#dollar store halloween hanging cages

[freekoalabanana]

Hanging Cage Halloween Prop

#diy These easy hanging Halloween props use mostly Dollar Store materials and can be made for about $5 each. They are fun to make and look great indoors or outdoors!

[halloweencrafts]

DIY Halloween Hanging Cages

Make these DIY Hanging Cages from Dollar Store items: laundry baskets, plastic chains, and Zip ties. You also need black spray paint.

You could easily dirty these up and age them with clumpy paint and Rub n’ Buff Metallic Finishes. Don’t know what Rub n’ Buff is? Google it because it can fix and enhance almost any project - truly a great product that lasts forever and is cheap.

Find the tutorial for the DIY Halloween Hanging Cages from Laundry Baskets from The Navage Patch here.

[studiorats]

I finished setting up my cage!

I’m quite happy with how it turned out! Let me show you around!

A friend of mine gave me this sign on Halloween, I’m hoping it helps keep the bedding from getting tossed off the shelf too easily.

Here’s the shelf. I always wanted one of those tree trunk hides, so this purchase was mainly for me cuz of aesthetic XD. There’s a little path made of two broken bricks on the side there, I’m hoping they will walk on it and it can file their nails a little. I made a hammock out of a dollar store basket, shower curtain rings, and binder rings. That bowl attached to the bars will probably be filled with food or water. I heard rats like to wash their hands in standing water, but I worry they’ll make a mess.

Behind is the food dish, will fill this with lab blocks. Maybe it’s too small? And yeah, I decided to put the litter box in cuz that’s literally the only corner it could go XD The cement mixing tray I use for the bottom level is sloped so it doesnt have corners, and the other corner opens to the door (which I guess it could go there too but I’d rather they go in this corner for now).

I have two other hammocks in the cage, one cute one I bought on Amazon and a no-sew one I made out of leftover fleece.

In this corner I bolted one of those art bin trays, I wanna see if they can squeeze through that hole under the handle.

Hanging above it is a Toppig. Heh heh, Toppig. It’s some kinda lantern I found at Ikea. I put some bedding and tissue paper in it, it’s just for fun. (There’s a bell hanging from the handle too, idk if rats like bells but i thought it was cute. I got that plastic tube in the back from Amazon, I always loved climbing in the sky tubes at Chuck E Cheese’s so I hope they enjoy that as well.

And finally the bottom level just has a ton of bedding, a pvc pipe I got from Lowe’s, a cardboard box hide, and a kabob. I hope they chew the wood toys on the kabob, once they’re done with that I can use it for fruit and veg.

You’ll notice I dont have any water bottles. I think a friend of mine is sending me her old water bottles from when she had a mouse, so I haven’t bought any. I should probably also add some more chew toys.

[valleanenowe-dreams]

dreams the night before last

false awakening in my room. it's incredibly cluttered with tons of stuff that’s been moved into it. all i can clearly remember is my laptop on an oversized desk with a cabinet. there’s a weird feeling of mildew or coral about it all. this is deeply upsetting. i feel wrong on all levels. this is like an inversion of the tidying up i did in my room before i slept, like it's inspired by the way the tidiness of my room affects my mental state. near my bed are footsteps imprinted deeply into the carpet, like it’s wet. i exit my room. i think i might have younger step-brothers now?

i’m in the mall, where the food court should be. the food court is gone, all the restaurants are stores now. the biggest one takes up an entire wall of the food court. it’s not open yet. it’s some kind of fairy princess land or whatever. i walk around in it. cashiers behind the counter. i think i try to steal something? a girl stops me. i remember a room full of halloween decorations screaming at me. i think it's a pathetic joke because ... i don’t know, this is gibberish. in the back kitchen area of a restaurant after close, with my dachsund sweet pea. a janitor guy talks tells me the restaurant is closed

a vision of a guy reenacting his experience of kneeling over another guy on a sidewalk, watching him die. maybe trying to save him, doing cpr or trying to stop the bleeding, but it’s no use. my view of it keeps pulling back into the air in a flickering way. eventually it pulls back enough for me to realize it’s across the street from the coffee shop i frequent, in the past, when (fictionally) it’s a smoothie shop. i go into the smoothie shop. i remember seeing the barista whose name starts with c

this next part sucks. like the experience is understandably upsetting but also i’m sorta embarrassed to recount it, i sound like a boomer who hates the kids in starbucks or whatever. i go to the coffee shop. it's been extensively remodeled into a big sterile room with white tiles & piercing fluorescent lights. it looks "modern” in a lifeless way. like the rebuilt library in real life. it’s implied to be under new management. the familiar cashiers are gone. just a girl sat listlessly behind a counter by a mini-fridge of bottled coffee. there are like a hundred people at the tables. no one speaks. even worse is that, in real life the coffee shop isn’t that loaded with personality, but in the dream my memory of it is exaggerated, i remember the walls lined from floor to ceiling with all these knick-knacks

