Cruft Manor has Halloween traditions: Every year, we give out full size candies, made a listing of all costumes, and make a timelapse movie.
I let the kids choose their favorite candy themselves. This can sometimes lead to a prolonged choosing process and debate. The moments of “OMG” and “wow” are wonderful as they realize the candies are full size.
This year I heard “this is the house I told you about, with the big candy” which makes me smile.
When people come to the door, I ask every person what they were dressed as and wrote down their answers. I am careful to ask what they are, accepting their answers rather than interpreting what I see.
As has become tradition, I made a timelapse movie of handing out candy to the kids. This year, I started when the first trick or treaters appeared a little after 6 PM.
The time-lapse takes place over a little more than three hours that is reduced to just over two minutes for your viewing pleasure.
Here are few of the fun costumes I saw this year.
This Halloween makes it 15 years of data to compare, though 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
Here are the top ten costumes for the last fifteen years compared.
Again, wide diversity this year. Spider-man was on top, with Black panther and M&Ms candies breaking into the the top ten. Longtime favorites like cats and ninjas were not seen much. Continuing the trend of the last few years, there were no politics oriented costumes this year. No big new trends appeared.
Our total number of visitors was about the same, 162, slightly up from last years 157. Again, several homes on our street had their lights off and probably lead to lower traffic to our house.
This year’s complete costume list of 162 people:
5 Spider-man
5 Witch
4 Black Panther
4 Harry Potter
4 M&Ms
3 Naruto
3 Unicorn
2 Biker Girl
2 Captain America
2 Clown
2 Ghost
2 Gorilla
2 Gravity Falls Twins
2 Harley Quinn
2 Horsehead
2 Rilakkuma
2 Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas
2 StayPuft Marshmallow Man
2 Superman
2 Wonder Woman
1 Air Force Pilot
1 Alien
1 Archer
1 Aria from Inherited
1 Audrey
1 Banana
1 Bank Robber
1 Baseball Player
1 Basketball Player
1 Batgirl
1 Belle
1 Belly Dancer
1 Big Fat Monkey
1 Black Ninja
1 Bunny
1 Captain Marvel
1 Chuckie
1 Cinderella
1 Clipper Fan
1 Coach
1 Coco
1 Connor Murphy
1 Cookie Monster
1 Cow
1 Crash Test Dummy
1 Dad
1 Darth Vader
1 Deadpool
1 Dinosaur
1 Dog Biting my Butt
1 Doll
1 Domino
1 Dwight Schrute
1 Elastigirl
1 Elsa
1 English Immigrant
1 Evan Hansen
1 Evie
1 Flapper
1 French Immigrant
1 Ghostbuster
1 Ghostface
1 Giraffe
1 Graffitti Painter
1 Gryffindor Student
1 Heisenberg
1 Hot Dog
1 Hydro Waka Flocka
1 Ice Cream
1 Identity Theif
1 Inflatable Dragon
1 Iron Judge
1 Iron Man
1 Jasmine
1 Joker
1 Ketchup
1 Killer Clown
1 Ladybug
1 Legal Vampire
1 Lunatic Cultist from Terraria
1 Mad Hatter
1 Mario
1 Michael Meyers
1 Mickey Mouse
1 Minnie Mouse
1 Mom
1 Napolean Dynamite
1 No Skin Joker
1 Oreo
1 Panda
1 Papyrus the Skeleton
1 Pirate
1 Police Officer
1 Poncho
1 Princess
1 Pumpkin
1 Pumpkinhead
1 Purge Master
1 Rapunzel
1 Ravenclaw
1 Santa
1 Scarecrow
1 Scary Skeleton
1 Scream
1 Shark
1 Skeleton
1 Skeleton Ninja
1 Skywing Dragon
1 Smoker the Bear
1 Snow White
1 Soldier
1 Sonic
1 Student
1 Teddy Bear
1 Teenage Ninja
1 Thor
1 Tiger
1 Tigger
1 Tinkerbell
1 Toad
1 Treebeard from LotR
1 V for Vendetta
1 Vampire
1 Velociraptor
1 Violet
1 Winnie the Pooh
1 Yoshi
1 Zombie
162 Costumed Visitors
