Taking tonight off, but I’ll be back tomorrow fer shure. I need some quiet time to adjust to my newfound alien superpowers, or I’m just exhausted. I won’t leave you empty-handed, though. No, I’ll leave your hands full of heads.
I used to buy these really crude, plastic shrunken heads from Johnson Smith all the time as a kid, and my fascination with shrunken heads has stuck with me ever since. Not for real shrunken heads, mind you — don’t really care about where all that voodoo came from, but because it was the genesis for such cool toys, I respect the roots. Shrunken heads in general have become a bit more taboo in the world of toys as the years passed, but during the Halloween season, the coppers always look the other way.
Shrunken Head Dude #1 on the left came from Party City, and is part of a fairly large line of similarly rotted, disgusting, drooping eye heads with bits of lifelike hair. They’re nice and squishy like a doggy chew toy, stopping short of actually squeaking because they’re shrunken heads and shrunken heads aren’t supposed to be cute. I really like how Shrunken Head Dude #1 in no way, shape or form skimps on being ghoulish or gross. Usually, only the bigger, pricier Halloween decorations get away with being legitimately creepy. Shrunken Head Dude #1 is perfect for a bloodlust on a budget.
Shrunken Head Dude #2 is more of a “bust” than a “shrunken head,” but let’s pretend otherwise for the sake of me getting to call a toy “Shrunken Head Dude #2.” Found this guy at a craft store; again, he’s part of a larger line consisting of many different creatures of the night. The others in the set are probably more desirable (and recognizable), but I had to give this random lilac-skinned vampire dude the nod because he looked like the kind of guy who’d suck blood and play the piano at the same time.
Both are in the five dollar range, if not a bit less, and make for great around-the-house Halloween decorations that won’t require you to clear out four square feet of space to set up.
Survey Time, Survey Time: How have you decorated for the Halloween season? Best finds? Best heirlooms? Best shrunken heads? Lawn only, or indoors, too? Tell us about it and win a prize. Okay there’s no prize.
Hmmm…I’d like to put up some decent decorations, but my family seldom has the time/resources. We usually just put up an autumn wreath at the last minute. In previous years, though, I’ve toyed with the idea of making fake tombstones with real, humorous epitaths I read in Bathroom Readers. Maybe I’ll do it this year.
Posted by TB Tabby
@ 10/04/2006 11:31 PM EDT
havent had time to decorate the apt much yet, but there are some black lights and glow in the dark skeletons up that are just kind of here year round. did you see the totally awesome “shrunken head on a stick” collection at party city?? theyre so cool. they also have a really good new elm street glove out for 12.99. shiny plastic blades instead of dull gray rubber and the glove and “rusted metal” connectors look super spooky. thats my favorite buy of the season, for sure.
I have put up alot of my decorations already. A fake Flaming Cauldron on the mantle, with fall leaves spread out over it (the mantle), 2 wooden ghost things that me and my mom painted, and two purple candles. I know it sounds really odd, all together, but it’s pretty cool.
I put up some other hand-painted items, leaves, and spooky “shadow” candle holder things.
I have a few of those “foamies” kits from the crafts stores that I made, too. Two graveyards and a spooky house. I put two of those on the buffet in the dining room with a black spiderweb looking type of cloth underneath. Then I sprinkled tiny fall leaves all around and put some of the miniature tombstones and gargoyles I got from Michael’s.
I put some black bat cling-ons on the dining room window, too, and on the living room mirror, too. I’m not totally done yet - I have some more stuff I’m going to try to work out to make it look good, but I’m happy I got out most of it so far.
Posted by Ryane
@ 10/04/2006 11:47 PM EDT
I dont own many halloween decorations, but this year I doing a everytime I go out I buy something.
So far I have the blood dripping from the windows and a kick ass little skeleton dude hanging in the front door window.I have my ghost and pumpkin pillow and halloween blanket on my couch.
I still have to put up my little paper lights that have ghost faces on them and my “graveyard this way” sign I got at wally world.
I’m right into halloween this year, more than ever, its all because of this place! And maybe my son too.
