What are you doing for Halloween?

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Discussion Overview

The thread discusses various plans and ideas for Halloween celebrations, including costume choices, activities, and personal anecdotes related to the holiday. Participants share their intended costumes, experiences from past Halloweens, and how they plan to engage with trick-or-treaters or celebrate in other ways.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants plan to dress up in themed costumes, such as the Mystery Gang or a plague doctor, while others express a desire to create their own unique costumes.
  • Several participants mention their plans to stay home and hand out unconventional treats, like frozen broccoli or margaritas, with varying degrees of humor.
  • There are reflections on past Halloween experiences, including nostalgia for trick-or-treating as a teenager and the lack of trick-or-treaters in some neighborhoods.
  • Some participants express indifference or dislike for Halloween, preferring to avoid celebrations altogether.
  • One participant shares plans for a fundraising event featuring punk rock and jello wrestling, highlighting a more community-focused celebration.
  • There are humorous exchanges about wanting to scare trick-or-treaters using costumes or props, such as a ghillie suit.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a variety of opinions and plans for Halloween, with no clear consensus on how to celebrate or engage with the holiday. Some enjoy traditional activities while others prefer alternative or humorous approaches.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention their past experiences and how they have changed over time, indicating a shift in community engagement with Halloween festivities.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in Halloween traditions, costume ideas, or community celebrations may find the diverse perspectives shared in this thread engaging.

FrancisZ
My two sisters and I were thinking of going as the Mystery Gang to our local dinner. I'll have to be the Fred, but I do have the outfit basically. My older sister Erica (32) has orange hair, so she'll be Daphne. Monique (16), the youngest is not really too keen on the idea, but she would be an okay Velma. My nephew Tommy might be Scrappy (he's 4).

If it works out, we'll take pictures, and I'll post them.
 
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My daughter wants to be a plague doctor...really creepy!

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lisab said:
My daughter wants to be a plague doctor...really creepy!

[PLAIN]http://thegirlcanwrite.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/doktorschnabel_430px.jpg[/QUOTE]That's awesome.
 
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I'm going to stay home and hand out frozen broccoli.
 
Math Is Hard said:
I'm going to stay home and hand out frozen broccoli.
Ivan just pelts them with it.
 
Math Is Hard said:
I'm going to stay home and hand out frozen broccoli.
My friends and sisters and I waded through the snow all night to collect candy. On the last stop before home, the creep with the "store" near our house gave us popsicles. He had tons of penny candy, etc, but the season for selling popsicles to the people that rented his cabins was over and he had to get rid of them. Thanks, Erwin!
 
I lived in California when I was a teen, and Halloween was usually a nice, warm night. I have very nice memories of being out with my friends, raising a little bit of hell.

I was one of those kids who didn't want to give up trick-or-treating, just because I was a teen! I wanted that one sweet, fun piece of childhood to go on and on.
 
If you guys come trick or treating I'll hand out frozen margaritas.
 
Math Is Hard said:
If you guys come trick or treating I'll hand out frozen margaritas.

whoop! Party at MiH's place!
 
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Math Is Hard said:
If you guys come trick or treating I'll hand out frozen margaritas.
I have to help a neighbor build an addition for his daughter and granddaughters. I'll need a rain-check! Boo to you!
 
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I'll be at work, thankfully. I'm not really into Halloween.
 
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lisab said:
My daughter wants to be a plague doctor...really creepy!
That IS really cool. Very original. I for one believe in making ones own costumes. I made a Dr. Doom once (family still haven't lent me the pictures yet). And I'd love to do a Mysterio...

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...that is a wicked, hard costume to put together. Where to find the fish bowl for my head.
Math Is Hard said:
I'm going to stay home and hand out frozen broccoli.
That gave me a good chuckle. :biggrin:
 
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Math Is Hard said:
If you guys come trick or treating I'll hand out frozen margaritas.


Jersey sucks without Math.
 
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I'll be trying to study for the week's upcoming midterms while being constantly interrupted by greedy, unappreciative brats who desire excessive amounts of junk food. I'll make some passive-aggressive jab at the failure to pick up on the complete lack of decorations and my lights being off. After a short period of awkward silence, I'll hand the little brat(s) some candy and force a smile for the parent who is standing behind them, hoping for some jovial compliment about how cute their child looks.






Removes tongue from cheek
 
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I'm going to turn off all of my lights and sit there in the dark. While I'm waiting for all those little cowboys, cinderellas, hobos, and angels to leave, I'll dwell on every break-up I've ever had that's gone terribly wrong.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqh-ohV2xrE

How come nobody ever writes a song about a break-up that went terribly well?
 
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I'm heading to a surpise costume party, so I guess you'll have to wait and see!
 
  • #17
Have fun, all! We don't have Halloween here, so I do not plan anything.
 
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BobG said:
How come nobody ever writes a song about a break-up that went terribly well?
Thank G-d and Greyhound you're gone.
 
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Eat, drink and be scary. Soon we celebrate Halloween, when ghouls, ghosts, goblins, and ballerinas come to eat your brains and your candy, but not necessarily in that order. This year I will be dressed up as a computer nerd and hand over the loot to all comers. My son will be dressed as a businessman using a briefcase as his bag.
 
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Dembadon said:
I'll hand the little brat(s) some candy and force a smile for the parent who is standing behind them, hoping for some jovial compliment about how cute their child looks.

You should force this smile:

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I'll be working and posting on PF.
 
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I'll be figuring out how I'm going to remove this jack o' lantern from my head.

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Redbelly98 said:
I'll be figuring out how I'm going to remove this jack o' lantern from my head.

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I have an axe. Now hold still.
 
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My son will be hosting a daytime party, with me as the guest of horror. And by night fall, I will be home passing out..or maybe passed out, depends on how good the party is.

I have a giant bowl full of candies, pray I don't eat it all before Sunday.
 
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We have two large containers of Gummi Eyeballs.
 
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Don't forget, chat will be open Halloween day!
 
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I’m going to do what I do every year. Go trick-or-treating as a full grown adult with all of my adult friends in a old school Nintendo theme. Last year was Pack-man, this year is Mario.
 
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My wife is the "den mother" for the interns from abroad who help teach introductory foreign-language classes at our college. She used to have them here for dinner on Halloween so they could see the trick-or-treaters at our house. But she had to give that up a couple of years ago, because we don't get any trick-or-treaters any more, or only a few. Apparently the kids in our neighborhood have gotten too big for that, and we're out on the edge of town so kids from other neighborhoods don't like to hike all the way out here. :frown:

We'll probably just go out to eat somewhere, so as to leave the house dark in case someone does happen to come along.