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I LOVE these! I WISH I could get them for my front porch.

One year when we were living in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in a neighborhood with a gazillion kids, my husband got into the spirit. He bought a super ugly, wonderful mask and then put a pillow on his back to create a hump-back and put an old military blanket over his head. He looked really scary. :0)

As he answered the door to the Trick-or-Treaters, there would be screams, laughs, etc. from the kids and their parents. We had more and more visitors as word spread. By the time we ran out of FIVE humongous bags of candy, my husband was exhausted, but still laughing like a loon.

Our son was about 4 at the time. My husband showed him the costume and he was NOT amused. My husband tried to calm him, but the man in the mask was NOT his daddy! Even when the mask was OFF, with my husband stomping on it on the floor, our son was still upset. We put it up in the closet, not taking it down again until our son decided there was nothing to fear.