Halloween

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Carolina Fever said:
I've been listening to the soundtracks for the Halloween movies all day.

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Carpenter's best soundtrack IMO, is from Prince of Darkness (1987), and it's a fine movie as well. Check it out, if interested. If you like the Halloween soundtracks, you'll like this one too.

Fun fact: I actually own one of the vintage synths he used to create it.

 
I think they put Vaseline on the interior. Didn't help much. It was growing fur on the inside in a couple of days.
 
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This is my first Halloween being retired. In past years I always carried excess candy to the breakroom at work, where it was scarfed up within an hour. This year, I had to buy a bare pittance of candy because I didn't want a bunch laying around the house tomorrow. Nobody warned me about this sort of retirement trauma.
 
We haven't had the same volume of kids since COVID. Obviously, 2020 was off, but I expected a rebound in 2021 and there really wasn't much of one. The last two years have been better but still not where it was pre-2020. I'm not on one of those streets that got hundreds of kids. But still. I think the growing popularity of trunk-or-treats has taken a bite out of it. You can get dressed up and hit up a bunch of them the weekend before Halloween. No fussing with trying to eat dinner or battles over later bedtimes, especially with littles one. I can certainly see the appeal, but it's really not the same. We've been stuck with extra candy, so this year I just got one big bag from Costco. We'll roll with that until its gone.

Meanwhile, my 14-year-old is done with it this year. He's got basketball tryouts plus a test tomorrow, so really couldn't squeeze it in anyway.
 
It's been years since my husband and son carved a pumpkin. But the last time they did it, I had found some "recipe" that called for soaking the jack-o-lantern in some solution during the day and then taking it out at night to light up. I can't for the life of me remember what it was -- I don't think it was bleach. But whatever it was, it worked. It stayed looking great for almost a week. But I got tired of having to move and soak it before we went to bed.
 
Game changer for us was cutting the bottom out instead of the top. We had a split rail fence and put a pumpkin on each post(tribute to Chicken Bridge). There were 15 posts so we would have a carving party the weekend before Halloween and let folks carve theirs and one for the fence. I had to light them every night for a week and would burn the ish out of my hand through the top. Cutting the bottom out instead I just had to grab the stem lift up and light the candles no fuss no burns.
 






See, this (and all the weird “sexy [blue collar job]” outfits) is why adults shouldn’t be allowed to dress up for Halloween.
 
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But this is why everyone should be able to dress up for Halloween



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Here in Garner we had 2 visitors One was a grandchild-one a dear neighbor Now the town had a great 3 hour daylight trick or treat party at a park
My point-Here anyway going door to door is like not a thing . Sad
 
Watching Halloween like I do every year

It's always hilarious at the beginning.... You see your son in a clown costume and a bloody knife. So you just stand there and stare at him for a good 15 seconds and put your hands on your coat pocket. No big deal
 
Apparently I have a really hard time gauging how many trick-or-treaters I’ll have in a given year. And it drives me batshit insane.

I’ve lived in Durham for 12 years now. The first 11 of which I rented a house in the Duke Park neighborhood—close to downtown, mostly gentrified but racially/economically diverse in parts. A lot families with kids, and families from bordering neighborhoods would often come to mine for festivals.

Halloween varied from year to year. The years when I didn’t prep or buy candy, I’d get 50 knocks on my door. When I did buy candy and put out decorations, I’d get maybe 10-20 kids.

I’ve recently moved to a new neighborhood. My house now butts up against a sprawling apartment/townhome community with tons of families and kids. I assumed I’d get a lot of trick-or-treaters, so I splurged and bought $60 worth of candy—300 pieces total.

Not a single fucking kid knocked on my door.
 
I bought a 5.6 pound bag of fun-size chocolate bars at Costco and then added a much smaller bag of sour gummy straws so that we would have a non-choc option. We have about a half pound left, and that was with giving each kid three, sometimes four, pieces. When we got our last big burst around 8 p.m., I should have just emptied the bowl then, but in the past, we've definitely had kids after 8. Not a one this year. But I still planned better than in the past and ended up with less left over.

I'm sure my husband and I will eat more than we should (the teenager doesn't really eat candy), and then I'll take what's left on my next in-office day, which is a couple of weeks from now.
 
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