Halloween-- The Stuff

Here is a list of the available Halloween items at Wal-Mart: Halloween greeting cards (with and without sound effects), CDs with scary sounds and music, lots of Halloween candy, costumes and masks, decorated paper napkins, cups, plates, decorated plastic cups, plates and cutlery in orange, black and purple; party favors including, though not limited to plastic spiders, ghosts, witches all on rings or separate, pop-up goblin heads, pencils, erasers, pens, with and without "toppers"--little things that you can stick on the top of your pencil-- slinkies, snakes, skeletons. There are hair bows, earrings, t-shirts, underwear, panties, and thongs(!), pajamas, real pumpkins, artificial pumpkins already carved into jack-o-lanterns with electric lights, and uncarved ones, plastic bowls and tubs in varying sizes and shapes which are to be used for serving candy, bobbing for apples, cooling drinks, etc. There are also "belly washers"-- large plastic bottles of artificially colored sugary drinks which have large plastic or rubber caps in various shapes, cookies and cookie cutters, cakes and cake pans, cupcakes made and decorated for Halloween, cupcake cups and orange, purple and black icing, the usual cookies, snack cakes and breakfast cereals colored and packaged specifically for the season. There are also a large number of large inflatable yard decorations, windsocks, door decorations, and sigh, candles in various sizes,shapes, and scents, in oranges, browns, blacks and purple.