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Are You Ready for Halloween?

October 9, 2011
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Are You Ready for Halloween?

It is October. That means Halloween is just days away. The specialty Halloween stores have been open for some time. I have been getting emails announcing sales from Halloween costumes, candy, along with various ghoulish accessories. My spies have been telling me the cost of getting a Halloween costume at one of those specialty stores is...

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Shopping for a Camcorder

September 16, 2011
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Shopping for a Camcorder

Summer vacation is over. The kids are back in school. Over the next few months we are going to have more and more indoor activities. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas make up the three great days holidays remaining in this year. These holiday make a perfect time to record memories with family and friends. Still picture...

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Halloween Things To Do

October 21, 2010
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Halloween Things To Do

Halloween has long been thought of as the point that divides Fall and Winter; life and death. That is why we see Halloween as the day when the dead can return to the earth. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation. The secular community turned it into a children’s holiday. Although there is still...

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Halloween Costumes – Part 2

October 20, 2010
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Halloween Costumes – Part 2

If you read yesterday post about Halloween Costumes you saw where I visited them of the specialty stores in Boise, Idaho. Today, I want to look at some of the other places where to get a good Halloween costume, without spending a whole lot of money. Yes that would be Wal Mart, Target, and Shopko to...

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Halloween Costumes

October 19, 2010
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Halloween Costumes

We get our modern day Halloween from a mixture of Celtic, Catholic, Roman, and European religious/folk traditions. It is this blending together over time that caused us to create the holiday we know today. Adults began the tradition of dressing in elaborate costumes for Halloween. They were known as Masquerade parties. I was not until the...

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Trick or Treat?

October 31, 2009
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Trick or Treat?

Yesterday, I was walking out of the local grocery store, the headline of the local newspaper jumped out at me. It read, “The Great Recession Is Over.” My first thought was that it was a cruel trick. Then I started asking myself, “Is The Great Recession really over?” Jobs are still tight. Milk and other staples...

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Four Frightful Zombie Friday

October 30, 2009
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Four Frightful Zombie Friday

It is the day before Halloween. Jack-O-Lanterns fill the media. Those movie channels are rerunning blood filled slasher movies like: Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Then there is all the media hype about zombies our children walking around wondering if being a zombie is a good thing or bad. These are not the things...

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