I just moved into a dorm shortly before this Halloween madness started so I don’t want to freak my roommate out too much before I actually know her. Thus, I have very limited Halloween so far.
I did get one of those squeezy skulls from Party City with the bloody eye socket, and some small rat figurines. Two of them glow in the dark! Two of them I put into some sort of torture device I made with a paperclip! (School is really boring!)
Posted by Katherine
@ 10/05/2006 12:00 AM EDT
I have my standard Halloween decorations: The stretchy rat and spider. the vampire smore, the NBX figures, bloody mini tombstone candles, gargoyles and spectre on boingy seing. ^_^
On the neat side, My Mom got me a candle from Illuminations (the only store at the mall that can get away with selling candles shaped like carrots and pears) that is white and has shadows off spiders embedded in the wax, so when you burn a tea light in it…you see a bunch of spider shadows ^_^
So far, Target, Department 56, {arty City and See’s candy have been my Halloween must goes
Posted by Lost Lenore
@ 10/05/2006 12:10 AM EDT
I have nowhere to decorate. Five floors up at a temporary residence sucks. But I did pick up a big plastic door covering at a yard sale that I hung in my bathroom. It has a really aweful drawing of a witch holding a “Have a Happy Halloween” sign, over a cauldron with a black cat walking in fire with a haunted house in the background and two giant bats with huge claws flying overhead. It’s the stupidest looking thing ever, and that’s why I love it and why it’s going to stay hanging up long after Halloween ends.
I started decorating on August 15th. The summers are so miserable here in Oklahoma that by the end of August I can barely live with myself, so I tried to offset the heat by decorating early. I live in a duplex so I can’t put lights outside and any lawn decorations would be destroyed by the landscapers, but the inside of my house is totally drenched in Halloween decor.
My kitchen table is set up with a black table cloth with a sheer spiderweb table cloth over it and assorted Halloween-themed kitchen items (haunted house cookie jar (full of Halloween Oreos with orange filling), talking Spell Book candy dish (got it at Hallmark last year–definately my favorite find!!), spiderweb candle holders, etc).
In my living room I have my two witches’ brooms behind the front door (one for me, one for my cat) and a little graveyard scene on my shelf/coat hooks. I have large Target light-up pumpkins (bought about four years ago) on either side of my tv stand, pumpkin spice candles on either side of the tv, and a few horror movie posters hanging up and some sitting on the floor–looks really cool that way (they’re classic horror movies like “Bride of Frankenstein” and “Dracula” that I got for $1 a piece at Dollar Tree–there are six of them and they’re definately my favorite find for this year!)
My bathroom is decorated year-round in Nightmare Before Christmas with a NBC calendar, shower curtain, toothbrush holder, trash can, Jack-face rug, a pumpkinhead Jack doll on the hand towel holder, and various action figures still in their blister packs hanging on the wall. Oh, and my Sally music box sitting on the back of the toilet next to my Bloody Pumpkin Fountain found at Spirit (my favorite find from two years ago!). And a Halloween nightlight my grandma gave me with a pumpkin and one of those bubbling bulbs coming out of the top of it.
My bedroom just has Tim Burton movie posters all over the walls and those stay up year-round. I’m a bit obsessed.
And then there’s my cat, Nyxie, who is black, so she’s kind of like a living, breathing Halloween decoration all year long and she even dresses up (she loves wearing a bandanna for some bizarre reason). And she has her favorite orange and black-striped Target fleece blanket on the chair by the window.
So that’s my house! And I’m not done yet! I still have to hang the purple and orange lights wrapped in mummy gause from the ceiling and make the life-sized witch prop to go in my window. I’m entering a contest my complex puts on every year where if you come up with the best decoration for your window you get a $50 gift certificate to the Haunted House Restaurant. I am SO going to win it this year!!
So far all I’ve put out is “The one and only original vanilla cappuccino broom” I mentioned yesterday, but I also have some photos and keepsakes and assorted skeletons I put out for Dia de los Muertos as well. Planning on decorating outside as well, hopefully this weekend.
