Jimbo Contest
I almost forgot that I bought a bunch of cool stuff to give away for Halloween!! If I don’t give away stuff soon, and get it in the mail, no one will have it before Halloween!
So, every year about this time I get out my halloween decorations. I have one decoration that’s always first. It’s a pirate skelton I got at the dollar store the first year The Hubster and I lived together (waaaaay before we got married). Back then, all we could afford was stuff from the dollar store.
Somehow, he’s still alive after all these years.
His name is Jimbo.
He even has a song that I made up for him (and yes, he hangs on our door so we sing the song every time we use the door). You should be really happy that I don’t have audio blogging right about now.
So, while I go off Jimbo hunting (you’d think I could manage to get him in the box labled Halloween, right? That’s what happens when you keep your decorations up as long as I do), tell me, what’s your favorite Halloween tradition?
Is it a party, a trick, a treat, or, like me, a Jimbo?
I’ll have The Hubster pick a number between 1 and the total # of comments tomorrow evening-ish and that person will win a cool Halloween prize.
And start preparing…I’m thinking of a joke-off this weekend for some more Halloween sutff.
October 12th, 2005 at 12:37 pm
uhh…3?:twisted:
October 12th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Silly, you’re supposed to tell me your favorite Halloween tradition!!!
October 12th, 2005 at 2:22 pm
My fave Halloween memory was the year my brother and I and our best friends (that made 4 of us) hit every house in the subdivision we lived in. Our dad and our friend’s dad got in the pickup and followed us around and we just kept dumping our bags out in a bucket in the truck. Then we went home, ate, and watched bad horror movies all night. My costume that year was entirely homemade (I was a princess with a long white dress, crown and wand). I understand that kids don’t trick or treat like that anymore and it’s kind of sad. We got not only a lot of candy, but homemade treats and money!
October 12th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Well, I don’t really have a Halloween tradition, but there is one Halloween that will forever be one of my favorite memories as a kid. When I was 15 and living with my parents, we lived on a street where all the houses were on one side of the street and there was a grassy hill on the other side of the street that went up to the road. That year, my sister, my boyfriend at the time, another friend of ours and myself got together and decorated that hill. We spent hours cutting out huge tombstone shaped pieces of cardboard, covered them in foil, attached bent metal hangers to the backs of the tombstones so we could anchor them and then we wrote sayings on them and anchored them to the hill. Then we took a little boombox and hid it behind one of the tombstones and had it playing spooky Halloween sounds and then we scattered fake cobwebs over the tombstones. It looked so neat. After that the guys got dressed up in their costumes and laid down behind the tombstones while my sister and I sat on my front porch, which we’d also decorated really neat, handing out candy to all the trick or treaters. It was so funny sitting there watching all those little trick or treaters walk down the street,they’d stop to look at our graveyard, and then the guys would jump up from their hiding spots and scare the crap out the kids, who would then take off running and screaming. LOL It sounds mean, I know, but it was so much fun doing all that. It was truly a Halloween I’ll never forget.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Jimbo sounds cool. I want to hear the song. :)
No Halloween traditions here I’m afraid, just dressing the monsters up and trying to refrain from committing homicide. :)
October 13th, 2005 at 1:02 am
Hey Dream!
Okay, My favorite Halloween tradition is to sit outside the day before halloween and carve the pumpkin (I’ll tell you why so late in a minute)while kiddo runs around in yard, then Halloween night, laugh my butt off while the dogs use poor ole’
Jack(O’ Lantern) as a chew toy.
Although my favorite memory was when my friend had a little too much to drink, and we took her outside for air, and she managed to sit on the current jack. Needless to say our pumpkins don’t last long. It usually ends in homicidical “accidents”. Poor old pumpkins…
October 13th, 2005 at 10:19 am
My favorite Halloween memory is the first year my husband took my daughter out trick or treating. She’d just come home from the hospital about a week earlier from having a major operation and he was so excited to be able to take her out. And he said, whatever house he brought her to, the neighbors were all teary-eyed seeing her up and about. So now, every year, the two of them go out together and I stay home and eat - er, give out the candy.:razz:
October 13th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
We used to carve a pumpkin but have gone from that to buying a pumpkin that you plug in and it lights up. We have a cardboard skeleton that hangs in the window and quite often buy those leaf bags that look like a pumpkin or ghost. Our small dog goes crazy everytime someone comes to the door. Sadly, there are fewer and fewer kids coming out each year around here.