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One of the things that Teri and I love about autumn is the opportunity to shop for sexy Halloween costumes for Teri to wear to costume parties. We try to go to several costume parties a year. Obviously Halloween is a great time to buy lots of different types of costumes!

Some of the parties we go to are for adults only, and they often have costume contests, so sometimes we go as a coordinating couple. Naturally my costumes are a little bit on the conservative side, compared to the sexy cop costume or sexy pirate costume
that Teri likes to wear, but I enjoy letting the men envy the fact that Teri is coming home with me after the party!

I also like to go all out in decorating the house for Halloween.  We have a casket with a plastic skeleton in it that the lid opens and closes that we put in the front yard, and a lot of fake cobwebs.  We hang orange holiday lights around the windows, and put cornstalks around the mailbox.  I used to carve a lot of jack-o-lanterns by hand, but too many of them got smashed in the past few years for me to want to take the trouble to do that again.  So we’ve started using plastic ones that are already carved.  I nail them to a bench that I put beside the front door.  Those babies aren’t going anywhere!

We have a motion detector hooked up to a light and the sound of a barking dog near the house and the cars so if someone comes to the house after “lights out” (with bad intentions with soap bars or bathroom tissues) the light comes on and the barking dog scares the little varmints away!  We always give out good candy, but sometimes the older kids go out later just to raise a little cain!

I had never heard of having gold IRA or gold 401k accounts before Teri’s Uncle Steve told us that he had taken a hard look at his savings plans and had decided to perform a gold IRA transfer.

I always thought that if you invested in gold that you had to physically HAVE the gold in your house or in a safety deposit box! I’m not exactly sure how much trust I would put in a company that says that they will hold onto the gold for you! It just puts me in mind of a rascal that my brother used to work for back in the 1980s who sold the same piece of gold to several different clients, telling them that he would keep it safe for them in his office! These things worry me! I’d have to do a lot of investigating before doing something like that!