Hootin’ Howlin’ Halloween Giveaway

A Hootin' Howlin' Halloween Giveaway

With all the fun and mischief happening around Halloween, we’re sure you have a great story to share about past Halloween adventures. Maybe it’s about a good costume gone wrong or a trick that was pulled to perfection (you can laugh about that now, right?). Help us all have a Hootin’ Howlin’ Halloween by leaving a comment below telling us your favorite Halloween story. Everyone who leaves a comment will be entered to win a prize package with a variety of goodies, including two adorable owls, a gorgeous hand-painted Russian artist pendant picturing a wolf, a hand-dyed silk ribbon and complementary Czech glass beads. Enter by October 30 at 11:59pm (PT). The winner will be announced on Halloween.

No purchase necessary, must be 18 or older to enter, one entry per person. Odds of winning depend on number of entries. Prize valued at $100, void where prohibited by law. Contest valid in the US and Canada only excluding Quebec.

-Marissa

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  1. My son’s favorite thing to do on Halloween is to hide outside and wait for the kids coming to the door for trick or treat. He likes to try and scare them especially the teenagers.

    • Renee
    • October 28, 2011

    Several years ago, we were the first stop on a little girl’s first Halloween trick-or-treating. She was about 3, dressed as Winnie the Pooh. Poor little thing! She just stood on our porch, clutching the handle of her little pumpkin bucket in both hands at her chest. Her eyes were huge! Her mom told her to say “Trick or treat” but she just stood there. I made sure to give her a good treat. I hope she got over being scared and had fun!

    • Cindy Cooper
    • October 28, 2011

    When my daughter was 6 years old, I was a room mother for her class. I dressed up like a witch with green face paint and black on my teeth. I scared myself looking in the mirror! On my way to her school, I was stopped at a red light. I forgot about what I looked. I looked over at the car next to me and heard this god-awful scream come from the kid in the back seat! He was screaming bloody murder! I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the kid, so started waving and smiling at him, hoping to make him feel better. He was gasping for air, screaming and clawing at his car seat straps. The lady in the passenger seat did a double-take when she looked at me. Then she asked me to stop looking at the kid. I thought this was a bit rude, until I looked in the rear view mirror! I washed my face before I drove home so I wouldn’t scare anymore little kids!

  2. Once when my brother and I were just about too old for trick-or-treating, but still dressing up anyway, my dad thought he would play a trick on my brother and I. He went to great lengths to put together an “old” man costume complete with a very creepy rubber old man mask. I had noticed that he was up to something and had my radar on…I could hear my dad moving about clumsily upstairs and soon heard a loud noise on the roof. I immediately went to the window and saw my dad climbing out the window upstairs and begin to climb down a ladder. Long story short, he rang the doorbell in the attempt to scare my brother and I and me being an ungrateful teen simply answered the door and said “Hi Dad.” Looking back, I wish I would have played along…my dad planned an outfit, arranged a ladder, climbed out an upstairs window, onto a roof, down a ladder and snuck around the front of the house all in the hopes of being undectected! Trick or Treat Dad, sorry I wasn’t such a treat back then!

    • Cryss T
    • October 29, 2011

    I used to do ceramics before I got into beading. The year before my Mom died, I found a ceramic witch that was a little girl with tennis shoes on. I painted it and gave it to my Mom. She really liked it, said it looked just like me when I was 5 or 6. Each year at Halloween I bring the little witch out and smile because of good memories.

    • Natalie McDaniel
    • October 29, 2011

    My favorite thing about Halloween is seeing how big my son’s eyes get when he sees how much candy he gets…priceless!

  3. My favorite was when I dressed up as Cindy Lauper, but was out of film for my camera, so a bunch of us went to Target just before the party to get the film. We were all dressed up, and one of my friends (who was dressed as a pig) went around yelling “Blue Light Special” We got a lot of attention from the shoppers that year!

