Halloween

Christmas stuff in the shops already!!!!!!!! 

Costco has Christmas merchandise set up for a month now.......?

Hehehe, I have my Halloween decorations up in the windows. My daughter keeps seeing people stop and stare. Usually there are kids with them. I keep telling hubby I'm going to stick a sign in the front garden that says YES, a weird yank lives here....just keep walking. LMAO. I think its hysterical!

I decorated too and the kids love it. My substitute mailman though knocked on my door and told me occultism isn't practiced here and that I'm going to hell for not being a Christian. I just laughed and said can I have my mail please. 

I'll be in the US for Halloween this year (and sadly, for Guy Fawkes Day too) - should be fun.  My oldest brother's (where we will be going) neighbourhood is seriously like Pleasantville & all the Halloween decorations on everyone's house, in the yards, etc are really OTT. 

I decorated too and the kids love it. My substitute mailman though knocked on my door and told me occultism isn't practiced here and that I'm going to hell for not being a Christian. I just laughed and said can I have my mail please. 

My manager at work is mildly like that about Halloween which really surprised me.  She wouldn't let me put a tarot deck out for sale (which I thought was ignorant and superstitious) and said she'd draw the line at Halloween stuff!

I'm a bit disappointed as well that I'm not doing my usual Halloween window display this year.  She was going to let me, but now we have to do a boring stock appeal window (pleading for people to bring us donations).  I guess if I was really feeling creative I could combine the two...

I'll be in the US for Halloween this year (and sadly, for Guy Fawkes Day too) - should be fun.  My oldest brother's (where we will be going) neighbourhood is seriously like Pleasantville & all the Halloween decorations on everyone's house, in the yards, etc are really OTT. 

That sounds like my parent's neighborhood. I trick or treated there when I was a kid and my grandmother lived in the house. Its normally a quite street, but on Halloween the streets are loaded with families trick or treating. First time UK hubby saw it, he was amazed!

I found Halloween pancake mix with colored sprinkles in it and a brownie mix that has orange frosting included. I have promised my fiance that I will bake Halloween cupcakes for his work the week I get there.LOL

A few people in my office are trying to raise a bit of Halloween spirit, so are dressing up at work on Wednesday.  Unfortunately they are coming as cowboys & indians, and I believe that Halloween costumes should be scary, so it doesn't really work for me, but... at least they are making an effort.  I baked pumpkin muffins last week and froze them, so I will bring those in on Wednesday, as well as a jack-o-lantern, which i've yet to carve.

I'm baking Halloween cupcakes for my fiance's work right now. We are going to see Horror Of Dracula at a film society screening on Halloween.

Hadn't seen this thread when I started my other one, whoops! Can someone with mod powere merge them please?
 http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=77566.0

A few people in my office are trying to raise a bit of Halloween spirit, so are dressing up at work on Wednesday.  Unfortunately they are coming as cowboys & indians, and I believe that Halloween costumes should be scary, so it doesn't really work for me, but... at least they are making an effort. 

The people who'd said they were dressing as cowboys & indians have turned up as doctors and nurses... with their white coats covered in blood, and blood-spattered faces!  I'm so proud of them for changing to scary costumes! (and I promise, I didn't brow-beat them at all!)  They look fab!

I too prefer scary costumes. 

I wonder if I will any guisers this year.  I did last year and I was caught off guard, so they ended up with full size curly wurlies.  However, I am armed with some mini mars bars this year. 

Im in a 2nd floor flat, with a security controlled entry door, so no chance of guisers, thankfully!

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Best guiser joke of the night
'What did the fish say as he slammed into the wall? Oh dam'

 

Im in a 2nd floor flat, with a security controlled entry door, so no chance of guisers, thankfully!

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Same here. I was thinking we'd get the kids who live in the building (I know they're here since I hear them all d*mn day long. ) I made a special stop to get some candy. And nada. I did wear my Spooky Hoot halloween shirt all day, though. And some kid came around the crowded tram home holding her hand out saying "trick or treat". (I think she wanted money!) Everyone was ignoring her, though. What cheek!

We had a least 60 tricker-or-treaters.