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What do you do for Halloween?
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:07 am
by sy
It's another poll!!!!
Actually, I'm just curious. My family and I have certain traditions we do every year for different holidays. Around Halloween (or autumn harvest, or Samhain, or All Hallows Eve, etc), we go to Hersheypark, go on a hayride, and usually have a party or dinner. We also hand out candy on Halloween. I have friends who literally hide in the house and turn off all the lights so they don't have to hand out candy. Some go to clubs, and some dread it because they have to walk their kids all over the neighborhoods.
What do you do for Halloween, if anything?
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:11 am
by RinglingRingling
I don't know. Halloween is pretty quiet here. Now, if you ask what I do for Beggar's Night, the "sanctioned holiday substitute"....
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:13 am
by ToplessRideFL
Now that the keets are gone we turn out the lights and pretty much ignore Halloween... although we are heading to some friends house this year for their cul de sac party..... Of course recently I saw enough candy to last me awhile..... prepping for the Baghdad project....

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:13 am
by buffettbride
Halloween is BB's favorite holiday!!
This is what I usually do:
Pre-Halloween: Buy costumes, decorate, etc. etc. etc.
Halloween
1. Go to Victoria's school and be room-mom for the day, helping with all the halloween activities (although I can't this year

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2. Make a big batch of chili and have my parents, my sister, and her kids over for dinner.
3. Take all kids out trick-or-treating and hand out candy.
4. Eat cake (which will have 31 candles this year) and ice cream and open birthday presents!!!!
5. Clean up the kids and pray for the sugar-induced coma to come soon so I can get their bouncing bodies into bed.
6. If it's a weekend, hubby and I will go out to a bar or party or something. If it's a weeknight, we stay in.

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:15 am
by sy
RinglingRingling wrote:I don't know. Halloween is pretty quiet here. Now, if you ask what I do for Beggar's Night, the "sanctioned holiday substitute"....

ahhh yes. I know that night as well
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:15 am
by RinglingRingling
ToplessRideFL wrote:Now that the keets are gone we turn out the lights and pretty much ignore Halloween... although we are heading to some friends house this year for their cul de sac party.....
Of course recently I saw enough candy to last me awhile..... prepping for the Baghdad project....

I've not said this in almost a year.

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:16 am
by ToplessRideFL
RinglingRingling wrote:ToplessRideFL wrote:Now that the keets are gone we turn out the lights and pretty much ignore Halloween... although we are heading to some friends house this year for their cul de sac party.....
Of course recently I saw enough candy to last me awhile..... prepping for the Baghdad project....

I've not said this in almost a year.

I didnt say..... I have seen enough OF candy.......

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:16 am
by dawgfan
Halloween is my favorite time,I believe I enjoy it more than Christmas.We do all the standard things during the month of October(pumkin patch,corn maze,hay rides),but halloween night I have a haunted trail set up through my backyard for all the trick or treaters to visit.I love it when I hear the kids say "Lets come back to this house"

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:17 am
by RinglingRingling
ToplessRideFL wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:ToplessRideFL wrote:Now that the keets are gone we turn out the lights and pretty much ignore Halloween... although we are heading to some friends house this year for their cul de sac party.....
Of course recently I saw enough candy to last me awhile..... prepping for the Baghdad project....

I've not said this in almost a year.

I didnt say..... I have seen enough OF candy.......

well.. you'll get to see more candy than I will in the next two weeks.

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:17 am
by buffettbride
Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
I can't believe I forgot the trip to the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins!!!!!!!
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:18 am
by rednekkPH
You're old!

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:18 am
by RinglingRingling
buffettbride wrote:Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
I can't believe I forgot the trip to the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins!!!!!!!
they don't let me do that anymore...
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:18 am
by buffettbride
RinglingRingling wrote:buffettbride wrote:Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
I can't believe I forgot the trip to the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins!!!!!!!
they don't let me do that anymore...
'Cause you look like the punkin?
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:19 am
by sy
RinglingRingling wrote:buffettbride wrote:Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
I can't believe I forgot the trip to the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins!!!!!!!
they don't let me do that anymore...

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:20 am
by RinglingRingling
buffettbride wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:buffettbride wrote:Ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
I can't believe I forgot the trip to the pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins!!!!!!!
they don't let me do that anymore...
'Cause you look like the punkin?
let's just say that gloves don't fit quite like they were designed anymore..
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:21 am
by z-man
RinglingRingling wrote:
well.. you'll get to see more candy than I will in the next two weeks.

We keep trying to convince you to come to terms with your "inner palm tree" and spend more time on the Warm & Sunny side of the Mason-Dixon line!
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:21 am
by RinglingRingling
z-man wrote:RinglingRingling wrote:
well.. you'll get to see more candy than I will in the next two weeks.

We keep trying to convince you to come to terms with your "inner palm tree" and spend more time on the Warm & Sunny side of the Mason-Dixon line!
My inner palm tree is in a constant battle with my inner conifer.

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:30 am
by 12vmanRick
Costume party.. party party party.. what more needs to be said

Posted: October 14, 2005 11:35 am
by LaTda
wife takes kid out & about
I hand out 50 bucks worth of candy in 2 hours (in costume) while playing the soundtrack to
Apocalyps Now really loud
I'm a generous candy giver outer & buy alot of the real stuff, not all that sweet tart crappolla most kids get
Posted: October 14, 2005 11:42 am
by LaTda
dawgfan wrote:Halloween is my favorite time,I believe I enjoy it more than Christmas.We do all the standard things during the month of October(pumkin patch,corn maze,hay rides),but halloween night I have a haunted trail set up through my backyard for all the trick or treaters to visit.I love it when I hear the kids say "Lets come back to this house"

awe that's cool!