Blog Minx

So it’s Halloween here tonight. October 31. What does this mean? It means as a grown up I buy candy and serve it to random children who ring my doorbell – which wouldn’t be acceptable at any other time of the year, really.

There won’t likely be a lot of door-ringers because Halloween isn’t such as big deal here in New Zealand, but I buy the candy and then have an excuse to eat it if there’s any left (actually I have already started…).

As a kid I would occasionally go trick or treating (only once did someone say ‘trick’ – I was flummoxed because I hadn’t prepared) and it was mostly lame because people wouldn’t have candy at the ready, so instead they would hand out fruit. Fruit!

Costumes varied. One year I was a ‘ghost’ (pillowcase with eye-holes cut out) and another I was a Smurf (white hat and blue face paint and blue turtleneck).

Which goes to show either a) you don’t need a lot of money to have fun – it’s about creativity or
b) you do need money and this illustrates why precisely – otherwise you end up begging in a pillowcase for strangers to give you food.