Comments on: Between ‘Boo’ and Me, I Hate Halloween

By: LauraL

LauraL — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:01:44 +0000

Ooooo! What exactly does a Cthulhu cultist look like? A smaller version of Cthulhu? Davy Jones from The Pirates of the Caribbean? Inquiring (and very admiring) minds want to know…

By: Minipeds

Minipeds — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:02 +0000

I distinctly remember one year I was about 6 or 7, My hopes of a scary “vampiress” costume were shot because I had to wear a big winter coat over it. Nobody knew what I was and I got fake blood all over the collar. This year I’m going as a Cthulhu cultist with 3 other people. Handmade has never been so much fun.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:18:32 +0000

I worked in an office that tried that Halloween BS once. So we underpaid girls in the office banded together and all bought a cheap cow costume (with an udder!) and acted like cows all day, which means we basically stood around doing nothing but chewing food.

They didn’t have the costume day the next Halloween.

Heather, TMH

By: Wendi

Wendi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:54:53 +0000

Where I grew up, we always had to trick-or-treat in 3 feet of snow, and put snowmobile suits on over our costumes. My mom always said to tell people we were The Michelin Man.

By: thepsychobabble

thepsychobabble — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:04:45 +0000

I don’t see cheap and lazy, I see freaking brilliant

By: Marinka

Marinka — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:55:56 +0000

I think you may be a genius. Except for the part where they won’t stop singing that Christmas song for the rest of the year.

By: GrandeMocha

GrandeMocha — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:28:47 +0000

I’m cheap & lazy. The kids are going as Alvin & the Chipmunks. I bought 3 hoodies, red, green, & blue. I bought a $1 piece of yellow felt, cut out a A & sewed it on the front of the red sweatshirt. I taught them to sing the Christmas song from lyrics off the web. Nov. 1, I’m taking the A off the sweatshirt & somebody is wearing those hoodies.

By: DisgruntledOfficeGal

DisgruntledOfficeGal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:16 +0000

It’s worse when it’s the GROWNUP costumes that make your life a living hell. Every year, my office has this uber-competitive group-themed costume shindig that wastes a bunch of time and costs a ton of money. This year, after a furlough day (fancy for take a day off and we just won’t pay you for it), the hoohahs insisted that we have the Halloween celebration, complete with costume contest, because it is a bonding experience and it increases morale. Really? I guess the executives didn’t get shafted one day of pay this month since they seem to think it’s not a problem to come up with a costume that matches the rest of your group, when you’re a day shy of money. I believe I speak for all the underlings when I say “there’s nothing that raises morale LESS than requiring us to buy a costume when some of us are going to have trouble covering the bills this month.”

By: hokgardner

hokgardner — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:21:29 +0000

I hate Halloween, always have. And I even had a mom who sewed my costumes for me, ungrateful brat that I was.

And now I have four kids who need costumes. Gah. Most years, I send the biggest diving into their dress-up bins to put together their own outfits. It’s worked so far, but I’m seeing the writing on the wall that my easy days are numbered. And I’m dreading having to be creative.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:54:08 +0000

Erma Bombeck wrote that one Halloween she put paper bags with eye holes over her kid’s heads and told them to just tell everyone their mom was having surgery. lol. I heart Erma.