Stupid Trick or Treat Tricks

[GaTechGal]

I kept a tally and only had 2 slutty girl costumes and one of them was that Dorothy with the thigh high stockings. Makes me wonder about the parents. And any kid that showed up to my door had to tell me what his costume was before I gave them anything. One kid had the strings from his hoodie tied criss-cross over his face and told me right away that he was "Sweatshirt Man" - so I gave him something for being quick. Another kid tried "Me", "A Person", and "A Student" all which I rejected. He asked his friends standing at the street for help and they finally came up with "Gang member" which looked about right. So I gave him a pack of Pretzels (we were giving out packs of Pretzels, Gold fish, or Popcorn - I think it's nice to have a little salty to go with all the sweet).

[vixen101485]

LOL..gotta give them points for inginuity(sp?)
I only saw one group of streetwalker costumes. The girls were olders maybe 17 or so. Took me a few to figure out the theme. Meghyn saw the one first and said "look mama a pink zebra" When we got up to them I realized she was the Chesire Cat. The other 2 were Alice and the Queen of Hearts. All short little dresses with the thigh highs (lucky it was semi warm that nite lol)
The cat laughed when I told her the little one thot she was a zebra. Nice girls, a little slutty looking but nice. LOL

[Princess Susi]

Some of the older kids we got were very original. We had a Queen Elizabeth, with one of those costumes you could only rent, that I thought was the Queen of Hearts! We had an *ice cream cone*, actually very clever, the teenage boy took butcher paper and crinkled it all up to make a big ball on top of his head and used cut out upsidedown triangles down his back, sides and front in brown paper as the cone! It actually had us laughing. I looked at him and asked "What the heck are you?" he said "An ice cream cone!" Ralphie and I were rolling. It was actually quite original and cute! My very favorite was *Mickey Mouse*, our neighbor's litlte girl of about two. Mom sewed a cute costume with the shorts and big buttons and the shoes...this little doll was so cute. I had on the Pooh costume and they took a picture of us together. I want to get a copy! If she emails it to me, I will post it. Very cute. We went through so much candy. We gave out all kinds of candy all mixed up in a big bowl, chocolate bars, gum, tootsie pops, smartees, a big mix of everything we could grab off the shelves! We live in one of those neighborhoods where everyone drives in from all over town to bring their kids to collect candy. "The rich neighborhood" where the people just HAVE to give out great stuff. I saw pkgs of Orville Redenbacher's microwave popcorn in one bag, and told Ralphie, "Next year, Costco, for the big boxes of the microwave popcorn, you just stick an unopened, still in the plastic pkg in the kid's bag, Voila! popcorn for the kids!" That is what I want to do IF we decide to stay home for the evening. We keep getting more and more kids every year, word travels... We finally ran out and had to scurry into the house and turn out the lights, they just kept coming from everywhere.

Last year, on Halloween night, we were walking on the Santa Cruz, California Boardwalk in a fine mist and we stayed in a quiet motel on the beach in the off season. It was great! We had just come up from Disneyland the weekend before Halloween and had a great time, then headed north to see *the folks* not such a great time ;) Maybe we will be gone next year again, to WDW!!!!!! Yeah! What a plan!!!! :D:

[hobie16]

...one of the girs replied, that my DAD!

Does that mean dad was a skank wrangler?

[Syndrome]

Me: *In reference to my spooky house* I find it delightfully unliveable in this ghostly retreat... (I was using Mansion references all night since some people around here get it)

That reminds me of the year my townhouse was destroyed by a flood. In previous years, Mr. Syndrome and I would put on an act for the kids. He would answer the door in a tattered, bloody t-shirt with a handcuff hanging from one wrist and say, "Quick! Take the candy and go before SHE gets back!" Then I'd run out in an evil costume and drag him away, hacking him up with a plastic knife. We got tons of trick or treaters who all loved it.

When the townhouse flooded one Oct. (upstairs toilet tank cracked while we were gone for the weekend), it was literally so badly damaged that it had to be gutted and we had to move out for 12 weeks while the repairs were being done. But I insisted on returning for Halloween, so there we are handing out candy from a gutted shell with exposed studs etc. Looked pretty spooky. One kid looks in and says, "WOW! Did you guys do that just for Halloween?"

The Russian guy reminded me of Celebration last year. I was at a house downtown as I love to be in the midst of the insane crowds, and someone brought a gaggle of Japanese girls from the Japan pavillion at Epcot. I guess they were trying to show them what a typical American Halloween is, although the mayhem in Celebration doesn't really represent it too well...now they probably think that the holiday is more akin to a riot. They were obviously over trick or treating age, but they had dressed up in traditional Japanese clothing and were actually getting a decent haul of candy. Our host invited them in, where a party was going on, and they had quite a fun introduction to the holiday.

[BRWombat]

Awesome, Syndrome!!

I kept a tally and only had 2 slutty girl costumes and one of them was that Dorothy with the thigh high stockings. Makes me wonder about the parents. And any kid that showed up to my door had to tell me what his costume was before I gave them anything. One kid had the strings from his hoodie tied criss-cross over his face and told me right away that he was "Sweatshirt Man" - so I gave him something for being quick. Another kid tried "Me", "A Person", and "A Student" all which I rejected. He asked his friends standing at the street for help and they finally came up with "Gang member" which looked about right. So I gave him a pack of Pretzels (we were giving out packs of Pretzels, Gold fish, or Popcorn - I think it's nice to have a little salty to go with all the sweet).

My two kids actually wanted to go trick-or-treating for the first time ever this year, at ages 10 & 12. (We don't have anything against it, we'd just always gone to fall carnivals and such before.) Unfortunately, we hadn't prepared much in the way of costumes. Even more unfortunately, I had just recently showed them a clip of Adam Sandler on SNL doing his cheap-and-easy Halloween costume routine ("I'm 'crazy pickle moustache.' My moustache is made of a pickle! I'm crazy! Now give me some candy!"), so my 12-year-old thought something like that would actually work. (He was going to tuck his pants into his socks and go as "crazy sock guy." :rolleyes :)

The friend he was going around with had a sheet with eye-holes cut in it. No, he wasn't going as a ghost, but as a sheet, particularly since the sheet had some blue pattern on it -- so we talked Brandon into putting on some pajamas and slippers and holding a teddy bear. It turned out pretty cute.

He turns into a teenager on Wednesday, so I guess we can't get away with calling him "cute" much longer! :D:

[joanna71985]

There was a story in the Dallas Morning News about teenagers trick or treating without putting much effort into costumes. I liked one lady they found who kept two bowls of goodies. One contained chocolates and other really good stuff -- this she gave to the cute kids with costumes. The other bowl, with gum and other less desirable stuff, was for the teens out of costumes. :)

I love it!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

We used to give out toothbrushes to the "big kids"