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[incognita]

Show me your jack-o-lantern! Preferably the one(s) you carved for this year, but I will accept pictures of previous jack-o-lanterns as well.

Obligatory question mark: ?

Comments

[whorishness]

It's far too early for this post! (Unless you have recently bought many shoes and purses and can fill your pumpkin with those little silica packets... they are excellent for preserving) However some of my previous pumpkins include:

[nextdrinksonme]

It's three days before Halloween! How is that too early? Most people I know do their punkins a week or so before. That's like saying you can't get your Xmas tree until Xmas eve.

[whorishness]

Around here if you carved them that early they would be nearly rotted by Halloween, or smashed.

[nextdrinksonme]

Even when I lived in FL, we carved them a week or two ahead of time and they didn't rot, so I don't know how they would be so prone to rotting in Canada. o.O

The smashing, though, I got nothing for. Damned asshole kids.

[whorishness]

I choose to take the carving difference as yet more evidence that we are an entirely different country and not the 51st state.

Or as a sign that we are a nation of procrastinators.

[theniwokesoftly]

My family has always carved the day before or the day of.

[amadteaparty]

You can also rub vaseline on the cut edges of the pumpkin to make it last longer.

[whorishness]

That never made sense to me as the whole inside of the pumpkin is technically "cut" after you've scraped it, and the petroleum jelly can be flammable I thought.

[amadteaparty]

Nah, just put vaseline on the actual cut parts, not the scraped ones.