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Halloween 2018
Cruft Manor has Halloween traditions: Every year, we give out full size candies, made a listing of all costumes, and make a timelapse movie.
I let the kids choose their favorite candy themselves. This can sometimes lead to a prolonged choosing process and debate. The moments of “OMG” and “wow” are wonderful as they realize the candies are full size.
As has become tradition, I made a timelapse movie of handing out candy to the kids. This year, I started when the first trick or treaters appeared a little after 6 PM.
The time-lapse takes place over a little more than three hours that is reduced to just over ninety seconds for your viewing pleasure. My old GoPro is still shooting 4x3 and I need to move to 16x9 next year.
When people come to the door, I ask every person what they were dressed as and wrote down their answers. I am careful to ask what they are, accepting their answers rather than interpreting what I see.
This Halloween makes it 14 years of data to compare, though 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Wonder Woman took the top spot this year. Fairly generic costume versions also stayed high, with variations on zombies and skeletons popular. As I saw last year, there we literally no politics oriented costumes this year. Not a lot of standout stuff year that stuck me as a new trend.
Here are few of the fun costumes I saw this year.
