C.R.A.P. Files 005

Next in the bins of “Collectibles Retained and Packed” (C.R.A.P.) are those little hanging ghosts and skeletons you find everywhere during the month of October.

These guys can be found in K-mart, Dollar Stores, Walgreens and just about everywhere that sells Halloween merchandise, they come with elastic string so you can hang them…not sure where you hang them but they are ”hangable.”

Some are really cheap and awful and some are pretty well designed.

Not sure why I like these other than the fact that they are inexpensive and readily available.

Halloween wouldn’t be Halloween without cheap plastic C.R.A.P. hanging around.

Mediocre crap but I still like.

C .R.A.P. Files 004

Seeing it’s now cold outside I thought it would be a good time to resume rummaging through my many bins of “Collectibles Retained and Packed” or CRAP and see what I could find.

This first thing out of the bin was 16 McDonald’s Happy Meal toys called Stretch Screamers released October 3 through the 30^th in 2003.

According to an online source there were originally eight different monsters available although two were recalled.

The monsters featured mechanical sound, light, liquid or rotating movement. These were pretty cool for Happy Meal toys.

My personal favorite is the mummy which changed faces when the arm was pulled and the mad scientist sporting a squishy expanding brain.

This is good crap.

Etsy Skulls

Added six large new skulls to my Etsy store.

Three winged skulls and three horned warrior skulls.

Just in time for Black Friday.

Etsy Pumpkins

Added some new pumpkins to my Etsy store.

Three tortured pumpkins and three Jack O'Lanterns.

Just in time for Black Friday!

Missed Again

Since 1992 we have made it a tradition to take a family photo in front of our Halloween decorations.

Last year we completely forgot and this year didn’t remember until about five minutes before it was shut down for the season.

The result as you will see is a crappy cell phone photo.

In years past we typically try for the “golden hour” photo…those moments before the sun sets and everything is warm and washed in golden light.

Something like this:

This year is the “grainy hour”….those moments when the cell phone flash goes off and everything is craptastic and washed out from the flash.

Something like this:

Next year.

We All Fall Down

My wife snapped this picture of the zombies sitting in the yard waiting to be assembled…don’t know why but I sort of like this picture…especially the heads…they look like they are popping out of the ground.

Bite Me

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