[bethene]

Here it is.. the main reaper of the year!! PLEASE read all the info here... it will answer some of your questions. but if not.. let me know! Lets make this a great reaper season!!! Let the games begin!

PLEASE, for your sake, AND for the sake of your reaper please participate in the thread, even if just commenting once in a while, and make it easier by having picture, pinterest, or the like.

Also PLEASE let your reaper know when your gift arrives,, people become concerned that their boxes got lost, which has happened in the past, So make sure you do that!!!! Also. POST PICTURES of your gifts. It is only the polite thing to do,,

So on with the dates: here is the
Official Sign up thread for the Big Reaper!


Start of sign up: July 14, 2020
Ending date for sign up: August 17, 2020
Shipping Deadline: Sept 14, 2020

Rules:
1. The MINIMUM value of the gift must be $20.00, please follow this,
2. The gift can be homemade, store bought, or a combination of the 2.
3. gift can be Halloween , Day Of The Dead, or any other "haunt" related or décor items
4.You must get a tracking number when shipping your gift
5. please post in the thread that your gift arrived
6. If you are having a issue with sending a gift, please contact me to see if it can be resolved: if you do not send a gift but have received one, you will be banned from further secret reapers.

If you agree to these terms and would like to participate, please message Bethene with the following information:
Name and address

Likes, dislikes, themes (if any), and any other info you feel might help your victim (example< out door haunt, indoor party,. PLEASE, make it as detailed as possible, it makes it so much easier !!! Again, DETAILS!!!!!!!
Example, instead of I like witches, what do you like, potion bottles, spellbooks, brooms, etc.

Also. do you want to ship to the USA only, Canada and USA, Canada only, Europe only or anywhere. Please let me know in your PM.

Also if anyone has any questions please PM me!

 

[Lady Arsenic]

I'll start putting together a list! Ironically, the bushes outside my house have been noisy tonight. Guess the neighbors cant sleep so they all went outside to party. Looking forward to a happy distraction this year! добро пожаловать Хэллоуин🍊

 

[AstorReinhardt]

Sign me up. Now I gotta work on my list.

 

[Gothikren]

I am in. Looking forward to it. Now on to making my list.

 

[Stinkerbell n Frog Prince]

I believe we'll be in so will have to work on a new list.

 

[Witchful Thinking]

So excited. Despite that I procrastinated my list...will work on it and get signed up ASAP! Hurray!

 

[WitchyKitty]

I can't sign up, right now...probably not at all...due to us both being laid off due to Covid...me permanently and my husband temporarily, as we know, atm. (He was laid off until Sept., originally, but then found out they decided to close our local location and, if he stays with the company, he will have to commute to the main location. If he stays there, he doesn't even know if he will be able to keep his position/salary that he worked so hard to get to with 18 years with the company, or if he will have to take whatever position/pay they can squeeze him in at in the main location...which could be a major pay cut. He may even have to find a new job, which means losing 18 years of seniority and benefits, plus all his hard work to get where he is. It's all around bad.)
He was approved for unemployment, but hasn't been able to actually get anything from it, yet...even though he was supposed to, already. He can't get in contact with them, either...was put on a callback list. So, we have been without income, besides me selling the occasional small craft and my husband doing odd jobs for our neighbor and his parents. Since we won't hear from his job until, maybe August and he won't have a chance to be back to work there in any way until at least September...then I can't think it possible for me to be able to sign up by end of sign ups.
Long sob story over... regardless, I will still hang out in bethene's bushes with y'all and then watch to see what you all get. Happy Reaper Season!!

 

[Spooky_Girl1980]

I'm in again this year. I'm off to get my list ready to send to bethene.

 

[bethene]

Witchykitty...I am so so sorry about all your job issues!! I wish I could help. Hugs sweetie!!


We have 3 signed up!🦇🦇🦇

 

[Witchful Thinking]

I can't sign up, right now...probably not at all...due to us both being laid off due to Covid...me permanently and my husband temporarily, as we know, atm. (He was laid off until Sept., originally, but then found out they decided to close our local location and, if he stays with the company, he will have to commute to the main location. If he stays there, he doesn't even know if he will be able to keep his position/salary that he worked so hard to get to with 18 years with the company, or if he will have to take whatever position/pay they can squeeze him in at in the main location...which could be a major pay cut. He may even have to find a new job, which means losing 18 years of seniority and benefits, plus all his hard work to get where he is. It's all around bad.)
He was approved for unemployment, but hasn't been able to actually get anything from it, yet...even though he was supposed to, already. He can't get in contact with them, either...was put on a callback list. So, we have been without income, besides me selling the occasional small craft and my husband doing odd jobs for our neighbor and his parents. Since we won't hear from his job until, maybe August and he won't have a chance to be back to work there in any way until at least September...then I can't think it possible for me to be able to sign up by end of sign ups.
Long sob story over... regardless, I will still hang out in bethene's bushes with y'all and then watch to see what you all get. Happy Reaper Season!!

That's a lot to be going through! So sorry you both are in that situation and that you won't be able to join in the reaper but so glad you are going to at least play with us in the shrubberies!! Sending you good thoughts that things turn around soon! Do you have a shop for your crafts? Would love to check it out---if it works for my victim's likes it would be a good way to both support a fellow haunter and get you involved in the reaper, even if not in a direct way!

 

[Shadow Panther]

Woo hoo I am in. I will post my list later tonight. It’s easier to do it from my laptop than my iPad. Sooooo excited.