So far I’ve put up two different string of lights, one purple and wrapped with Halloween garland (pumpkins, bats, tinsel.. a beautiful combination!) and the second a strand of jack-o-lantern lights.
On my entertainment center is the headless horseman riding DareDevil (the horse, not the blind guy, though that IS a thought begging to be drawn) with his sword out. He’s accompanied by a little snow globe I got of the Haunted Mansion at Didneylan’. Plays Grim Grinning Ghosts.
Flanking the Horseman is, of course, my Halloween ponies. I also have post cards of hitch hiking ghosts and dead pirates strewn about up there.
I have a wee Halloween tree that you can decorate with tiny vampires, ghosts, etc that my sister gave me for my birthday. What makes it really funny is that I wass born in August.
Assorted knick knacks on the coffee table, and my true love, my jointed paper skeletons are alternately doing the Charleston (front door) and jazz hands (hallway door).
Skeleton windchimes, spider baskets, etc. I so love this season!
Alright, new game. It’s dumb fun, but very dumb fun. If that makes any sense. Trust me you’ll want to buy all of the products featured it in. And, no sadly it’s not Target, it’s Kmart.
I played as the demonic Jester, and cursed only the controls. Digital control in an isometric 3/4 game, the bain of my gaming existance. Which is why it’s surprising that back in the day, Solstice and Equinox were two of my favorite games. My kingdom for an Equinox ROM. I’m sure they’re out there, I just have looked.
Posted by K-
@ 10/05/2006 2:13 AM EDT
When I think about shrunken heads, I automatically think of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not mueseums.
Actually, WAL-MART has some surprisingly good shrunken head busts this year. They are supposed to be the hanging/floating monster things but their capes are kinda crappy so I got rid of them and kept the busts.
I will have to post some pics of the Halloween classroom…
Posted by The Manimal
@ 10/05/2006 6:29 AM EDT
Yeah we aren’t really so much decorated for Halloween as we are for Fall. Leaves, pumpkins, gourds, corn, that kinds shit. Another unfortunate thing about having to live at home, but sadly I just can’t make it on my own because my company is fucking cheap as shit and I don’t make enough to live on. They’ve already informed me their plan for the Holiday season is not to hire help for the administrative tasks, but to have me work more weekends, evenings, and overtime. Unbeknownst to them, my plan for the Holiday Season is to find a new fucking job.
My mother used to decorate the outside of our house with a jumbo spiderweb made out of yarn with a big inflatable spider in the middle. She hasn’t done it in forever, claiming there isn’t enough time. I proclaim one might mysteriously materialize within the next week or two.
Posted by Mystie
@ 10/05/2006 7:34 AM EDT
Sadly i gotta say i’ve never been a shrunken heads kinda guy. I stop when i see in em in the isle, i think they look cool, but i just can’t imagine the use i’d find for sittin em on a table or something. I dunno.
But yeah the house has been HALF decorated since about the 18th Sep. I would have gone all the way but i wanted to leave a lil something left for me to do when it was closer to the vent in October.
But so far i’ve got
Orange plastic tablecloth w/ Clear spiderweb plastic tablecloth over it for, as you guessed it, orange plastic spiderweb tablecloth effect, like the package suggested. (Partycity)
2 Pumpkin carvin kits at the ready. A big one from Kings and a smaller one from Wal-mart.
Porcelain pumpkin candle holder (Hallmark)
1 Pumpkin (for now)
One of those skelton hands that holds a glass candle holder (Wal-mart)
Pumpkin faced tea-tree candles (6) (Wal-mart)
And a collection of Halloween foods i got so far, mainly from Stop n shop, some from Wal-mart, including such usuals as candy corn, that $10 Nestle Ultimate Scream bag, Gummy Body Parts, a pumpkin with popsicles inside, Halloween edition Pringles, Halloween edition M&M’s (coolest packing EVER), Halloween edition Sprite 6 pack (i would have NEVER bought it if it was just standard Sprite, i mean i like sprite, i order it at restaurants, but i’m not much of a soda person at home, either beer or water, trailing off here)
But yeah as you can see i’ve just got the small table decoration type things out at the moment, i’m waiting until the time ‘feels right’ to bust out the 5FT graveyard scene setters (Partycity) the pumpkin garlands (PC) the multiple different ‘Happy Halloween’ banners, the paper plates, cups, napkins and orange plastic knives and forks lol. (I got almost like every different design they had in Partycity) the blacklight bulbs, and oh yeah, window decorations, already got them up.
