I can identify why *I* feel that way.. I'm in the back of a triplex in a bad neighborhood. No kids make it to our door on Halloween. I also don't have a front yard anymore, and had to get rid of my decorations a couple of years ago. I've been trying to move for 3 years now, but my gf's jobs don't last long enough to pull it off. Halloween is my New Year, and I always look forwards and back to see how I did that year and rally hopes that next year will be better. I guess that's because my birthday is near it, I dunno. Anyways, last year as I went to my office halloween party, wearing an el cheapo costume, mingleing with the folks that spent $100's of dollars on theirs, I got nothing but disappointment from my co-workers.I was accused of "holding out" on them... Being a 24-7 halloween type guy means I must have 1000's of awe-inspiring horror costumes laying around, awaiting me to don them, but apparently I didn't give a crap about the office party, and from what I understand, it may have even been taken as an insult to my boss. I was determined that this year was gonna' be different.. I started making a high-end prop for it in March and sold extras intended to cover the rest of the cost of the costume. I ran into money problems due to no fault of my own, but I scraped together the last of my funds to order a costume from Deadkid in July that I don't EVER expect to see now since he's failed on about a dozen orders, despite promises up to the last minute. I was also offered a freebie part for my costume from one of the "masters" which also inspired me to push forward with it, but being a "master" also means he's likely going be be busy as hell in-season. I'm still looking forward to it, I just don't expect to get to wear it this year, partially because the rest of the costume isn't ready, and partially because the part likely won't be here anyways. So yeah.. I'm doing a generic thing that I'm not happy with at all. It's a far cry from when I was a bachelor that had corpses all over the house from low budget film shoots, plus expertly made silicone masks (made by a movie fx pro), plus skeletons I was selling, and getting the police called on me by the bug-lady when she came by to spray because it freaked her out.. Also when I got married and had a home with a front yard, I had a lot more options too.. I even had neighbors donating stuff to my displays, wanting to be a part of it.Now it's like there's nothing, and unless I make some hard choices, it'll likely be the same next year. My halloween spirit is dead in the water, except for one little spark, ignited by "Trick r Treat" that has inspired me to do a pumpkin this weekend, but we'll see if the spark makes it all the way to Saturday or not. It helps, seeing that Sirbrad did a cool Jason mask pumpkin though <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"
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