Don't forget a bag full of bags.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Yes the spagetti stains in the container 😂

The puke bucket brought back so many memories! 😂

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. 😀

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.

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

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

The unfinished basement! 😂

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am from Wisconsin and I approve this message!

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

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.

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.

BLIZZARD OF 91 GANG

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

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

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.

From Minnesota and 100% did EVERYTHING you talk about

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

@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.

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 😂😂

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

The butter containers 😂 specifically country crock

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dude, your weight loss is awesome. Great job!

The halloween one hits hard

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

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

I love the popcorn-vomit bucket

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

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!😂

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!

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

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 😉

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 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. 😁

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

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 😭

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.

I went to South Dakota in June of 2014 and saw Mt Rushmore and I’m from Kansas it’s scary you got that right.

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

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

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.

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 😂

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?

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.

Rhode Island here. That Snickers situation sounds scrumptious.

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.

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

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.

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 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!

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 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 ...

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.

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!

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

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

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.

This is completely accurate 😅 -Our do it all bowls were the big ice cream tubs -Asside from the regular pilgrimage to Florida, our big family trip was to the Grand Canyon. 25 hours from central Indiana to Arizona in the back of a Chevy Silverado with my two siblings made a man out of me. -Our basement had a model train set and the fun activity to do was to look in the bottom of the chimney shoot to see if there was a dead bird in there.

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

My 1996 Reggie White Halloween costume went to waste in a snowstorm 😢 1:01

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

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.

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!

Yes! grew up in Louisville, Ky (pronounced looeyville for those not from round there) and K-bars were a coveted dessert.

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.

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. 😂

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

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

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

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

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