Anyway big post, just wanted to share my decorating style, would be nice to see if anyone picked up anything similar from those places.
Halloween’s weird in Germany, so my tiny Halloween decor additions aren’t much to be proud of. On the plus side, I’ve got a mannequin dressed up as Jason Voorhees up in my living room year round, so that’s got to count for something.
By the by, when’s the Halloween Art showcase going to be?
-jared
No decorations yet here…I tend to not really get into Halloween until the week of the actual event…
Posted by Cameron T.
@ 10/05/2006 8:31 AM EDT
I live in TX so we dont really get a fall season here…I used to live in TN where all the trees turned awesome fall colors, and dead leaves coated the ground. I remember crunching my way from house to house on Halloween night as a kid…good stuff. It really added to the ambiance.
Anyway, here in TX the trees just go from green to bare/dead…so it just doesnt ‘feel’ like Halloween when the time comes around. Ive always decked my house out with cool, scary shit (I’m the kind who remembers Halloween as SCARY, not ’spooky’, and still treat it as such). The more fake rotting corpses I can have partially crawling out of the ground the better. I try to go all-out…fog, lighting FX, etc. If I see a family and their kids shy away from my lawn, I know Ive done my job right.
However, the sight of those multicolored leaves falling from the trees, blowing around in the wind, crunching under my feet and getting stuck all over my costume is just one of those things that MAKES Halloween, so no matter how many dead guys I throw in the yard, its just not the same.
I sadly admit that the site is more decorated than our apartment, but now that it’s October, maybe I’ll be inspired the let the neighborhood know that I worship Satan.
My girlfriend and I pulled out the artificial tree, hit the dollar store for decorations and dressed the tree. A ghost garland, orange and purple beads, little jack o’lanterns, bats, plastic rings of bats, spiders, witches and skulls. Topped the tree with a spider and his web. Our tablecloth is covered in ghosts, and we have 3 pumpkins. Due to finances, that may be all we’re going to be able to do, but we’re happy with it right now.
We just moved into our apartment, and havn’t done very much at all (fall candles, big creepy head candy holder, a pumpkin). Mostly because my wife and I are just starting out and are pretty poor, but just wait until Christmas. We’ve got enough Christmas decorations to make elves’ heads explode, just waiting for November.
Posted by Fox
@ 10/05/2006 9:51 AM EDT
Not too much going on yet, though I did purchase two gargoyles and some halloween-scented candles from Target. I like to think that the gargoyles add a certain ambiance. I hope to get something up on the door later, because when living in an apartment building, the door is like your lawn.
My Halloween interior decor includes a “haunted” basement with an overwhelming spider theme. The walls are plastered with this tarp-like shit that has spider webs all over the place and skeletons within said spider webs. Additional fake spider webs are utilized wherever possible, for more of a 3-D effect.
There is a “Halloween Tree” in the corner, which is a regular fake tree that has been spraypainted black and decorated with orange lights AND awesome eyeball lights. There is some fake spider web action on the tree and a realistic-looking crow perched atop that always falls off.
An all-too-realistic decapitated mannequin (”Jerry”) sits in a chair, next to a table with that orange spider web table cover thing and a Halloween shrine with an electric jack-o-lantern, bone candles and other Halloween-style candles, an evil bloody chalice with heart inside, a whole bunch of Simpsons Halloween toys from Burger King, a coffin filled with candy, and a book written by some asshole minister about how rock-n-roll is evil.
