OT: Who's ready for Halloween?

D1105

I'm finishing up the lighting......

Still adding some props...


My silicone mask came in this week.....I chased a couple of kids but still need to work on my speed...

Fred19Flintstone

Dude, you are the Clark W. Griswold of Halloween house decoration.  I hope your shitter doesn't get too full.

RRP

In 29 years we have had exactly 1 trick or threater and that family moved away the next year! 

SGH

RRP said:

In 29 years we have had exactly 1 trick or threater and that family moved away the next year! 

Ron, since I move over here 8 years ago, we haven't had a single one. Kind of sad really that we live in such a world filled with nuts that parents are scared of what their kids may get. I don't blame them, but it's sad just the same. Halloween was always one of my favorite holidays.  

SGH

@D1105
Nice place you have there my friend. 

Sea2Ski

RRP said:

In 29 years we have had exactly 1 trick or threater and that family moved away the next year! 

I have been in my house for 15 years, but I have not had one kid.  First year, bought bags of candy, and wanted to be the house that all the kids wanted to go to.  No one showed. 
Second year put a sign at the end of the driveway - not a kid showed....

I guess the ROI for walking a flagpole property with a 400+ foot long driveway is not worth a few pieces of candy. I think the kids are smart and have moved onto higher density housing complexes and getting higher yields.

Good for them. 

Lit

We get a crap load of trick or treaters. We set up the projector and play scary movies and get the fire pit going. We also put out a cooler of beers for the adults so that's pretty popular. We don't decorate though but you surely went all out that looks great. Wife decided she's dressing the baby up in a new costume every day this week so day 1 she is toga baby.

SGH

She is precious @Lit.

Acn

Our neighborhood does a parade, costume contest, and then trick or treating on the Sunday before Halloween every year.  It's great because it starts at 3, so things are usually wrapped up by 5:30-6.  We get a good number of people, although we're a few blocks away from the park where the costume contests are.

avibug

Almost ready... carved this guy with the kids yesterday:
 

DaveRichardson

I've thought about having treats for the adults.... Jello Shots / Beer....

What else could I do?

Just did a Trunk and Treat at  our church....  I was Jake from State Farm.  We had about 2500 kids come thru last night....  I'm exhausted!

DoubleEgger

Gotta love the Trumpkins

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/19-hilarious-donald-trumpkins-ranked-195352999.html

dougcrann

Don't decorate for Halloween. We live behind locked gates with 4 dogs wandering the property. Prior to putting up our fence and gates didn't have one Trick or Treater so...

bo31210

Live in a neighborhood where the first year we did it   (1400 trick or treaters)    Have gone out to dinner since then.   We have people from several counties come to our neighborhood, park on the grass, leave trash, etc and then leave.    Cant stand it but I guess this comes with becoming and old fart LOL   

Fred19Flintstone

We live on a dead end street that's not part of a subdivision.  We don't get many at all.  The neighborhood kids that stop by get a full size candy bar.  I think we gave away eight last year.

Thatgrimguy

If a kid makes it down my driveway I'm going to give him/her an entire Wagyu brisket. Because it's pretty ballsy to drive down the creepy unlit road with no houses down another road and up to the single house. 

DoubleEgger

Thatgrimguy said:

If a kid makes it down my driveway I'm going to give him/her an entire Wagyu brisket. Because it's pretty ballsy to drive down the creepy unlit road with no houses down another road and up to the single house. 

I'm in! See you Saturday 

Ladeback69

We live in a big subdivision with a lot of kids and get our share of kids except last year when it was really cold.  I have been talking with some of the father's of kids about getting together to take our kids Trick or Treating and I will pull a wagon full of iced down beer for us to drink as we walk.  That's the way to trick or treat.  Having a 6 year old Halloween is a big thing. 

nolaegghead

We get a constant barrage of kids.  35 feet between houses....they get imported to our hood.  
We set up the PA system, play some scary background music and work a Halloween sound board.  I think we must have made 20 kids cry  (maybe some wet costumes too).  Parents paradoxically find their kids terrified from this uproariously funny.  If they don't we just give them beer, that smoothes things out.  Usually.

We also wear scary costumes and jump out screaming.  

Then there's the ubiquitous playing of thriller, at some point, which some people are conditioned to spontaneously break out into a line dance when they hear it.  People: they are weird.

bo31210

DoubleEgger said:

Thatgrimguy said:

If a kid makes it down my driveway I'm going to give him/her an entire Wagyu brisket. Because it's pretty ballsy to drive down the creepy unlit road with no houses down another road and up to the single house. 

I'm in! See you Saturday 

If two of us come do we each get a Brisket?     Send me the address.   @DoubleEgger  we can ride together   HAHAHA

theyolksonyou

@nolaegghead your hood would be a cool place to trick or treat. We were talking about that last weekend. If we put up some of the decorations you guys have, or neighbors would think we'd lost. 

D1105

I just dropped off my son and his friends at their Halloween party.....With my clown mask driving my clown car.....yes, I have no shame.......

theyolksonyou

How many trips did you make to get his friends there?  That truly must've looked like a clown car. 

NPHuskerFL

Ready. Our tradition is to sit outside with the projector watching It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown & Hocus Pocus handing out treats and eating pizza. This year I'll be making the pies on the tailgate using the MM. We enjoy seeing the neighborhood children dressed up. Funny we see them grow up over the years. Some are now in college. And then the cycle of new kids begins. It's fun for us. 

BYS1981

First year for us in the new house. .old house 500+ kids came. Unsure today. 

nolaegghead

D1105 said:

I just dropped off my son and his friends at their Halloween party.....With my clown mask driving my clown car.....yes, I have no shame.......

AUDI TT? nice. Are you 4 feet tall?  No shame in that just saying it would make the car really roomy.

NPHuskerFL

@BYS1981 WOW! 500 kiddos!  

theyolksonyou

nolaegghead said:

D1105 said:

I just dropped off my son and his friends at their Halloween party.....With my clown mask driving my clown car.....yes, I have no shame.......

AUDI TT? nice. Are you 4 feet tall?  No shame in that just saying it would make the car really roomy.

Some things you think about saying, some things you say....

nolaegghead

I'm in a don't give a F mood since I found out I'll be dying young from ass-cancer.

Fred19Flintstone

nolaegghead said:

I'm in a don't give a F mood since I found out I'll be dying young from ass-cancer.

Maybe you should eat more beaver?

nolaegghead

@Fred19Flintstone I'm doing my part, trust me. Are you doing yours?