Trick or Treating is a good time of the year, one of the best, but if you are a young person you are interesting in one thing. How do I get more candy during trick or treating for Halloween? Well, the better your costume the better your chances, but you need to have a plan.

You need to practice your initial sales pitch. Sometimes the people at the door want to scare you, you must act really scared, this makes them happy and happy people give you more candy. So pretend to be so scared you cannot handle it?

Scream or if you are a guy, jump back give it a little height four or five inches off the ground is a smart way to play it. If you have a few of your girlfriends with you, you need to practice your scream, but also save your voice.

In other words if you see people coming from a house all excited that means that they give out a lot of candy their and really get into it.

If they are unhappy looking as they leave, then go ahead and hold back a little and save your voice for the better candy givers.

Also it plans to have a map too. Also always look in the bag as they put it in in case they only put in a little they will feel guilty and this means they may throw in a little more.

You have understand that these folks want to have a good time and feel good about giving away their candy, make it exciting for them and everyone wins. Think on this.

Lance Winslow

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Halloween is fun. It is a day of fun. Everybody across all the age groups enjoys Halloween. On such a day, it is fun to send Halloween ecards. With so many ecards available, it becomes difficult to get ecards that make you feel good and give joy to the recipients. After all the ecards are supposed to spread joy. Let me tell you how to do this.

Get Free – with so much free content available on the net, it is no use paying for ecards, search for websites that are offering free ecards.

Flash – In this age, to use static small JPG ecards looks little out of place. Look for flash ecards that have lot of movement in them.

Size- Don’t choose very small or very large sizes. Choose sizes that nicely fit in the screen. Your recipient will be able to view the ecard easily and enjoy it.

Music – Use ecards with scary music. The flash with music will add to the fun of Halloween.

Message – chose a service that gives space for putting your message and a notification to you that your ecard has been viewed.

Selection of ecards requires little search if you know what you are looking for. The card size/weight should be small so that the ecard opens easily. The ecard should have a click to view in the beginning. Halloween offers you a grand opportunity to connect with all friends and family members. Send more than one ecard to most of them. The ecards are free. Why not send more? Halloween is fun. Ecards for Halloween add to that fun and make your day really enjoyable.

CDMohatta writes for ecards, greeting cards and online cards. If you are looking for Free ecards that look good and will make the recipient happy, please chose from – Halloween Ecards, Free Birthday ecards, and Free Holiday ecards These are all free for you. Send as many as you wish at no cost.

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Ghosts, goblins and other creepy creatures roam the eve of Halloween. From trick or treaters to Halloween parties, October is the month when children and adults transform themselves into other-wordly beings. But not everyone enjoys going out during this autumn holiday. Some people enjoy turning the lights down low and passing the time watching mystery and horror flicks in front of the TV. So to set the mood, here are some Halloween movie rental ideas featuring haunted houses for those that prefer a good ghost-like mystery rather than a continuous stream of blood and gore.

The Haunting (1963) – A true classic horror film. Here we find four guests arriving at a mansion with a terrifying reputation. The guests are determined to debunk the idea of a house being possessed and so set up for the night. Strange occurrences soon make themselves known from muffled wails to strange unexplainable noises. The guests encounter a door that appears to breathe, unexplained writing on the walls and many other supernatural phenomena. A new remake of the film is also available (The Haunting (1999)).

Haunted (1996) – Nanny Tess Webb (Anna Masey) has been seeing visions. Her three children, as well as the family doctor all insist that there is no haunting and that she is just hallucinating. She invites Professor David Ash (Aidan Quinn), who is skeptic of the supernatural, to investigate the paranormal goings-on at her country estate. After spending some time there himself, the Professor also begins to experience unexplainable visions, including the vision of his young sister who died in a drowning accident.

Haunted Castle (3-D) (2001) – After his mother dies, a young musician named Johnny is summoned to his mother’s castle according to the final wishes in her will. He soon discovers that not all seems as it appears and that the castle is not only haunted by ghosts, it appears to be alive. He is eventually lead to a Mr. D who makes Johnny the same tantalizing offer that he made his mother twenty years earlier? surrender your soul in exchange for fame and fortune.