There are also green and purple strings of lights, regulation lightbulbs replaced with red lightbulbs, a strobe light, too many wall decorations from Halloween Express (including a bitchin’ Freddy Krueger silhouette thing), a motion-activated skull mobile, hand drawn posters, and other mystery surprises. Despite all this, I’m still not done! Soon, there will be a hidden stereo that plays Halloween sound effects all day.
Outdoor decor includes light-up skull and many skeleton hands. I have yet to make a “Rockwell RIP” tombstone, as seen in the video for “Somebody’s Watching Me.” There will probably be a humanoid figure hung from a tree.
Hey Matt, this Halloween I am going to be none other than…The Shockmaster!!! Seriously.
Last night was torture! The town I work in just got a brand new Wal-Mart (the biggest I’ve ever seen) and I was stuck there for almost an hour waiting for a ride because my car broke down. They had the largest halloween section I’d ever seen in a Wal-Mart, and of course, I didn’t have any money. Oh well. Right now I’m trying to decide if I should be Mighty Max or a dead emo kid. What’s everyone else going to be?
Romus_Z- No joke! I wish Texas had any semblance of fall. I’ve lived in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, and each city has the worst seasonal transitions in the world. It stays hellishly hot from April to November, and then it cools down to about 60-70 something for a month or two. Once February and March roll around, when you’re ready to have it get warm again, it starts to get colder. Last Christmas we had to have the a/c on.
we’ve got few things up here at work, but not all he stuff, yet. I’m going to We’en up the home next week, probably throw the lights on the 13th. Witch means, deco shopping this weekend! I always try to have as many All Hallows’ stuff as Christmas.
One day, I shall win the lottery, buy a fairly large house, and have Hallowe’en all year.
Posted by kingklash
@ 10/05/2006 12:44 PM EDT
I have some lawn decoration. I have some porch decoration. The inside of the house is pretty Un-Halloweeny though.
It’s my first time commenting here, although I’ve been visiting this great website for more than half a year. I’m a bit nervous and hope I won’t make stupid mistakes. But enough of that, I’d like to tell you a bit about my Halloween decoration.
As I’m living in an apartment with my mother and my little sister, we don’t have a lawn to decorate, but try our best inside. My room is currently decorated with lots of pumpkin shaped votive holders, fake spider webs (which I bought way too much of XD) and all kinds of rubber and plastic spiders. Then there are a Halloween garland, a glow-in-the-dark ghost and a big banner on the walls. I also used some cute pumpkin and ghost plushies and Halloween PEZ dispensers to give my desk a bit of the holiday spirit (I also put Halloween wallpaper and icons on my computer desktop, but I guess that doesn’t count ^^).
The rest of the room is decorated with random stuff like candles or bat shaped confetti.
I think my favourite prop is the big, battery powered light up pumpkin which is as big as a real pumpkin and very well made. I was given that as birthday gift a couple of years ago, it was (and still is!) one of my favourite presents.^^
Now that I read all this, it probably sounds nicer than it actually is. *g*
Posted by Kapprika
@ 10/05/2006 1:35 PM EDT
I just have the lame battery operated chosties hanging from the back porch. I have a few “Happy Halloween” window clings up, and some homemade tombstones I made out of cardboard and silver spraypaint out in the yard. I will make my traditional dummy dude full of dead leves once the trees start shedding their foliage. I really have not done much at all in the house since my 2 year old daughter is afraid of monsters this year.
Posted by Old E
@ 10/05/2006 2:18 PM EDT
battery operated ghosties*
Posted by Old E
@ 10/05/2006 2:19 PM EDT
Hey, I live in Texas and we get Fall. The leaves change and everything.
Of course, I do live in a Northen part of Texas.
Posted by Deuce
@ 10/05/2006 2:32 PM EDT
I found an awesome skull candle at Walgreens. It looks like a normal skull on the outside but it has red wax on the inside. After the wax gets all hot and gooey it starts to ooze out of its eyes and ears (or where the ears would be if it had skin). It is awesome in theory and in the picture on the box but needed a little helping along in practice. Anyway, it’s still awesome and only $2.99!
