How Was Your Halloween?

[TimFitz]

We had about 30 kids.

Had to miss part of it because this was the last day of early voting, and I’m going to be out of town on Election Day.

 

[mudwhistle]

It was relatively warm here -- 65 at sunset -- so we had a pretty frightening neighborhood.

I was coming home from work when they began, but the turn out looked to be pretty good in My little village.

The kids don't come to My door since I have something of a reputation as an axe murderer. Something My son started about 15 years ago to explain My strictness when he was growing up, and the stigma never actually left.

LMAO.

My wife for years didn't participate so our house was just added to the bypass list that all the kids seem to have.

My wife wasn't into it that much. If I was deployed she would turn off the lights and refuse to answer the door.

Weird, because she's always been the life of the party. I don't know why she did that, other than the fact she never got to do it when she was a kid.
She was always working in the fields from Sun-up to Sundown.

When the Sun went down she just crawled into bed and went to sleep.

 

[ZestolPastilevsky]

The Devil and Halloween

“Neither give place to the devil.” (Ephesians 4:27) Halloween has long been claimed as the high, holy day of Satan worship. This is the day when witches and warlocks gather to praise their leader and extend his work on Earth. Festivities are marked by unprecedented evil and blasphemy, with...

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The article is literally wrong. Like I said, I don't know of anyone who worships Satan, or practices evil blood sacrifices on Halloween. Hell, expanding on that, I don't know anyone who knows anyone who does those things on Halloween, and I sure as hell don't see the kids doing them. We get it, you hate having fun.

 

[22lcidw]

That's exactly how I remember it.

Free candy and you get to dress up.

When I was a kid, it was none of that small fun size candy. It was the huge bars. I remember them at a nickel a bar at that time. When the price increased a lot of corner stores doubled the price to a dime.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

When I was a kid, it was none of that small fun size candy. It was the huge bars. I remember them at a nickel a bar at that time. When the price increased a lot of corner stores doubled the price to a dime.

Wow! I never got any full-size bars!

What I liked best was popcorn balls and little hand-bagged bunches of Brach's Mix and candy corn.


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[Foxfyre]

Yesterday I was going to take a break from painting and put up some Halloween decorations, but it started raining around 3pm. I was hoping it would pass us by, but it kept drizzling till around 11pm.

No parent is going to let kids go out in that kind of weather.

Course, when I was a kid I was running from house to house in a snowstorm, so rain was nothing to me.

Not one kid showed up....and I was ready this time, unlike last year.

I had my garbageman costume on and I was going to hand out store bought popcorn balls, ghoulish rice crispy treats, and several other goodies.

Last year only a couple dozen kids showed up and I was lucky that I bought $10 bag of candy.

This year I had everything.....and got JACK-SQUAT!!!

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Aw so sorry. Wish I could take those popcorn balls and rice crispy treats off your hands as I love both, but hope you like them too.

Cold but clear here but we get very little if any trick or treaters on our street any more. Most of the churches and the elementary school around here have trunk & treat events in their parking lots along with a Halloween Party for the kids mostly due to safety issues in recent years. So Hombre and I didn't prepare anything at all this year--neither of us needed the leftover candy. We left the outside lights off and watched a good movie.

I miss the past times when Halloween was really fun though.

 

[mudwhistle]

Aw so sorry. Wish I could take those popcorn balls and rice crispy treats off your hands as I love both, but hope you like them too.

Cold but clear here but we get very little if any trick or treaters on our street any more. Most of the churches and the elementary school around here have trunk & treat events in their parking lots along with a Halloween Party for the kids mostly due to safety issues in recent years. So Hombre and I didn't prepare anything at all this year--neither of us needed the leftover candy. We left the outside lights off and watched a good movie.

I miss the past times when Halloween was really fun though.

Usually I watch "Frankenstein" on Halloween night every year.

I don't like gory films or slasher films.

 

[Foxfyre]

Do pity the teachers who have to deal with the kids the day after Halloween though:

 

[Mr Natural]

Not a single trick or treater.

Now I'm stuck with this bag of little Hersheys chocolate bars. Just what I need .

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Do pity the teachers who have to deal with the kids the day after Halloween though:

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I'll share this with my friends who are teachers. Funny stuff!