i roll around spinning on a rolly chair. i chat with a young boy with an endearingly childish attitude. i type a facebook post about what’s happened. i think someone walks by & makes a snide comment about me using windows 7? i feel so spiteful toward where i am that i start trying to make a really loud whooping sound to be aggravating, but i keep failing to do it right

i leave the coffee shop. i set off across town to find somewhere else to spend my time. at first i walk with ... someone, then it feels like a young child, then it feels like sweet pea. walking through poor suburbs hoping no one attacks me. walking along a steep stone drainage ditch adjacent to people’s unfenced backyards. approaching a road near a park. getting worried because i don’t have sweet pea on a leash. noticing my brother & neighbor at one of the random houses. they say my old step-cousin (or step-niece?) is present. she runs up & hugs me. i follow her into the house & see my old stepsister & stepmom. we talk

i wake up covered in sweat

dreams last night

somehow i obtain like, a decorative wooden sign that you’d hang in your house, that was crafted by john maus. i accidentally put it up for auction on the internet for two thousand dollars. i think it’s a neat artifact, i’d be sad to part with it even for two thousand dollars. but hey at least i’m asking such a steep price at all

i drive past cages near the dormitory parking lots. they have sloths & seals in them. i never noticed the sloths & seals before. i walk around the dorms & an old disused apartment complex at night. i have a hairbrush & a few other items, but not my purse. i have to anxiously hold onto them, more conscious of my belongings

i hop, skip, spin, & whoop in the dark empty parking lot of a strip mall at night. suddenly i notice a van parked in the distance. it's familiar. i approach it. they roll down the passenger side window. it’s my old friends in their van! what are the odds? they’re reading a book. they tell me it's the divine comedy. one of them reads me a passage from it

i smile at someone on omegle. i think she asked me to smile? prior to this, i ate a tv dinner with small bits of spinach. there are bits of spinach on my teeth. she thinks they're cavities. she says something like, oh nevermind you have lots of cavities. i’d hate to see what the rest of your teeth look like. embarrassed, i try to explain that it’s spinach & that i should brush my teeth

[scarystoriestoreadonthesubway]

The Michaels on Atlantic Avenue closes at 9:00PM on Sundays. Brenda always opted to lock up on weekends because it was a few extra dollars thrown her way, and besides, she liked to have some “peace and quiet now and then for pete’s sake.”

The last drunk NYU students seeking zombie make-up and neon wigs had just left through the sliding glass doors with very little issue. This time last year, someone had thrown up on the yarn which nearly drove Brenda crazy.

It was the last day of October, so naturally the entire store was teeming with Christmas crafts and decorations, dancing snowmen dolls and artificial poinsettias. Brenda much preferred this type of décor to the tacky Halloween merchandise. She was allergic to latex and the overwhelming scent of rubber masks, rats and spiders made her want to “urp.” But that was August and September. At long last, the spooky nonsense was all over, despite what the calendar said.

Brenda squinted through her reading glasses at her check-off list. Lower the window cage. Done. Cover the cashiers. Done. Organize counters. Done. All that was left was a final walk through and then to lock up for the night.

She walked up and down the aisles admiring her handiwork. Everything was exactly where it should be. One last ugly orange and black display remained amongst the greens and reds. Hanging from it were some unpopular costume pieces: an off-brand Jack Sparrow, an off-brand Katy Perry, an on-brand ALF, etc, along with a few stray bagged cobwebs. Brenda resolved to put all those things in storage right then.

After she’d finished and was rounding the corner to Aisle 5: Beads, Brenda felt a hand grab her shoulder. She hollered in shock and turned around to see a doughy little woman with a droopy face looking back at her, sheepishly.

“Oh I scared you!” the woman giggled, “I’m terribly sorry.”

Brenda did not like surprises and she certainly didn’t like people in the store after hours. “What are you doing here?” She asked instinctively.

The woman looked back at her, apologetically. “I didn’t mean to be a bother, it’s just, where are the Halloween things?”   

Brenda pursed her thin lips. “First of all,” she scolded, “The Halloween items have been put in storage. Second, we closed twenty minutes ago. I’m going to have to ask you to-”

“Why are the Halloween things in storage?” the woman asked, bewildered.    

“It’s not the season.” Brenda responded, getting impatient.

“Tonight is Halloween,” the old woman smiled, “Don’t you worry that it might seem disrespectful to end the celebration early?”

“Disrespectful to whom?” Brenda scoffed, proud of her proper usage of the word “whom.’’  “Now if you’ll please follow me to the exit.”

“But I need a costume for tonight-” the woman pleaded.

“Then go somewhere else. We don’t have anything for you here.”

