Halloween fun and need you help…
Happy post Halloween…
Hope you enjoyed your little ghouls and goblins ransacking your house for sweets. We literally (no exaggeration) had probably 250 kids hit our house. I swear they bus them into our neighborhood. I was really worried we were going to run out of candy at some point and raided the pantry for anything we could give out.
Zak had a great time with his first ‘real’ Halloween. He was Thomas the Tank Engine and loved it! Last year, he went to 3 houses and just walked right in. He didn’t get the concept. This year – he got it in a big way!
Hmmm…..knock on door, say a few words, people give me candy.
Rinse. Repeat.
Here are a couple quick pic of Zak at the neighbors place:
Poor Zoe, she was too pooped to even make it out. She stayed in her Giraffe costume for about 8 minutes before crawling up to bed. 
Across the street from us, our neighbors are totally into Halloween with an entire graveyard scene, a big inflatable pumpkin coach, you name it. (Those are where I took Zak’s pics above.)
Now I love Halloween too and I had to get into the act. I bought this big archway with the words ‘Cemetery’ on top of it. It looked really cool online but when I put together – it took a slight breeze to knock it over. I secured it every which way from Sunday but it still wasn’t enough. Finally, the last time it fell over – I just left it there like an ancient ruin. Don’t know it seemed cool enough. Then I took the cemetery sign and stuck in my shrubs (you can just make it out to the left of the house).
The kids did go crazy for a fog machine I had on porch. (That’s right street cred with the 13-year olds!)
Next year we’ll have to have more fun with the kids and maybe get people in the yard scaring them. Who knows? Or my neighbor across the street, Deb, and I might form an alliance and build a huge archway spanning the street and have a makeshift haunted house in there. Something fun….
And that brings me to another point – where I need your help…
I just mentioned having fun…that’s definitely something I strive to do in a big way from jumping out of airplanes at cruising altitude to little silly ways like being “Count Yanik” for Halloween promos. (Yes, I know he didn’t make an appearance this year. I know you’ve been sobbing for hours about it.)
Having fun is one part of my Maverick philosophy for ‘Making more, having more fun and giving back more’.
Sounds good, right?
To me that’s the quintessentially ‘holy grail’. But not everyone thinks that’s possible – or maybe you’re struggling in one (or more of those areas). I want to help. I’m working on new content including videos and a free webinar for the release of the new Maverick Business Insider newsletter on Nov 6th. I got lots of stuff to share…but I need your help.
What’s your biggest questions or things holding you back in these 3 areas?
Give me your thoughtful answers and you’ll get a chance to win the ‘34 Rules for Maverick Entrepreneurs’ book and 2 CD Audio Set.
Here’s the quick survey
It’ll only take a few minutes and it’ll help me make sure I’m covering what you want. Thanks!
November 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hi Yanik,
You wrote:
>raided the panty
I think you meant you “raided the pantry”
That would explain the large crowds however.
Happy belated Halloween!
Tim
* good catch
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November 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Happy belated Halloween, Yanik!
Elitsa
November 1st, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Yanik,
If the Fun Police find out about you and your “scheme” you are SO BUSTED!
Go for it in a big way, man, and let’s see how we can get the families involved…I’m thinking, I’m thinking…
Aw, shucks, it’s Saturday. I can’t think on SATURDAY. Besides, I am still recovering from all the ghosts, goblins, and ghouls. Happy UNhalloween!
Grinning and Winking,
Connie Baum
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Funny thing about this post was that I was Thomas the Train for my first halloween except that was 27 years ago.
December 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Our family is very into Halloween. Every Year we build several different scenes out of the pink insulation you put on the side of houses. The best is minimum of 1 inch thick, for block walls take a router and make a groove for the blocks, horizontal & vertical, stager the blocks like usual, then paint them black for the morter grooves, grey for the blocks. We use 2 different colors of grey primer, light and dark primer. If you’d like I can send you pictures of this last halloween. You can blow your neighbor away with the scenes you can build.
* Yeah post up the link here in the comments on Flickr. I’ll show them. Y.S. *
December 24th, 2008 at 1:51 am
I wanna do Halloween AGAIN!