Thread: Random observation on 2009.

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3 teenagers in a car. 2 dressed in pajamas were standing at the edges of doors, like the garbage man does, and certainly illegal. They would jump out and run up to houses, get candy, then back to their trusty steel stead. They also did not stop in. Probably figured sprinting through my trail was to much work for their candy hording.

Best costume was hands down a guy dressed as Flo from the progressive commercials.

Only 2 out of about 150 feared my house. They spent the next minutes crying on the sidewalk as their over possesive parent drug them away. Thats right! I am a strong believer the environment concept.

My friend dressed as the evil clown informed me that a rather tall man dressed as a vampire saw him on the trail and stared at him for way to long. He found it akward and a bit scary.

Invest in preassure pads for next year. May have to build some.

Originally Posted by CrImSoNtOuCh

Less people passed out this year but the three of us that did do it on our block had fun rummaging the left over candy of each other bowels .

Next time, you might want to use spellcheck Sorry, but that's too funny

The bowels thing was funny but the misspellings and grammar goofs in this thread are pretty intense. Now I'm paranoid and proofreading my posts twice.

• almost no TOTs not in costume. (had some street clothes kids that actually wore pretty cool masks)

• zombies and ninjas - lots of them. Almost every group had at least one or both. Didn't see a zombi ninja, tho. That would be cool!

• NO SPIDERMEN. That has been the big thing around my area for several years...

• Almost every TOT was actually polite and NO ONE TRIED TO GRAB CANDY. Lots of "please" and "thank you" - I was really surprised.

• no kids at all until after 7 almost 8pm. And they were done by 9 ish.

Same story for me as the last two years, 3 weeks setting up the yard and only 6-7 kids show up. This year I finally found out why. 1/4 mile or so from our house is an affluent neighborhood that is the Mecca for TOTing. My husband took our 2 year old down there after hearing rumours and he says there were hundreds of kids. We have thought about flyering there next year for people to stop by on there way to or from, but the other side of that coin is our neighbor says her friend spent $300 on candy living in that area. My luck would be to flyer, buy TONS of candy and still not have anyone show

Originally Posted by Garthgoyle

Next time, you might want to use spellcheck Sorry, but that's too funny

Maybe I meant bowels?

HAHA Bowels! I love this friggin place!

Many more yard haunts, and much more sophisticated ones. Graveyards were still the most popular, but just today I spotted and photographed a Nightmare Before Christmas display (complete with the black waveform) that blew me away. Used to be that only my neighbor and I went all-out nuts. This year, lots of people did. YAY! I just hope that celebrating Halloween never grows to feel as obligatory as Christmas does.

Stores had weak selection and concentrated on cheap merchandise. I understand their reasoning, but hope we see a return to more enticing items as the economy picks up.

Costumes were pretty low-key, although most ToTs were wearing something. Lots of Spidermans here too. Apparently I was the only person that evening to recognize V; the other homes apparently confused him with Zorro

The number of people driving in from other neighborhoods to visit our haunt increased again.

This is the first time that large numbers of people wanted to pose inside our display for pictures, a practice we heartily encouraged. Next year we'll definitely arrange props to accomodate.

Still haven't managed to piss off the local extreme right wing Christian church. Gonna have to work on that

I am making a Photo Op next year, already scetching designs. So many people taking pix.

Next year we are doing a haunted walkthrough my family has the bug and are all about scaring people now. So I fianlly have the help I need to pull it off.

Kids need costumes that they can get in and out of easy no hairspray wigs or intricate makeup next year.

Have an area set up in my bathroom for everyone to get ready early.


Doing the Party on a Saturday a week before Halloween is the best.

Next year I ask for help from my family with the party and not try to do so much on my own.

great post,,, I too saw alot of boys dressed as girls,,odd,, also i had alot of parents eyeing my beer cooler and some asking for a beer, next yr i will have a beer offering, had a good time even tho it was HARD for me to get into it this yr and all my moving props kept breaking