In the news this season I can't stress enough the bountiful fall harvest that you can get at the dollar store. It's the most boo-per-buck out there! You can get stuff for Halloween Illusions, Halloween Parties, Halloween Effects, Halloween Lights, Halloween multi-media! Need I go on? Most of the dollar stores (or 99 cent stores) will have those cheap jack-o-lantern treat buckets. (This application is probably far safer than using those things to hold edible candy!) They're usually close to a foot in diameter with the usual orange plastic container, black eyes and a black carrying strap. We can covert a pile of these into a great walkway illuminator! Get maybe ten or so. Take one of your strings of clear C7 Christmas lights. You're going to use these to make a string of illuminated pumpkins. Get the tool wielder of the house to drill some 1/2 inch holes in the bottom center of each plastic jack-o-lantern. Then unscrew every second or thrid c7 bulb from the string, put the jack-o-lantern on the string, and rescrew the bulb back in. With the light sockets in between, either insert orange c7 bulbs, or unscrew the lights so they do not light up.
Place your string-o-lanterns at the edge of your sidewalk or driveway for decoration and safety illumination! Hey, those guys look like my cousins...the octuplets!
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