October is still more than a month away and already Halloween is being promoted and discussed. I guess some people really enjoy this celebration. I know I used to. I stopped getting into Halloween when I went all out making a haunted house, had spooky music playing through the open windows, dressed up in a costume, and loaded up on the really good candy—-I had three kids visit that night. The perils of living on a short dead end street. I got to the point where I decided that all the effort was not worth the payoff so I bagged the effort.
Anyway, some people still love and enjoy Halloween and of course Lizzie is often mentioned as a character that kids and adults like to impersonate.
An interesting story was recently posted Online about this very thing, but with a surprising (to me and to her) ending.
. . . October is when the holiday hype really begins, with Halloween. Well, I actually heard that Walmart will start putting out the Halloween merchandise at the first of September, so that’s when the Halloween hype really begins.
Except Halloween isn’t the same as it used to be. I used to love trick-or-treating when I was a kid. Now I’m too old for it, and I don’t even get to see today’s kids trick-or-treating. Again, the job gets in the way. One exception was a few years ago, when Walmart had an indoor trick-or-treat parade inside the store, and we associates got to give out the candy. I was all dressed up in my Lizzie Borden costume, complete with a cleaver. It surprised me that most people had no idea who Lizzie Borden was. I thought everyone knew the poem: “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks….†Anyway, I got some interesting reactions, especially when one kid saw me from a distance and yelled, “Ahh! It’s a ghost!†And of course there were many kids in cute costumes, too. I took many pictures and put them up on my Photobucket album. I swear there were at least three Spider-Men.
Here she is as Lizzie. I think it one of those “kit” costumes, but I like it!
So who are you going as this year?
