Octobers Spooktacular Chat Thread
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Octobers Spooktacular Chat Thread
All right guys, who here decorates for Halloween, eh?
Growing up my pop did a little bit for Christmas, but we never really did anything for October. Do you guys?
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Growing up my pop did a little bit for Christmas, but we never really did anything for October. Do you guys?
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No, we never did any decorating for Halloween. As kids we did do the customary walk around the neighborhood (with mom in tow,) However, we never bought decorations. Christmas, the only thing we did was buy a tree and decorate it, and would decorate inside the house, but not outside. More a lack of money than anything else. And the house I grew up in had a 100 foot+ front yard, and a 9 foot backyard (that had grass 3 feet high so we very rarely went back there) so most people would not have seen the lights even if we were to put up any.
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Costco had Christmas trees and decorations up the first week of September. Two years ago they had them up in August for a few days before they removed them, only to show up a couple weeks later in September.
Maybe one of these days when I hit the lottery I'll hire someone to decorate my house for Christmas like we see in those videos, LOL!
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Maybe one of these days when I hit the lottery I'll hire someone to decorate my house for Christmas like we see in those videos, LOL!
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I am all for the meaning of Christmas, but this commercialization has really gotten out of hand.Back when I worked Fry's Electronics, we did not put up Christmas stuff until after Thanksgiving.
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It is interesting that we are on this topic, as soon as I finished replying to the message this morning, I received a email from Costco telling me I can get a jump on holiday shopping by buying decorations and gifts now. LOL
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Meh! Halloween is just a night to lock myself in the garage and tinker on projects.
I'm just not big or enthusiastic about most of the major holidays any more (Veterans & Memorial Days only).
Good news up here, we are having a nice, mild, soaking rain today and looking forward to a couple more with gaps in between. Maybe I'll be able to breath better.
I'm just not big or enthusiastic about most of the major holidays any more (Veterans & Memorial Days only).
Good news up here, we are having a nice, mild, soaking rain today and looking forward to a couple more with gaps in between. Maybe I'll be able to breath better.
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Man when I was a kid, it was non-stop door knocking for hours at my house. At that same house (it's still in the family), now if there are 20 kids that knock the whole night, it's surprising. Back in the day you could have a group of 20 in one knock. We had so many kids back in the day, when I came home from my own candy forage, my folks would sometimes raid my stash to give out to the kids because they ran out of candy.
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I agree. Back when I was a kid we always had a lot of kids go to our house, even though it sat way back on the lot, and we did not have a porch light. The last two years, I had nobody show up at the apartments. I ate the candy myself, with the help of the grand kids. Most people I know go to church parties, or well known events. I see hardly anyone do the door to door thing anymore.
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If we lived in an actual "neighborhood", there might be decorations. However, we live at the end of an almost-mile-long driveway. Ain't nobody out here but us, the bunnies, and the coyotes. The bunnies and coyotes don't care about decorations, so we don't either.
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What a moron. I used to watch the roadrunner cartoons all the time when I was a wee tyke. That coyote couldn't catch a cold. Must have been a millionaire though considering all the gadgets he bought from the Acme company. LOL
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Costco had Christmas trees and decorations up the first week of September. Two years ago they had them up in August for a few days before they removed them, only to show up a couple weeks later in September.
Maybe one of these days when I hit the lottery I'll hire someone to decorate my house for Christmas like we see in those videos, LOL!
Stewart
Maybe one of these days when I hit the lottery I'll hire someone to decorate my house for Christmas like we see in those videos, LOL!
Stewart
Man when I was a kid, it was non-stop door knocking for hours at my house. At that same house (it's still in the family), now if there are 20 kids that knock the whole night, it's surprising. Back in the day you could have a group of 20 in one knock. We had so many kids back in the day, when I came home from my own candy forage, my folks would sometimes raid my stash to give out to the kids because they ran out of candy.
Stewart
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I'm "kinda" in a neighborhood, everyone has a couple to a couple dozen acres. But they're too spread apart to do efficient treating! Hope your surgery went well.
