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Dress Your Daughter As Pirate Wench For Halloween
By 10.29.08
“Gather any group of parents and you’ll quickly hear about how the choices of costumes have gone from witch and princess to sexy witch and pouty porn princess,” writes The Examiner in their roundup of sexually charged Halloween costumes marketed at tween and adolescent girls. Prudishness aside, I think I draw the line at a costume for young girls with the word “wench” in the title.
Amazon Lists Barack Obama Mask Under "Terrorist Costume"
By 10.27.08
The LA Times says that Amazon.com had a mask depicting democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama listed under the search term “terrorist costume.” The listing has since been pulled but the LA Times has a screengrab.
Christmas Creep Is Mutating At Walgreens: "Halloween Trees?" Seriously?
By 10.27.08
It’s bad enough when people send us pictures of Halloween decorations mixed in with Christmas ones, but a “Halloween Tree”? What the hell is a “Halloween Tree?”
KB Toys: Who Needs Halloween When You Have The "Pre-Holidays" Instead?
By 10.14.08
Reader Meg says that she saw this sign at KB Toys in New Jersey and just had to go back and take a picture. She’s wondering why we can’t have Halloween anymore without mentioning Christmas.
This Inflatable Walmart Decoration Is Adorable. And A Murder Scene!
By 10.1.08
We’re trying to figure out who this inflatable crime scene is meant for. With its puffy cuteness, built in lights, and “castle” style walls, it looks like it would be a perfect entrance to a backyard Halloween party for kids. But with its “crime scene noises” and someone-is-being-murdered vibe, it seems more appropriate at a celebration for short police academy graduates. Either way, it can be yours for $125 and a relinquishing of any sense of good taste. [Update: this post is meant humorously—I belly-laughed when I first saw the product.]
Merry September! Christmas Is In Full Swing At Rite Aid!
By 9.29.08
Halloween is about a month away, but it’s too late to start thinking about that now. You’ve got Christmas crap to buy!
Lowe's Halloween Decorations Are Already Sick Of Christmas
By 9.23.08
The Lowe’s in Cary, NC already has Christmas decorations up. Right next to the Halloween decorations.
September Is Christmastime At Target!
By 9.22.08
Deck the halls, folks! Reader Raphael sends in this photo of a Target in Brooklyn, NY.
Chipotle Offers Excellent Customer Service Along With Free Burrito
By 11.2.07
Every Halloween folks from all over this great nation of ours put tin foil on their heads and go to Chipotle for a free burrito. The conceit is that you are “dressed like a burrito” for Halloween, but the good folks at Chipotle don’t really care if your costume required things like “skill” or “effort.” They just fork over the free burrito if they see tin foil. Bless them.
You look very scary this morning. Here is a candy post for you.
By 10.31.07
Wired has a user-submitted list of the top gross-out candies now available for sale wherever gross-out candies are sold. Readers can submit candies and vote the least appealing ones to the top of the list. Our favorite seems to be everyone else’s favorite, too: the bandages with edible candy scabs—although the slimy gummi octopus candy also looks pretty revolting.
Too Much Rain In Illinois, Pumpkin Prices Are Up
By 10.31.07
Our home state of Illinois is the largest producer of pumpkins in the US (Yes, we really do think that’s cool, ok?)
Use Halloween Candy To Educate And Annoy Your Kids
By 10.24.07
Sometimes parents like to drive their kids crazy by showing up on Facebook, or listening to rap music, or professing that Zac Efron is a cutie-patooty, but Grad Money Matters suggests a whole new level of annoyance: use their Halloween candy to teach them about money. Here’s how: on Halloween night, you buy all their candy off of them, then give them a pre-set limit of how much they can spend each day to buy choice pieces back, and as the days go along, you drop the “prices” on the candy so that they can purchase more if they want or forego the sweets in order to increase their savings.
How To Carve A Pumpkin Without Severing An Artery
By 10.22.07
Its’ pumpkin carving time, folks, and while fake blood is cool—real blood isn’t.
How To Have A Low-Budget Halloween
By 10.19.07
Are you too broke to go trick-or-treating this year? Good! More candy for the rest of us! But even though Halloween brings out the competitive sweet-tooth in us, we want to share Kiplinger’s tips on how to have a cheaper Halloween.Two of them—”get creative on costumes” and “follow a…
Many Shoppers Just Aren't Buying Christmas Stuff In October
By 10.12.07
Apparently a lot of U.S. consumers feel the same way as our readers do about stores putting up Christmas displays before Halloween—that is, they don’t like it. A new survey finds that despite early store displays, 40% of shoppers don’t plan on starting Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving, an increase of 10% over the previous year.
The Walmart Halloween Display That's So Scary It Gives Your Children Nightmares
By 10.9.07
Apparently, there is a Halloween display at Walmart that is so scary its giving one Texas woman’s three children nightmares.
