I'm dressing as a ladybug and going to a party!

(I mean, how great are these shoes? I am going to wear them all the time.)

Going to church. WOOOOOOO.

(I suppose my sarcasm doesn't convey in text, lol. Only thing out of the ordinary about that is that I'm going to the church where my husband works instead of the church where we're members. No other exciting plans, not in the mood to dress up this year.)

I'm usually meh about Halloween, but I really want to put some effort in this year. Unfortunately I have absolutely zero idea what to dress as. The kid and I are going to a party (husband is out of town). She's going to be Tigger, but I have no wish to go as a complementary character (the lure of Eeyore notwithstanding).

Red midriff shirt, no pants = BOOM. You're Winnie the Pooh.

No plans right now. I kind of want to go to our college's Halloween party in order to track down this boy I'm crushing on, but I have no costume ideas. Something that involves no effort and is a little slutty, hopefully.

Giving out candy to the little kids. We usually don't bother to wait inside for them to ring the door and just sit on the front stoop and hand out candy as the kids walk up. I love the toddlers who don't really understand what's going on but are happy that strange people keep giving them candy.

My daughter is dressing as a black cat, and insists that I dress as a witch to be her accompaniment. I already have the entire costume without making any purchases.

I love Halloween, but it is always a disappointment for me. I wish I knew the sort of people who threw costume parties, or who would come to a costume party if I threw one.

Red midriff shirt, no pants = BOOM. You're Winnie the Pooh.

A warning about that.

Last year at Halloween, I walked across campus. Probably not surprisingly, none of the college students dressed up. They're in that in-between stage where it's not kid-fun and it's not adult-fun and it would be too dorky to dress like something. So they don't.

Except for this one kid. He was walking down the sidewalk in a Winnie the Pooh Costume. It was a one-piece zip-up thing with a bear-head hood. It had a big pot belly. "Pooh" was scrawled across his stomach. It had feet.

I swear he was the only person on the entire campus of 30,000+ students who was dressed up. And he knew it. And not only that, but he was in a onesie. It was a warm day. He probably had nothing underneath. He couldn't take it off. He was stuck. He had a Winnie the Pooh hood on his head. And his posture reflected this.

This is why you shouldn't dress up as Winnie the Pooh.

Is it ok to dress up as a house offering candy to tricker-treaters (did y'all see the link to last year's ask.metafilter comment)? Mudpuppie, I wonder if we'll knock on yours and not know it.

I wondered that too, aniola. I never leave my light on on Halloween anymore. My neighborhood (which I think must be close to yours) gets very few trick-or-treaters. And in the past five years or so, all of those who have knocked on the door have been teenaged or older. I refuse to subsidize their sugar habits, so I don't even try anymore.

Oh god, I am old.

In any case, Halloween isn't fun for me anymore. But I'd love it if y'all showed up with your door.

That said, when someone knocks on my door on Halloween, I just get pissed off. Because, my light's not on! That means no candy! You don't knock if the light's not on! Didn't your parents teach you anything?????

That reverse trick-or-treating comment is about the best thing I've read related to Halloween. It's brilliant.

I have no plans, except maybe go on a nice bike ride. Oddly enough, the Halloween decorations here in Japan are almost exactly the same as the ones in North America. Weirdly the same.

Having the Rally for Sanity in town on the 30th is actually kind of cramping our style. We're going to go to that, then rush home to get ready to go out. (A few friends are having house parties, then we're going to a bar/club.)

Different club on the 31st. I'm debating whether to wear my Joan Holloway costume both nights or to dig something out of the closet for the second night.

We're usually out of town for Halloween, but I guess we have to buy candy this year. We saw some trick-or-treaters as we were coming home last year but none of them came to our place. I guess we're the creepy childless couple who might poison your kids!

amro those shoes are so awesome!

I work in an office that goes crazy for hween. I am chairing the decorating committee for the department. It is hours and hours of work with little help, but we are going to win, damit. If I'm here all day tomorrow and late all next week and have to pour money into it.

