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Re: Halloween
By: lmyrs Date: November 1, 2018, 5:13 pm
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We always got a "christmas orange" in the toe of the sock on
christmas morning too and we loved them. Doesn't mean I wanted
one for Halloween. That doesn't mean I was a spoiled kid. It
means that that lots of kids like candy more than fruit. (I did
love the little boxes of Sunmaid raisins that we sometimes got
though.)
#Post#: 17958--------------------------------------------------
Re: Halloween
By: Thitpualso Date: November 1, 2018, 7:04 pm
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When I was 8 (1955) we had a new student in my class. Her name
was Marika and her parents came from Eastern Europe. Her
English was decent and she liked the idea of dressing up for
Halloween and trick or treating but couldn’t get the idea across
to her parents.
Her parents were completely against the idea. In their minds,
Halloween was a time when, ‘My child will dress in rags and beg
in the street!’ After what they had gone through during WWII
they could never accept something like that.
The mother of a friend spoke their language. She invited
Marika’s mom over for tea and cake while explaining what
Halloween really was. She also had a costume for Marika to
wear. It was a hand-sewn Princess costume and resembled
something that might have been worn by Marie Antoinette.
The Mom was convinced. Marika went trick or treating with us
and attended a party at our house. In 1956, Marika did dress in
rags. She wanted to be a witch for Halloween.
#Post#: 17981--------------------------------------------------
Re: Halloween
By: Rho Date: November 1, 2018, 10:34 pm
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We get between 10-40 Trick R Treaters. I make sure whatever I
have to give out is something DH & I will consume later if it's
left over.
This year it was packets of hot cocoa mix. The 4 kiddos who rang
the bell were thrilled.
Anyone wanna come to my house for cocoa? there's lots of packets
in the pantry
#Post#: 17983--------------------------------------------------
Re: Halloween
By: mime Date: November 1, 2018, 11:40 pm
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I love the cocoa idea! I might copy that sometime...
We usually get 150-200 kids here. We live near a lot of farm and
acreage homes, and a few miles from a neighborhood that doesn't
give out much candy (some financial struggles, and a lot of
families where the parents weren't from our culture and are
unfamiliar with the tradition). So we get lots of visitors in
addition to our neighborhood kids... it feels like a big party.
This year, it was around 45F(7C) which was a LOT warmer than the
last 2 years so I expected a lot more kids, but we didn't even
get 100! I have so much leftover candy. As it was getting
later, a group of high school boys came, and instead of "go
ahead and choose one" I said "you guys are big; you'd each
better take at least three." We were doing full size candy bars,
so I felt like I totally made their day, so that was fun. :)
But with so few kids this year, I feel like our party went
somewhere else and left me behind!
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Re: Halloween
By: jazzgirl205 Date: November 5, 2018, 3:40 pm
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[quote author=Aleko link=topic=750.msg17807#msg17807
date=1541006142]
Halloween was never that much of a thing in England in my youth.
We sometimes held children's parties where you bobbed for apples
and such like, and at Halloween there were various ways you
could tell your fortune, or find out the name (or at least the
initial) of the person you would marry. The way my mother taught
me (which she had been taught by her Somerset-born mother) was
to peel an apple in a single long strip without breaking it,
then throw the peel backwards over your left shoulder and see
what letter of the alphabet the fallen peel looked like. But the
big event of this season was the Bonfire Night, the Fifth of
November:
[quote]Please to remember the Fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and shot!
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.[/quote]
For weeks before 5 November children would collect wood for
their bonfire, and would make an effigy of the Gunpowder Plotter
Guy Fawkes, dressed in whatever old clothes could be spared, to
burn on top of it. Before 5th November gangs of children used to
display their Guy in the street and beg passers-by 'Penny for
the Guy!' and use the money we got to buy fireworks. Ah, happy
days! But - although we still have 5th November fireworks - it's
well over a decade now since I saw children in the street with a
Guy. Instead we get trick-or-treaters, a custom which simply has
been cribbed from the USA; 'Mischief Night' used to be a thing
in the industrial north of England but never in the south. It
saddens me that our own equinox customs have vanished (along
with Father Christmas - killed off by Santa Claus in my
lifetime), all the more so since modern Halloween is
horrifically polluting and wasteful - it's reported that seven
million of the tacky petrochemical-fabric costumes sold every
Halloween go to landfill after only a single wearing - and
totally empty of creativity, compared to the hours of care and
effort that we used to lavish on the creation of our Guys.
[/quote]
I think I had only 2 store bought Halloween costumes here in
America. My mother made some or I ravaged closets to come up
with something. The only store bought costumes my dd had were a
couple she picked up at a thrift store. Most of hers were
homemade as well. We still have most of them and pieces were
recycled into other costumes for church, parties, plays etc...
Even today, we can still put together something with pieces of
old costumes: bride, someone medaeval, monster, jazz singer,
fairy, elf, ancient Egyptian, historical characters, soldiers,
sure. :D
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Re: Halloween
By: Chez Miriam Date: November 6, 2018, 10:55 am
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Jazzgirl205's post reminds me of my go-to Hallowe'en costume:
witch - perfect when one tends to wear long black skirts,
accompanied by black everything else...
All I had to do was get my [s]best[/s] pointy hat out of the
cupboard, and add some more bat jewellery. ;) ;D
My husband told me of a bumper sticker he saw: "My other car is
a broomstick". :D
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Re: Halloween
By: Aleko Date: November 6, 2018, 2:01 pm
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A few Halloweens ago DH and I and a couple of friends decided to
go to our local pub in costume. I was quite conservatively
dressed as a Hogwarts prefect, but the others were quite
striking:
- DH, a movie makeup buff, had given himself a complete Lon
Chaney Wolfman makeup, down to the hairy clawed hands:
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- Nicole, an 18th-century re-enactor, was 'The Ghost of the
Wicked Lady', very dashing Gainsborough clobber with dead-face
make-up:
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- Ben, a medieval re-enactor, was the ghost of a medieval
knight, in full mail, surcoat, and a bucket helm with an arrow
stuck in the eye-slits.
We had got a round of applause from everyone in the pub when we
arrived, and were sitting drinking our pints at the table
nearest the door. (Ben had to drink his beer through a straw, of
course, and the bar staff had got into the spirit of the thing
by pouring DH's pint into the water-bowl they kept for
customers' dogs, so he was lapping out of it, but otherwise we
were behaving very respectably ;)) when a couple of little
girls put their heads round the door to trick or treat. They
took one look at us, screamed and fled. Nicole, who had brought
a pocketful of Snickers for any kids we might meet, pursued them
down the hill crying 'Stop, I've got a treat for you!' but they
were so freaked they wouldn't stop for anything, not nohow!
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