Hallowe'en

[CACAdmin]

Hallowe'en is this coming Monday. That's when all the little ghosts and goblins will be out trick-or-treating. However, the older kids (and adults, too, who get into the spirit) will be partying this weekend.

Do any of you have or attend Hallowe'en parties? Or do you celebrate by decorating your house/yard for Hallowe'en? (I've seen some really spooky scenes created in some yards.) Or do you let your creative side out in smaller ways, like carving pumpkins?

I used to carve pumpkins but now that I'm in an apartment building where there are no kids, I just enjoy watching what others do in the neighborhood.

[Starfish]

I also usually enjoy carving pumpkins, however, the last few years when the 4 kids are all asking for help it got a little overwhelming. Did a couple for the school last year. There seemed to be a lot of other stuff going on this year that we did not do any.

I don't decorate the yard or house. We live out of town and set back from the road. You can't really see our house from the road so there is not a lot of point to decorate. Spent the nice sunny day today winterizing the trailer.

Tonight hubby and I are off to a retirement party. There was no mention of it being a halloween theme though. Tomorrow night is the BMX banquet. So a busy weekend, just not in a Halloween theme.

On Halloween night the kids will do a little trick-or-treating and then head to the church for a party. :Bat: Then home to bed and ready for school the next day.

Happy Halloween everyone.:PumpedPumpkin:

[CACAdmin]

Sounds like a fun weekend.

[Pamelajo]

We always decorated until the last couple of years. We only got about 5 kids the last year down from 75 when we first moved here. All the kids hit the subdivisions. The big kids either break or steal the pumpkins off the front porch unfortunately.

[GaryofMontreal]

We hang a few dollar store skeletons (we keep them in the closet all year) on our tree out front and carve a pumpkin. This is (gulp) the first year my kids won't be going out.
Locally, we used to get around 200 kids, but it has fallen back to 50 at most.
I teach in a high school, so Monday will be a costumed zoo. It's a fun day, but a long one. Out of 1500 kids, maybe 1200 will be in costume.
I have to plan a costume this afternoon. It has to be really badly done - that's expected of me...

[Namor]

:SpiderSmiley: Methinks this year I'l be de-spidering the basement. :SpiderSmiley:

:Vampire: Wishing you all a happy and safe Halloween. :Vampire:

[fishclubgirl]

I dress up for work in Halloween pj bottoms and pumpkin socks. You can't just wear those anytime of the year though I did see a homeless person wearing the same pants in San Francisco in late November.

[Blossom112]

No ...

They have a halloween dance at school tomorrow and julie has her treat bags packed and ready for 40 of her friends .
they dont let kids in the building , and pumpkins were sold out so we couldnt get one (yehhh/)

This will be Julies first year having Daddy take her out , he has missed every year due to EOM , they changed the days he has to do it this year .... thanks god because my arthritic pain is off the wall , I am staying home :Smile:

have a safe and happy halloween everyone !

[Pamelajo]

I have to plan a costume this afternoon. It has to be really badly done - that's expected of me...


You could go as the grumpy old guy!!!:wink:

[Ursus sapien]

You could go as the grumpy old guy!!!:wink:
and the dress-up part?

:-)

[CACAdmin]

:SpiderSmiley: Methinks this year I'l be de-spidering the basement. :SpiderSmiley:


:Vampire: Wishing you all a happy and safe Halloween. :Vampire:


Awww, the :SpiderSmiley:just came to visit... 'tis the (Hallowe'en) season, didn't you know. :wink:

[Namor]

:laugh: I just wish their version of bobbing for apples didn't involve me getting bit. :wink:

:Think: ... perhaps if they were exposed to radiation...

[mollybawn]

I like in a very... er... student consumed part of town I guess you could say. I bought all kinds of treats last year and only had 2 kids knock on my door. Ended up eating all the candy myself. So I won't be doing any treat giving this year. I didn't even have time to carve a pumpkin. First Hallowe'en in years that I didn't make that a ritual.

We usually go to a couple of partys, and to Mardi-Gras on George Street. Very sad to have missed that. For those of you who havn't been to NL before. George street has the most bars per aquare foot of any street in North America. On Halloween weekend, you pay $25 to get on the street and you get free cover at all the bars, and you can drink anywhere on the street. They have bands playing on a huge band stand and a costume competition sponsored by the local radio station.

But this year work has been so crazy. I worked very late both nights this weekend and I had to work very early on Sunday morning so I made a short appearance at a party and volunteered to be the DD for my boyfriend and his friends.

ho-hum. :(

[Ursus sapien]

I miss having a house - me and one of the 'little brothers' would get dressed up crazy, put on some live snakes and hand out buckets of gooodies. A total gas.

[CACAdmin]

For those of you who havn't been to NL before. George street has the most bars per aquare foot of any street in North America. On Halloween weekend, you pay $25 to get on the street and you get free cover at all the bars, and you can drink anywhere on the street. They have bands playing on a huge band stand and a costume competition sponsored by the local radio station.
That is so cool.:cool: I had no idea we had our own version Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans right here in Newfoundland.::D:

[CACAdmin]

:VampSmiley:
Google has decided to link a short Giant Pumpkin Carving video to it's logo. To view just click on the Google logo.

