A great 2nd place holiday

[sheepsnot]

Halloween takes 2nd place to Christmas, but it's not too far behind. Most of the other holidays, while very enjoyable, don't have as much of the kid factor. Easter is right up there, but that's about it. (For those of you who always enjoyed July 4th and Arbor Day, please remember that I didn't say anything disparaging about ANY holiday!) Halloween had/has the costumes, the candy, the trick or treating, the parties and decorations, etc. I still buy a few old Collegeville and Ben Cooper costumes every year for my collection.

[elfworks]

i love love love love LOVE halloween. have some fab info on traditions in victorian england and other stuff regarding origins and stuff.

this is how my year goes:

my bday is next week. the day after my bday, i get out the fall decor and do inside. then vernal equinox all fall goes up. oct 1 i start thinking about halloween. what will i wear? party or no party? i collect wind up halloween stuff so i start getting them out to play with.the week b4 halloween the halloween stuff gets added to the regular fall stuff. the day after halloween, spooky stuff goes back in storage and i start thinkin about thanksgiving menu (tho i will admit that i have already figured out most of it). i spend the week b4 t-day putting up the lights outside so i can officially throw the switch t-day night. then on friday, i start doing the inside. i tend to have open house dec1- jan 1. friends know... if the lights are on, the eggnog is ready and waiting! i dont do dec 25th. i do the month! much more fun that way!!!!

i spend the rest of the year til my bday crafting and stuff and contemplating gifts for loved ones.

5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall, 5 days til fall..............


xo

[Jeff Westover]

Elfworks, you're a hoot. I officially nominate you as our Official Halloween Ambassador!

You know what I love about Halloween? It brings out the bleeding eye creativity in so many people. I love to see what people do for Halloween -- and I love the pranks. If given a choice between treats or tricks...by all means, give me the tricks!

I don't know if we'll have Merry Holidays done in time for Halloween this year. BUT, this is one area of the site I really look forward to developing.

Jeff

[elfworks]

my fave costume ever, tho against my personal preference, WAS NOT SCARY, was one year my friend lenny and i went as boris and natasha. i am tall and skinny-ish and he is short and a tad on the dumpy side.


we talked with russian accents all night. loved that!!


xo

[sheepsnot]

OK, folks, here's where I jump the shark. My favorite mask was of a hung over drunk. Probably from the 50s, when being drunk was funny. I got this as a gift from a fella on Ebay who has hundeds of masks and sells me some now and again. Couldn't believe he had it. Here goes:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/dandsf480/Daves_Six-Eyed_Drunk_Freak_Mask_-_B.jpg

[sheepsnot]

Jeff, make it smaller!!! [Nevermind, I figgered it out!]

[elfworks]

land sakes that sucker is big!!!!!!!!!!!!!



xo

[dowload]

Why does it have 3 eyes??? :-o :-o

[sheepsnot]

He's got a hangover, so he's still seeing double and triple everything. I still can't believe moms from the 1950s would send their kids out as a drunk with a hangover. I guess it's better than sending them out as Satan himself! Or a Ninja Turtle.

[digbugsgirl]

I love Halloween, but not for the gory stuff. I love the ghosts and witches and pumpkins and......well, I love Halloween. I don't have any children and I live on a farm waaaaayyyy away from anybody else, but I still decorate like crazy. It is definetly my second favorite holiday (after Christmas, ofcourse.)

Brandy

[sheepsnot]

I seem to remember, and I know that our memories are not always accurate, when I was a kid we used to trick or treat in the dark. It was the 1960s and we still were supposed to be suspicious of razor blades in apples, but we couldn't imagine trick or treating in the daylight. I lived out in the country so my mom would drive us into town and dump us off. She didn't even follow behind us to watch. I guess that, having nine kids, she wasn't afraid to lose one or two. Those were the days!
:boo:

[elfworks]

i know! trick or treating in the daylight is just WRONG on sooooooo many levels!!!

tho i have to say, if i had kids, i dont know that i would let them trick or treat out and about. think i would let them have a big party with LOTS of tricks and EVEN MORE treats!!


xo

[sheepsnot]

Certainly, you are right on this one. I wouldn't, either, unless they were well escorted. Times have changed and in many ways not for the better.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/dandsf480/hw7a.jpg

[elfworks]

love your jpeg thingy. those victorian halloween cards are just the best!!!

xo

[elfworks]

sheepie... see if you can find this book anywhere, it is delightful!

HALLOWEEN
ROMANTIC ART AND CUSTOMS OF YESTERYEAR

by diane c arkins
isbn: 1-56554-712-8

i think youll love it!


xo

[sheepsnot]

Bought it on Ebay and it's on the way. Thanks. 8)

[elfworks]

wow. youre amazing to say the least!!!

it is really a delightful (only word that works) remeniscence (i know i spelled that wrong!) i think you will enjoy it!

let me know when you get it!!


xo

[Elf Ed Zachary]

You paid money for that mask, Sheepsnot?

You need help, pal. Do you wear that in front of Mrs. Snot? (I'm assuming there is a Mrs. Snot).

