Happy Halloween! (Page 2 of 5)

Admiral Ackbar cereal would make a good Halloween cereal.

I think it would be a big mistakie.

I agree, lol. Even the plastic pumpkin wasn't enough back when I was a kid. We'd trick or treat so much, my bro and I, and our friends, that we'd end up with garbage bags full!

Nowadays though, there's not as many people celebrating it and offering candy at their houses. And it's earlier too, and much shorter. I remember trick or treating for hours. Now it's like between 6 and 7 O'Clock. So sometimes it's not even dark outside. Trick or treating in the dark was part of the fun!

I miss that time. I'll have to go again when my little one is big enough to do it without being terrified, lol.

Sounds great. Good idea.

It's fun to break the ordinary and do stuff until really late when you're not forced to wake up early the next day.

Good thing I don't have to worry about that here, we've only come close to freezing once this fall. Forecasts call for it to be 100 today, actually.

I still have no idea what I'm going to carve. I want it to be at least somewhat relevent for the kids to get, so my sister won't complain about me carving pumpkins no one else "gets". >.>;

The ones that were kept inside are still good. I dunno about your area or stores, but our store had an inside display. And I think some of the ones that were on the bottom/in the middle of the outside displays might still be good. Our produce manager didn't say they lost ALL the pumpkins, just a lot. Just to be sure though I'd buy them as soon as possible. I'm going to be looking for some next week, probably Monday.

I never liked pumpkin pie. I mean I'll eat it if someone puts it on the table, but I don't really like it very much. Not unless it's still moist and there's a lot of cool whip, which is odd since I normally don't like cool whip. But it just seems to go with pumpkin pie.

Speaking of pumpkins, anyone like the pumpkin spice egg nog? It tends to grow on you after a while. It's alright, but the regular is better, and we sell more too. We sell regular about 4-1 against the pumpkin spice.

Those totally rock and are yet one more thing that we don't get here in Japan! Halloween used to be my #1 favorite "holiday" but living here it just doesn't do it for me... actually most of the holidays stink here

A sandwich. Most of our neighbors were also relatives. Our Aunt would make us come in and sit down and eat a sandwich. I guess that isn't a bad treat, but we were dying to be out Trick or Treating. We were not smart enough to skip her house.

Trick or treating by car? Now that's different indeed... I really prefer to go by foot. It's too fun to see groups of people in different costumes, lol.

For bad surprises at Halloween I remember one year, I went trick or treating. I had braces and decided to try a toffee... The toffee stuck to my braces, broke part of them and the brace part cut my gum and was just planted there in my gum. Had to go to the dentist the next day to fix that.

That hurt bad. It was the last time I had braces or toffees, lol.

We went trick-or-treating lots and there were always lots of other people too. As far as I know there's been no decline. But then I haven't gone in about 5-6 years. I know the mall has a big thing where there's a line and the kids go store to store to get candy. I don't know if there's still a lot of trick-or-treating going around now though, I live kinda separate from a lot of other neighborhoods and the only kids we got last year were the neighbor kids. But they probably all go to the bigger neighborhoods. We did that, we'd go to the rich side of town.

I have a ton of siblings so after we were done trick-or-treating we'd lay out our candy and inventory it, then we'd trade. Of course the reeses and hersheys were always worth a lot. They were worth at least two or three sticks of gum or hard candies. Trading was fun. One of my brothers doesn't like chocolate so he'd trade them off for suckers and stuff.

I always hated that no one ever gave out lots of chocolate. It was all stupid stuff like toffee, hard candy, suckers, popcorn balls, gum. Hardly anyone ever gave out reeses or hersheys and those that did were my favorite people. So I decided that I would always be one of the good people and give out chocolate. I give out snickers, peanut butter cups, hersheys bars, butterfingers, crunch bars, etc.

I also loved the houses that really got into it. Set up the yard, dressed up for the door, etc. One house I remember even had a mini haunted house set up that you had to go through to get candy.

A few times we went to old people communities cause the old people were so happy to have kids come by.