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

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

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

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

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!