[sheepsnot]

With a mask like that, I can't keep the ladies away! Yes there is a Mrs. Snot. Her name's Shelia. Shelia Snot. She's currently sleeping and I will pay any amount of hush money. As for the mask, I got it for free, though I would have paid for it. It reminds me of a time when people made fun of drunks and smoked in the delivery room.

[elfworks]

did you get the book yet?????



xo

[sheepsnot]

Nope. I'll run out front and see if it arrived. I had it shipped to work. Wife already has too much evidence that I have a sickness.

[Ervserver]

The thing about Christmas and Halloween ( for me anyway ) are all the childhood memories associated with them. Halloween was always a good time for me and my friends, creating costumes, getting tons of candy. Scary movies, and parties.

There also those not so good memories of kids we knew biting into a needle in a candy bar or old lady Hicks who sat on her stoop and handed out nickels.

[Misfit Toy]

I have all my indoor stuff up and then come Halloween Day, or a couple days before, pending no rain, it all gets moved outside :pumpkin:


Then as the evening fades away, it takes no time to get into that Xmas spirit for me :elf:

[sheepsnot]

There also those not so good memories of kids we knew biting into a needle in a candy bar or old lady Hicks who sat on her stoop and handed out nickels.
I always heard about razor blades and such, but never knew of an actual occurence.

[dvdguy]

Nickels? lucky. We got pencils. Or should I say A pencil

[sheepsnot]

Yeah, but back then a nickel could buy you a movie ticket, large popcorn (which was smaller than a small today), a coke and a bus ticket home afterwards. Erv was living large. Or have I misjudged your age by a few decades? By the way, here's what I got yesterday:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d145/dandsf480/245615.jpg

[Ervserver]

true a nickel went a long way in them days, I recall going to a Sat matinee and having plenty of eats n drink all for couple bucks.

cool pumpkin !

[sheepsnot]

My mom worked at the Best Theater in Edinboro, PA during the early 70s, so I got to watch movies for free. I saw some really scary films for a kid my age and gullibility, like Night of the Living Dead, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Willard, The Exorcist, etc. I don't know how much popcorn was, either, cause she'd sneak me a box. Nowadays it wouldn't last two minutes! Those little red and white striped boxes held about five handfuls. The cokes were maybe a dime or so. I never really had any money to spend, so it's hard to remember prices. We used to walk to town and stand behind the Crossroads Dinor (sic) and smell the food cooking.

[dvdguy]

why do i suddenly feel like i'm watching those little poor kids on the simpsons?

[Ervserver]

I always heard about razor blades and such, but never knew of an actual occurence.


a kid in my school bit into a carmel apple and caught a razor blade in his upper gums, someone shoved a blade into an apple then carmeled it. My parents never let me eat stuff that wasn't wrapped even though there were also cases of people getting stuff into wrapped candy.

[dvdguy]

theres some sick puppies out there

[sheepsnot]

I guess those were the cases my parents heard about because I'm certain it never happened in my town. I ate everything I was given. Dad claimed to check our trick or treat bags when we got home, but he was just scouting for chocolate.

[Ervserver]

my school teacher neighbor handed out peanuts in the shell one year, I found them all over my yard. Kids would heave them on the walk to my door. I would have picked them up and ate em but I had just put on a fall app of grass feed.

[sheepsnot]

sheepie... see if you can find this book anywhere, it is delightful! HALLOWEEN: ROMANTIC ART AND CUSTOMS OF YESTERYEAR
by diane c arkins isbn: 1-56554-712-8 i think youll love it!

I finally had to request a refund; they never shipped it. :sad:

[elfworks]

try and find it elsewhere (i bought mine and B & N just last year) i really think youll love it!


xo

[Ervserver]

sheepie... see if you can find this book anywhere, it is delightful! HALLOWEEN: ROMANTIC ART AND CUSTOMS OF YESTERYEAR
by diane c arkins isbn: 1-56554-712-8 i think youll love it!

I finally had to request a refund; they never shipped it. :sad:


Amazon shows it available

[caseydbell]

i know this is the H. forum I clicked just to see what was here, sheeps post caught my atttention so I thought Id reply. my 2nd place holiday is TGiving because of the family factor. No i dont want to debate, cause problems, and im not saying sheep is wrong, Im just replying :-D (just covring my bases.)

[sheepsnot]

Kroger gave up on Halloween today. On the way home from work they had huge inflatable Santas and soldiers, etc. out front.

[Ervserver]

and fully stocked with nog?

[caseydbell]

Kroger gave up on Halloween today. On the way home from work they had huge inflatable Santas and soldiers, etc. out front.

From what ive seen atleast this year hallowen stuff for some businesses is down a week before and christmas is up

[Ervserver]

Target's Halloween candy was wiped out

[slick]

targets candy is so expensive. I don't like target exsept the video games they have there they are good and fun.

[Ervserver]

Target here has a Xbox 360 set up so I like to play on it when I shop there. If a kid is playing it I tell him there is free ice cream cones at customer service counter, he leaves to get one then I get to play Xbox.