All these factors combined, this year I decided that I'd try to kick off a round of boo-ing in my new neighborhood. If you're not familiar with the boo concept, here's the summary - I borrowed inspiration from the internet but re-wrote the poem to make it less wordy:
Since I am in a new place and basically have no Halloween decor anymore (I never had much at my old place, and most of what I did have was either broken or dirty and not worth moving), I've been spending the last couple of weeks scrounging around the Halloween isles at local shops and online. Hard to believe it, right? Me over planning for a holiday a month in advance!?
Honestly, though, despite the early plan of attack - I haven't had much luck finding things that (1) I like and (2) aren't an arm and a leg price wise. I have had some small successes finding a few indoor things, and something to give away on the big day (I always have a specially chosen toy to go with my candy hand out for the kids), but more on that in a future post.
Anyway - while this shopping was mostly for my own personal gain, knowing I wanted to do some sort of boo basket, I ended up collecting an interesting assortment of little goodies here and there to give away:
FYI the place mat shown was not included in the basket.
I will admit - many people do something much less ornate and more candy based than I ended up putting into my basket. But, I felt like I wanted to avoid eatables, since we all get bombarded over the holidays with snacks anyway. Plus, I don't know my neighbors well enough to gauge who should or shouldn't get booze or other more "adult" oriented gifts. So the above is where I landed.
After pulling all the little treats together, into the bucket the goodies went. I thought the LED battery operated ghost on top was kind of cute:
And then ... tied shut, they were ready to send off!
Obviously I was too excited and couldn't wait, so as soon as October 1st hit, the buckets were launched. Not wanting to ding-dong-ditch, I just threw the buckets on a two neighbor's steps and booked it.
It seems like the gifts were well received. I mean ... can anyone ever really tell if something is well received? LOL! But, the ghosts are up on their doors indicating they've been "booed". So hopefully that's a good sign!
Now I wait to see ... did my excitement catch? Will boo-ing spread through the neighborhood?
If I get a boo basket myself, I'll be sure to update! :-)
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Do you boo in your neighborhood? What kind of basket do you build? Add your comments below!
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