The Others (2001) – Starring Nicole Kidman as Grace, this is one of those few, rare movies that will keep you guessing until the end. The story is set in 1945 toward the end of the war. Living on a fog-enshrouded island off the British coast we find that Grace’s husband has presumably been lost in the war and she is living on her own with her two young children. The children are hypersensitive to light and so live in a musty manor with the curtains and shutters perpetually drawn closed. Needing some assistance, Grace writes up a request for domestic help, but before she can go to town to post it, three strangers suddenly arrive in response to her as yet un-posted request. This film will certainly leave you guessing with its twists and turns.

Stephen King’s Rose Red (2002) – Another true story haunting and originally a mini-series, this movie is based on a researcher investigating the paranormal who takes a team of psychics into a haunted house. We soon learn of the building’s gruesome past – women who have disappeared without any trace and men meeting gruesome deaths. Soon after entering, the psychics themselves begin to experience many paranormal activities, including disappearing team members.

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If you are considering something different for the holidays of fall then you may want to consider Halloween gift baskets this year. These festive arrangements can be bought already assembled or you can make your own. This unique craft will be a hit with kids of all ages.

Many people immediately think that a Halloween gift basket would be a huge arrangement. This kind of item is commonly used for presents and special occasions. However, Halloween gift baskets can come in all sorts of sizes. You can make tiny ones for visiting neighborhood children or you can make that big display for a special family.

One family I have become very close to over the years does not celebrate the Halloween holiday. Instead, the family spends time playing games or they may go out to a movie instead. As the children became more and more aware of the festivities that they were missing I decided to make them Halloween gift baskets.

This project had to be approached very carefully because of the parents’ opposition to many of the themes of the Halloween holiday. Instead of constructing Halloween gift baskets in black and orange I decided to use red and white. I chose these colors for a specific theme.

Instead of making formal Halloween gift baskets, I made night out at the movies baskets. The items I chose included popcorn balls arranged in movie theatre popcorn holders. I added some of their favorite sodas as well as other movie theater treats. Under all of the treats were nice, comfortable fall pajamas for each of the girls.

The girls were thrilled with the night out at the movies theme and they seemed to forget all about missing dress up for the holiday when they found their pajamas. I also made sure to include a fun movie in the Halloween gift baskets as well.

Not everyone celebrates every holiday. I have made many Halloween gift baskets over the years of all shapes and sizes. The night at the movies baskets were just as fun to make and I had a great opportunity to share a little bit of holiday spirit without celebrating the actual holiday.

The other kids in the neighborhood did receive traditional Halloween gift baskets filled with spooky treats and they were thrilled. I was just glad that I could do something a little extra special for my special family as well.

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There are many clever ways to “celebrate” Halloween.  As twenty-somethings my friends and I would do the costume thing, Halloween foods and drinks, etc.  We would also pull out what we considered Halloween books and take turns reading to the group in the side room interested in good literature or just in being titillated or scared.

The best of a Halloween books collection of course starts with Edgar Allen Poe’s works, the short stories of horror and depravity that still have the power to move these two centuries later….  My favorite shorts were “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” the first for its haunted house (Halloween books and stories) feel, the second for its appeal at a Halloween party in a house with a bunch of rooms wherein one imagines one is trapped, with other people, for days and nights.

Also more terrifying—if you don’t want Halloween books, per se, but just want to get into a metaphysical, parapsychological, the cosmic, the occult genre, real people haunted by real ghosts and other phenomena, true scary stories mood—are the following for teens and adults:

Amityville Horror, by Jay Anson – This book is creepy from the cover, with a photo of the actual house, which looks alive with the windows and doors giving the illusion of a face.  The book is based on the true story/events, of a man who killed his family and of the new man and family who moved in and became possessed…to emulate the former house inhabitants.  One of the best Halloween books ever.  The first that comes to mind when I hear or read the phrase “scary books” or “Halloween books,” in other words.

The Shining – A number of Steven King books scare the pee out of you, but for me this one is frightening because it is realistic enough to be psychologically terrifying.  The possibility of a writer with cabin fever, staying in a shut-down hotel in the woods of New England in blizzard-snow storms and black outs, with ghosts of hotel parties past…..

The Mephisto Waltz – I am still trying to find a copy of this, so I can tell you the author, for starters…but there are scenes in this creepy story where the guard dogs, Doberman Pinschers, track the protagonist in the most eerie and terrifying of ways, whenever she tries to get out….  Oh, just found the author’s name: Fred Mustard Steward. 

Of course, there are numerous “kid friendly” Halloween books for kids, but I focused here on the Halloween books for adults, as we get to have a little thrill, too.  And The Happy Pumpkins didn’t seem like a title that would do much for anyone, anyway.

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