Neat!

[GaryofMontreal]

Waiting for the kids to show up at the door now, but the day at the high school was fun. The costumes weren't too sleazy for once, and some of them were very very funny.
And next, as the sun fades, the toddlers all dressed up by their parents, with no clue why they are being given candy! I love that part of the evening.

[CACAdmin]

Gary, are your kids going to be helping to hand out candy at the door this year, now that they're not going out themselves?

Also, what costume did you end up coming up with for school?

[mikebike]

When we used to live in a high population area and get lots of kids, I would ask them to preform a trick when they said 'trick or treat'.

No kids come to our senior mobile home park other than my son bringing the grand and foster kids over to see me.

I was taking down a pond today, 27 large goldfish/comets 3" > 6"
and 50 or 60 brown comets juveniles 3/4 " to 3".

The property is sold and going to be bulldozed so I gathered a dozen apples from the tree for the kids.

[CACAdmin]

For a change this year, the weather was perfect here for the :Vampire: :broomstick: :ghost: :Bat: who were out Trick-or-Treating. Cool, clear skies and a bit windy.

Sure hope any of you who had little ones out there running from house to house had the same.

Fireworks still can be heard but I'm guessing will end soon (school tomorrow). Time for them to head to bed before the :VampSmiley: starts to roam.

[GaryofMontreal]

At the end of it all, we had about 50 kids - not bad considering that access to our area is cut up by construction. It was local this year, with lots of really little ones. Lots of happy kids excited to be out in costumes - fun stuff.
My daughters helped a bit, but since it was sometimes ten minutes between doorbell rings, they lost interest and went off to do homework. I like to give out candies, although when I tried to give a rock to one of my Grade ten kids, she got mad at me ;-(

I went to school with my regular working clothes on, only I layered a Grade ten gangsta outfit over it - hoodie, ball cap, dangling chains and my pants barely up. Instead of showing my boxers like the kids try to, it showed my regular work pants, which got me named "Tupants" by the rapper crowd. I wandered around getting laughed at all day - a good Hallowe'en.

I found a new workout regime - wear your pants "on the ground" and walk around trying to keep them up. The outsides of your legs get murdered, and stairs are a duck waddling battle. I may set up a gym for Dads - toning through walking with your swag on.

[KristaLynn]

I tend to just dress up my dog for hallowe'en. :laugh: Last year she was a hula girl and this year she was a fairy. But I only had 3 kids this year...way down from last year, I'm going to have to bring the candy to work for the shop guys because I am not eating all I bought!

[CACAdmin]

I went to school with my regular working clothes on, only I layered a Grade ten gangsta outfit over it - hoodie, ball cap, dangling chains and my pants barely up. Instead of showing my boxers like the kids try to, it showed my regular work pants, which got me named "Tupants" by the rapper crowd. I wandered around getting laughed at all day - a good Hallowe'en.

:laugh: You never know, you may have started a whole new trend for the rapper crowd. :wink:

I tend to just dress up my dog for hallowe'en. :laugh: Last year she was a hula girl and this year she was a fairy. But I only had 3 kids this year...way down from last year, I'm going to have to bring the candy to work for the shop guys because I am not eating all I bought!

What does your dog think of being dressed up. Does she try to take her costume off?

As for the candy, good plan. If it were me and it was sitting around the house, I'd end up eating it all in a couple of days. :rolleyes:

[KristaLynn]

She didn't like the wings this year because she kept bumping into things but other than that she doesn't care. She knows she looks good. :cool:

[Blossom112]

Julie was hanna montana in the day for school and a pumpkin at night .
Costume packed away and candy is hidden after one day , I hate her eating candy and guess a trip to the dentist would not hurt :-(

I think this will be the last year we let her go out , personally I dont like it !
Maybe she can dress up and hand candy out instead , then take her to the movies .
I think 11 years old is a good cut off point .

yeh ok im bahhh humbug lol

[CACAdmin]

She didn't like the wings this year because she kept bumping into things but other than that she doesn't care. She knows she looks good. :cool:
She probably couldn't figure out why she didn't fit between certain spaces she normally does. I can just imagine her checking everytime her wings bumped something.:laugh:

[GaryofMontreal]

Around here, the kids keep going out til height makes it impossible. I had a couple of short 15 year olds I half recognized, but I'd rather they have the candy than me. They don't usually show til all the little kids have their goodies, so a few scavengers are fine.
Most kids stop around 13-14, regretfully. As a high school teacher, you spend Hallowe'en listening to kids bemoaning their advanced ages :eek: and worrying about lost opportunities. I remember being really mad that I had to stop at 11 because I was so tall - all my friends got two more years.
The door to door trick or treat tradition is fading here - only 25% of houses locally gave candy, and the streets were pretty deserted. We bought half the candy of past years and were dead on in terms of quantity.

[mollybawn]

My last year was 14 but we didn't go until after all the young kids were gone and we just went to a couple of houses then spent the rest of the night "hanging out" and drinking beer illegally in someone's basement. Yeah I hung out with a bad crowd.