Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
I remember that time in my life... you are too young to go to any parties, but too old to beg strangers for candy.
You have to re-channel your energies. You dress up but stay home and help hand out candy (and you can always snitch from the candy jar ) If you are really into it, decorate the yard/house/apartment (blacklights are great) - the kids seem to appreciate it. And if you are REALLY into it, you can rig something up to scare the older kids (key word - "older").

My neighbor dressed as a pumpkin headed scarecrow one year and sat next to his front door - he sat the way a stuff dummy sits - and would scare the older kids as they approached the door. It worked sometimes, and didn't other times. But the best was on older teenager, a guy over 6 ft tall. He was scared witless. He whipped around to run away, lost his traction on the grass and dropped straight to the ground. It was hysterical.