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From: Bama
Date: 10-31-2005, 07:06 AM (1 of 20)
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Have a happy and safe Halloween everybody! We are staying home and handing out candy and probably will watch a movie. I have to pick up more candy. My kids already found my hiding spot.  We're also guarding the yard from dd's friends who discovered rolling yards this year. 
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User: Bama
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From: dmoses
Date: 10-31-2005, 08:07 AM (2 of 20)
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Happy Halloween! I usually sit in the driveway and hand out the treats because it is easier than having to listen for our very weak doorbell, and constantly opening and closing the door. Besides, our dog goes a little crazy whenever a stranger comes to the door.  I have a ton of junk to give out, and now the weatherman is saying we'll get severe thunderstorms this evening, so we may not get very many trick-or-treaters. But you know there will be some who insist on going out...  My kids will be happy to *dispose* of the junk for me! 
Take care,
Donna |
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From: debsews
Date: 10-31-2005, 10:42 AM (3 of 20)
| This is the one thing I truly miss about being in a neighborhood with children. We used to sit on our front porch and hand out candy for the same reason. Not wanting to listen for the doorbell but also because it was a very good night to talk to all the neighbors and see all the kids go up and down the block. My neighbor and I used to do the one for them and two for us rule! We don't get any trick or treaters here in retirement land and i really miss them. Also my grandchildren would come in and I'd take them around the block. What fun! My gs was a cat this year - he's three and meowed at every door. GD was a fairy princess wearing her Cinderella costume we bought at Disney. She saved up the money all year and bought the whole works, shoes, crown, dress, wig and jewels! I cringed when she handed over $116 for it but she saved so she spent. I miss my grandchildren so much I'm about ready to brave the winters and go back to Ohio. NOT!!! |
User: debsews
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From: MaryW
Date: 10-31-2005, 10:47 AM (4 of 20)
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I love to see the kids come. The costumes and they are always so excited. I wish it was warm enough to sit in our driveway. It is b-r-r-r-r cold here. Frost every morning now. Anyway, this little dog is going to have a ball with all the kids coming. He won't know which one to lick to death first. LOL.
MaryW
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 10-31-2005, 12:56 PM (5 of 20)
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It is supposed to be beautiful here this year. 55 degrees & no rain. I have decided to hand out chips & tattoos this year so there won't be candy around to tempt me after the kids leave. DGS's & their cousins will be going out from my house with the big ones trailing behind.
Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 10-31-2005, 01:32 PM (6 of 20)
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I plan on going back to my house tonight and go out with my 3 GD's. My OS can pass out the candy. Here at moms they do not allow door to door trick or treatin, you go to the clubhouse and go from table to table. Not my cup of tea, but safer I guess. I just love Halloween, and all of us from the one year old GD to me the 55 year old grandmother shall be dressed up tonight. It is to much fun. Have fun everyone and be safe. Happy Halloween (Samhain) Summer
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User: SummersEchos
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From: Bama
Date: 10-31-2005, 06:42 PM (7 of 20)
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Looks like I'll be handing out candy by myself. We usually just get a few kids here. The houses are too far apart for the kids to walk, so the parents have to drive from house to house. I remember having to strap kids back into car seats between each house. Hubby will probably go to bed early. I'm sure DS will want to watch a scary movie and DD begged me to let her go trick-or-treating with a group of friends. One of her friend's mom volunteered to take them. My daughter is 13 and hasn't been in at least 4 years. After they left and I thought about it a while, I hope they didn't just tell me they were going trick-or-treating and are really planning to roll yards.  Mary, our little dog will love seeing the kids here too. She likes to give kisses to anyone she can get to. She has a little witch hat to wear. 
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User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: debsews
Date: 10-31-2005, 06:45 PM (8 of 20)
| This must be something that happened after my kids were grown. What is rolling yards? The bad thing the kids were doing back then was toilet papering houses, yards, trees and everything in between. With toilet paper being so expensive I'm glad they got through that quickly. |
User: debsews
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 10-31-2005, 09:35 PM (9 of 20)
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As usual...Crestview (where I live and oh...never mind...) Changed Halloween AGAIN...........................................It WAS Saturday. Why ??? Because the Mayor (who decided this on his own and TOLD NONE of the city council but DID tell the Newspaper...) that we needed to have Halloween on Sat due to the fact that Crestviews Fall Festival was that day ( ????? ) and that the children needed to Trick or Treat between 6-8:30, no earlier or later and certainly NOT On Halloween, which is a school night... He claims NO one complains when he does this (this is NOT the first year he's done it.)...funny...I do...my neighbors do, the City Council had LOTS to say about his decision...as did most of the people who read the paper... We're the only city in the county that had Halloween on Sat....everyone else gets to celebrate on Halloween night...tonight.... we all feel like we've been cheated...(the adults and the kids...) I really hope the Mayor (I call him Mr Jacka**) is out of office soon.... ::heavy sigh:: Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
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From: bridesmom
Date: 10-31-2005, 11:16 PM (10 of 20)
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Ok I need to know too, whats rolling yards?? I have visions of lawns being cut out and rolled up .
