Halloween Ins & Outs
How to make the most of this year's spooky season
IN
Keeping a jar on your mantelpiece full of nice chocolates and candy for yourself and your loved ones to snack on.
Dressing up as playing card suits.
Cooking cosy meals and desserts such as boysenberry crumble, pumpkin pancakes, and minestrone soup.
Filling a pumpkin with ice and using it as a wine cooler.
Homemade decorations:
Making ghost candles by heating cheap white tapers in warm water until they’re malleable, then twisting them into strange shapes and drawing on little ghost faces.
Cutting out black paper bats to stick on your walls.
Making mini jack ‘o’ lanterns to keep around your home by drawing sharpie faces on oranges.
Black and orange paper chains
Tarot readings for yourself and your friends. Biddy Tarot is great if you’re new to the cards or still learning.
Inventing your own Halloween traditions, like watching a particular movie every October, having a dinner party with your friends, visiting a local pumpkin patch or berry field, cooking a favourite recipe, or making a new decoration every year (see the halloween master list by Caitlyn from milk fed - basically Halloween 101 for anyone trying to narrow down their Halloween vibe).
OUT
Women dressing up in prop costumes to complement their boyfriend’s character costume. Don’t be a basketball to his basketballer(?) or an alien to his paranormal investigator. Be your own basketball.
Skipping Halloween because you’re waiting for Christmas.
Body horror pranks.
Going nuts on plastic skeletons and $2 store kitsch when you could commit to a long run of spooky seasons with quality or homemade decorations instead.
Being too cool for Halloween. Simultaneously, out with shaming people for half-assed costumes.
Spending over $100 on jellycat Halloween plushies.
Judging anyone for slutty costumes - it’s Halloween. If some thigh highs are the scariest thing you see, then you need to re-examine your priorities.
Trick or treating being just for children.
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