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[Edward]

Happy Halloween from the Halloween capital of the world!

Trick-or-treating has been dismal, 15 minutes left in the official trick-or-treating hours and five (5) kids showed up.

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[Antony]

Sadly, no Halloween here. (except stores trying to make it like an official holiday.)

This is perhaps the best Halloween costume I've seen. It's geek enough to have Don's approval, unfortunately it involves a brand that Don loathes.

http://youtu.be/V6p5mbp_M98
Anyhow, enjoy.

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[James]

Last year our mall had over 1400 kids trick-or-treating. At our home we had a total of 13. This year we haven't had any yet (it's nearly 6:30 PM). We shall see. Looks like Lin and I will have some chocolate to eat over the next few months. LOL

Great video, Antony.

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[Antony]

To best of my observation, Halloween is not properly observed here. It does provide a great opportunity for some individual groups to show their creativities. While doing my window shopping in city on Saturday (29th), I saw a few home-made costumes. They were more into dressing up rather than trick-or-treating.

Special Halloween pumpkins were priced at $3.99 per kg at supermarket, and I weighed one ... almost 6 kg. Too expensive and way too heavy for me.

How shall I conclude? Antony is poor, he can't afford celebrating Halloween, he does not even have access to a sewing machine (hence he can't make costumes).

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[James]

We had a total of 10 kids... period. It's now a little after 9 PM so no one else will come. Lin and I have quite a bit of chocolate candy that we'll need to decide what to do with but I will say that next year we will buy ONE bag and ONE bag only of candy.

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[Edward]

And those five kids were it.

I am not planning on giving out candy next year, it's too expensive and for the number of kids that end up coming.

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[James]

But think of all the chocolate that will be left for YOU.

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[Edward]

I don't need it.

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[James]

LOL... yeah... I hear you. But dark chocolate is a good thing (although we wouldn't be handing this stuff out on Halloween). Probably next year we'll cut way back... one small bag.. period.

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[Edward]

I don't know if there is any truth to this, but I heard that dark chocolate actually has less sugar in it, than milk chocolate.

I brought the remaining candy into work, by today it was all gone. They'll eat anything! :

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[Lorraine]

Hi everyone:
Yes, Hallowe'en isn't celebrated like it used to be.... gosh! adults and children would come knocking at
the door.. but times have changed....Technology has taken it's place, I guess, plus all the perverts that
that seem to be living in neighbourhoods.......

We used to go into peoples homes that we didn't know when we were kids...... had to sing a song usually, or recite a poem.......lol We could eat any candy that we wanted in those days, while collecting the goods,
lots of apples and pennies..... that was great to get a penny. Of course, we could buy two honeymoons, or cocoanut balls for a penny, which were a toffee, one with coconut in it and it seems they were delicious then.
Or sometimes we would buy a Scrapbag for 1 cent.. That included the stale junk I suppose in the shop, candies and bubblegum.

I haven't had any children at my door trick or treating for a few years now.
I had a bag of apples I picked myself at the Orchard if any came, they were beautiful MacIntosh apples.

So I will make some good applesauce with them, I don't know what possessed me to pick a 20 lb bag this year.
I prefer eating Gala apples.....but will eat the Mac's I have first.....
So guess that's about it........Happy Belated Hallowe'en !

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[James]

Ah well, Lorraine, you brought back some memories. I think we are fairly close in age so our memories are perhaps somewhat similar. When I was a boy, we also would be invited into homes to do some sort of trick in order to get our treat (not all homes, mind you... just some). And then there were those special homes where the lady had made candy apples for the kids. Today's kids wouldn't be advised to eat apples or anything that came unwrapped and unsealed because of the evil characters out there. We simply can no longer trust what is given out. Instead, kids are advised to bring what they have collected home and then check it all out first. So... no eating while out trick-or-treating.

In the country some folks would put jack-o-lanterns in the crotches of trees and you're right... sometimes adults would dress up. It was good fun back then.

This year we had a total of 12 kids. Most of the town's kids went to the mall and that was about it.

You mentioned apples. My favorite is Honey Crisp. It's an apple native to Washington state... very crisp and very sweet (and somewhat expensive). It has to be one of the most delicious apples I've ever eaten.

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[Edward]

Even still, the area police departments ALWAYS tell the kids that if the lights at a house are off, DO NOT go to that house.

One year, I ran out of candy (lots of kids THAT year...), so I turned out the lights. They still rang the bell...

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