10 Reasons to Love Halloween

Clever Costumes

This is a true pleasure.  I love to see what kind of creative costumes come out every year.  One of my favorites was a cosutme a friend of mine did a few years ago.  He dressed up like Fidel Castro and tied a blue sheet around his waist so it fell like a skirt.  He then glued little plastic pigs to the sheet.  His costume?  The Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Other favorites have been a friend that dressed in pink and tied a shoe to the top of her head – she was bubblegum.  I also had a friend that made miniature legs and attached them to the front abdomen.  She then cut up a cardboard box, draped a blue sheet around it, shoved her hair up under a hat and drew on a gray beard.  She was “The Old Man In The Sea”.

Cute Costumes

Who doesn’t love a 3 year old bumblebee?  Halloween also has it’s own little cute side.  There’s nothing like a fresh batch of toddlers trick-or-treating to make you feel warm and fuzzy.

Get to dress up like strange celebrities

How many Halloween parties have you been to where  someone has used Halloween to mock a celebrity?  Whether it’s Phil Spector with a knife, Anglina Jolie with fake tattoos of former husbands, or Britney Spears with a battered baby doll, mocking the famous is always a good time!  (NOTE: It’s mostly good because we’re jealous that they don’t have day jobs.)

Halloween Stores

Some people love clothes shopping.  I like spending hours looking at costumes, fake blood, pimp jewelry and severed heads.  But, hey, I’m a special girl… 

Acceptance of Gore

If you’ve EVER been a horror movie fan, Halloween is for you.  Halloween is to blood and guts what Christmas is to mistletoe.  This is the only time of year you can openly applaud a friend that takes the time to create fake intestines for an outfit.  Oh, how I wish that were year round.  “Hey guys, did you see my new exposed liver I paired with my Prada?”

Office Halloween Celebrations

Everyone likes a break in the day.  What makes for a better break than free food (see #1) and the simple sounds of Thriller being pumped through your office’s PA system? 

Trick-Or-Treating

I was so sad when I went to college, I finally had to give up trick-or-treating.  It wasn’t so much the free candy I missed, but running around neighborhoods in scary costumes.  Oh the joy of knocking on strangers’ doors just to get a free treat.  Once again, see #1 for reference.  

Coolest Decorations for a Holiday

I know there are a lot of Christmas fans out there.  I see a lot of time and care go into decorations every December.  But nothing, and I mean nothing, beats a house decked out for Halloween.  If you are so lucky as to have a Halloween enthusiast in your neighborhood, compare their house at Halloween to any house at Christmas.  It’s just cooler.