Posted by bobshumway
@ 10/05/2006 2:34 PM EDT
Neither I nor my family have decorated all that much for Halloween. Throughout my life, we never went much further than making Jack-O-Lanterns. But when I lived next door to my aunt and uncle in the ghetto area of Sacramento, they would really do it up for Halloween. I always loved going over there during that time of year. Too bad they were the only house that I was allowed to trick or treat at, cuz we lived in the ghetto then.
Newfound superpowers? Umm, are you gonna be the next new character on Heroes. If so, then woo hoo (even tough I know it’s probably not true)!
I am loving HEROES so far. I can’t wait to find out what is up with the blonde chick. Speaking of TV shows. Did anyone else watch the new South Park last night? I almost peed a little during the “7 months of slaying boars in the woods” montage. I love that they made fun of WoW, and left my City of Heroes alone.
Posted by Old E
@ 10/05/2006 3:23 PM EDT
Well, we don’t decorate much right now due to lack of space. We plan on buying a new house here in the next year or two and I have already warned my wife to be prepared for Freudguy’s House of Horrors. She got pissed until I explained that it was “horrors” and not “whores”. For now, I am settling for a plastic light-up pumpkin, a really cool antiquey-looking ceramic ghost and some Halloween votive candle thingies. I have some really cheesy plastic jack o’ lanterns that I will be placing outside this weekend on our front deck.
Posted by freudguy
@ 10/05/2006 4:13 PM EDT
I was trying to figure out if that was a Heroes reference. Still not sure if it is, but I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought of it. I bet on Six Degrees over Heroes as the new ensemble show to add to the lineup, a regrettable decision that I’m already trying to rectify.
Ah Halloween in Louisiana. I have my newly christened Buried Treasures Graveyard up and going. So far I have put out my 6 foot columns topped with gargoyle statues and my cemetery fence. I also put out my life size coffin, complete with body and various tombstones, all hand made and complete with epithaphs of Jason, Freddy, etc. I have also put out a few freaky scare crows and I have my micky mouse pumpkin on my coffee table. More to come this weekend.
Posted by Tigerfan
@ 10/05/2006 4:45 PM EDT
Tigerfan, wb! and show us some pics, too!
Welcome all other new people who post or are just reading this now because some jerk in the office told you about the previous MLP article, but welcome nonetheless!
Halloween decorations? I really don’t like putting them up around here, just put my blasphemous non-carved pumpkins on the stoop and that’s good enough.
And…I FINALLY GOT THE HALLOWEEN JONES SODAS!!! I’ve only tried Monster Mojito (and, if I’m correct, Candy Corn, Berried Alive & Spider Cider I’ve tried already last year), and I have to say…it tastes pretty good. Like apples, but not like caramel apples. *shudders*
I’m in Waco, TX. We get fall in the form of “cooler Temps” (70s-80s) instead of 90s.
But no leaves turning.
Posted by Cameron T.
@ 10/05/2006 5:35 PM EDT
If broomstickjockey can decorate for Halloween 75 days early, then it’s open season for decorating for Christmas on Tuesday.
Posted by jrh
@ 10/05/2006 6:57 PM EDT
I’ve already assembled my trick-or-treat bags. I have enough for 40 trick-or-treaters, but I doubt I’ll get that many. Each bag contains a mini Play-Doh, Great Pumpkin Fruit Snacks, a sticker sheet, a couple plastic flies and spiders, a plastic spider ring, and either a mini Peppermint Batty, Peanut Butter Pumpkin, or Hershey Ghost. I’m hoping that Wendy’s is gonna have their Jr. Frosty coupons 10 for $1 thing again this year, so I can attach one to the bags when I staple them shut. Gonna be a good time for anyone stopping by my house this Halloween. Though I’m kinda hoping I have some leftover Play Doh.
Posted by Mystie
@ 10/05/2006 8:00 PM EDT
Mystie- There was ONE house in my neighborhood that gave out goodie bags on halloween. I always made sure to hit their house first, even though it kinda made my route kinda screwy. They had cool bags, but no where NEAR as cool as the ones you have set up! The trick-or-treaters that come to your house are some lucky kids!
