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Halloween Playland’s Gift Shop!


I can't believe how much crap I bought at the Halloween Playland Gift Shop. Too much to cover in one Countdown entry, so I'll spread the remainders around the blog throughout the month. Click the words that are bold to read about my adventures in a gift shop that sells fertilizer and Devil's Hearts right alongside one another.


One of the many items that didn't make the cut for article-inclusion is seen above -- a tub full of goo with a little Dracula figure inside. They call it "Halloween Putty." Other canisters had other monsters and goo in other colors, but it's tough to pick a witch over a widow's peak, even if the witch came in a tub of much cooler red slime.

I didn't have off work today. Our company trades Columbus Day for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He had a dream, and his dream was robbing me of my rightful October day off. Now I'm going to have to get people to cough on me until it's okay to stay home.

Posted by Matt on 10/09/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 97 comments

I seriously want a squish squoosh ball now. Just because they’re called that. Think about how fun that is to say! Squish squoosh!
I too enjoyed the gourd jokes. You made my entirely sleepless night-turned-morning better. =)

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/10/2006 9:39 AM

I too, would have bought the rat. And possibly the shrunken head on the left.

IHAQ- I saw the ‘Trailer Park Boys’ movie on Thanksgiving weekend also! It’s best to go see it while slightly under the influence. Hilarious!

I wish I had a greenhouse gift shop to go visit. :(

Found PARK PLACE on my McDonald’s breakfast this morning. Excellent.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 10/10/2006 10:30 AM

So Amazon is doing groceries now, and they say that they will try to offer every variety of certain products available, like KOOL-AID!

I figured you might be interested Matt in the flavors like jamaica flavor (that’s what it said, no picture though), mango, and the manderan one at the top.

This countdown is so awesome. I’m getting sad that October is going by so fast, but then again, that just means that Christmas is right around the corner.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/10/2006 11:03 AM

Matt,

Where exactly is the Halloween Playland located… i’ll be back home in SI this sunday to pick up decorations for my halloween party at party city, and I want to stop by the playland.

Chestnuts roasted by Lou @ 10/10/2006 11:43 AM

Matt, your days off schedule for work stinks like the company I work for. I had to work Columbus Day as well and we have to work on MLK Jr. day also but our tradeoff for that is we get the Friday after Thanksgiving off..My job also doesn’t have separate sick leave days so if we’re out sick, it goes against our vacation time. Nice, huh?

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y @ 10/10/2006 12:16 PM

Squish, squoosh!
Squish, squoosh!
Squish, squoosh!
Squish…….. Squoosh!
Squishsquoosh-squishsquoosh!
Squish, squish, squish, squish…..
Squoosh.

Chestnuts roasted by kinglash @ 10/10/2006 12:18 PM

Wonder when we in the lower 48 get the Trailer Park Boys movie…Borat’s higher on my go-see list anyway. Meant to go see Employee of the Month today (maybe if it was R I’d be more interested :/) but hopefully I can talk my way into seeing The Departed instead.
Can’t say I’m too horrified by old Chrissy getting shafted in the celebration department. I mean, I’d love the day off, but it’s not like he inspires any cool decorations or traditions so he can suck it up. Doesn’t he have already have a big ass statue to brag about anyway?

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/10/2006 1:56 PM

kingslash, you are way too cool for words!

Leaves were falling off the trees at my campus today, yet tons of trees aren’t changed yet.. It definitely feels more Halloweenular as each day passes. It was gorgeous today with the leaves flying about and such. It put me in the mood for some Halloween shopping!

Near me, there is going to be a teeny tiny Halloween festival, the only catch is it’s two hours long and for ages 9-12. I immediately thought of Matt at his Halloween playland… I’d feel so out of place, yet I want to see how horrible it will be.

Chestnuts roasted by Christine @ 10/10/2006 2:22 PM

Our stores have those Pokemon Pumpkins. But they call them mini spaghetti pumpkins. They also had some really evil spiney looking gourds that I couldn’t see the names of.

