What do you do to celebrate Halloween?

[jackie]

I love Halloween, I usually dress up and go out to some nightclubs with girlfriends. There are no tricker-treaters over here unfortunantly!

I would love to be able to fly to my parents house in Canada, but I say the airfare for Christmas time. I wish it was more celebrated over here!

[Freedom]

Halloween was loads of fun when I was a child. We dressed up and went from house to house for blcoks and blocks! One family did a haunted house thing where you walked in one door, went through a lot of scary stuff, ended up in the kitchen with the table covered with treats and cupcakes and drinks and then you went out another door and off down the street some more.

It just isn't as safe now and fewer children are permitted to go door to door. Parties are safer, parents know who the children are with and who provided the treats.

Still, here at my house, we get about 70 children each years and it is SO much fun! I LOVE answering the door and giving out treats. One year I gave out toothbrushes, he he. Kids grimaced, parents hollered THANKS! from the street! I try not to give too much candy, it isn't good for them and Dad and I sit and eat it between door bell ringings. I stop and shut the light at about 7 or so. We get car LOADS of kids from neighborhoods in another city (to be nameless), and they are teens and tough. To me, it is a fun time for the younsters.

Some folks make stunning costumes for their little ones, I enjoy seeing them. Every now and then I squat down at the door (only the top half is screen) and pop up and say BOO! when they reach for the doorbell. I'm not in costume or anything. I terrified one little 4 year old girl last year though, so I have to remember what size is coming up the walk before I do that! She ran screaming out to her mom in the street, dropped her bag of goodies. I felt awful, went out and helped pick up. The mom was fine with it, thought I was hilarious and calmed her daughter down.

This will be my first year with the dogs here, should be itneresting! The cats, well, I just closed them in bedrooms so I didn't need to worry about escapes. But the bell makes teh dogs bark. Hmm, need to work on that!

This is not too early if you don't do candy but order stuff form Oriental Trading or such as I do! Time to make up those orders and get those . . . toothbrushes???? Hmmmmm.....

[Blackrose]

Since we live out in the country we don't get anyone trick-or-treating. And since we would have to drive all the way in to town to go, our tradition is we each get a bag of candy and my mom buys a new movie for the family to sit down and enjoy together. It is fun!

[Kalei]

I always get excited for Halloween. I think its because of all the fun memories from when I was a kid. But now I don't really do anything, being 20 years old I and my parents feel I am too old to go out trick-or-treating. So I mainly stay home and hand candy out to kids while watching Charlie Brown's Halloween

[luvofallhorses]

oh this year I am celebrating Halloween by going to the doctor.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I get lots of trick or treaters....living in a subdivision. I hang a skelton, jacko'lantern...all kinds of decoration. Of course...the E's have holiday appropriate (Edwina anyway....) attire.

It is odd to me that it isn't nice and cold...but...oh well!

[columbine]

I love to go Trick-or-Treating canned food for the homeless shelter! People always give us bucketloads of candy too.

But lately I haven't been able to find co-conspirators for that, so instead I go "mumming." This involves dressing in ridiculous outfits made of paper shopping bags and cheap props. To be the swooning heroine, one must ideally possess a large beard. Last year I got to be the dead horse, with a real horse skull on a pole that I could clack its jaws on cue! We then put on silly plays script-in-hand in the middle of the road, usually involving a sword fight and a quack doctor who brings the loser back to life, with much heckling, forgetting of lines, and shouting jokes at cars who dare meander across the "stage."

Either way, while Samhain is a very special holiday for me on many levels, I'll jump on any chance to clown around in silly costumes.

Love, Columbine