    • Amanda
    • October 29, 2011

    Just last year my just-turned-5 year old daughter and i went trick-or-treating. Walked up, knocked, said, “trick-or-treat!” and man gave her the treat. She reached into the bag, pulled it out and tossed it back in his bowl and said, “you can have that one back, cuz I don’t like those!” It was so cute and hilarious! We had a great laugh!

    • Liz Crafton
    • October 29, 2011

    My favorite Halloween experience happened in 2009. My boyfriend and I went Haunted House hopping. I’m one of those women who hold on to the person they are with and scream bloody murder the whole time I’m walking through the Haunt. On this particular night, Mike and I went to a few of our favorite haunts in Michigan. Once again, I was screaming and holding on for dear life when a guy with a chainsaw jumped out – I used my poor boyfriend as a human shield and then pushed him into the guy weilding the saw before making a run for it. When he caught up with me just outside the exit, he was laughing at me. When we got home, he put his arms around me, pulled out a ring, and said “you screamed and ran too fast so I couldn’t do this inside one of the houses like I planned, but I was wondering if you would do me the honor of being my wife?” Obviously, I said Yes! It was the least I could do after pushing him into a guy weilding a chainsaw! We’ve been engaged since then and our wedding is planned for October 31, 2012. Halloween-themed of course. I look forward to having an even better Halloween story to tell next year!

    • Jennifer
    • October 29, 2011

    ohhhh . . pick me! pick me! Looks awesome.

    • Wendy Baker
    • October 29, 2011

    A couple years ago my mom had this one little trick or treater come to the door and she was probably around 5 years old dressed up as a cute little bunny and her mom was not far behind. My dad, the prankster that he is went out on the back deck and blew and elk call and that poor little bunny dropped her bag of candy and ran right passed her mom. The mom quickly retrieved the bag and ran after her. I don’t think that she ever trick or treated at my parents house again. And I think there were some older kids that got just as frightened buy the elk call in the dark but they didn’t run off like that scare little bunny 🙂

    • Cathy
    • October 29, 2011

    Just beautiful! I love the owl. We have a neighborhood owl that screeches at night.

    • LisaT
    • October 29, 2011

    when my son was 7, I made him the most adorable Garfield costume. The only problem was the only perfect Garfield orange fabric I could find was flannel and to make Garfield like Garfield, it was loaded with poly fiberfill….this would be fine up north, but in North Carolina? After spending about an hour trick or treating he came back to the house and took his hood off – what a wet, sweaty mess! I think he lost 5 lbs that night!

    • Ellen
    • October 29, 2011

    Every year is the best, I can’t pick out one story, cause they are all great! This year we work at The Haunted House in Santa Rosa, Ca. and we scare people to the point of them peeing their pants. That’s the best!

    • Julie
    • October 29, 2011

    I love Halloween – my absolute favorite time of the year! Pumpkin patch trips with the family, my daughters birthday (her first halloween we dressed her as a skunk – adorable!), and warm fires in the fireplace 🙂

    • Lisa R
    • October 29, 2011

    Happy snow-ween from Maryland! Looks like we will have snow covered trick or treaters this year in Maryland. I enjoy handing out candy and see all the fun costumes.

    • Connie F
    • October 29, 2011

    Don’t really celebrate Halloween now that my son is grown and moved out. Our Church celebrates by putting on a fall festival. It’s a night of fun with trick-or-treating and lots of games; costumes are optional. I help out when I can but i have been sick and in the hospital this year.

    • Linda
    • October 29, 2011

    “Hoo” wouldn’t love to win this? I will be dressed as the PEZ clown this Halloween while passing out sweet treats!!!

    • Marlena
    • October 29, 2011

    My problem during October is I can’t get all of the crafting done I want to do! Stenciled pumpkins, creative costumes, and now with kiddos I’m knee deep in goodies to take to school. But owls are sooo in right now! Adorable set!

