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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: slymyke on October 31, 2013, 08:38:29 AM
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What do you do with your front yard for Halloween?
In the neighborhood next to mine, there used to be a wealthy man that would rent elaborate decorations for his whole front yard. Each year, they were completely different and got more intense. The final year he did it, you would think you were at Universal Studios (seriously). He spent thousands! It was better than most professional displays of horror.
It was definitely in stark contrast to our little Fall wreath on the front door!
How about you?
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Green light shining on a big tree as a backdrop. Purple lights hanging like spider webs from a tree closer to the road. Spooky flashing eyes in the bushes. And a ghost peeking from between the houses.
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Since we're way out here in the sticks, normally we just carve pumpkins for the porch. When we plan a big Halloween bonfire, we'll pull out the tombstones, zombie mannequins, fake snakes, all that good stuff.
A couple years back, my brother made a table out of scrap wood with a big hole in the middle, got one of those Elizabethan collars (the dog cones) and spray painted it, then stuck it on and filled it with candy. The way he had his face/dome painted, no one knew it was him so when they'd reach in, he would scream. It was pretty awesome, almost tempted to try it next year
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Nothing....I don't share sweets!
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My kids strung purple lights back and forth between the trees and layered cobwebbing all over them. Pretty cool effect.
There are the orange lights in the flower beds, eye lights in the box woods, amber lights all over the porch, and three ghosts hanging from the branch over the driveway.
The first year we were married, my wife and I sat on the front porch giving out candy while eating pizza and drinking wine with several jack-o-lanterns around us and citronella tiki torches burning in the yard. Talk about hot.
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Here in Minnesota, we make snowmen and ice skate in the streets.
Just kidding, but it is cold today!
Testing the candy right now, it's edible.
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Nothing....I don't share sweets!
Same here. I am a Halloween Scrooge. :D
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Nothing....I don't share sweets!
Same here. I am a Halloween Scrooge. :D
Booooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Nothing....I don't share sweets!
Same here. I am a Halloween Scrooge. :D
Geeman and Razor, do you guys open the door and take the candy FROM the trick-or-treaters? lol.
Oops, I think I just gave you each an idea.... >:D
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I try and make it a point not to be home .
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usually just sit on the front porch with a lit candle in my mouth. Wife is to cheap to buy a pumpkin....... says my head and face reminds her of a halloween jack-o-lantern in late November anyway >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D
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We live on a mountain on a very tiny cul-de-sac. My nearest neighbor is about 300 feet away. Kids don't come up here so no outside decorations.
In 11 years we have not had a single trick-or-treater.
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Turn off the exterior lights ... Close the curtains !! Since there are no kids in the immediate neighborhood, I don't feel to bad about it.
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This is the first time we haven't done any halloween decor. Kids are 13 and 15, so they have pretty much outgrown trick or treating. But, the Lovely Mrs. Schro and I still plan on bundling up, sitting in the driveway, and passing out candy to the trick or treaters.
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My daughter is fifteen and still goes Trick or Treating, but this year she has forbidden me to go anywhere near her. So I am home waiting for the doorbell to ring. On a happy note, some very nice trick or treaters just came to my door and gave ME a beer (actually the parents, not the kids!) B33r
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My daughter is fifteen and still goes Trick or Treating, but this year she has forbidden me to go anywhere near her. So I am home waiting for the doorbell to ring. On a happy note, some very nice trick or treaters just came to my door and gave ME a beer (actually the parents, not the kids!) B33r
I want to live in your neighborhood!
We have always made it a point to be somewhere else on Halloween. We moved into our house 10 years ago today, and this is the first time we have ever been home. It was pretty fun with the little one. The neighbors really "did it up"...
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Turn off the exterior lights ... Close the curtains !! Since there are no kids in the immediate neighborhood, I don't feel to bad about it.
The trick or treaters that tend to come to my neighborhood are all 6'3" and driving their own cars, so I don't feel too bad about not handing out candy, either.
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I had one small group of 'children' trick-or-treaters come to the door.
Forgot my wife left the front light on. No others came.
Guess it was a slow night in this neighborhood.
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We had less than a dozen trick or treaters....guess our neighborhood is all grown up.
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I got off easy this year. It rained most of the afternoon and into the night....my street was practically a ghost town.