Chestnuts roasted by AoDfan @ 10/10/2006 2:53 PM

Hey, where can anyone find those Tootsie Pops shaped like Dracula, Bats, ect…

I’ve looked around, and nobody seems to have them. Are they a store exclusive somewhere?

Chestnuts roasted by Tootsie Hunter @ 10/10/2006 3:15 PM

I bought a squishy ball at a gasoline station as well yester day. Sadly im 28.

But its so COOL!!!!
SQUISH
SQUISH
SQUISH

Chestnuts roasted by Mjsgrass @ 10/10/2006 3:20 PM

Wal-mart has several of those air planters. There’s one that looks like one of those trees from Disney’s Adventures of Ichabod. I didn’t know that those things were so easy to take care of. I’m stopping by today to get that one and maybe a jack o’lantern, too. Plus, if I get out of the office on time, I’m going by Target to get a really cool light-up Halloween scene that looks like an evil version of those miniature ceramic Christmas villages.

Chestnuts roasted by freudguy @ 10/10/2006 3:23 PM

Well, it’s totally October. I’ll be damned if the girl I saw this morning wasn’t wearing zombie makeup.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 10/10/2006 3:52 PM

So let me get this straight – when you first started this year’s countdown, you felt you almost had too many things to write about… and now you found this Halloween Playland… AND a ton of stuff? Wow. Might as well invest pre-emptively in wrist braces for you carpal tunnel. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Yooka @ 10/10/2006 4:19 PM

Matt,

I seriously hope all this stuff equates to a nice (business related) tax write-off. Otherwise, 60 bucks on Halloween junk is just insane. Especiallye when combined with all the other Target trips and such. If you need a finance guy, I am your man.

Senior Financial Services Consultant
PNC Bank
Mr. Bellavance

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/10/2006 4:35 PM

Got 10 stamps at McD’s for 4 hashbrowns and a medium coke this morning. There is a rarity list out there now, if you google mcdonalds monopoly gamepiece rarity, one of the first hits. Anyway, 10 pieces for under 4 bucks, got a mcflurry, a value meal, and a breakfast sandwich. Not too shabby.

Chestnuts roasted by bricker @ 10/10/2006 5:08 PM

Got 10 stamps at McD’s for 4 hashbrowns and a medium coke this morning. There is a rarity list out there now, if you google mcdonalds monopoly gamepiece rarity, one of the first hits. Anyway, 10 pieces for under 4 bucks, got a mcflurry, a value meal, and a breakfast sandwich. Not too shabby.

Chestnuts roasted by bricker @ 10/10/2006 5:08 PM

Old E

Are you serious?

$60 on Halloween stuff is insane?

And you call it ‘junk’?!?!?

60 is probally easily spent by the average family these days, being the more expensive types of Halloween decoration available and all the different types of regular decoration.

I spent over $160 in Party City and over $45 in Stop n Shop on Halloween candy, n that was the first trip, i’m still buying new things as i see em. YEah not EVERYONE is like that, just the people crazy about it.

But 60 i would say is easilly spent by just the average family decorating their yard/house/porch.

Unless you simply mean that 60 bucks was too much for ‘that’ stuff. Which yeah, that store was a huge rip-off, i just hope you don’t mean Halloween stuff in general.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/10/2006 5:20 PM

So what in Halloween Playland is “For Monsters Only – and Boston Fans”? Surely not the poo-filled potty?
Presumably this has something to do with the Sox/Yankees insanity. As a New Englander, let me say that the rivalry makes no damn sense.
And I also have to say this: Matt managed to notice more local idiosyncrasies in his one trip to Bar Harbor than I have in my entire life. (Raises Dunkies coffee as a toast.)

