Holloween Plans Tonight?

I get less excited every year but plan to carry on my traditions. I’ll gut and carve the pumpkin later this afternoon and stick a candle in it. If the seeds are big enough I will bake some. Then hammer a few beers and greet the little freeloaders.
Half the battle tonight is keeping the dogs at bay. Probably need to kennel the little one but my old golden loves kids so much she gets to participate when she feels like it. The weirdest part is I don’t know any kids in our neighborhood because none of the adults near me are sociable. What are your plans?

School from 4-6, come home and pop a top, go next door to old man Gibson’s and have a grilled dog – retired dentist’s give’s out dogs rather than candy , pop a top on one of old man Gibson’s Old mil’. Maybe we’ll get two free loaders the whole night – this kills my bride as she would prefer an army of rug rats….

Dish out candy to the neighborhood kids, and wait for my Grandsons to stop by.

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Dish out candy to the neighborhood kids, and wait for my Grandsons to stop by.

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That sounds nice. I really don’t mind trick or treaters. Sometimes the old kids bug me but I stuck in there as long as I could when I was a kid. Free candy night is a tough habit to break.

I’ll be playing hockey tonight if you want to see something scary.

I’m going to scare the ‘ell out of Gursky and crew at Everts.

Guess he didn’t know Cabin 2 was haunted….

I am going to try to sneak into a house with dogs, undetected, and steal what is left of a 1/4 cow.

Driveway is decorated, lights ready, fogger set to go. Fire pit ready to be lit, chairs, good winter jacket, maybe a blanket, some cold ones and a ton of candy in a bug bucket.

Hopefully we got some kids left in the hood otherwise I’m putting on 10 lbs!!

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My neighborhood is over run with kids on halloween. Last year we had 200 kids come to the door. I would rather not clean eggs and pumpkin off the house so I hand out candy.

We’re trick-or-treating with the little guy and handing out candy after that.

This is probably the best day of the year for our dog. He loves the train of people coming to the door!

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Dish out candy to the neighborhood kids, and wait for my Grandsons to stop by.

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Only in my case it is Granddaughters. Got to Love them at this age. !!! 7,5 and 1

Spending a couple hours at school with my twin girls..here as I type…then off to work after…

eagerly waiting for the morning then its off to the river again

Go home and eat before it gets dark. Turn off all the lights and close the shades and then wait. Wait for some dopey parents to let their kids come to our door anyway and ring the door bell which will set our ankle biters off and make me want to go kick their parent’s butts.

Halloween is annoying. It’s like a parade of door to door salesmen and Jehovah’s Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon, when all you are trying to do is take a nap.

Taking the little guy to 4 or 5 neighbors that want to see him dressed up, he’s only one. then light the fire pit and hand out candy and have a cold one.

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Go home and eat before it gets dark. Turn off all the lights and close the shades and then wait. Wait for some dopey parents to let their kids come to our door anyway and ring the door bell which will set our ankle biters off and make me want to go kick their parent’s butts.

Halloween is annoying. It’s like a parade of door to door salesmen and Jehovah’s Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon, when all you are trying to do is take a nap.

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I am appalled! I never knew you were a curmudgeon.

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Are you new here? Welcome to IDO.

This is a crazy busy night at my house. The downtown businesses start trick or treating right at 3, so we’re trick or treating with another family starting at 3:45.

Then we need to drive 15 miles to get to two sets of grandparents so they can see all the kids. Then more trick or treating with another 4-5 houses that we have to hit or we’ll hear about it for the next year. We’ll probably hit about 100 houses over the course of the night.

We live out of town a bit and all surrounding houses are ~5 acres or larger and wooded with long driveways which must be scary to the kids. It’s a busy year if the doorbell rings 3 times. In our area, I think all the parents shuttle their kids in to Altoona and Eau Claire where they can hit more houses faster. Works for me ….. Get ready Bigpike and life1978, they’re coming your way!

Our subdivision is a trick or treaters paradise. Lots of culdasacs and the houses are close together. We will have between 200 and 300 kids. The little kids get a handful of candy, the big kids get 1 piece of whatever I don’t like. My wife and I take the girls out and the inlaws get to hand out candy. At the end of the night, the girls pick out 10 pieces of candy each to keep, the rest gets exchanged for a present from the Grand Pumpkin. The Grand Pumpkin now weighs about 210 lbs and will be bringing a big bag of candy up to Lake Vermilion this weekend to watch Dan Larson go to town. Can’t wait.

Ive got a life size cut out of BK shooting at Snakes at the begining of our driveway.

that should keep the pests away

Up until 3 years ago I still went trick-or-treating. Now, some people will claim that I’m surely well old enough to go buy my candy and that trick-or-treating is for the little kids. BAH I say!! The only conditions I’ve seen set forth regarding this are: 1) dress up 2) grab a bag and 3) knock on neighbor’s doors yelling “trick or treat!”.

I see no age limitation with this. I could still probably go and get by with it, but my husband is starting to look kinda old for this – even when he’s in costume. Alas, I’ve been robbed of my tick-or-treating fun for the third year in a row now. It’s not fair. I still want to go! I’m a kid at heart and always will be, and I continue to watch “Garfield’s Halloween Adventure” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” every Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays and let’s face it – you just can’t buy that kind of candy variety (and the fun of surprise) from the grocery store. I’m dressed as a cat as I type this by the way. I’m the only one at my office who dressed up today.

I’ll probably just hand out candy to those fortunate enough to still be “young enough” to trick-or-treat.

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Go home and eat before it gets dark. Turn off all the lights and close the shades and then wait. Wait for some dopey parents to let their kids come to our door anyway and ring the door bell which will set our ankle biters off and make me want to go kick their parent’s butts.

Halloween is annoying. It’s like a parade of door to door salesmen and Jehovah’s Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon, when all you are trying to do is take a nap.

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I am appalled! I never knew you were a curmudgeon.

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Halloween Scrooge!!!!

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Go home and eat before it gets dark. Turn off all the lights and close the shades and then wait. Wait for some dopey parents to let their kids come to our door anyway and ring the door bell which will set our ankle biters off and make me want to go kick their parent’s butts.

Halloween is annoying. It’s like a parade of door to door salesmen and Jehovah’s Witnesses on a Sunday afternoon, when all you are trying to do is take a nap.

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Put glow sticks around the collars of the ankle biters and stick them in a portable kennel partially hidden in the bushes next to the door. Might as well get some laughs since Halloween is so torturing to you.

At the old house we went dark a few years. Then I gave in. We probably saw 4-5 groups all night. I guess being an older neighborhood and having a cemetery across the street kind of choked off the Halloween traffic.

I’d rather have a constant stream than a random trickle…of trick-or-treaters.

I think the new neighborhood is a mix of old and young. I know there is a few kids at the bus stop in the morning. And we are on the corner now, so that will increase traffic too.

Now you guys got me feeling guilty. That usually doesn’t happen until about 9pm.

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…of the ankle biters

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I don’t own any of those.

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I am appalled! I never knew you were a curmudgeon.

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Don’t you dare lump me in with Pug

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Don’t you dare lump me in with Pug

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LOL!!!

Handing out candy to the kiddies. Schnapps to the parents. Good time to chat it up with the other people in our neighborhood.

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Handing out candy to the kiddies. Schnapps to the parents. Good time to chat it up with the other people in our neighborhood.

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What’s your address? My wife typically only allows me to drink Schnapp’s when ice fishing, but she might make an exception here