What is your favorite Halloween tradition?

The costumes.

Did my dress rehearsal yesterday. I’m sacrificing one of my favorite gowns. I’ve wanted to dye it for a while, so now I don’t mind if it gets all bloodstained tonight.

I like to give the kiddies a paper cut when I give them a little bag of candy, adds to the quality of their costumes, authentic pained look upon their little faces…bless.

I lure the little extorters into my basement where I brutally murder them exercise my right to defend my home with lethal force.

Seeing the costumes other people make is always fun.

Some years we make some great costumes and that is quite a blast. Other years we recycle some of the previous ones.

What i like holidays? the fact that everyone loosens up a bit especially people who otherwise look tensed up almost all the time because of work

My favorite tradition is not answering the door.

My neighborhood has essentially no kids in it. So if there is anyone ringing my doorbell, it is someone from outside the subdivision (who I have no interested in giving candy to) or someone who wishes me ill.

My plan for tonight is to sit in the back room and read a book.

I love carving the pumpkins with goofy expressions and of course I love BOOing!!

Tonight I may or may not start an annual tradition.

I’m going to put a really scary / ugly rubber mask over my head and walk around the block like a zombie, staggering and dragging my leg behind me. My wife suggests carrying a bag of candy and giving some to any kid brave enough to approach me.

So it may be fun and become traditional, or perhaps some kid’s father (or mother) will punch me in the face, which will pretty much kill the ‘tradition’ idea.

But it will still probably make a great story for years to come either way.

To be continued….

^ DO IT!

Eating candy corn… yes, I admit it. Love the crappy stuff.

As the comedian Lewis Black has said:

“All of the candy corn ever produced…...was made in 1911….”

I liked opening the door on my knees and holding a flash light under my chin so I looked scary. The kids screamed and ran, but they’d come back for their treat when they got brave enough.

Watching scary movies and turning the porch light off so the kids stay away. This year I’m hoping our dog’s mean-sounding bark will keep us from having to answer the door to turn away any kids whose parents don’t know that a dark porch means “fuck off.”

@OneBadApple Ha! I love that. I don’t know how people eat those nasty things. They taste like artificially flavored wax. Blech! I can’t really say anything, though, because I like red and orange Dots, and those things are an abomination.

If I wasn’t so dead set on continuing to fit into my new size 4 jeans, I’d be scarfing down snickers, Hershey bars, kit-kats, and anything else covered in milk chocolate while I watch Nightmare on Elm Street.

I used to go all out decorating my house. This wasn’t with little toy pumpkins and ghostie faces you put in the windows. This was vampire chambers with wide swaths of old off white chiffon loosely billowing in torn folds across the ceiling, black and deep burgundy velvet thrown over and tucked into furniture, candelabras with black candles dripping blood, tables set with antique medicine bottles filled with ghoulish liquids, red wine in old crystal decanters, bare tree branches dragged in from outside and propped here and there dripping with cobwebs, green or blue lighting tucked behind a chair that spread eerily across a wall…..tapestries on the floor and a body with bite marks slumped across the arm of a chair. There was eerie music from Nox Arcana & Midnight Syndicate curling like boney fingers through the musty air.

One year I left it up all year! What a hoot when someone came to the door. Chances are their previous suspicions of me were merely confirmed.

Can’t get rid of the little bastards, knew It was a mistake to superglue the doorbell.

Here we have parties with hay rides and we bob for apples, drink hot cider, maybe listen to music by our friends, it’s pretty cool and old-fashioned.

I love the way people are creative with their costumes. Not the normal ones – something odd and original.

I love watching all the Halloween movies. There was a marathon last night and all day today.

Going to a pumpkin patch and picking out “just the right one.”

Carving the pumpkin and roasting the seeds.

Going out trick-or-treating with my now 8 year old nephew.

Seeing all of the great Halloween decorations.

Seeing babies and dogs in cute costumes. A pug dog or a baby in a bee costume is adorable!

I like taking the littlest ones to the Authentic Farm pumpkin patch. There are animals and hay rides and several types of foods growing in their farm area.

I also love decorating my house. I have some decorations that are at least 25 years old.

I used to like making costumes, I sold them and once made a thousand dollars on several costumes (not each, total). I eventually sold my whole stock of over 80 different costumes, over time.

I saw the cutest crocheted mermaid on a little baby. She is a beauty!!