{"id":338,"date":"2014-10-20T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixingout.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:20:33","slug":"halloween-survival-guide-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/halloween-survival-guide-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Survival Guide – Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The end of October is probably best known for one of three things: beer gardens closing down, wearing shorts outdoors becoming less acceptable, and only 54 shopping days left until Christmas. However, for those of us with a child-like taste for the theatrics it\u2019s also time for dusting off those pumpkins (ooh-err) and getting out your best fancy dress. Because October for most people under eleven means Halloween time!<\/p>\n

Love it or loath it, October 31st is creeping up like a deranged psychopath with a bloody knife. And that means you\u2019ll either be standing outside in the cold, daubed in makeup and drinking with your mates\u2026 or inside, not daubed in makeup and drinking with your mates. So in the sprit of things – no pun intended – we\u2019ve decided to put together this Halloween Survival Guide for all our MixingOut members who want to embrace the frightening festivities or shy away from them.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t fancy dressing up? No Worries!<\/strong><\/p>\n

If dressing up like a \u201cZombie Nurse\/Celebrity\u201d really isn\u2019t your idea of a good time, there\u2019s still plenty of things you can do with friends this Halloween.<\/p>\n

1. Drinking Games, Horror Movie Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

The premise of this activity is quite simple. Sit down with a bunch of friends in front of a classic horror movie and every time somebody onscreen does something stupid (i.e. goes back into the scary house, leaves an attacker supposedly unconscious without taking said attacker\u2019s disarmed weapon, or splitting up into search parties) you take a drink. You\u2019ll get hammered very quickly.<\/p>\n

2. Ouija Board Monopoly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ordinarily, we wouldn\u2019t advocate the use of an Ouija board. But when you\u2019re playing Monopoly, we can\u2019t imagine any unexplainable mishaps, except maybe the odd hotel going missing. The same rules of traditional Monopoly apply except you get to rename all the locales, such as \u201cElm Street\u201d and \u201cLeicester Scare\u201d – only not as lame as that.<\/p>\n

3. Friday Night Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

The best thing about Halloween this year? October 31st falls on a Friday, so there\u2019s no need to stay in! Even though there\u2019ll be Halloween themed events going on near you, there\u2019ll also be plenty of venues putting on alternative events if you\u2019re not into that sort of thing. Perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The end of October is probably best known for one of three things: beer gardens closing down, wearing shorts outdoors becoming less acceptable, and only 54 shopping days left until Christmas. However, for those of us with a child-like taste for the theatrics it\u2019s also time for dusting off those pumpkins (ooh-err) and getting out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29,36,65],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-advice","tag-halloween","tag-make-friends","tag-new-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixingout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}