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Day 20(Originally Posted September 20, 2020): Throughout the years, most times, horror has only been a HUGE hit on tv,  when the story is in an anthology. From season to season (American Horror Story)  or, in my preferred case, episode to episode (The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, Tales From the Dark side, Goosebumps) of my favorite: Are you afraid of the dark?  Ad a kid, I wasn't really exposed to much horror (my parents weren't fans) and my cousins once showed me Child's Play and I was scarred for 20+ years. But, in August of 1992, that all changed. Nickelodeon made a Saturday night block of programming called "Snick" which included Clarissa Explains it all(a teen sitcom that's like everything on Nick nowadays) Roundhouse (a teen skit show), Ren & Stumpy (a cartoon with older themes) and right before bed, the preteen borrow anthology show Are You Afraid of the Dark? The basis of the show was a group of tee...

Day 16(Originally Posted on September 16th 2020): When it comes to candy, you can use a pillow case, shopping bag, plastic bag, or the old reliable orange pumpkin pail.  In my opinion with everything out there, nothing brings back the Halloween nostalgia like this guy, although there are many decorations (like the cardboard and melty plastic ones) and candies,, the orange pumpkin pail is something most everyone had at Halloween and can relate to. The hollow plastic shell, the thick plastic string, the inside getting filled with candy. Nothing was better as a kid walking around with one of these bad boys filled to the brim with sugary treats, as you'd walk home, on a brisk autumn night on the eve of November dressed as someone else. What was your preferred way of carrying candy?

Day 7(Originally Posted on September 7th, 2020): This is a simple little blurb, the sets of decorations below were both household and classroom decor of my youth, even seeing them nowadays brings a little bit of Halloween joy to me. What did you like more the melty plastic signs or the cardboard ones?

Originally posted on September 4th 2020 Day 4: When it comes to fast food promos and Halloween, there are a few that I can think of, but the one that sticks out the most to me is the McDonalds Halloween buckets. The ones that stick out most to everyone are the Pumpkin, Ghost and Witch. For me, I remember the most are the original pumpkin trio as opposed to the Silver Shamrock collection. I remember wanting them so bad as a kid, even though I used the traditional pumpkin Halloween pails that everyone had, because they held more candy (even though I never really got them near to full, I probably wouldn't get one of the McD's one full) but when you got them, they came with the food in them, as they were the Happy Meal and the bucket was the toy. You ate the food, washed out the bucket and you were good to go!  As years went by, more changes happened, most notably the addition of removable cookie cutters in the lids and in 2001 when the lids were...