Are you in love with Halloween? If you’ve done any (or all) of these, it may mean you’re obsessed with the spooky holiday!
1. You ask your friends if ABC Family’s 13 Nights of Halloween has started yet. To be clear, you asked this in September and will carry on doing so until it actually starts on the 19th. Then when it starts, nothing can stop you from binge-watching everything from Hocus Pocus to Poltergeist.
2. November 1st (of last year) marked the day you began brainstorming costumes for this upcoming Halloween. “It’s too early to be talking about Halloween,” they said. It won’t be too early when you win that nonexistent costume contest, now will it?
3. Wal-Mart has suddenly become your favorite store. “Why?” you may ask. Because the Halloween section is now standing proud. Sure it doesn’t exactly stand up to those specialty Halloween stores, but Wal-Mart has fake blood and plush bats/spiders that you can set up in your room as opposed to something scarier–like the fake blood.
4. Decorations. They’re everywhere. None of your roommates can escape them. Becky just walked into fake spider webs? Sorry about it. Oh no, Susan, the bats scared you when you walked by? They stay. The musically inclined dancing skeletons scared you in the middle of the night? Darn. Nothing is safe from cheap, tacky Halloween paraphernalia.
5. Everyone gives you “the smile” whenever you bring up anything remotely Halloween. You know that smile. It’s the smile. It’s got to be the most lackluster, half-effort cheek movement known to man. It’s when someone puts up with what you just said because a) they love you or b) they can’t escape you. You get it when you bring up a new décor idea, you get it when you talk about movies with witches in it, and you absolutely get it when you switch your costume for the eighteenth time.
So how in love with Halloween are you?