10 Tips for Celebrating Halloween

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1. Listen to Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury in audiobook form. (I recommend the one narrated by Stefan Rudnicki on Audible.)

2. Have pumpkin bread and flavored coffee at the local Starbucks or other cafe.

3. Tour a local pumpkin patch, corn maze or apple orchard near your city.

4. Go to a nearby theme park’s Halloween festivities.

5. Go on a ghost tour.

6. Watch your favorite Halloween-ish movies with someone who hasn’t seen them before. (I recently introduced my husband to the beauty of Sleepy Hollow and the hilarity of Idle Hands.)

7. Make a Halloween music playlist. Mine includes:
“When You’re Evil” by Voltaire
“Living Dead Girl” by Rob Zombie
“Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo
“This is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Beheaded” by The Offspring
“Halloween” by AFI (originally by The Misfits)
“Django” by Rancid

8. Buy ridiculously large pumpkins from the local pumpkin patch and attempt to carve them. (Then check out some pumpkin carving art.)

9. Look through Cake Wrecks & Regretsy‘s Halloween archives and giggle maniacally.

10. Go on a horror movie binge with friends.