pdxbubba
10-17-2007, 11:12 AM
A few years ago we moved from one larger town to this little town and noticed a few things were different. One of the largest being how they celebrate. Case in point - Halloween.
Where we had been we were lucky if two kids came by all night. Here... oh man, now we get between 600 and 900 kids (depending on weather). I kid you not. There is a sting of kid winding around the blocks, up and down the drive ways. There is no point in closing the door from around 7pm until just after 9pm.
Last year we handed out single pieces of candy so we could keep count. We bought eight one hundred piece bags... we ran out of that candy just before 9pm... :wow: Luckily there is a store close to us and I made a quick run up there while my wife manned the door. I picked up a couple hundred more pieces of candy which lasted through the swarm of kids.
Parents walking around with their kids are also in costume, too.
It's not just the number of little kids either. Some people really deck out their homes with strobes, multiple smoke machines and home made animated props. Last year one guy built a pirate ship around his suburban that and used the roof rack as the top deck from which he threw out mardi-gras style necklaces and had a huge black cloth stretched out on the lawn in front of the ship with a fan blowing under itso it looked like rough seas.
We always do 5-10 pumpkins and light them with balls of led christmas lights stuffed in side (cheap, safe, and easy to light)
Do you get into Halloween, too?
Where we had been we were lucky if two kids came by all night. Here... oh man, now we get between 600 and 900 kids (depending on weather). I kid you not. There is a sting of kid winding around the blocks, up and down the drive ways. There is no point in closing the door from around 7pm until just after 9pm.
Last year we handed out single pieces of candy so we could keep count. We bought eight one hundred piece bags... we ran out of that candy just before 9pm... :wow: Luckily there is a store close to us and I made a quick run up there while my wife manned the door. I picked up a couple hundred more pieces of candy which lasted through the swarm of kids.
Parents walking around with their kids are also in costume, too.
It's not just the number of little kids either. Some people really deck out their homes with strobes, multiple smoke machines and home made animated props. Last year one guy built a pirate ship around his suburban that and used the roof rack as the top deck from which he threw out mardi-gras style necklaces and had a huge black cloth stretched out on the lawn in front of the ship with a fan blowing under itso it looked like rough seas.
We always do 5-10 pumpkins and light them with balls of led christmas lights stuffed in side (cheap, safe, and easy to light)
Do you get into Halloween, too?