A Self-Professed Halloween Scrooge

I am normally up for a party or celebration of any kind; however, when it comes to Halloween, I am one of 3 people on the planet who don't enjoy it.

This is not something that came with adultness; I didn't enjoy Halloween as a child -- I didn't like masks, I didn't like "begging" for candy, and I didn't like the "tricks". The latter, I'm sure, is a result of the fact that I was the daughter of a school principal and we regularly, on Halloween, had our house "tp'd." That wet toilet paper is NOT fun to clean up.

In addition to these traumatic childhood memories of Halloween, there are other things about the holiday I don't like:

• haunted houses
  
• ghouls/ghosts (unless they look like Casper)
  
• witches (unless they look like Samantha on "Bewitched")
  
• devils
• blood
• gore
• spiders and spider webs
• fake eyeballs
  
• monsters
• vampires
• fake brains
  
• skeletons
• tombstones/caskets

And, on top of all this, I'm not crazy about the black/orange color palette -- now that I'm no longer rooting for the Wink Wildcats :-)

Having said all this: Happy Halloween!