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I wanted to get a full length skeleton cutout. The kind that you usually hang on the wall. I wanted it for my costume. She was confused, but she did it.

That Halloween, I put on all black shirt and pants, as well as my black sneakers, and then put on some old black 'dress' gloves that my mother had and then grabbed an old black shirt to wrap around my face and head. I then used rubber bands to hold the skeleton in place on my body. It worked great. I had people who said it looked as if a real skeleton was walking along the sidewalk. (In the dark, of course. The skeleton had the ability to glow, so I would stand in front of my parents car headlights to 'charge' the stuff, and then walk up to the house for trick or treat.

Of course, the material was thin cardboard and my idea worked, except that I was sweating my ass off (October in SE Virginia, y'all!) and the skeleton got wet. It made it through the night, but was literally coming apart as I was trying to remove it.

I will never forget that because it was the first time I had a direct hand in creating my Halloween costume and it was not exactly 'store bought' in that sense. Two years later, I retired from going trick or treating and started handling the decorations and handing out candy at our house.

That was even more fun and got me started on my 'Haunted House' career.



(This was my character in one such attraction. This is 'Jarvis the Jailer'!)