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Post by Jen on Oct 8, 2009 14:41:31 GMT -5
I think I tried this before here......but I will give it a go again. This is my favorite time of the year, so I always feel like a kid again....  Here's a thread to share stories, Halloween plans, pictures, costumes, Halloween trivia, or whatever else you can think of. Here is the History Channel's Halloween page, which has some interesting facts....... www.history.com/content/halloween |
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Post by CT on Oct 8, 2009 21:55:30 GMT -5
This Halloween I'm going to eat candy and have a horror movie marathon, mostly the Halloween series.
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Post by Bone Daddy on Oct 8, 2009 22:35:17 GMT -5
Halloween is my favorite time of year. I like the time before as well. The crisp fall air. Winter hovering on the horizon like a bleak apparition.
Will do the same as of late every year, trick or treat with the kids. Have neighbors over for pizza party, then settle in for some requisite Halloween film watching.
31 st line up is . Halloween. Halloween 3 and Night of the Creeps.
Maybe The Thing-Blu Ray, if i can squeeze it in.
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Post by The Walking Dude on Oct 8, 2009 23:30:23 GMT -5
which curious as to when is the accepted time to start decorating for Halloween in the states?
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Post by HNT on Oct 9, 2009 9:10:54 GMT -5
I dunno, man. Mid October you start to see the decorations go up in some neighborhoods. General pumpkins and fall decorations go out a bit before that maybe. Halloween decoration is kind of a suburban thing. In other words, it was a very big deal where I grew up, but nobody really does it where I live now. Not much trick or treating either. I guess it just isn['t relly safe for kids to knock on stranger's doors. Kinda sad really
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Post by CT on Oct 9, 2009 10:22:38 GMT -5
Anytime after the first of the month is ok to decorated although most wait until about mid month like HNT said. And that's just the people who decorate. Unfortuneately far less people decorate for Halloween than for Christmas (where I live anyway). I've noticed these changed too HNT.
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Post by HNT on Oct 9, 2009 12:37:14 GMT -5
Interesting that you see it too, man. I just assumed that it was because I live in the city now and the culture is different. Maybe it is more universal than that.
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Post by Jen on Oct 9, 2009 12:59:35 GMT -5
For some reason, people in this area decorate for everything (even Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day....I had never seen that before moving up here), and they start pretty early, I think I saw decorations up the last week of September. But there doesn't seem to be too much trick or treating here either. I think they probably go to the mall. But I am not sure, we have never gotten a single one, but we are close to the road, and there aren't many houses around, so I doubt we would get anyone anyway.
I know when I was a kid, we lived in an apartment building, and my dad always put on quite the show, it was great. But when my parents finally bought a house, and we moved to the next county over, never had another trick or treater. It really is sad.
Anyway, I think its the usual this year, we are staying in, having an all day horror movie marathon. I watch Pumpkinhead and Halloween every year. Since Ron has the day off for a change, I am also adding Sleepy Hollow, The Evil Dead, and Evil Dead 2 to the line up for sure on the day/night of.
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Post by CT on Oct 10, 2009 12:39:46 GMT -5
Believe it or not HNT there's cities complete with skyscrapers here, not just cornfields! ;)I work Dowtown but live in the suburbs. It's definately worse in the city but it's happening in the burbs too. My parents for some reason actually count and record how many trick or treaters they get each year. It's been falling by about 20 kids a year for the past 5 years. They used to get a couple of hundred.
It's a nice and seemingly safe neighborhood, but maybe people have been using their iPhone offender locator app and realized that there like 3 pedophile on every block!
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Post by CT on Oct 12, 2009 1:33:00 GMT -5
Early Halloween celebration for me!  |
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Post by Jen on Oct 19, 2009 14:06:00 GMT -5
Thinking about going back to the haunted corn maize again this year.....
We went last year because I had never been to one, figured it might be fun, especially since its so easy get me with "cheap" scares. And hey it couldn't possibly be as boring as the hour and a half I spent watching Dark Harvest 2: The Maize....haha.
At first it was great because we were moving along with a group with some kids, and the kids' reactions were priceless. And it really was kind of spooky. But then somehow we broke away from the crowd and we were moving way too quietly....we kept surprising the people that were supposed to be scaring US. We came to the conclusion that we have seen far too many horror movies. We were in.....survival mode....LOL.
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Post by CT on Oct 19, 2009 14:35:18 GMT -5
Well enjoy if you go back Jen. I got lost in one of those for hours when I was 13 lol. It wasn't one with people jumping out at you though. At least they could have pointed us in the right direction. People with flashlights had to search us out at closing time!
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Post by HNT on Oct 19, 2009 14:46:47 GMT -5
Wow, I wish I lived in an area that could sustain a haunted corn maze, lol. I think we could go take a tour of the haunted crack house if anyone is interested.
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Post by CT on Oct 19, 2009 14:53:16 GMT -5
LMAO. Good one. Yeah, living in flyover country has it's benefits. Although we've got meth labs right behind the corn mazes lol.
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Post by Jen on Oct 20, 2009 15:09:26 GMT -5
Wow, I wish I lived in an area that could sustain a haunted corn maze, lol. I think we could go take a tour of the haunted crack house if anyone is interested. LOL....I lived near Atlanta most of my life....so I know what you mean....pffft....who needs a haunted corn maze? It was often a terrifying adventure just riding around downtown.....  CT: Honestly, I probably would have gotten lost myself if Ron hadn't been there....lol....and I was thirty....hahaha.... |
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