I have spent my time today watching my roomates 4 kids…lucky for me, the oldest decided to watch The Maxx with me, so at least I haven’t been driven too crazy!
Posted by MissJess
@ 10/05/2006 8:53 PM EDT
Ooooops!!! I forgot to de-bolden! I hate standing out like that!
Posted by MissJess
@ 10/05/2006 8:55 PM EDT
I’m in an apartment in the back of a house, so the lawn isn’t mine to decorate, but I plan on putting up my indoor Halloween decorations tomorrow or Saturday. Most of what I have are cute cardboard hanging decorations - a huge ghost with weird eyes, black cats, spiders, pumpkins, etc. I have a Beany Baby ghost and a Beany Baby-style cauldron from Eckards when they sold Beany-type toys for Halloween and Christmas a few years ago, an orange-and-black tinsel garland, a small standing witch from the thrift shop where I volunteer, and a stuffed wobbly witch from a dollar store in Cape May County. General “fall” decorations (leaves, small pumpkins, Indian corn, non-scary scarecrows) went up a few weeks ago.
Posted by starwenn
@ 10/05/2006 10:04 PM EDT
Wow Mystie, that is an awesome treat bag! I don’t think I ever got anything even close to that kick ass for halloween. I may have to drive to PA and doing some trick or treating.
Also, any other Canadians excited for The Trailer Park Boys move tomorrow? I’m going to see it on Monday when my husband has his day off, I’m hoping the theater wont be closed for Thanksgiving.
IHAQ- I can’t wait to see the Trailer Park Boys movie! I think this will give the boys their big break in the States.
I live in an apartment now, and I am poor now as well, so the decorating hasn’t started yet. I HAVE however, picked out all the cool shit I WANT to buy.
Mostly I think I will stick to pumpkins and have a Jack-o-Lantern carving party to set the place up.
When I was younger, the best treat bags came from old people in my neighborhood- and they literally had different bags depending on whose kid you were. As soon as you got to the door, they would ask “And who are you? Whose your parents?” and if the answer satisfied them, you would get s “OH! I know your dad- he’s my sister’s husband’s cousin! Well, here YOU go then!” and you would get the reserved-for-family goodie bag= with homemade fudge, candy apples, BIG chocolate bars and cans of pop!
Yes, I lived in a town THAT hick. It was hard to find people you WEREN’T related to so you could date. Sad.
Posted by Muppet Baby
@ 10/05/2006 11:17 PM EDT
I have a 4×4 purple-lighted, black spider-web stretched across a large mirror with various things tied to it- all kinds of Barbies (Kissing Barbie, an old Ken, Donnie from Donnie and Marie, Western Barbie, Barbie Beauty Secrets), a large, green fabric praying mantis finger puppet, two huge plastic spiders, one blue, multi-armed East Indian rubber finger puppet that has a necklace of skulls, fluorescent green and orange lizards (they’re attacking one of the spiders), a miniature Pikachu (what’s Halloween without a Pikachu?!), an old Darth Vader action figure and a pair of bendy Gumby and Pokey. I’ll just keep adding to it through-out this coolest of all months. Also, a small dish of candy corn on the table for eating while bored or high (the only frame of mind I can eat that stuff in), a wrought iron candle holder with five orange-peel encrusted, craft-type candles stuck in it (for that Roger Corman/Vincent Price feel), a pair of red-lipped wax vampire teeth that seem to migrate from one end of the house to the other during the weekends, a wooden “Black Cat Crossing” sign stuck in a plant by the black cats bed (a bit cutesy, but, y’know..it’s cute), a long clear plastic twirly-thing with pumpkin stickers hung over the deck..hmm. Probably missed a few things that will now be pissed off and stab me in the dark…heh-heh.
Posted by PerfectPrice
@ 10/06/2006 5:46 AM EDT
Invader,
I have yet to take pictures because the yard is not complete. As soon as I think I can do no more, I will snap some pics and find some site to host them and send out the link.
Posted by Tigerfan
@ 10/06/2006 9:11 AM EDT
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