 

[Foxfyre]

Not a single trick or treater.

Now I'm stuck with this bag of little Hersheys chocolate bars. Just what I need .

Foxfyre's wisdom from experience: NEVER buy Halloween candy that you like.

And I believe this is your first post in the Coffee Shop Mr Natural or I somehow failed to add you to the roster. Happy you found us, be sure to look over the OP to see what we're all about in here and then keep right on joining in.

First timers in the Coffee Shop receive a complimentary beverage and it's a cold day so. . .

 

[Foxfyre]

I'll share this with my friends who are teachers. Funny stuff!

Yes. I have a lot of educators/former educators among my friends and family and they really enjoyed it.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Foxfyre's wisdom from experience: NEVER buy Halloween candy that you like.

I don't eat crap that's full of poison, so I can buy the cheap stuff for the kids and know that I am at no risk.

I like to buy organic fruit gummies from Costco but I just didn't get a chance to get there this year.


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[Foxfyre]

I don't eat crap that's full of poison, so I can buy the cheap stuff for the kids and know that I am at no risk.

I like to buy organic fruit gummies from Costco but I just didn't get a chance to get there this year.


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That is probably a better choice. I guess I just figured with all the crap in those Halloween pumpkins, one more piece of crappy candy wouldn't matter. And a lot of the stuff I won't eat the kids do like. But I should be more ethical too. Maybe it's more ethical just to turn out the lights and watch a movie. LOL

 

[Unkotare]

Usually I watch "Frankenstein" on Halloween night every year.

I don't like gory films or slasher films.

Bride of Frankenstein was on when I took the little guy trick or treating.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That is probably a better choice. I guess I just figured with all the crap in those Halloween pumpkins, one more piece of crappy candy wouldn't matter. And a lot of the stuff I won't eat the kids do like. But I should be more ethical too. Maybe it's more ethical just to turn out the lights and watch a movie. LOL

I like seeing the kids. Here in my small Midwest town, Halloween is just like I remember it being when I was a kid, with TONS of trick-or-treaters! The big difference is that lots of the kids are escorted by their parents.


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[Foxfyre]

I like seeing the kids. Here in my small Midwest town, Halloween is just like I remember it being when I was a kid, with TONS of trick-or-treaters! The big difference is that lots of the kids are escorted by their parents.


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Yes here too. It's just not safe for the kids out there any more especially here in the city. My husband and I and both our kids were blessed to grow up in small town America long enough ago that we felt pretty darn safe in pretty much everything. I wouldn't take for that blessing. And Halloween was really fun.

 

[Unkotare]

I like seeing the kids. Here in my small Midwest town, Halloween is just like I remember it being when I was a kid, with TONS of trick-or-treaters! The big difference is that lots of the kids are escorted by their parents.


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Who's going to let a five year old go house to house alone?

 

[mudwhistle]

Foxfyre's wisdom from experience: NEVER buy Halloween candy that you like.

And I believe this is your first post in the Coffee Shop Mr Natural or I somehow failed to add you to the roster. Happy you found us, be sure to look over the OP to see what we're all about in here and then keep right on joining in.

First timers in the Coffee Shop receive a complimentary beverage and it's a cold day so. . .

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I sometimes have a Rum and Eggnog,

My favorite Christmas drink was Gin & Tonic.....because it reminds me of Christmas Trees..

I don't drink very much anymore. I have the same case of Michelob Ultra I bought last Spring.

I bought a bunch of booze when I retired from Civil Service......and most of it is still sitting in my liquor cabinet.


My favorite drink when I was in the military was Rum & Dr Pepper. but I haven't had one since Christmas last year.

I have a bottle of Single Malt 14 yr old Glenfeddich Scotch that's 16 yrs old now.

I just like the taste of water that comes out of my Samsung Refridge.

 

[mudwhistle]

Who's going to let a five year old go house to house alone?

My parents would, because I was always outside anyway, and I was a holy terror on wheels.

My parents were able to watch their stories while I was out for 3-4 hours running around the neighborhood. There were so many kids that you were never alone.

I had set TV times:

• Saturday morning cartoons
• Sunday night Walt Disney
• Whenever a holiday program came on
• Saturday night was Jackie Gleason night