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Rain and very few trick or treaters, and my neighbor backed into my daughter's car parked on the street - not a good night.
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We had about 80 kids, most were polite and said thank you!
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We had less than a dozen trick or treaters....guess our neighborhood is all grown up.
Or you're just a little too scary. >:D
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We had less than a dozen trick or treaters....guess our neighborhood is all grown up.
Or you're just a little too scary. >:D
Entirely possible
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This year's pumpkins:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2524225/photos/halloween2013/IMG_9819.jpg)
The Peanuts pumpkin was very popular with both the kids and the adults:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2524225/photos/halloween2013/IMG_9831.jpg)
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Very nice!
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Wow, SlyBear.
Very impressive!
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Cool pumpkin carvings, SlyBear!
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A few children with parents , I was preapared with sweets but no callers .
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While I was working last night, we got a few trick or treaters that came to the milk parlor. They were just neighbors but we had candy, just in case.
I did wear my non-bald related costume to work last night, the cows didn't like it but the boss thought it was great.
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Slybear, pumpkins are great!
We had two knocks on the door but I didnt open it. I don't agree with children begging for sweets, to be honest the older I get the more impatient I am around children. I'm not a fan! :*))
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Unfortunately this nonsense has reached Australia. I don't answer the door.
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Well...
I guess I am just too big a kid still. We had a lot of fun.
Tons of kids actually are driven into our neighborhood each year from other parts of the city. We went through more than seven bags of candy.
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I guess I am just too big a kid still. We had a lot of fun.
Count me in as one. My partner and I both love Halloween.
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Cave Dweller - seriously? How does anyone not know who Charlie Brown is?! We watched the Great Pumpkin last night.
I love Halloween. I am a teacher and I get a huge kick out of opening the door and seeing students from my school react to seeing their teacher in real life!
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Cave Dweller - seriously? How does anyone not know who Charlie Brown is?! We watched the Great Pumpkin last night.
Yep. Some older kids recognized the shirt's pattern, but kids under about ten didn't seem to have a clue. One boy asked me if I was Batman because I was wearing yellow and black. We had the silhouette of Snoopy against the moon up on our roof (like happens in the show) and most kids did not recognize it either.
Maybe it was because The Great Pumpkin aired ON Halloween this year rather than a few days before, so the kids were not home to see the characters.
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Cave Dweller - seriously? How does anyone not know who Charlie Brown is?! We watched the Great Pumpkin last night.
Yep. Some older kids recognized the shirt's pattern, but kids under about ten didn't seem to have a clue. One boy asked me if I was Batman because I was wearing yellow and black.
That's too funny. Last year, I went to a costume event at the school where I teach. It was a come as your favorite book character theme. I was Max from Where the Wild Things Are. Not only did the kids not know who I was, neither did the parents! Sad!
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Cave Dweller - seriously? How does anyone not know who Charlie Brown is?! We watched the Great Pumpkin last night.
Yep. Some older kids recognized the shirt's pattern, but kids under about ten didn't seem to have a clue. One boy asked me if I was Batman because I was wearing yellow and black. We had the silhouette of Snoopy against the moon up on our roof (like happens in the show) and most kids did not recognize it either.
Maybe it was because The Great Pumpkin aired ON Halloween this year rather than a few days before, so the kids were not home to see the characters.
Or maybe it's because the real Charlie Brown doesn't have a goatee? :D
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Cave Dweller - seriously? How does anyone not know who Charlie Brown is?! We watched the Great Pumpkin last night.
Yep. Some older kids recognized the shirt's pattern, but kids under about ten didn't seem to have a clue. One boy asked me if I was Batman because I was wearing yellow and black. We had the silhouette of Snoopy against the moon up on our roof (like happens in the show) and most kids did not recognize it either.
Maybe it was because The Great Pumpkin aired ON Halloween this year rather than a few days before, so the kids were not home to see the characters.
Or maybe it's because the real Charlie Brown doesn't have a goatee? :D
Yeah and he needs that one long stray hair up front.
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Or maybe it's because the real Charlie Brown doesn't have a goatee?
Yeah and he needs that one long stray hair up front.
You don't know how much I wish those were the reasons.
I was about to shave off the goatee last night, but the wife and daughters vehemently objected. This Charlie has got it good!