30 Days Hath September

April, June, and November
All the rest have 31

Including my favorite month of all, October! Yeah, yeah... well, you know. It's two days in, and, once again, the opportunities are endless. This year, however, I have more of a selection than usual.

You see, in moving, we had an enormous amount of costumes to go through, most of which we would never use in a million years. They were every size, sort, type, and style. They were vintage, recent, plastic, tulle, silk, fur, and some fabric patterns that I had never seen before in my entire life. There were costumes from plays, from dance performances, from a prom or homecoming, and Halloweens past.

And I had the task of convincing Dad to keep most of them without him just tossing all of them into the dumpster we had rented. So I came up with an alternate plan...

For two summers I was involved with Affton CenterStage, and two of the ladies who are deeply within the major cogs are good friends of my family from church. So I extended them the opportunity to take a portion of the costumes and add it to their collection- donation to a worthy cause, so to speak. They came over, and the sorting began. Sentimental? I kept. Still fit, or someone might want? I kept. Something completely outrageous that I know I would use later? I kept. Something that I knew they could use, I handed it over... and that's how it went. When all was said and done, they had about a trash bag of costumes, and a couple dozen hangars more. I had a big, blue tub that's currently in storage.

When we were going through the costumes, though, they told me that if I was ever in a production, or if I just needed a costume that they might have, to let them know. I have honorary rights to borrow a costume or two.

This shall be a fun Halloween indeed.