Do You Boo?

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I’ve always wanted to live in one of those neighborhoods where people “boo” each other.  If you’ve never heard of boo’ing, let me explain.  You fill a basket or bucket or cauldron or whatever with fun treats and goodies you want and leave it on your neighbors porch in secret.  And you attach a note that explains how they are to proceed (i.e. putting a sign in their window and then Boo’ing two additional neighbors).

I first heard of the idea a few years ago and wished we did it in our neighborhood.  I mean, how fun does giving (and receiving) secret presents sound?  Pretty fun to me.  I toyed with the idea of starting it, but there just wasn’t enough houses.  How fun would “booing” with ten houses be?  It’d be over before it started.  But now we have lots more houses and I’m starting it.

I didn’t want to throw a bunch of candy in a pumpkin pail and be done with it.  I also elected not to include any homemade goodies because I wouldn’t eat random treats that showed up on my doorstep like that.  Here’s what I included:
~Cupcake Mix / Frosting
~Halloween Candle
~BBW Hand Soap
~Halloween Spatula
~Halloween Kids Books (the house I am “boo’ing” has kids)
~Glow in the dark silly string
~Plates  / cups / napkins
~Assorted candy
I was going to “Boo” two houses, so I got two cauldrons done and ready to go.  But then I decided that if it comes back to me, I don’t want to end up boo’ing four houses.  So I am saving it and plan to only Boo one house if it comes back to me.

So does your neighborhood boo?  If not, is it something you are going to start?  If so, what do people usually include?  Oh and I really hope my neighbors don’t read my blog ;). I don’t want them to know this was all my idea ;).