    • Eleanor Williams
    • October 29, 2011

    My favorite memory is of making popcorn balls with my Grandmother & a friend to pass out at Halloween. My 2nd favorite memory is of the year I dressed up as Queen Elizabeth II to trick or treat. These days I just put on all the tie-dyed clothes I have and go as the aging hippie gypsy lady. It’s very colorful!!!

  4. From 1999 to 2001 my husband, our teenage daughter, and I lived in China, teaching and studying at a boarding school. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that no one there had ever heard of Halloween!
    We weren’t able to do much about it our first year, but for our second we brought back spooky books to read in our classes, went into the old city & bought makeup at a shop that sold Chinese Opera stuff, ran the movie E.T. at a big party with makeup, no pumpkin carving becuase there were no pumpkins!:( , but apples, candy, some spooky goodies (the treats plate that moans when you come near, etc.) sent by friends–everyone loved it, of course.

  5. My husband had this horrible full head mask of a creepy old man. He would put it on and chase me, and it made me scared even though I knew it was him in the mask. So, I wore it one Halloween to hand out candy. Some little kids ran rather than ask for candy.

    • Kathy Klocko
    • October 29, 2011

    I love Halloween. 9 years ago, I even delayed going into the hospital so we could have our first halloween party in our new house. It was a great party and, although I had to have surgery (unrelated to the delay) and was out of commission for five months, it was totally worth it. 🙂

    • Cathy
    • October 29, 2011

    Halloween is so much fun! I love to dress up. One year I was a vine, another Princess Leia having a bad hair day (I had found a great long white dress that looked like her gown from the original movie) But one of the best costumes in my family was the year my sister won a contest at work for dressing up as the “Little Old Lady from Pasadena.” It was hilarious, from wearing my grandmother’s old fancy glasses to a big polyester lounge dress, to playing the part all day (both walking and talking) she deserved to win!

  6. I loved Halloween so much for the trick-or-treating and dressing up every year so much that when the next Halloween came up my mother would have dig out all the old candy that I did not eat so I could use my plastic pupmkin again for trick-or-treating.

    • Connie Montague
    • October 29, 2011

    My funniest Halloween memory is when I dressed up as a witch with green makeup and all. My sister said I should come over and scare her children with my witch cackle since they were waiting for the babysitter to come over and would be sure to try and be first to answer the door. My nephews were about 9 and 4 and my niece was about 7 at the time. I rang the doorbell and crouched real low down. When my 9 year old nephew answered the door, I gave my best witch cackle. He was holding a glass of water and flung it all over, his brother was carrying a sandwich, dropped it and the dog ate it. My niece walked by and said, “Hi, Connie.” It was so funny that she wasn’t frightened at all, but her brothers both were. My sister and I had a good laugh.

  7. My favorite Halloween was thirty six years ago. My three children had gone trick or treating and had gone to bed. I had just finished cleaning the kitchen and turned off the lights except for the frount poarch lights. I was tired and in my housecoat and just wanted to relax before going up to bed so I slipped out onto the side poarch to enjoy the beautiful full moon. My housecoat was black with a blue a lavender pattern on it and sort of blended with the night. As I sat there I saw three high school boys coming down the street soaping all the windows on the houses with no front lights on. As my front light was on they started down the street that my side poarch faced so I hid behind the tall bushes on one corner of the poarch. Just as they jumped up on the poarch I said in my best witches voice “He He I cought you didn’t I boys”. Then I started to cackle. You never saw three big hulking boys fall all over each other geting off the poarch. The more they stumbled the louder I cackeled. They took off down the street and were out of sight before I gould get off the pourch I was laughing so hard. It’s one Halloween I’ll never forget and I bet they didn’t either. I hope years later they had a good laugh too.

