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What's everyones plans for Halloween?

#1 Postby deb_in_nc » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:12 pm

We're having a pumpkin carving party the day before. I usually do 10 to 15 pumpkins.

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#2 Postby Stephanie » Mon Sep 29, 2003 8:35 pm

Sounds like fun Debbie. I haven't been to a Halloween party in a while. I've never been very creative when it comes to costumes. I always felt funny, unless someone else came up with a good idea.
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#3 Postby vbhoutex » Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:13 pm

Probably nothing except handing out candy if we are home. I seem to have "outgrown" doing much for Halloween. I guess it is because the kids are adults now.
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#4 Postby streetsoldier » Mon Sep 29, 2003 9:56 pm

I've decided to scare the h___ out of people by growing a beard...by Christmas, I could be a skinny Santa Claus! :o
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#5 Postby azsnowman » Mon Sep 29, 2003 10:51 pm

Same thing as years past, nuthin'! My sons 20 years old, my daughter lives with her mother....so no one to take trick or treatin'. As far as passin' out candy, in the 20 years I've lived in this neighborhood, I've had 15, YES....15 kids drop by the house, I buy the candy every year in hopes of passing it out, oh well.........more candy for ME!

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#6 Postby JetMaxx » Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:54 pm

I echo Dennis's sentiments. My little angels (sis's kids) are all in Oregon, and there aren't too many children around here....if I buy a lot of candy, I usually end up eating most of it (which isn't all bad :D

My grandmother and I are planning to play "trick or treat" with a couple little ones across the street (our neighbor's babies)....but they are so little (age 2 1/2 yrs and 16 months respectively), they'll likely be back home asleep before dark on Halloween night.
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#7 Postby CajunMama » Mon Sep 29, 2003 11:55 pm

Being Halloween is on a Friday this year I'll be a high school football game.
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#8 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:57 am

Not much of a halloween here at a retirement community. :)
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#9 Postby FreakyWxChick » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:32 am

I am hopping on a plane to visit my folks in FL with hubby and the kids. I told the kids no trick or treating this year and they couldn't care less! I guess flying to FL ranks pretty high up there over all the candy you can eat for a month!
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#10 Postby AussieMark » Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:06 am

I think the kids don't really need Candy they are already fat enough already.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#11 Postby Miss Mary » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:36 am

Last year my daughter Nina (16) and a friend wanted to pass out candy. They decorated for hours....her friend lives on a busy street w/o trick or treaters so this is the plan for a few years. They've stashed things in the basement and want to add to the decorations each year. Actually last year I was sort of sad - I didn't have anything to do for a few hours!!!! I wanted to wander up front to see the neighborhood little kids and their costumes but I was shoooed away....anyone want to hire me for a few hours? LOL I'll get this job back when Nina's off to college I'm sure....

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#12 Postby TexasStooge » Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:56 am

Me and my mom are going to a halloween party in South-west Dallas with a sci-fi club.
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#13 Postby bfez1 » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:29 am

So glad Halloween falls on a Friday this year. No work the next day.
Going to a house party, going trick or treating w/all of the kids there and then just sit around eating good food and having fun w/family and friends.
I love Halloween.
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#14 Postby opera ghost » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:50 am

Husband has a court date for expired registration tags on his van *rolls eyes* and we don't get kids often anyways (Next door to 2 retirement communities and the average age in our apartment complex is about 55-60)

So probably nothing much.
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#15 Postby coriolis » Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:51 am

We'll carve pumpkins with the kids about a week before, shop for costumes, and then on Halloween, I take them trick or treating. As our youngest (now 7) can go longer distances each year, our haul has been increasing each year too. We don't mess around with bags. We go with pillow cases. I keep threatening to dress up too, but all that candy would wreck my diet. Each year it's the same routine: Mom warns about not eating anything until we get home. Yeah right! Then the big production of "checking" all the candy. I remember my mother warning about the same thing. "Back then it was razor blades in apples." Now it's drugs on the candy. I think that the cases of tampered candy is so stupidly rare, that we should worry more about getting hit by cars.
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#16 Postby JCT777 » Tue Sep 30, 2003 9:14 am

I will probably be at home, handing out candy to all the neighborhood kids.
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#17 Postby deb_in_nc » Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:58 pm

I don't care if Michael is 17 now. I still carve pumpkins. We didn't do it when I was growing up. When I discovered Pumpkin Masters about 10 yrs.
ago, I started and can't stop. I go to craft stores that carry clay modeling tools and pick up a few things. Maybe next year I'll try to pickup a few of the Funkins (carvable fake pumpkins). That way I can keep them from year to year. Maybe I'll ask for some for my B-day Oct. 20th. Does anyone here eat the seeds? Not me.

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#18 Postby azskyman » Tue Sep 30, 2003 10:56 pm

Here in Scottsdale, the weather is always so nice that the neighborhood has a potluck out in the driveway at a nearby home...parents set up lawn chairs and the kids make the rounds through the group before heading on down the street elsewhere.

I've been in Arizona for six Halloweens...each one has had great weather. That is already more nice Halloween weather than I experienced in the other 51 years in Illinois!

Spoooooktacular!
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#19 Postby therock1811 » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:02 pm

JCT777 wrote:I will probably be at home, handing out candy to all the neighborhood kids.

Same here JCT.
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#20 Postby StormCrazyIowan » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:09 pm

Being that Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, it is celebrated huge here! LOL, I will always be young enough! I am renting a Renaissance dress this year and taking my cousin trick-or-treating, and then I am going to a Halloween party, can't wait!! :D
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