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Reply to: #145673 by Teddy Hugger
Oct 24, 2007 4:53pm
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I saw those kids at Walmart. It is such a cute idea!
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Reply to: #145667 by Alien Invasive Insects
Oct 24, 2007 5:09pm
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We boo our friends every year :) Actually there are a few groups of our friends who try and see who can boo the others first LOL. Also for our over 21 friends who don't have kids we BOOZE them complete with little goodie bags filled with nippers, goodies, hot chocolate packages and little snacks. We also have them solve a riddle and then go on to booze 2 more people.
This year we were boozing our neighbors who had never heard of this before the same time that friends were booing us! It was great, I sat in the window watching the neighbors door to see if they answer and I saw our other friends sneaking up to our door. The neighbors came out and saw our other friends in creeping across their yard and was like....uh what is going on here? It was hysterical!
Re: We've Been Booed! :o
Board: Girls have Cooties, Boys Rule
Reply to: #145667 by Alien Invasive Insects
Oct 24, 2007 5:15pm
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"I've Been Booed!"

We do this on our street every year...in fact, our family usually starts it although I do not think that anyone knows that ( at least they didn't!) . Of course we had to BOO someone tonite and it is actually raining(WooHoo!!). The kids love it!
Wood6
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Reply to: #145700 by Wood6
Oct 24, 2007 5:23pm
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What fun! Thanks for sharing.

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Re: We've Been Booed! :o
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Reply to: #145667 by Alien Invasive Insects
Oct 24, 2007 5:28pm
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We have been Booing for a few years now too, and since moving to a new town, we have brought the tradition here with us. I think I have more fun than the kids do with the whole covert action of driving away with the lights off and hiding from the neighbors! We have also been Boozed, by LUNA crew, where the treats were little bottles of liquor! It is so much fun!!
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Reply to: #145698 by LUNA crew
Oct 24, 2007 5:30pm
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I didn't see your post before LUNA crew!!!! LOL
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Reply to: #145667 by Alien Invasive Insects
Oct 24, 2007 6:40pm
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Our neighborhood does this every year but it's called "ghosting". You leave a paper ghost along with the bag of candy and the recipient puts the ghost on their door so that folks know who has already been ghosted. When they ghost others, the idea is to get someone that hasn't been ghosted yet.

It's fun for the kids.
Amyrica
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Reply to: #145732 by Foreign Contaminant
Nov 6, 2007 4:43pm
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Just finally reading about all this several days after Halloween.

I was born in South Dakota and my parents were born & raised there.

We moved to Oregon (that's ORigun) when I was about 4 years old.

My mom told me about May Day baskets: sneaking flowers and/or candy onto your neighbors' doorsteps.

I made little paper baskets with my mom's help and snuck them on and rang the doorbell.

Several people caught me and were frankly confused. They had never heard of this.

That was the only year my mom and I tried May Day baskets. . .

Wouldn't it be fun to do this around Valentine's Day? Spreading the love?

For those of us who are newly single again, Valentine's Day can really be a downer. Singles & couples could share the love and have love shared with them. And for anyone who has a problem with the holiday of Halloween could do this!

Anybody interested?

KuKu
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Reply to: #150114 by KuKu
Nov 6, 2007 6:33pm
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One year, someone in the neighborhood left Easter Eggs filled with goodies on all the lawns of homes that had children on their street. I do not believe that anyone has ever confessed to being the Easter Bunny but it sure was a lot of fun. Everyone woke up to the fun surprise. The Easter Bunny had come overnight under cover of darkness.

Amyrica
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Reply to: #150114 by KuKu
Nov 6, 2007 7:51pm
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Whe n I lived in VT. we had zuchini day, on that day it was the custom to distribute all of your spare zuchini's on unsuspecting neighbors porches w/o being caught. Does that Count as a boo

PB
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Reply to: #150116 by Alien Invasive Insects
Nov 8, 2007 10:09am
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The baskets I made, being little, were the four-sided "fortune tellers", you know, with numbers and you choose numbers and the kid goes back and forth on their hands . . .

Set them point down and they are a four section basket! Make out of card stock for strength.

You can decorate the paper before you fold it up.

We will have to plan this, so LBer's across the country could do this! Wouldn't that be fun?

KuKu
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Reply to: #145730 by Amyrica
Oct 19, 2009 7:25am
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We call it ghosting too (with the little cut out ghost with the poem on it). No one in our neighborhood had heard of it before. A friend that moved into the neighborhood started it and from there it took off. Our kids love it, especially the planning and suspense of trying to ghost the house without getting caught. A lot of their friends are on 'high alert' the week leading up to Halloween in order to catch the ghosters. It is a riot to hear a kid retell a story of how one of them has to duck into some bushes all out of breath and wait until the coast is clear!