Halloween after-action report
Downstairs Neighbor S and I sat on the porch from ~4:45pm to ~8:15pm, handing out candy and complimenting kids' costumes. Trends I noticed: a lot of Marvel heroes (but all male *sadface*), several Supergirls (but oddly no Wonder Women), a lot of dragons, a lot of unicorns, many variations on zombies and/or murder victims, several variations on mad scientists, a lot of princesses (unsurprising), several ninja turtles, and several PJ Masks characters. (I had to ask about those, since it was obvious they were from one source -- they have clearly related visual designs -- but I had no familiarity with the canon.)
The most creative costumes were a high school student and his dad going as Crippling Debt and a loan shark. The runner up, in my opinion, was either the toddler in a frog costume repurposed as a dragon (dangerously adorable!) or the high school couple who went as pumpkin pie (both in orange sweatshirts, hers with a jack-o-lantern design and his with the π symbol).
When we went indoors, we left the candy basket out with my laminated "Take 2!" sign, and I checked on it periodically to see when it was time to add in my final two bags of candy. (Answer: ~8:55pm.) Our candy lasted until 9:15pm this year, which is far and away our best record. I think $150 is our target price range, so I guess I'll continue collecting $25 per apartment and relying on my mom's thwarted Halloween impulses to make up the shortfall. (I grew up in a neighborhood with hardly any trick-or-treaters -- my parents never get more than 15 kids over the whole evening.)
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The most creative costumes were a high school student and his dad going as Crippling Debt and a loan shark. The runner up, in my opinion, was either the toddler in a frog costume repurposed as a dragon (dangerously adorable!) or the high school couple who went as pumpkin pie (both in orange sweatshirts, hers with a jack-o-lantern design and his with the π symbol).
When we went indoors, we left the candy basket out with my laminated "Take 2!" sign, and I checked on it periodically to see when it was time to add in my final two bags of candy. (Answer: ~8:55pm.) Our candy lasted until 9:15pm this year, which is far and away our best record. I think $150 is our target price range, so I guess I'll continue collecting $25 per apartment and relying on my mom's thwarted Halloween impulses to make up the shortfall. (I grew up in a neighborhood with hardly any trick-or-treaters -- my parents never get more than 15 kids over the whole evening.)
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