically country crock

As a 42 year old male from Winnipeg MB, this hit home hard!

@Anikat

2 ай бұрын

Yup, it was the same in SK!

Any child hood in the 50's, 60's and 70's was great in the USA!

After I met my wife, I learned to line your puke bowl with a plastic bag or two. That way, it's not "quite" as gross when you're eating pasta salad out of it next week. Blew my mind

@jonathan53356

2 ай бұрын

We just used an old ice cream pail when we were sick. My dad thought the bowl was gross.

I remember taking my nieces and nephews out trick or treating during a very heavy snow. Others stayed home, and they made a killing. They understood why i grabbed extra bags 😉

northern indiana here, that halloween one hit on such a personal level lol

Holy cow. 0:26. I still remember my family’s growing up. We used it for popcorn, leftover spaghetti, brownie batter, and puke.

I'm a born & raised Minnesotan and this video is very true.

Man. That Halloween weather still makes me sad to think about.

I can still feel the wind, snow, cold sleet that came down every Halloween. It goes right through ya and the memory is forever.

Don’t remember snicker salad but everything else is spot on

Family vacations - 10-hour drive to the Northwoods, and watching the Min-Aqua-Bats!

I was talking to my friends from California and I was mentioning my aunt’s puppy chow recipe and they had no clue what I was talking about…they only knew it as muddy buddies

I'm from the Detroit area but my dad is a Yooper so our vacations were either long drives up there to visit my grandparents, or camping. 😁

It was usually the gallon ice cream buckets my dad still insists on saving to this day that was the upchuck bucket. Although there were definitely a few times the popcorn bowl got used 😂 why lol why are we like this 😭

Dude had a midwesterner give me scotcheroos and now i make them every year for my birthday. Im just now realizing im a grown ass man i can make scotcheroos whenever the hell i want them.... im going to the store for beer and scotcheroo ingredients!

Dude, your weight loss is awesome. Great job!

Real midwest kids either wore the coat under the costume or ditched the coat at some point. Worked up a sweat running from house to house.

That's pretty much spot on. Our MN unfinished basement was awesome. We played soccer indoors during the winter for decades and I remember my road trip to the Dells fondly.

The mixing bowl for vomit too… ALSO the trick or treat candy bowl!

Basement at my house had a poker table, a full kitchen(with cabinets) because my house was constantly under “construction,” a water bed(used for folding clothes on,) the washer and dryer, and a make shift roller rink obstacle course(for rainy days and the long Midwest winters.) Naturally mold and mildew smell, and the classic urinal that is the ejector pit. Can’t wait to teach my boys that last one.

On Halloween, I used to just chuck my jacket in a bush and come back for it later after trick or treat. I'd usually end up freezing to death and with bronchitis after, but at least everyone got to see my costume!

whenever the bowl wasn't used for puke or measuring it was 24/7 used as a fruit bowl. I remember the fruit laying strewn across the counter because we finally bothered to make a cake or one of my siblings bothered with the cake threw it up. lol

Lmao! I had a sour cream container at work that I had to throw away because I wasn't able to wash it out and I felt like it was sacrilege!

You forget dad changing a flat tire in the Badlands on a 63 Plymouth wagon that's black with no air conditioning.

Being from Montana we would have our Halloween costumes 2 to 3 times the size just because we could where the winter gear under the costumes

Rhode Island here. That Snickers situation sounds scrumptious.

You forgot two road trip spots that pretty much every Midwestern goes to Mall of America and Valley fair

@atreyu852011

2 ай бұрын

@Chubbs- it's pretty much the Disney Land of Minnesota it's located on the outskirts of Minneapolis in Shakopee if we where really lucky growing up one day we would go to Mall of America and the next we would go to Valley Fair

@fredtrunce5931

2 ай бұрын

Do people from out of state come to Valley Fair?

@atreyu852011

2 ай бұрын

@fredtrunce5931 as a kid my family would go it was like a once a summer thing and we lived about 4 hours away in North Dakota. And Mall of America was a twice a year thing.

@yuirioshu4159

2 ай бұрын

I've never been to any of these places, I feel robbed.

@Twosplinters

2 ай бұрын

Mall of America didn't exist when I was a kid and we never went to valley Fair. Dad did take me to the world series when the twins won and the parade afterwards

You gotta get an extra big Halloween costume to go OVER the coat and snow pants

You could not have described my childhood any better. Scotcharoos are gluten-free and dairy-free! I became that aunt who now brings them to every family holiday 😂

Born and raised in northwest Ohio steeped in Michigan/Indiana/Wisconsin/Midwest. These videos hit so hard it hurts. Now I live in northeast Ohio and it's freaky how only a few hundred miles away and still in the same state I'm in a completely different world! They actually think I'm the odd one. Oofda!

@chrisschmidt355

2 ай бұрын

And reusing food containers and bowls that had a sketchy past? Absolutely. We even had to open our birthday and Christmas presents very carefully because of course the wrapping paper could be used again!!!

As an Iowan, we have officially done the Mt. Rushmore and Wisconsin Dells vacations. Will be going to the Dells this summer, hopefully....after we already went on Spring Break. It's a great place, what can I say?

