Any Halloween traditions?

[remydat]

If anyone is interested, there are a few underground haunts that will be making their way to Chicago that are apparently quite intense and like Mckamey Manor.

There is suppose to be a new haunted house this year on Halloween at 8:30pm CST. Rumor has it this guy named Jay Cutler is going to put on a Bear uniform and try to complete passes against some dudes in Vikings gear. I'm told there is nothing scarier than watching this guy try to play QB.

The venue is some stadium in Minnesota and I think the plan is to have a Viking Funeral afterwards for this Cutler guy.

 

[DC]

Wifey and I **** on the lawn. The FRONT lawn.

Seriously doe, our boys are 4 and 2 now.These are the best days of our lives. Can't wait to stomp around the ole neighborhood. Won't be passing out candy since we're gone but we'll pray our candy dish doesn't get raided by some punk wanna be teenager.

 

[SilenceS]

I dress like Sunbiz for Halloween

It takes 40 years of pumping iron to look like that. That and a Nascar T-shirt.

 

[Wintermute]

My wife and I really get into Halloween. Besides movies, we try to cram in as much as our schedule will allow.

1. Pumpkin Ale tasting. Usually buy up some of our favorites and sample anything new. Thinking about having one as I type this. Pumpkin flavored ale is probable met with revile by most, but we really enjoy it. It's kinda of like sushi - you either like it or you don't.

2. Decorations, both inside and out. Just bought our first house, but didn't go too crazy this year. Again, very busy. But plenty of room for yard stuff. Used vegetation killer in the flower bed in front to pave way for it to be ripped out. In the meantime, it serves as a makeshift graveyard. Also dug out the orange/purple lights for the upper level of our party deck.

3. Costumes! We have been doing multiple outfits the last several years. Even won best group as pirates of the Caribbean Vs. the British navy last year. Typically we steer away from the easy store bought ones and make our own. Getting quite good at it actually. Some of the props I've done over the years have turned out nicely, like the light saber I did for my Sith Lord (The Old Republic) outfit. This year we are going as Beetlejuice, with my wife in his traditional striped outfit and me in the burgundy tux from the scene where he almost married Lydia. Thinking about cobbling together one of the Whisper Men just as a backup.

4. Zombie pub crawl in Minneapolis. Went last year, and going again this Saturday. Did medical zombies last year, going as the cemetery zombie and Barbara from the original 'Night of the Living' dead. Going to do outfits and makeup in gray-scale so it looks like we came right out of a black and white movie.

5. The Boo Bash, which is a annual benefit for Boys & Girls Clubs in the area. Have gone to most of them in the last several years. Usually consist of live music, free food, and a costume contest.

6. Wedding anniversary - We eloped and got married at the Erebus Haunted attraction several years ago in October by Wolfman Mac, who used to be a horror host of the Chiller Drive-Inn TV show in Pontiac, MI. Our wedding party consisted entirely of zombies!

7. And of course, movies. Keep a running list around here somewhere so we don't miss any. 'The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' is a yearly staple.

 

[Monster]

After my first wife nothing scares me.

 

[BearDen]

I like to dress up as 6 and tell everyone I just signed a new long term contract. Scares the shit out of people.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

This is my first year owning a home where people will actually come. I'm looking forwarding to getting piss drunk and passing out candy.

 

[Urblock]

This is my first year owning a home where people will actually come. I'm looking forwarding to getting piss drunk and passing out candy.

3 days later will you tell us about the arrest and how the Judge treated you?

 

[Hawkeye OG]

3 days later will you tell us about the arrest and how the Judge treated you?

What's illegal about drinking in your own home?

 

[dweebs19]

wife and I dress up as comic book/cartoon characters every year and hand out goody bags containing candy, toothbrush, and toothpaste.

 

[Tater]

wife and I dress up as comic book/cartoon characters every year and hand out goody bags containing candy, toothbrush, and toothpaste.

As a kid, we used to egg houses that gave that type of stuff away.

 

[Spunky Porkstacker]

wife and I dress up as comic book/cartoon characters every year and hand out goody bags containing candy, toothbrush, and toothpaste.

Are you a dentist?

 

[dweebs19]

Are you a dentist?

Nah...wife is the dentist. Probably would go the dental route if I had to do it all over again.

 

[dweebs19]

As a kid, we used to egg houses that gave that type of stuff away.

Haven't been egged yet...But yea, I used to do that too. haha.

 

[Tater]

Haven't been egged yet...But yea, I used to do that too. haha.

That's cool your wife is a dentist. Great profession.

 

[Omeletpants]

When we were teenagers, on Halloween, Taco and my other friends went to the library with 2 cartons of eggs. We waited till 2 helpless young ladies came to the parking lot, arms full of books. Then when they opened their trunk and car doors we bombarded them with all 24 eggs. Taco hit one of them in the head. They cried and screamed like a bunch of babies and when we were done we bravely ran away. Ironically, we never saw Taco after that night.

 

[Tater]

 

[Omeletpants]

Is that some sort of a sick joke?

 

[vincentvega]

Have a 5 year old son and a 2.5 year old daughter so yes this is a really fun age to go trick or treating. Will probably go door to door early then come home to put on a movie for the kids and hand out candy to the neighbors.

I always either do the large candy bars or big handfuls of the minis. What I can't stand is after the first wave of all the cute kids in their costumes, then comes the teenagers who usually don't have a costume except maybe for a Jason mask or something half assed. They are just looking for some free candy while they traipse around town having shaving cream and egg wars..


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[BearDen]

When we were teenagers, on Halloween, Taco and my other friends went to the library with 2 cartons of eggs. We waited till 2 helpless young ladies came to the parking lot, arms full of books. Then when they opened their trunk and car doors we bombarded them with all 24 eggs. Taco hit one of them in the head. They cried and screamed like a bunch of babies and when we were done we bravely ran away. Ironically, we never saw Taco after that night.

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