 

[ceo418]

I am in! I just sent Bethene a message and posted my likes/dislikes!

 

[Stinkerbell n Frog Prince]

Sorry WitchyKitty. Glad you have a place here for you to be able to vent some and find support. My hubby is with that American Airplane manufacturer that's been in the news a LOT this past year. He still has a job but working from home since MARCH, they keep pushing back when they want workers back in the office. With the flying industry the way it's going now I worry he'll be asked to retire early, he's been with them since 1980. Frog, my Halloween partner is an auto mechanic. Until 2 weeks ago his shop was only open 2 days a week... they are now up to 3 days. The shop owner is starting to have trouble finding the money for rent. At least 3 other shops near his have had to close permanently. It's a sad state of affairs. Good thoughts, hopes for the future to be brighter and that it all works out.

I can't sign up, right now...probably not at all...due to us both being laid off due to Covid...me permanently and my husband temporarily, as we know, atm. (He was laid off until Sept., originally, but then found out they decided to close our local location and, if he stays with the company, he will have to commute to the main location. If he stays there, he doesn't even know if he will be able to keep his position/salary that he worked so hard to get to with 18 years with the company, or if he will have to take whatever position/pay they can squeeze him in at in the main location...which could be a major pay cut. He may even have to find a new job, which means losing 18 years of seniority and benefits, plus all his hard work to get where he is. It's all around bad.)
He was approved for unemployment, but hasn't been able to actually get anything from it, yet...even though he was supposed to, already. He can't get in contact with them, either...was put on a callback list. So, we have been without income, besides me selling the occasional small craft and my husband doing odd jobs for our neighbor and his parents. Since we won't hear from his job until, maybe August and he won't have a chance to be back to work there in any way until at least September...then I can't think it possible for me to be able to sign up by end of sign ups.
Long sob story over... regardless, I will still hang out in bethene's bushes with y'all and then watch to see what you all get. Happy Reaper Season!!

 

[PumpkinPrincette]

I have prepared for this the last 2 weeks! Totally in!

 

[WitchyKitty]

bethene, thank you for the hugs. {{hugs}} back!

Witchful Thinking, sadly, I don't have any kind of online shop. I usually just randomly make stuff when I'm feeling up to it and post it up on my FB page for friends and family to see if they want anything. (Right now, I have been sewing little stuffed fabric pumpkins. We bought a sewing machine and Cricut, this year...before the poop hit the fan, that is...and I have been learning to make fun items with those, as of late, but also make lots of other random crafts such as all the types of things y'all have seen me make for Victims over the years. We make larger things, too, but a bit too large or pricey for a SR, lol. Someday, it would be nice to have a shop. Right now, with so many people home and out of work, the crafting market is a bit too saturated to really make it worthwhile to open an online shop.) Thank you for the good thoughts!

Lol, if I had a Victim that lived, like, a few blocks away who liked the sewing machine and Cricut items that I have been playing around with and currently have the supplies for, like stuffed pumpkins, pot holders, fabric coasters, fabric bookmarks, vinyl personalized glassware, vinyl decals, paper crafts, face masks...LOL! That would be about the only way I could join, right now.

Stinkerbell n Frog, the "like" is for your mentioning you were sorry for my situation, sending good thoughts and glad I had a place like this to vent to (I am glad, too)...I "dislike" that your husband and Frog are having job issues, too, and about all the closings.

Who knows? Maybe some amazing, better paying, local job will suddenly pop up for my husband before the end of signups? Miracles happen...

So, since it's the last decent day of our short lived non-desert temp stretch (I don't live too far from our dear bethene, so I'm sure she probably has similar weather, if not a half day/day's difference), I shall stay up a bit later to get the Halloween string lights hung in bethene's bushes and around the bar...once the bar is set up. As stated, before, I can't supply the pillows and blankets like usual as, due to the dang virus, everyone should bring their own. I suggest the more colorful and festive, the better, to make it more fun in the bushes!!
Has anyone been working on getting the bar area set up? Ohhhh Aaaauditorrrrrr!!! Where are youuuuuuu????

Also...before "Certain Reapers" show up...you know who you are...might I suggest maybe EMPTYING the POOL and shutting off all connections to hoses/water lines near the gathering areas/bushes??? {{WitchyKitty gets her raincoat, umbrella and backup SuperSoaker ready, just in case...}}

Oh, and I mentioned in the previous thread that I'd post this, again, here...started making gerbil masks in case they want them. We don't think gerbils need them, but they are here in case they feel they do, or, like was said, they want to wear them in solidarity with any others wearing them.

 

[Witchful Thinking]

Hurray!! The party is starting! Thank you for putting up the lights, and I know I said it before but that's gerbil masks are the best!! {{Placing my blanket and pillows a safe distance from the pool...and wandering behind the bar..}} I will mix up the first batch until the usual suspects arrive. What shall we have.....Quarantinis maybe?

 

[WitchyKitty]

"Quarantinis'! Hahahaha!!

 

[lucidhalloween]

I'm in! Woop woop... bring on the victims, I could do with something fun to focus on!

 

[bethene]

We have 7 officially signed up!!!

Bushes are looking so good. Witchykitty!!

 

[Shadow Panther]

Witchykitty i am sorry to here the sad news. This year has been so bad for many. know that I will be sending positive energy in the hopes it helps.

The reap won’t seem the same without you. With that said I am interested in your pumpkins. Do you have pics you can pm me and let me know costs for things plus shipping. I love hand crafted pumpkins.