All Hallows Eve or Halloween is really the vigil eve to the feast of All Saints, a Roman Catholic holy day on November 1.
Here is an interesting article:
http://taylormarshall.com/2013/10/top-10-christian-halloween-ideas.html
We didn't get any trick-or-treaters the first couple of years, but now we put up a 'haunted maze' every year.
We'll be entertaining, providing fun childhood memories, and passing out candy to hundreds of local kids.
I'm still debating over whether to add a "Closed due to Obamacare" sign.
Passing out candy and a can of sliced beets. Years ago as a joke I offered candy or, as an option, a can of beets. To my amazement, one kid chose the beets. I have offered the beets every year since and there is always one kid who takes them. The kid apparently likes beets.
I’m going to hang a sign around my neck.
“NUDIST...ON STRIKE!”
mrs p6, who has won top prize at her work at least two years in a row, is going as TV Horror host Svengoolie. Last year she and two other went as rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub. Two years ago it she was a home aquarian deep sea diver with helmet, circling clown fish and a treasure chest that when opened blew bubbles.
She was going to go as a head on a bbq grill but she decided to give co workers a chance. The prizes are great including at least a hundred dollars, appliances and gift certificates.
Her company does halloween week with a different theme each day. Monday wwas decorate yourr area day, Tuesday was go as a celebrity day - she went as Julia Childs, today was cowboy day do she spent last night andd this morning going through all my clothes and stuff.
We live in the country at the end of a somewhat long driveway....we’ve never had a single trick or treater since we moved here in 1997. :(
My husband contrasts it to his childhood in a subdivision just down the road from here. They got so many trick-or-treaters that his stepdad ran out of candy and had to resort to Beanie-Weenies and the little lunchbox sized Doritos. After THAT, he started throwing money into the kids’ bags, then said, “To hell with it”, turned off the lights and went to bed, LOL.
If SyFy is running a bad movie, we might check it out.
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Mrs. Tweezers and I will probably hand out candy this year. Maybe I’ll wear my Nomex and full-face helmet; I don’t quite look like the Stig but none of these kids will be the wiser...
I’m going as a B*tch-in-a-Binder or Elvira. Can’t decide. Heh!
We’ll be doling out KitKats to about 100 kids, but when the big guys come by with no costumes, and just a pillow case for their loot, the lights go out and we lock up.
Getting tired of this game. Car loads come from other towns and altho the little kids are cute, most just want their stuff.
Am praying for rain. BahHumbug.
Thursday Night Football and finish the latest Walking Dead novel. I live near one of the most popular trick or treating spots in town (you actually have to go past it to get to my place) so there will be zero children showing up, and with the impossibility of navigating past half of Tucson’s children going places is a bad idea. Although for me the holiday starts tonight with the local art house showing Halloween on the big screen.
We haven’t had treat or treaters in several years.
Turning off porch lights, not answering doorbell if it rings... doing my best to help discourage this now dangerous tradition.
We own two homes. At the country location, the only young ones are either cattle or coyotes. The city home a few miles from Boston is more well populated so we will be handing out empty calories from Hershey and M&M Mars to the neighborhood kids.
Oh, but if there’s a game seven my (Yankee fan) wife will be doing most of it.
Went to Chicago last week for a party with the gf, party sucked, but the gf made up for it by wearing a great looking catwoman outfit. Tomorrow I’m going to watch some scary movies or sports depending on what’s on and pass out candy to trick or treaters.
Next year I plan on attending FreakNight 2014 in Seattle just to see what it is like. I’m bringing earplugs for sure!
http://freaknightfestival.com/
I think I may go as a combination Mr. Destructoid head and LED Stickman.
http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-destructoid-helmet-v2.html
LED Stickman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBDRUO8hAo
Gets wild here, with all the “cousins coming over from Juarez” will go out to eat before 5:30, then to a movie and come back when the coast is clear. A long time ago it was fun when we had kids at home but now its just crazy. I feel sorry for my dog she will be barking like crazy when we are gone.