13 Truths About Celebrating Halloween in The '90s That Now Seem Utterly Ridiculous

If you were in elementary school, you used orange frosting and a pumpkin-shaped Bundt pan to create your delicious masterpiece. The rules stated that the entire cake had to be edible. If you were in high school, your mom probably made your dessert for you, and you rolled your eyes at her as she handed you the Tupperware that morning.

This intel didn't really surface until the morning because the '90s were a time of landlines, but come daylight, you heard about who got their house egged, and whose mom was pissed. Parents had this unspoken understanding surrounding egging: egging things like the cypress tree in the front lawn was fine, but once their car was egged, all bets were off.

Getting your house TPed was almost worse than getting it egged because it took forever to pull each piece of single-ply off the trees.

It wasn't exactly legal to have a shaving cream fight (probably because it always ended up in your eyes), but that never stopped you from stocking up on Barbasol the night of. The cashiers always gave you the side-eye because they knew what you were up to. And if you had a carton of eggs in your shopping cart, they might have even refused to sell you your contraband.
If you succeeded in the purchase and took the fight seriously, you used a cigarette lighter to burn the spout into a point so that you could spray from a good distance and not have to stand up close to someone. Seriously, where were our parents?

You'd still always end up with one box of crappy candy. Or even worse, raisins.

Destroying someone's home with toilet paper and burning your eyes with shaving cream was all fun and games until Scream came out, and you spotted your first mask on Halloween night. You haven't been back out again since.