Friday Five: Halloween

[duckprintspress]

1. Do you celebrate or observe Halloween? How?

I do! I'm in the US and my kids are 6 and 8 so it's the Done thing. We trick-or-treat in our neighborhood and we give out candy; we got 150 trick-or-treaters at our house yesterday (we keep count because we're neurodivergent and it's fun lmao).

2. What is your favorite Halloween candy?

Three Musketeers, Nerds, anything sour.

3. Do you get trick-or-treaters on Halloween?

So many. As mentioned above.

4. Do you enjoy dressing up in costumes?

I really do, but it's more effort and expense than I can really put in right now.

5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?

oh hmm. I won a gift certificate in 8th grade for my costume as a hippie. Riding the subway in the "19th century prostitute" costume I wore my senior year of high school. Going to the Greenwich Village parade in NYC with my oldest friend G - he was Spock and I was a Union soldier. My daughter's first Halloween, my son dressed as Ash, my wife and I as Team Rocket, and we made a six-month-old sized Pikachu outfit for my daughter. (She dressed as Pikachu again this year! she's a lot bigger now lmao)

Comments

[mekare]

Awww lovely! Some people do celebrate around here, but we didn‘t get any kids trick-or-treating in our neighbourhood.

[duckprintspress]

I've always lived in places where celebrating Halloween is common (well, one year I was in Japan during Halloween, so I guess almost always), but most places I've lived didn't get trick-or-treaters. It's been really fun to live in a place where we get lots of kids coming for candy.