GeoffM

Sounds good! The Adventures of Tintin also makes her laugh. That'll be the male genitals (coincidentally same for Japanese).

Bob

The missus has to work and we've got to pick her up, which puts a dampener on how far we can go trick or treating this year with the kids.

The town also does one down main street the last Thursday of the month, which we'll try and catch a little of.

The kids are having costumes made by their grand mother, a Brave outfit and something else.

I normally carve some pumpkins, but last year hardly anyone came by our place as we're on a corner of a small off street and the year before we were in a condo and had even less people bother.

So it was all a waste of time...think I won't bother getting transfer paper to print the design off, but thinking of doing a scene out of Psycho or Carrie this year.

We'll see.

MostlyYank

I can't believe that Disney album isn't avail on CD. Wankers.

I have this one too, it's pretty good iirc:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Torture-Zone...item1c2b7cb626

No affiliation etc.

My problem with the newer stuff is it can be a bit much. I'd play it privately and make sure it's OK for 'public' broadcast.

Btw, if you get older kids, you can take the chain off a chainsaw and chase them with it full throttle, jeans, flannel shirt, and a glow in the dark hockey mask and they'll NEVER forget it bwuuuhahahaha

Pete

SultanOfSwing

Doing my best to avoid it. It really is the biggest bag of shite that doesn't have a lower case i in front of it, this Halloween bollocks. It is a boil on the otherwise lovely bottom of my favourite time of the year.

WEBlue

10 bags of candy!

Where we stayed with relatives last Halloween, we got 6 trick or treaters. Now we're in a neighbourhood with lots of kids around. I wonder how many sweets I should buy? I'm beginning to dread this.

SarahG

I know! I was a bit shocked at that. I'm hoping she was exaggerating. She did say that there was also a load of teenagers who came round too and took handfuls of stuff rather than her giving them 1 or 2 pieces of candy. There is a deal on at Walgreens or somewhere similar I think at the moment so I may get my candy from there. I think I may just get 3 bags of candy and if I run out then I'll just turn off my porch light.

GeoffM

That's my worry too! I guess I'll just buy stuff that I like so it doesn't matter if it doesn't go - fun size packs of skittles, for example.

joto

That's what I do as well. The trick is not to fill the containers too full, as to make the little blighters think that if they take too many, there might not be some left for anyone else, although some still take handfuls and don't care if there is any left.

MadRad

Me too. I hate Hallowe'en with the 'trick or treating' - I think it's glorified begging. Years ago kids expected to do a 'turn', sing, recite a poem, dance, or something before they got anything. Now they just demand sweets with the threat of doing something unpleasant. Needless to say, I'm not planning to be home.

SultanOfSwing

I'd laugh if it snowed this year. That'd mean I get to eat all the sweets myself - which is the way it should be ...

Beaverstate

When my son was around six there was a driving rainstorm, hardly slowed the kids down a bit. More car traffic though, with many parents following by car

SultanOfSwing

What a load of bollocks. Give me a bowl of mixed nuts, a bag of sparklers and the ability to shut the door on unwanted visitors without the chance of seemingly encouraged vandalism being rained down upon you. Not this 'let's dress our children up in poorly executed costumes based on Germanic folklore and force perfect strangers to give them sweets they had to waste their own money on' shite.

This is one time of year the UK gets right, if you ask me.

At least I have Thanksgiving and Christmas to look forward to, I like those ...

redglade

At 12 and 14, my kids are too old to go traipsing round the neighbourhood begging for sweets, but I'll have some in the house and leave the porch light on for the little cuties that come by.
A few years back a local cycling club organised a family night time bike ride in Houston to celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead on Nov 1. Now THAT was fun!

WEBlue

Yes, the little ones are awfully cute & I'd hate to disappoint them, so I guess I'll get in a batch of inexpensive sweets. But *I'm* going to chuck them in the bags, none of this grabbing stuff for themselves. That way I hope to have enough for everyone. No hulking teenagers better grab anything or I'll be shutting the door.

I'm hoping this will be good for neighbourly relations, since we only know a few of our immediate neighbours on the block. Maybe I can justify the expenditure that way....

Bob

A few years back, in the last town we lived in, had some kids in a rush with their mum behind and I asked why the hurry.

She said they were from town x, about 20 miles away but they wanted to hit our town and before it got to late to hit the neighbouring town because people gave much better gifts, sweets and in some cases money.

Cheeky sods.