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Post by Doug on Oct 30, 2014 11:03:33 GMT -5
Do you dress up? Do you trick or treat? Do you give candy to tricker treaters?
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Post by Doug on Oct 30, 2014 11:05:31 GMT -5
Not this year. No Yes but we expect less than 10. And we only buy candy that I like so we don't have to throw away the leftovers.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2014 11:06:01 GMT -5
Yes. Only in the "walk the kids up and down the street" sense. Of course!
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2014 11:08:08 GMT -5
Back when the kids were younger, we'd end the night with an insanely large pile of candy. One year we had two large pillow cases just about filled to the top.
I'd pick through it and take what I wanted (called it "Dad tax"), then after a few days I'd throw the rest out.
Much grumbling about both of those events. Heh.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 12:01:37 GMT -5
We haven't had a "trick-or-treater" stop by here in years, and now the kids are too old. I'll just keep the porch light off and kick back in the recliner for the evening.
I'm sure with it being on Friday this year, there'll be lots of adult parties going on. I try to stay off the streets on those nights.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 30, 2014 12:12:17 GMT -5
This will be the second or third year in a row that I was away for Halloween -- hoping no one decides to soap my windows!
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2014 12:16:20 GMT -5
Planning my trip to MSP right now...
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Post by Hobson on Oct 30, 2014 12:27:19 GMT -5
No, no, and N/A.
We did dress up for the Halloween party last weekend.
Been living here for 9 Halloweens. Not a single kid has come to the door. Houses spaced out on 2 - 4 acre lots don't make for efficient treat collecting.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 12:29:09 GMT -5
Cheri will take little girls Trick or Treating in another part of town. This is a area designated as a T or T area and gets lots of police patrols and corner crossing volunteers.
I shall turn out the lights downstairs and retire upstairs with my TV and computer to watch a movie. I bought a big bag of candy bars, of which I will pick a few and save the rest for later.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 16:28:52 GMT -5
Youngest grandkid Zaria asked Poppa to make guts and eyeballs for Halloween dinner. Daughter has classes on Friday night so Zar and her sisters come over to our place, next door, for dinner. I looked up recipes and found a few variations for both salad and hot paste dishes under that name. So I think I'll come up with my own. Mine will be a pasta bake using wide egg fettuccine, red sauce, sliced olives,garlic, onion, spinach and meatballs all covered in a mix of mozzarella and provolone cheeses.
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Post by drlj on Oct 30, 2014 17:48:57 GMT -5
Dress up, to me, means clean jeans. I used to lie to the kids I taught and tell them I gave out vegetables, soup, fried eggs & toast, or meatballs. Some believed me and I am sure there are adults telling stories about the crazy teacher they had who gave out little cans of succotash every year. We actually give out candy. I give one away, eat two, give two away, eat three and so goes the night.
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Post by patrick on Oct 30, 2014 18:48:22 GMT -5
No. No. Yes.
We don't have kids, but we get a reasonable number T&Ting on Halloween.
Years ago, living in California, no kids would come into our apartment house to T&T, but Jane was eager to give them candy. She had bought candy bars, not those silly little things you get in those bags, these were BIG chocolate bars. Since no kids were knocking on our door, she went out to the street and began chasing kids around giving them candy. I can't imagine what they thought.
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Post by dickt on Oct 30, 2014 18:54:30 GMT -5
Wasn't sure about this thread. Starting out "do you dress up?" Was expecting it to be followed wit things like: Do you role play? Do you wear each other's clothes? Etc
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Post by Doug on Oct 30, 2014 18:56:10 GMT -5
Wasn't sure about this thread. Starting out "do you dress up?" Was expecting it to be followed wit things like: Do you role play? Do you wear each other's clothes? Etc Go ahead, Dick, answer those. We won't tell anyone and it's on the internet so it's safe.
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Post by drlj on Oct 30, 2014 19:09:19 GMT -5
Wasn't sure about this thread. Starting out "do you dress up?" Was expecting it to be followed wit things like: Do you role play? Do you wear each other's clothes? Etc Wear women's clothing once and no one ever lets you forget it.
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2014 19:11:56 GMT -5
And lets not even get started on Bill's definition of "once"...
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 30, 2014 21:38:18 GMT -5
Youngest grandkid Zaria asked Poppa to make guts and eyeballs for Halloween dinner. Here you go, Marty: boingboing.net/2009/04/21/freaky-food-fun-inse.htmlWhen we lived in town I always enjoyed keeping tabs on the number of kids that stopped by as I grew up that way, but Kim the farm girl had no idea what to do with all these kids coming to the door. Halloween for her was a verb, "Halloweenin", and was Dad driving costumed kids to neighboring farms while Mom stayed home to host a bunch of mini parties. Arrive on a farm and there'd be cake and coffee for the adults and a treat to put into the kid's bag, the adults would visit, the kids would show off costumes to each other, then on the the next farm. By the time the affair was over all the neighbors, adults and kids, had had a nice visit. Four or five houses would be a lot. I love the idea of that, and it still goes on in rural neighborhoods where there are kids. But in our township there aren't any, so we buy a few good candy bars and I wind up eating them all.
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Post by Tamarack on Oct 30, 2014 22:07:53 GMT -5
We live in a city neighborhood with long rectangular blocks and houses spaced close together. Every year we get hordes of urchins -- 200 is typical. Parents from other neighborhoods drop their kids off because the getting is good. Eventually we run out of candy (after I have selected the dark chocolate items and Dawn has done some damage to the Reese's peanut butter cups)and we shut off the porch lights, bring in the pumpkins, and barricade the door.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 22:14:23 GMT -5
We get about 75 kids each year. We carved pumpkins tonight...and will have the front decorated with "spider webs", colored lights, and spooky music. The littlest kids start around dusk, and we shut things down about 8:30 or 9:00.
Lotsa fun seeing the kids in their costumes!
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Post by fauxmaha on Oct 30, 2014 22:14:57 GMT -5
The only part of all of this that brings out my inner "grumpy old man" is when the waves of older kids (many of whom have parents driving slowly down the middle of the street) with only the most perfunctory attempt at a costume (some don't even bother) come to the door an hour after all the little kids are home enjoying their candy.
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