Halloween!

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

I totally take some of my son's candy.

Hello I don't walk around with him freezing my #### off for nothing!

Damn right. You need to keep your energy up for all the clubbin', doing the hustle with baby seals can wear you out.

Edited October 12, 2009 by IR5FORMUMSIE

[SuperDuper! 230]

For my costume this year, I am taking a cue from the master!

[ashenflowers 5]

For my costume this year, I am taking a cue from the master!

HAHA omg... that reminds me of an episode of the Backyardigans (I watched it with my 2 yr old nephew ok!! lol)... and they were pretending they were mounties, and guarding a huge snowball... hahaha it was hilarious.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

For my costume this year, I am taking a cue from the master!

I had no idea that Fred Scuttle was a Mountie.

All you need now is three friends to go along with you. One to dress up as Jackie Wright, one to dress up as Bob Todd and one to play Yakety Sax.

*Mumsie really misses Benny Hill*

[The_Dude 1,142]

I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was 13 or 14 I think. When I was 11, I decided that for halloween, I'd dress up as a girl. The bad part was that I let my mom and aunt dress me up and do my makeup. They did far too good of a job and unfortunately for me, there is picture evidence that they insisted on showing my wife a few weeks ago.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was 13 or 14 I think. When I was 11, I decided that for halloween, I'd dress up as a girl. The bad part was that I let my mom and aunt dress me up and do my makeup. They did far too good of a job and unfortunately for me, there is picture evidence that they insisted on showing my wife a few weeks ago.

OK. *backs away slowly*

Never underestimate the power of pity when it comes to getting candy at Halloween. I once dressed up as a goalie for the Leafs, you should have seen how much candy I ended up with.

Edited October 12, 2009 by IR5FORMUMSIE

[Autumnchik 6]

I LOVE Halloween!!! I am super excited because my mom is visiting (which is nice just for that, but also for my selfish reason that I have a free babysitter now). She will watch the bebbe one night so hubby and I can go to a haunted house thingy at the TOP OF A MOUNTAIN!!! You get to take a chairlift to the top Can ya tell I am super excited??? I have wanted to do this for the past 2 Halloweens, but first I was preggie and with wicked all day morning sickness, then last year, my son was 5 months old and we didn't have a babysitter.

So we will do that this coming up weekend or the one after.

On actual Halloween, I am dressing my child up as a monkey (since he climbs everywhere and we call him the little monkey). I think we might trick-or-treat at neighborhood houses, but nothing much since he doesn't eat candy yet and I really don't need to have a stash of sugar in my house.

[Marilyn. 340]

the one kid I am going to babysit is going to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle... I think Leonardo

he says his brother is going as a tootsie roll but I am not sure if that is true or not

[Sprailenes 47]

Okay how many Canadians are going to be strutting around in this next Saturday???

Kinkay! I'll take a double double!

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

My wife is flying in for two and a half days next weekend. We're planning on just staying in the whole time...snuggling, watching Halloween movies and eating sushi.

Actually, a lot of our time together is spent snuggling, watching movies and eating sushi.

[SuperDuper! 230]

Wasn't prepared for where this thread went. Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.

Tell me about it. I guess I shouldn't mention the fact that I'm dressing up as the Frito Bandito for Halloween.

you can be an #### and say whatever you want, but i wont ever stand by and say nothing when i feel me or my people are being insulted. obviously you find this hilarious and that says a lot more about you than it does me. end of story.

We think that bogart can dress up as a big buzzkill or a wet blanket for halloween, cause he is really bringing down the fun vibe of Halloween thread. He better have complained to Target for selling that illegal space alien costume with big greencard. Geeez!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Let's let sleeping dogs lie, ok?

My Mom used always used to check over our candy as well and cut all the apples up into quarters and then cut the quarters in half to make sure there were no needles or razorblades. My brother and I also suspected she kept some of the good stuff for herself! She rationed our Hallowe'en candy so we didn't have a chance to make pigs of ourselves and get sick on it too. It generally lasted for quite a few weeks after Hallowe'en.

We had one lady on our block who made a bunch of candied apples for Hallowe'en. She always put her name, address and phone number wrapped in with them so that parents could phone and verify they were safe. I always liked getting the homemade stuff - cookies, brownies, things like that. I disliked getting bags of chips the most - and loved getting anything licourice! Costumes always had to be home-made - we so looked down on anyone who wore a store bought costume and we had some really creative costumes.

I've been to a few Hallowe'en parties over the years - and have celebrated Samheim with friends as well - but I do enjoy having the kids come to the house in their costumes. The young ones are so earnest and cute and the older ones beginning to look bored, hehehe. The parents wait at the end of the driveway and the kids run up to the house, then leave calling out what they got as their loot! It is so cute.

Does anyone remember Unicef? Do they still do Unicef? We always carried a Unicef box as well that was distributed through the school and then brought the unopened box back to school with us the next day.

Edited October 25, 2009 by Kathryn41

[Rhiannercakes 14]

Yeah, I remember unicef.

I think I carried those boxes around on my neck between the ages of 5 and 10.

And I do sort of miss going out for Halloween.

Oh well, I'm going to get some reduced priced candy in November to make up for it

Edited October 25, 2009 by Rhiann

[ashenflowers 5]

Yeah, I remember unicef.

I think I carried those boxes around on my neck between the ages of 5 and 10.

And I do sort of miss going out for Halloween.

Oh well, I'm going to get some reduced priced candy in November to make up for it

haha! Yeah, I love November 1st candy sales

[Hugglebuggles 60]

awww.. I love rockets!!! lol

You mean, "Smarties"? (my husband and I argue about this everyday...)

What were those chewy brown things in the orange wrappers? they were so gross, yuck. And why don't people give out candy corn anymore?! I love candy corn.

I seriously went out for Halloween until I was 14. After that I would take my little sister out and make her share her candy profits... Until I reached 18 and decided I needed to get over it.