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[Alicat]

I dressed as a Ninja Turtle this year lol i remember it well!

I was a cheerleader

 

[Kate08]

Probably my favorite Halloween costume (not counting Jem and all the winners as a kid).

 

[Bruinfanatic]

I was a cheerleader

No pics?

 

[TD Charlie]

Probably my favorite Halloween costume (not counting Jem and all the winners as a kid).

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I always had to get the clouds background cuz my mom wouldn’t shell out for the lasers! Then I’d get yelled at by the photo people to NOT touch my face, but just make it look like I’m touching my face. Clearly I’m still traumatized 30 years later

 

[Alicat]

No pics?

I'm not sure. I'd have to look when I get out to my mom's.

 

[CamFan81]

My wife works from home and I don't (not full time liker her).
One year she made the mistake of taking our daughter to her mom's house and asked for me to just meet her there after work, we would then trick-or-treat her mom's neighborhood.

So I stopped at Party City during lunch, got a "Dirty Banana" costume that was peeled in a suggestive manor. I got to her moms after work put it on in the driveway, knocked on the door pretending to be trick or treater, and said a somewhat naughty greeting to my Mother in law at the door. She laughed (thank god) and then I told her it was me, Everyone at the house died laughing, my wife....Not so much.

Refusing to take off the costume, we got a lot of compliments touring the neighborhood and got a few "really?" from a couple of moms...

I remember that night more fondly than my wife does...

 

[Glove Malfunction]

My wife works from home and I don't (not full time liker her).
One year she made the mistake of taking our daughter to her mom's house and asked for me to just meet her there after work, we would then trick-or-treat her mom's neighborhood.

So I stopped at Party City during lunch, got a "Dirty Banana" costume that was peeled in a suggestive manor. I got to her moms after work put it on in the driveway, knocked on the door pretending to be trick or treater, and said a somewhat naughty greeting to my Mother in law at the door. She laughed (thank god) and then I told her it was me, Everyone at the house died laughing, my wife....Not so much.

Refusing to take off the costume, we got a lot of compliments touring the neighborhood and got a few "really?" from a couple of moms...

I remember that night more fondly than my wife does...

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And just how many nights does that statement apply to?

 

[BMC]

The best Halloween costume I ever did was for an adult Halloween party in the late 1980s.
I went as Leatherface from "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"- splattered brick red stain on some old clothes I had, put a cloth bag with 2 eyes cut out over my head & borrowed my father's chain saw. Everybody loved it and it didn't cost me a penny.

 

[eightspokedb]

outside the Cave just now.... pretty...

 

[Aussie Bruin]

Halloween gets bigger in Australia every year. I have mixed feelings about it. It's completely cut off from any context or history of meaning, so it ends up being just an excuse for kids to dress up and eat candy, which I suppose is largely what it is in the US now too. But for the most part it hasn't yet extended here to adults dressing up.

I'm not a big fan of shallow copying/borrowing from other cultures, but at the same time if it helps kids have a good time and fosters some community spirit there's no harm in that. So it doesn't bother me too much. The Thanksgiving time is worse. We of course don't practice it, but you'd better believe that we now have big Black Friday sales. So we get all the commercialism and consumer culture, and none of the thankfulness, hospitality and family bonding. Great.

 

[McGarnagle]

I don't like dressing up for halloween, but I enjoy dressing the pets up

 

[GordonHowe]

My sister lives literally next door to me & she is taking next week off to look after me.

Excellent. Take care,

 

[smithformeragent]

 

[GordonHowe]

I think @Glove Malfunction danced this at our wedding with his college pack. I cant remember.

Do you want to?

 

[Kovi]

Do you want to?

 

[Glove Malfunction]

Do you want to?

Seems like a fair question...

 

[Mione134]

Pink Power Ranger reporting for duty, just like little me!

And special visit from Minnie Mouse

 

[eightspokedb]

It's starting to hit me that a week from tomorrow I'm going to have my hip replaced. I DGAF that joint replacement surgery is quite routine now it is still major surgery.

You'll feel so much better.... sending Blessings

 

[Ladyfan]

It is major surgery.

Don't get discouraged the first couple of weeks.

Make sure you have some help.

Do all the PT exercises.

It has been 4 months for me and the hip is doing well.

Oh @BMC ...take the meds BEFORE the pain gets too much and be sure to eat something BEFORE you take the meds.

I did not feel like eating but ate crackers and tea before taking the pain killers.

 

[McGarnagle]

Speaking of dressing up in costume, the CBC investigated Buffy Sainte-Marie's background and discovered she was just a white lady from Stoneham this whole time.

 

[GordonHowe]

Oh @BMC ...take the meds BEFORE the pain gets too much and be sure to eat something BEFORE you take the meds.

I did not feel like eating but ate crackers and tea before taking the pain killers.

Maybe like when we were kids and sick home from school. A bit of ginger ale and some saltines. Or some tea. Nothing major. Sending the good thought,

 

[TD Charlie]

Another wildly successful Halloween for the TD Trio. I noticed this year the chocolate to gummy/sours/lolli ratio was heavily skewed in favor of chocolate. Normally they come back with a ton of nerds, dumdums, skittles, starburst, etc. this year it’s all the good stuff.

Might be dangerous for their father

 

[TD Charlie]

Maybe like when we were kids and sick home from school. A bit of ginger ale and some saltines. Or some tea. Nothing major. Sending the good thought,

I was fed a steady diet of Schweppes and dry toast. No tv. Not allowed outside. But i always managed to sneak the daily price is right episode at 11

 

[GordonHowe]

I was fed a steady diet of Schweppes and dry toast. No tv. Not allowed outside. But i always managed to sneak the daily price is right episode at 11

I grew up in Michigan so we had Vernors ginger ale. Dry toast was a favorite when sick. And no I didn't sit there with my feet up watching tv, either. It was enough that I didn't have to go to school.

Those, indeed, were the days.

 

[caz16]

The good news is my DIL is beginning to feel better after some scary days during this covid episode. Hopefully she will recover quickly now.

The really sad news is there was an accident outside of their house last night, a 15-year old got hit by a car and was convulsing on the pavement for about a minute, then was still, glazed eyes, my daughter was so panicked. They brought in ORNGE air ambulance to airlift him to Hamilton, so you know it is bad. She had video footage from the porch camera and the boy ran from behind a bus into the street, the poor driver had no chance. I can't imagine the parents when they get the call, then having to drive an hour to the hospital, I'd be a nervous wreck. Let's hope he survives and fully recovers.