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
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From: Bama
Date: 10-31-2005, 11:35 PM (11 of 20)
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Here in the south the kids call toilet papering trees and yards "rolling" yards. Some of them actually think it's an honor to have your yard "rolled", however, I can remember my dad having us go outside at night to clean it all up before the dew fell. It was not fun. If was worse if you waited til the next day though. One of our neighbors used to set the toilet paper in the trees on fire. It burned away quickly. I was always afraid to try it. Thankfully, dd really did go trick-or-treating with her friends. She came home with a bag full of candy. None of them had a costume ready because they decided to go at the last minute. They threw some together at her friends' house. My daughter wore overalls, a flannel shirt, braided her hair, stuck some hay in her pockets and painted freckles on her face. One of her friends went as a tennis pro. They said it was alot of fun trying to put together a costume at the last minute. I'm still surprised they wanted to go. DH actually went to the door for our first trick-or-treater. He had the kid giggling like crazy when DH told him thank you for all the candy. The kid said "no, you're supposed to give me candy." Hubby said, "Oh no, on Halloween you're supposed to go to all the old people's house and give them candy." Hubby gave him most of the Reese's cups for giggling so much. Chrys, I don't think I would have let that old mayor decide when my kids were to celebrate Halloween.  Maybe if everyone decided to have it on Halloween anyway......... what did he plan to do to little kids who trick-or-treated on the real Halloween night anyway?? 
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User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-01-2005, 12:30 AM (12 of 20)
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The old toliet paper trick huh? Well since my dear darling children learn about that a couple of us parents would let them do our houses. It made them feel like they did something and we all chipped in to help clean it up. Now I have had some experience with the good old toliet paer and I will tell you this. A leaf blower will shoot a roll of toliet paper over my house which is a 2 story home. Now I learned this from a pupil at school and in turn I taught it to the kids. It was all done in fun, and the kids got a kick out of it. An older brother or sister would of course help them get the job done. The parents knew it was coming and we always helped each other clean up. Oh we always used the cheapest toliet paper we could find. You know it was sorta a status thing to be able to say you house got t-peed when you went to school. Showed you were popular. I guess us parents figured we would rather have them doing something we knew about than something we didn't. It was also popular at homecoming to do the houses. The more toliet paper the more popular you were. One other footnote for me.....I live close to Detroit and Devils Night always made the news for the burning of homes. It always made me very sad to think that people had to do this for excitement. I guess my point is let the kids have their fun if it is supervised, even if they do not know it, instead of wanting something more exciting and more harming. Summer
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User: SummersEchos
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-01-2005, 12:34 AM (13 of 20)
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No one is ALLOWED to trick or treat on Halloween night...trust me, there is NO ONE out there....police and sheriff's dept have been told NO ONE is to be out....funny...they can tell people that they can't trick or treat, but they can't seem to do their REAL, REGULAR jobs...I find that peculiar.
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 11-01-2005, 02:22 AM (14 of 20)
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Chrys, Sounds like you live here in Barberton!!!! You must have the twin to our Mayor!!!!! We do the Sautrday thing also from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. We never get any T&T's at our end of the Street, kind of hard to see a Porch Light on in BROAD DAYLIGHT!!!!!!!!! That's how the kids are to know that that house is doing T&T. Plus, we have no kids living around here that would even do T&T, so no one shows up. Summer, do they still do the "House Burnings", I thought those more or less stopped after 9/11. |
User: Sewhappie
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From: debsews
Date: 11-01-2005, 08:45 AM (15 of 20)
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Ok here's a real downer to Halloween! We live in Florida where all the sex offenders go when they're let out of jail! They like the warmer climate too it seems. Anyway there are so many of them in the Altamonte Springs area that the police sent officers over to tell them not to participate in Halloween, don't give out candy, don't have your porch light on and don't come out of your house to interact with the kids. Then last night they patrolled the area to make sure they complied. What a horrible time when you have to check the website to see where they live in your neighborhood and make sure your kids don't go there. I'm glad we lived in another era! We too went out at dusk and stayed out until way way past dark. What a fun time. Everything for kids now is so stressful I'm glad I don't have to deal with it on a daily basis. But my dd says that kids don't know any different and so don't have those other memories. Guess she's right. Just to show my age - we shelled corn and threw it at houses that didn't giv out candy! Sounds awful on a metal roof! That and soaping windows was our biggest crimes. I have "Older" friends who lived in the country and they tipped over the outhouses!! Never got into that one. |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-01-2005, 10:03 AM (16 of 20)
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Sewhappie, No the devils night house burning have been almost stopped. Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: SummersEchos
Date: 11-01-2005, 10:44 AM (17 of 20)
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Went back home, for tricks n treats and I was so disappointed by the number of no lights on and the number of children out. I know my neighborhood still has lots of little ones there, but maybe Halloween is going in a different direction.
Summer
FREE FALLIN |
User: SummersEchos
Member since: 09-29-2004 Total posts: 884 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 11-01-2005, 10:45 AM (18 of 20)
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This is a very small village and from about a week before Halloween the stores refuse to sell eggs and shaving cream to kids. But there are still eggs all over the street the next day. Smart people don't park a car on Main Street that night. The kids are really just throwing them at each other but if they hit a car eggs can do a number on a paint job. I hated Halloween when my kids were middle school age. Younger and older they were smart enough to keep out of trouble but there is just something about 13ish that makes life tough for parents. I always figured it was some survival thing. You love them so much when they are tiny babies that you don't kill them when they turn two and they are so awful in their early teens so you don't miss them so much when they grow away from you. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
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From: Sewhappie
Date: 11-01-2005, 03:22 PM (19 of 20)
| There is a town on the southeast side of Cleveland that the High Schoolers will get pumpkins and smash the insides on the main street , that just happens to have a good size hill, and then take the remains of the pumpkins use it as a sled and "Pumpkin Sled". This has been going of for years and years, but every year the Police come out and try to stop it and the Fire Dept try hosing down the "pumpkin mess" only to make it worse and the kids just come right back!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: carman
Date: 11-01-2005, 05:54 PM (20 of 20)
lol that sound kinds fun 
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User: carman
Member since: 04-17-2000 Total posts: 692 
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