Chestnuts roasted by A Reader from Maine @ 10/10/2006 5:25 PM

“…the old lady down the block who bucks knitting conventions by painting Frankenstein’s Monster over and over again…”

Matt, nooooo! You can’t paint sweaters, they’ll get all sticky. :)

I bought a bunch of decorations at Target today, but I went with all “harvest” themed stuff so I don’t have to redecorate until December. It’s not so much being mature as it is being lazy.

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/10/2006 5:37 PM

OK, Dan. I meant 60 bucks on one trip through a Pumpkin orchard gift shop was insane. Although spending more than 150 bucks on ANY decorations is insane to me. Of course, I have a wife, a kid, and an insane car payment on a 30K salary. I may value a buck a little differently than some.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/10/2006 5:46 PM

Lol, yeah.

And that’s ok, i agree with you, about the fact that those items were way overpriced.

And hey! i have serious money commitments too lol. It’s a sickness though, i can’t help but buy everything i like when it comes to Halloween, the girlfriend doesn’t like it so much, like the fact how whenever we go shopping for food she turns around to find me stopped staring at whatever Halloween stand what stuck at the end of Isle 3 :-/

But hey, what can i do? I find it hard to resist buying urges when it comes to general things, but that stopped, just Halloween now :D

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/10/2006 5:50 PM

Man, I went to McD’s over the weekend and got the double Baltic Ave. on my fries! What the hell? Is this something they’re doing knowingly?

And I gots to get one of those BK King masks. But $10 for shipping? It’s more for shipping than the damn mask!

Also, HBO On Demand this month (at least in Seattle) is featuring “Tricks and Treats” in their movie list. I watched Friday The 13th Parts VI (my favorite) and VII (eh) over the weekend. They seem to be adding more daily, but they’ve also got Scream and a couple of others that I forget. I hadn’t seen Part VII uncut since I saw it in the theater back in the day. You can totally tell where the studio cut out all the good gore scenes. It’s frustrating. And while Kane Hodder does a great job as Jason, I think my favorite Jason is C.J. Graham from Part VI.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris Martin @ 10/10/2006 6:09 PM

I just went to Trax Farms myself this weekend. It has awesome fresh pressed apple cider, and hay rides and such for the kids. My daughter rode a horse, fed sheep, rode a train, went on a hayride, made her own cider, AND picked out a 20 lb. pumpkin all for like 30 bucks. I had fun with the haunted attractions this weekend as well. Myself and the old lady went to “Station Scare” , which is a huge 10 block haunted attraction. This thing is designed every year by Tom Savini, but this year he teamed with George Romero to make one of the greatest haunted scary things on the planets. My daughter had her farm fun, and I screamed like a little bitch 7 or 8 times. I love Halloween.

THIS IS FROM ANOTHER POST.

But it serves my personal point well. For half of what Matt spent on doo dads at a gift shop, my Daughter was able to have the time of her life and we still had enogh left over for a tank of gas. I love decorating, but don’t you people ever SAVE your decorations from last year? I understand that there is alot of cool stuff coming out every year, but I had enough decorations to fill my house 3 years ago. I guess you could keep going and going with the decoration until it resembles a tornado site more than a house, but then the decorations lose their individuality. In Matt’s case, I am sure there are items strewn about his house. Just based on articles alone, I am imagining what would resemble a K.B. Toys store exploding and settling here and there. I just dont see having 100 vaguley important Halloween/any holiday decorations, when closer to 10 or 20 offer so much more individuality and attention. It still shows the spirit and you save alot more money. However, if my original question about tax-writeoffs is correct, Matt stands to claim up to 10% of his toy purchases as business related. He can also claim the gas it took to drive to Target all those times. In this case I would buy every little thing known to man… just to screw Uncle Sam.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/10/2006 6:41 PM

I got a little bit of Thanksgiving news for you. This year for the 80th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, they have brand new balloons of Flying Ace Snoopy and Pikachu as well as a giant Energizer Bunny float. Oh yeah!

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 10/10/2006 7:00 PM

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