    • Nancy Powers
    • October 29, 2011

    My favorite Halloween story belongs to my 5 brothers & sisters and myself. Our next door neighbor would create a dark haunted stairwell in their house every year. Every kid had to walk to the 2nd floor landing to get candy. Going up those stairs always scared us. When we reached the landing our neighbor would grab a hand or arm with some sort of bellow – it made us scream. It was awesome! We knew it was him when we were older but it didn’t matter, it was always the best house!

    Now, to talk about my neighbor you have to understand my house was pretty awesome as well. Everyone loved coming to get candy from us. I grew up with parents who believed in only giving out full size candy bars & giving @ least 2 bars to each child. They believed it was a way to make Halloween a little more special especially living in a blue collar neighborhood with varied levels of income.

    To say that the 2 houses were popular stops is to put it mildly. I continue my parents tradition to this day.

    • Lisa Drago
    • October 30, 2011

    What can I say that every Halloween is my favorite! I can’t pick out any one year to tell a unique or favorite Halloween story, so I will give all you intended victims a virtual, terrifying ride into my Halloween Land of No Return!

    I’m so in love with Halloween that I turn my front yard into a virtual cemetery complete with wooden tombstones made by my dad, which I painted artistically, ghosts made of styrofoam and vinyl tablecloths made by my mom, plus HOARDS of creepy ghouls and other trims.

    We also have several lighted 3D plastic figures to enhance the Halloween scene and make it come to life. The 6 foot grim reapers also add a formidable presence to the grim scene.

    I am very creative when it comes to Halloween decorating. I “creep up” my front porch, too, with lots of pumpkin lights, ghoulish fabrics, trims, etc. If you come onto my porch, you will be greeted by witches, reapers, spiders, etc. waiting to make you into a permanent guest!

  8. I love reading these posts about full size candy bars. Kids of today have no idea what a full size candy bar is! This made me think of the time that as a child on the 1950’s I went to the door of a man who was shocked and embarrassed that he had forgotten that it was Halloween. He had no candy. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a nickle and handed it to me. I was happy to get this nickle and put it into my pocket rather than my trick or treat bag. As a kid, I was thrilled to have some cold, hard cash!

    • sheryl kovach
    • October 30, 2011

    At the pumpkin patch, my daughter insisted on the most out of shape, bumpy, bruised pumpkin of all. It was like Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree, and she loved that pumpkin.

  9. When my daughter was ten and my son was seven I decided to make them into walking laundry baskets for Halloween. I got two laundry baskets and cut out the bottoms so they could put them around their wastes, suspenders to help them hold up the baskets and draped random pieces of clothing around the edges.

    They looked adorable and everything was perfect … until they tried to get through the doors and had to turn sideways to leave the house. I realized that buying perfectly round baskets instead of the long rectangular ones would have made much more sense! LOL

    • Ce Strike
    • October 30, 2011

    What a great company to encourage fun and individuality! Yours must be a happy work place!

    • fiona lewis mackert
    • October 30, 2011

    Halloween has always been one of my 2 favorite holidays and I really enjoyed dressing up as a kid. Since becoming an adult I only dressed in costume if I was going to a party but then I became a teacher and now I dress in costume every Halloween and my students really enjoy it.
    I think on of my favorite stories from childhood was the year I dressed as a hobo in one of my dad’s old suits. We went to our church’s carnival and I won a coconut cake in the cakewalk. I was so excited because I won a cake the fact that I hated coconut didn’t lessen my excitement at all!

    • Renee W
    • October 30, 2011

    Halloween as a kid was great fun even if the costumes had to fit over winter coats. We used the “unsafe” plastic masks, used pillow cases and stayed away from the grouchy old man down the street. Then in high school it was so un-cool to dress up and go trick or treating. But over the last 15 years, the employees were allowed to dress up at work. I’ve had some of the most fun times just coming up with costume ideas. My favorite of all time was Carol Burnett’s version of Scarlet O’Hara with the curtain rod. It was the hit of the office party. This year I’m going as Indiana Jonesette. I can’t wait.

