Skip to main content



Until I was eleven years old, I lived in Preston, Idaho. When I was growing up, Halloween was a town event. My mother worked at the local bank. Everyone who worked there dressed up for the entire day. They also had a guessing candy game. One year I had the closest number of guesses and brought the jar home. Not only were employees at the bank dressed up but also at Kings, gas stations, the library, grocery store, etc. The children wore costumes to school for the whole day. School parties were filled with games and treats. Then at night we went trick or treating. And I mean the real way! Without parents, walking miles and miles with a pillow case, knowing which houses gave out the BIG bars, and coming home after dark. I remember my mom asking where we went and when I told her she was surprised because that house was 10 miles away (one way) from where we lived. Then came the sorting! There was the “I like pile” (snickers, milk duds, dots, etc) the “I dislike pile” (smarties and dumb dumb suckers) and the “for mom pile” (Milky Ways and Bunch of Honey). I had enough candy to last months. It was amazing. That was the start of my love for Halloween. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Good Husband Buys You An Orange Tree

 A great birthday gift for someone who loves Halloween is an orange tree. My birthday is in December and I usually get a variety of Halloween decorations.  Odd? Maybe to you. To me, it's wonderful. One year, my husband surprised me with an orange tree.  Let's just say it isn't easy to surprise me.  If a box comes to the house I automatically open it.  So that year he had it sent to his office and I never knew what was coming.  That year I was able to buy white ornaments at an after Christmas sale.  I cut various pictures on black vinyl to put on them.  I have black cats, cauldrons, spiders, spider webs, sayings, polka dots, etc. on the ornaments.  It has been one of my favorite decorations for years!!!!  This summer I found a black tree at a garage sale.  So I am excited to get some decorations made for it and add it to the house full of decorations this year.  He bought the tree from:  https://www.treetopia.com/
Post a Comment
Read more

Halloween Decorations Set UP

 I begin decorating for Halloween in September.  I call it Septober.  It takes many weeks to unpack, unwrap and set up.  My kids love it (not).  Every year they ask "Why?" and my answer is "because I love it!"  It takes a full day to get the bins out of the garage and bring them into the house.  There have to be at least 30 bins out there. There are also boxes of items that don't fit in bins.  Every year more is added.  I start planning and preparing the new items in the summer.  We do a cookie party every October so friends and family can come walk through the house and see all the new items.  A hundred or so families come and walk around.  I make around 450 Halloween cookies.   One of my favorite decorations is my orange tree.  I fill it with purple lights, spiders, cauldrons, witch hats, skeletons, etc.  (Sneak Peak I have purchased a black tree from a garage sale for this year). My second favorite is decorating my hutch.  My third favorite is decorating the
Post a Comment
Read more

Sanderson Sisters Walk The School Halls

Every October our local schools have their parent/teacher conferences.  Teachers spend extra hours at the schools talking to parents.  They spend extra time gathering papers for a portfolio and printing report cards.  It is definitely a job I am not cut out for.  But what I am cut out for is giving candy away.  So, I spend a couple hours putting on make-up, putting on a wig, and dressing up like Mary Sanderson.  My friend, Beckie, dresses up like Winnie Sanderson. My daughter, Brytnee, dresses up like Sarah Sanderson.  Then we walk the halls of a couple of the local schools giving candy to the teachers and staff.  I think the teachers enjoy it.  I know I do.
Post a Comment
Read more