Saturday, I'm going to see a bootleg production of Titus Andronicus, which will be awesome.

That's enough hween for me, Sunday will just be a regular day.

Halloween plans. Hmmm.

Actual Halloween night, I think I'm staying home alone and watching scaaaaaAAAAaaaary movies, mwahahahaha. Our apartment is down a spooky little walkway on the back of the building, so we never get any trick-or-treaters, which we finally and sorrowfully admitted to ourselves. We're not even buying candy this year. The local Halloween parade goes right past our block, though, so I'll be keeping an ear listening for that: they bang drums and hoot and holler, so you can hear 'em coming a long way away!

Some friends are having their annual Halloween party over the weekend, so I'll be making cocoa bat cookies with my new cookie cutter (anyone have a great recipe for rolled-out chocolate wafers?) and putting on my gorgeous homemade devil horns and celebrating with them.

And I'm going to a screening of a new horror film anthology Halloween week --- twice, actually! I'm buying tickets to go on Thursday, but I also got invited to the early press screening. (The Fella writes the indie film column for the local paper, and the inviting director suggested I come, too. WHEEEEEE!)

amro, those shoes are FANTASTIC.

No sexy Ben Franklin?

I know! But I felt too weird about ripping off Madamina's genius. Also, YOU SHOULD SEE MY HORNS. I made them last year in desperation, and they turned out so well that I want to wear them EVERY DAY. But that would be a little weird.

Also, evidently everything is "weird." That's weird.

You showed your horns in the SBF thread. They are awesome and you should wear them every day up to and including Halloween.

You showed your horns in the SBF thread.

Wait, what?

Sheesh, it honestly took me THAT LONG to parse "SBF" as "Sexy Ben Franklin." I think I need either coffee or a nap. Or both.

Dressing as a truly hideous witch if I can find my costume stuff, while my husband wears one of his gruesome masks. (He tried one model on our Australian shepherd, who though a brave dog initially reacted by barking and running away.) My husband's Halloween creation this year is an enormous spider web on our front lawn, complete with tiny fly with a skull face and giant black spider. I am sure he bought miniature candy bars and that as usual, we'll be hoping for some trick or treaters to stop by and demand them.

I will have to wait and see what horror movie my husband has decided we should watch while awaiting our visitors, though.

My husband loves Halloween. I just enjoy the ride.

SBF = sexy Ben Franklin, but no, you didn't.

I'm sure I've seen pictures of your horns. Is it only in my mind? Because that would be. . .weird.

Rainbaby, you have seen my lovely horns only in YOUR MIND, mwahahahahahahaevil.

They're positively cunning. Sometimes when I'm alone in the house and cooking, and I need something to hold my hair back, I wear my horns instead of a hairband or a ponytail holder. Shhhhh, don't tell anyone, because that is WEIRD.

Ok, seriously, was there never a picture of the horns on the internet? Your blog or something? Like if I clicked to see a recipe from around this type of year there would have been a horns picture?

Nope! I just fixed one of my cameras after more than a year without one, and I'm certain there's no photo of my horns on my blog.

There are several Etsy shops that periodically sell handmade horns, though. Is it possible that's what you're thinking of?

Nooooo, it is the power of my horns, slipping into your mind all unbidden and going WOOOOOOOOoooooOOOO. The power of my horns compels you.

I was thinking of making horns for Halloween and being a demon or evil. Other than that I can only think to be a random victim of something. I got invited to Vegas for Halloween but I can't go to that any more than I can go to the Jon Stewart rally so my only other options are to a party where I will know no one, or the local bar. I'm pretty sure they will be on Saturday nights and nothing will be on Sunday, when I will have to honor the holiday with appropriate ritual.

My work is really into Halloween. It looks like a kindergarten classroom right now due to all the decorations. I am dressing up as anonymous blog comment spam (black mask, comment form with real life spam comment on my t-shirt, can of spam). Easy costume and related to my job so should be good. In the evening, probably just walk down the street to see all the crazy costumes (I live in the Castro).