You forgot the Michigan basement with the dirt floor and Ball jars with spiders in them. One if my students told me his buddy hung grow lights and rototilled part of Michigan basement to grow dope in. Third Midwest vacation destination, Niagara Falls. Michigan here, and we all got dragged to Canada to see the falls. Mmm, hot dish ...

Those kids that got to go to Wisconsin Dells sure were lucky. The only place we went to for vacation was Duluth. Not that there’s anything wrong with Duluth. I love going there, but it sure would have been nice to go somewhere else at least once.

@labkratos

2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Duluth. No vacationing where you live...

2:26 The license plate game and the horse game were also prevalent.

@ShermanMark1

9 күн бұрын

Indeed

The second I saw the red bowl, I was like, PUKE BOWL!!!

@loveofeagles003

2 ай бұрын

Lol yupper I remember mom running for it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My puke bowl, whenever my mom thought I was going to puke, she brought it up. When we had popcorn she gave me same bowl. I don't know where that bowl went but I miss it.

Red bowl with the handle... puke bucket, popcorn bowl, mixing bowl...and my mom still has it.

Just had the puke bowl conversation with my 14 year old a few days ago. I told her that if she had enough warning to ask for it; she had enough warning to make it to the bathroom. No one likes to clean that thing out. It needs to be reserved for middle of the night emergencies and little kids who puke without warning. She did not like my logic because she said climbing down from a loft bed is hard when you are nauseated….what??? I guess I’m stuck with the bowl a bit longer. Darn I love that kid.

You forgot to mention the garden hose hanging from the ceiling over the floor drain to take showers.

Grew up in Wisconsin and still here. My dad would save Dannon yogurt cups for regular drinking cups. 🙄

@jenniferrosenthal7731

2 ай бұрын

My grandma would use empty Kaukauna cheese spread containers as cups

@nikkihall7994

Ай бұрын

We had the old glass jelly jars with the pictures on them for drinking cups. I think ours had dinosaurs on them?

As long as bowl is cleaned and sanitized, and all family shares same germs.

1. It's a casserole 2. They're scotcheroos I'd fight to the death over the first one.

@megano.6808

2 ай бұрын

Ditto! I thought "hot dish" was from the South.

@lashedsuns4529

2 ай бұрын

1. 100% a casserole. I'll watch your back, homie. 2. Peanut Butter Krispies 'round these parts.

@icarusbinns3156

2 ай бұрын

I never had scotcheroos or whatever they’re called… growing up diabetic was kinda rough

@MisterKribbles

19 күн бұрын

I had no idea they were called scotcheroos or special k bars. My family called them hunting bars, since we brought them we we went hunting. I'm glad there's actually a name for them so I can explain them to my coworkers.

@ShermanMark1

9 күн бұрын

Yeah!

riding in the back seat of dad's ramcharger pulling a camper from the 1960's across nebraska to see mount rushmore. tail-whip all the way there, my 3 year old brother barfing his brains out in mom's dumped out purse, lunch at flintstones land, mom got a bunch huge boulders that we loaded in the front of the camper, and seeing carhenge on the way home.

Ohioan here..lotsa Italians...so much so that the butter and cottage cheese containers are known as " Italian Tupperware"😂

The barf bowl! Growing up with 6 siblings meant that sometimes multiple barf bowls could be used in a single night, cleaned, and used to make food with later. Ah the memories....

This really made my day better 😄So relatable and funny! Thank you 😃

I've never been to South Dakota or the Wisconsin Dells. Probably because I'm from Michigan. Michigan has so many great destinations that we never managed to get out of the state.

Grew up in the very most mid-west place of Kansas. We vacationed in Roaring River to fish every year despite there being five daughters. Right on target about Scotcheroos and reusing butter tubs. But the red vomit bucket is new-/you know how I know? We bought this same one at dollar tree last year. And yes wasn’t need to back to being a mixing bowl.

Dude....Michigan basements are the worst! There isn't even cement on the floor. It's dirt. It's a dirt floor and creepy block, literal field stone or uneven cement walls with all kinds of mold and creepy crawlies living in them. But were did we want to play? You guessed it! That basement from a horror movie!😂

It’s not a bowl, it’s a reused ice cream pail!! Reduce, reuse, and recycle, Amiright!

@ShermanMark1

9 күн бұрын

We used A Mixing bowl Ice Creem Pail was used for gathering the eggs

Cool whip and butter containers were our Tupperware in my tiny rural hometown in the Appalachian Mountain Region of the Southern Tier of the only good part of NY State. School was K-12…one building. 😂

OMG! I grew up in MN, so a jacket on Halloween, YES! Saving plastic tubs, I still do that. My dad was a biker, and we took a couple road trips with the family to Sturgis, because he never missed the rally. I have pictures at Mount Rushmore as a kid 😂😂😂.

We also use containers for left overs in Australia! It's always a lucky dip what you're gonna find in my Mum's fridge!!

Born and raised in Central Il...never went to Wisconsin.....hell ive never been to chicago 😂😂

I'm from Calif but both my parents are from the mid west (Illinois & Iowa) and I am the one who collects bowls. Also, love hot dishes/casseroles and road trips!