Post AzZbUnH7q0x09WxUjQ by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #AzZ8rnyGWHfsIgl1Ci by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-25T11:15:07Z
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The upper east side of NYC has been going mad for Halloween and every year the decorations get more wild. Not long ago giant plastic skeletons were too "low class" for this neighborhood. No longer it seems. It's bigger than Christmas. It legit looks like a suburb in the 80s. kind of makes me nostalgic. In our building (south bronx) we are having the kids go around from apartment to apartment again and have fancy door signs so they know who has the goodies. I think I may carve a pumpkin.
(DIR) Post #AzZ9DOv2LLhayQXqZU by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-25T11:18:59Z
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@futurebird Our designated trick-or-treat time is TODAY (the last Saturday on or before Halloween) so I have to get ready. I'm not ready.
(DIR) Post #AzZ9SEA2cil3x5dJ32 by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-10-25T11:21:39Z
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@futurebird Roast the seeds! The best part of Halloween is fresh pepitas. sprinkle some with garlic salt. sprinkle some with cinnamon and sugar. yummm
(DIR) Post #AzZA64GqoXpsrTocaG by ira@beige.party
2025-10-25T11:28:51Z
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@futurebird This year, I carved my pumpkin without drawing a design on it first. Halloween is still rather low-key here in Germany (in comparison). Little chance any trick-or-treaters will find their way up the stairs to our apartment. But I’m thinking about how to make a spooky entryway downstairs to tempt them ;)
(DIR) Post #AzZCBeWDfln8denKwC by uguisubari@m.ai6yr.org
2025-10-25T11:52:17Z
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@futurebird Oh my, I wonder if they need to store the giant skeletons offsite in Jersey. Or maybe there is a business that rents them?
(DIR) Post #AzZCLrLookabKhnT6m by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-25T11:54:10Z
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@uguisubari There is a business, and there are storage companies that have a service where they send a truck with a container to your place and you fill it up and they take it away until you want it back. I could never stand the thought of paying rent for JUNK however many people enjoy such services.
(DIR) Post #AzZCot1reo9kw4IwuO by uguisubari@m.ai6yr.org
2025-10-25T11:59:24Z
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@futurebird Well that makes a lot of sense, I’m not sure that existed in the late 90s when I lived in Manhattan. Today it would be a container they haul back and forth with an air fryer, any luggage larger than carry on, one extra chair, and apparently a giant plastic skeleton.
(DIR) Post #AzZRfu57sBMuuG0MNM by sewblue@sfba.social
2025-10-25T14:45:50Z
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@futurebird Halloween seems to be outpacing Christmas in terms of decore. So many houses go all out for Halloween but maybe just a few lights and a blow up figure at Christmas. Those giant skeletons are such a flex. Where do you store them off season? How do you have room?
(DIR) Post #AzZbUnH7q0x09WxUjQ by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2025-10-25T11:27:40Z
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@mattmcirvin @futurebird The designated trick-or-treat day is a good idea. Halloween in a weekday is just awful. Around here, trunk-or-treats tend to go on weekends, so you could trick-or-treat any day if walking around a parking lot getting candy from the back of pick up trucks is called trick-or-treating.
(DIR) Post #AzZbUoOxeMoRe7dGaG by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-25T16:31:48Z
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@Extra_Special_Carbon @futurebird It is, and it means that trick or treat is a GIGANTIC deal here, over 100 kids consistently show up. It's one of the most fun things we do as a town.But it does feel super early this year because of how the calendar falls. I understand the desire not to have it happen *after* October 31: keep it in October for tradition's sake, and also keep it from pushing too far into election season. I also think they want to keep it just before the end of Daylight Saving Time so the littlest kids can come around while it's still light.
(DIR) Post #AzZbUp5V6Cq9m3XEtE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-25T16:35:46Z
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@mattmcirvin @Extra_Special_Carbon Yeah we're not doing that "early" thing in the Bronx or most of NYC I think. Maybe if it was on Monday or Tuesday? But it's Friday. Also kids trick or treat at all the stores too because why not?They tried to get NYC to do "daylight trick or treating" but it was just kind of rejected on some cellular level and never caught on.
(DIR) Post #AzZbhbf0KhpftWEmBc by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-25T16:38:11Z
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@futurebird @Extra_Special_Carbon Because many of the adjoining towns don't do it this way, there's an opportunity to double-dip. Kids get driven in from some distance away, trick-or-treat here and then do it again in their towns or elsewhere on the 31st. For years my daughter would trick or treat here and then get another shot with extended family over in Hampstead, NH on Halloween.