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If we were to attend a garage sale of your teenage years, what might we find there?

You know, I wouldn’t have had a garage sale as a teenager, mostly because I didn’t own a lot of stuff (my parent were pretty anti-materialistic, to their great, great credit).

But what I would’ve done in my garage – and I did! – was have a really cool haunted house every Halloween. We had a fantastic black-light room, with white sheets and streamers everywhere; we had a “prison cell” room with “bars” made of painted garden hose, so the monsters inside would “bend” them open and climb outside; and of course hanging over the whole driveway outside was this system of little ghosts on strings and pulleys that would fly all over the place.

The only problem? It was kinda too scary for little kids – you know, the people who were out trick-or-treating and were actually supposed to be coming to our haunted house? We missed our target audience completely, and pissed off a few parents. But we had a hell of a great time!

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