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We’ve never been big on Halloween in our family.  I know a lot of people who don’t make a big deal out of Halloween.  A lot of them are of the “oh no, it’s Satan’s holiday” persuasion.  Me, I just don’t care to make the effort.

I think I got this apathetic approach from my dad, who had the brilliant idea to take my sister and me to the drug store and let us just buy whatever candy we wanted on Halloween.  It was really win/win for everybody.  Dad didn’t have to drive us around the neighborhood.  We didn’t have to dress up (we were old enough to not dress up but young enough to want the candy).  And my parents didn’t have to feed the little ghosts and goblins that came to our house.  It was an ideal solution.

But I’ve got smaller kids, so we need to do something.  The kids’ school usually has something where the kids can go beg for candy.  It works, and you generally don’t have to worry about tainted candy.  That’s always a plus.

The kids really get into the whole costume thing.  Me, not so much.  Last year I “went as Superman” (read: “wore my Superman t-shirt”).  Maybe I’ll do the same again this year.  I’m the adventurous type, you know.

I’d be much more into the whole costume thing if it was a group effort or if the celebration/party was something for me to enjoy.  Can you guys see me with the wife as Homer and Marge Simpson?  Or maybe Fred and Wilma Flintsone?  Peter and Lois Griffin?  Yeah, see, that’d be cool.  Recently I was looking at some costumes at BuyCostumes.com
and found an Incredibles costume.  I could totally pull of Mr. Incredible.  (Don’t laugh.  You all know I could.)  Plus we wouldn’t have to wonder about what the wife and kids would wear, because we could just get an Incredibles costume for every member of the family.

Seriously though, I’ll probably just go as casual as I can and let the kids wear whatever $8 costume we can pull out of the heap at Wal-Mart.  I long for the day when I can just take the $16 I would have spent on those $8 costumes and buy candy with it.

Soon…