(October 2, 2018 at 1:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I “disappear” about half a dozen adults and kids every Hallowe’en.

That way they really have something to fear when they go out trick or treating.  

I’m sure that, under all the trepidation and terror, they appreciate the effort I put in.

🤪

You're not running out of places to bury the bodies yet?  I'm impressed!

(October 2, 2018 at 4:35 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote:

(October 2, 2018 at 1:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I “disappear” about half a dozen adults and kids every Hallowe’en.

That way they really have something to fear when they go out trick or treating.  

I’m sure that, under all the trepidation and terror, they appreciate the effort I put in.

🤪

You're not running out of places to bury the bodies yet?  I'm impressed!

I work in a hospital. I just mark the parts as “medical waste” and no one asks question.

🤫

(October 2, 2018 at 4:52 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(October 2, 2018 at 4:35 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote: You're not running out of places to bury the bodies yet?  I'm impressed!

I work in a hospital.  I just mark the parts as “medical waste” and no one asks question.

🤫

Damn!  You ARE a fun date.


I do up Halloween, big time -- the whole haunted house schtick, and I give out boatloads of candy.   I find the trick-or-treaters go through 3-4 year cycles.  Handful of kids the first year pass the word that the haunted house on the corner gives out a  good haul -- next year twice as many kids show up; year later I get hoards of costumed kids seeking cavities.
After 3-4 years, a lot of them move on to middle school, where they don't trick-or-treat so much, but spend their Halloweens doing more productive things like spray-painting walls, throwing eggs at cars, and pouring sugar into gas tanks.

<sigh>  They grow up so fast.

Most of the kids have come and gone by 10 PM, and that's when the adults show up for the single malt tasting party.
They are always advised against eating too much candy while drinking Scotch, but someone always has to find out for themselves . . .

(October 1, 2018 at 11:09 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote: I read the BEST Halloween *prank* EVER.

A couple of college students got a door, complete with frame.  Installed a knocker on it.  Put a hand written sign on it that said "Please knock, bell is broken."   Dressed up as elderly people.  One even had a walker.

Go up to door on Halloween and ring door bell.   Person answers the door with bowl of candy in hand expecting trick or treaters.  Is faced, instead, with above described door.  Uses knocker as instructed.  College boy dressed as old man opens fake door with his own bowl of candy in hand filled with single-wrapped butterscotch hard candies and starts in with ooohs and ahhs and calls the person soooo cute.  Calls for Ethel to come look at this one.  Ethel appears at door using walker.  Does her own ooohs and ahhs, admires the homeowner's costume, prompts them with "now what do you say?"  (Makes homeowner say "Trick or treat") and pinches their "cute little cheeks" and hands them a single butterscotch candy.    Tells them "Happy Halloween"  and closes the fake door.

I.JUST.LOVE.THIS. 

Who here does Halloween and how?  We used to dress the house up big time but have just kind of slacked off over the years.  Between all the churches having their own events (to keep the kids safely away from Satan) and the town having a big trunk Halloween, we just don't get the foot traffic to make it worth the bother any more.

How do I do Halloween? 

Well 16 years ago, I spent it in labor for nearly 20 hours, giving birth to my youngest daughter at 7:43 in the evening. When she was old enough to go trick or treating, everyone in the neighborhood knew her birthday was on Halloween so she got double candy for it. 

Now, we have themed birthday parties. This year will be her "Sweet 16" party - complete with a DJ and a hall rental. I'll be making all of the food and the cake. It'll be fun. Expensive, but fun.

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(October 2, 2018 at 4:35 pm)outtathereligioncloset Wrote:

(October 2, 2018 at 1:50 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I “disappear” about half a dozen adults and kids every Hallowe’en.

That way they really have something to fear when they go out trick or treating.  

I’m sure that, under all the trepidation and terror, they appreciate the effort I put in.

🤪

You're not running out of places to bury the bodies yet?  I'm impressed!

She doesn't bury the bodies. 

That's where I come in. 

You said halloweeners.

Halloween is one of my favorite Holidays! I love dressing up in costume. Sometimes I wish I could have been one of those cosplay girls, but I don't think it pays that well unless you're one of the top ones (then you make more money than I do now *sigh*)

My husband used to go all out for decorating the house. We'd have a ghost train, a ghost playing a piano, cobwebs, spooky music -- the works. But anymore we don't get trick-or-treaters. So he's stopped doing it. Which is a shame, but if nobody's going to see it but us he doesn't feel like going all out.

Hubby used to go overboard with decorating, etc. when Childperson was still of trick or treat age.  He'd wear a mask and sit out on the porch perfectly still in a rocking chair and then JUMP out at kids who thought he was just a fake scarecrow.  I made him stop the year he made a little set of twins both cry and one wet his pants.

We have a house in the next town that must have spent thousands on those really great decorations at Home Depot.  You know the ones----life sized horse skeletons and witches that talk and stir the brew pot.    It gets more elaborate every year.  Me?  I would LOVE to be able to do this:

We throw a big party every year, decorate everything, watch a bunch of movies, etc.

Shell B---what are your favorites for watching that night?

I don't feel like I have to watch all of Hocus Pocus these days but it would NOT be Halloween for me  if I didn't get to see THIS part:





Also love Young Frankenstein.  Whole movie.  Gotta watch it.  Too many great clips to start listing them here.

I played the lead in a comedic play a few months ago in a local theatre.  (No, I won't say what play.)  In it, I was required to have a limp for much of the play.  I paid tribute to the Young Frankenstein movie by changing which foot every time I made a new entrance.  Had been rehearsing it like that for weeks before the director noticed and called me on it.  Once I explained WHY, he just chuckled, shook his head and let me keep doing  it. As far as I know nobody else ever realized I was doing it. I also threw in a Monty Python reference that none of my college-aged castmates ever understood. But on those rare performances when someone in the audience caught it, it was priceless.

Ca August 1986, we bought a townhouse. The front door had an impressive creak in the hinges, like "Tales of the Crypt" squeaky. My wife bought me these gigantic gloves that had red fingernails, and warts all over. I opened the door slowly, making sure it squeaked abominably, with those glove quaking madly. Kids ran away screaming, lobotomizing themselves with the (frozen) Twizzlers and the orange-and-black candy canes that had been previously dropped in their trick-or-treat bags. The part about the warts might have been exaggerated.