    • Judy W
    • October 30, 2011

    My father had an absolutely scary Halloween mask that he would put on every year to scare me and the neighborhood kids. I miss that!

    • Jesica T.
    • October 30, 2011

    My favorite Halloween so far has to be the first year my daughter went trick or treating, she was 2 and dressed up as a little hula dancer. She was very nrevous at first to walk up to the houses but once she realized they were giving away candy she got really into it but the cutest part was after she got the candy she told everyone “tank coo” all on her own and gave them the biggest toothy 2 yr. old grin I’ve ever seen.;)

  10. Halloween is my favorite time of year,Love it !Happy Halloween everyone!

    • Bev Benz
    • October 30, 2011

    I am a teacher who has dressed up as a Nursery Rhyme book.

    • Kristen Benson
    • October 30, 2011

    halloween is always awesome. it’s my favorite holiday. i love carving pumpkins with my father.

    • Sue T
    • October 30, 2011

    Halloween! My favorite! I grew up in western New York state and it always snowed on Halloween. Our costumes were always way too big so we could wear our winter coats underneath.

    • Kat Petelle
    • October 30, 2011

    My favorite Halloween memory was the first year they had scary clowns at Spookyworld. A group of us had gotten together to go there was four in one car and two in the other. We had one of those that liked to brag nothing could scare him, we played the trick on his wife had given me the spare key to there car and my group left first. I had makeup and a wig in the car and became a scary clown in seconds. I crawled into the backseat of their car and waited. When they got there I waited to they got in the carpet and sprang forward into the front seat he was so scared he wet himself. It was hilarious and he now laughs about it.

    • Melissa P/
    • October 30, 2011

    One of my favorite Halloween/scary stories of all time is one my grandfather used to tell me as a kid all the time. I won’t tell the whole the story in detail here, but its about a man who worked for the railroad. He would use a lantern and move it certain ways to let the train know it was ok to go and he would also make sure the train tracks switched the right way. He was accidentally killed one night on the job. To this day people say you can still hear him scream and see his lantern moving up and down…. This is one of the many horror stories my grandfather tells 🙂

    • Sally R
    • October 30, 2011

    Hi… I am hoping to learn beading. A friend of mine does such great work! I would like to win this package so it could be the beginning of my beading experience. I am sure she will help me make something fantastic!

  11. My favorite is my versatile black cocktail dress. During the day I deck it out and present myself as a Black Widow complete with plastic spiders glued all over me, a feathery black mask, and a black boa. By night….the cocktail dress becomes a nun’s habit and is paired with a nun’s veil, cross, fishnet stockings and heels….a Naughty Nun. My fella, at 68, still loves his nun!!! 😀

    • Ruth Ann Shoaf
    • October 30, 2011

    you always need supplies!!!! 🙂

  12. We take our son to this home in Napa every year where you have to cross a spooky bridge to get to this gigantic creepy house to ring the bell for your treat. Well, the gentleman answers the door as a completely silent butler who says nothing, doesn’t move, blink, talk or anything. This freaks the kids out, but they love it. After you grab the candy from the tray, he slowly backs back up into his doorway without a smile, blink, nothing!! Completely stoned face. It scares the crap out of the kids and the parents love it. 🙂

    • Theresa
    • October 30, 2011

    Love Halloween, like to see what costumes the kids come up with, like home made instead of store bought

  13. So many adventures. Here’s one for the memoir. I was 16 or 17 and had a major crush on the gas station owner’s son, Scotty. My friend and I invited him and his friend to come to my house to watch Psycho. He was so cute. We picked them up and we watched Psycho and ate candy. LOL Oh, he did put his hand on my back as we walked back out to the car.

  14. when I was young my older brother woud wait up in our willow tree and jump down and scare the trick or treaters… he even would wait on other days to scare the paper boy. Then we would trick or treat till the midnight hour ….

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