Brenda began to usher the woman to the front door. But her little fleshy hand clung onto Brenda’s shoulder again. “I’m afraid you don’t understand. I need a mask, right now. You couldn’t go back into storage and just bring me something from there?”

“If you don’t let go of me and leave right now, I’ll call the police.” Brenda snapped, pushing the little old woman backwards.

“Oh dear.” the woman tisked. “Then there’s really no other choice.”

Brenda’s eyes grew wider and wider in horror as she watched the woman grab onto either side of her pudgy mouth, ripping each corner in the opposite direction to reveal spotted, barbed skin and needle-sharp fangs underneath.

Moments later, a lone security guard saw Brenda from Michaels walk in the opposite direction of her usual subway station. She looked different somehow. Shorter, maybe? Still, he’d recognize her face anywhere so he waved. She waved back with a bloody hand.

“Seasons greetings!” she called to him in an unfamiliar voice. Then, from out of her back, burst two leathery wings, and she soared straight up into the sky.

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[thecoroutfitters]

Written by R. Ann Parris on The Prepper Journal.

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The weather has finally broken for most of North America, which has advantages alone. Fewer bugs and less heat make any work we have to do a little easier and if it hasn’t yet, we’re right on the verge of plants dying down, cutting some of our workload and making getting around a bit easier.

The season has more to offer, though, blessed as many of us find it. From the holidays around the corner to seasonal trends, autumn can give us nice boosts to our preparedness.

We don’t have a lot of time left for Halloween (totally my bad) but some of them will be available through Thanksgiving here in the U.S. Others are based solely in the changing of seasons and we have more time yet.

Straw bales, Corncobs, & Squashes

Autumn means we commonly see some decorations that can help us out, especially if we have livestock. Fewer still do it, but there are still neighborhoods and houses that go all out celebrating harvests and holidays.

Straw bales and stuffing from the porch and dooryard scarecrows are sometimes too far gone for animal bedding, but it can be useful stuff as mulch.

Make sure to spread that straw in walkways or stash it for areas of the lawn that end up boggy and muddy, trails our pets and family tear up, and places we want to re-seed with a cereal or different lawn grass. Straw – like hay – has increasingly been treated with Roundup. The herbicide doesn’t hurt monocots, but it will affect broad leaf plants. That means it’s a no-go for pretty much all our veggie garden areas, just in case.

If people are carving jack o’ lanterns, they may be too far gone Nov. 1 for livestock, but it might be worth a peek. Other decorations may include Indian corn and all those fancy/fugly gourds, though, and those are most likely still good for our critters.

Stash the gourds as long as possible if you have chickens. They can be valuable entertainment as well as fresh foods and the boosts of the mature seeds inside if the birds start developing cabin fever.

Goats can have those gourds smashed or split* and will munch them as well. Most domestic game birds aren’t really grazers, but they’ll happily poke through for the seeds.

*Indulge in fun here: Pop them up to entertain nephews with baseball bats or set up a backstop and lead catch for some target practice.

Corn can be ground or soaked for our critters. Or, we can hang it out piecemeal to keep our future-need squirrel farm going.

We could just drive around and scan for any hanging out of garbage bins, but consider leaving a short note ahead of time if you see those decorations.

“I noticed your lovely decorations, and was wondering what you plan to do with them after the season. I’ll pick them up if you plan to dispose of them,” can be fit on a business card or printed 8-12x on regular letter paper. (Sign it if you print it off – personalization can make a difference.)

If you don’t have a drop phone to give a number, create a generic email just for pop-up contacts. It doesn’t even have to reference preparedness, but it’s a good idea to have one (or twelve) for all kinds of networking.

After-Season Sales

The stores that sell that Indian corn and those gourds will usually drop their prices once they’ve been sitting out a while, and you may be able to ask a clerk when the display is coming down for an idea of when to see if they’ve just been tagged by a distributor/merchandiser and then pitched in a dumpster.

Somewhere approaching or just after Christmas those big bins of mixed nuts will also go on sale.

If you buy butter, your season, too, is coming. Hold out just a little longer and make some room in your freezer, because you may be able to find it for $2-$2.50 a pound again during the big baking seasons.

Finding candy on deep discounts even the day after is pretty rare where I am now, and even decorations and other goodies are getting harder to find with the fast swing between holiday promotions, but your area may be different and online you may find yourself a nice goldmine.

Of all places, Mill’s Fleet Farm has been a crazy good source for post-season sales and feeding somebody’s hard-to-find seasonal favorite for me.

Party supply stores like Oriental Trading Co. also regularly run free shipping promotions with no restrictions on order size and amount, and include discounted items. That runs from inexpensive and cheap (two different things) toys, ornaments, and activities as well as goodies to stash away in canning jars for a bad day.

I also sometimes see those goodies and the seasonal attire, decorations, tableware, candles/lamp oils, and activities at deep discounts in Tuesday Morning type second-chance stores the next week.

Consignment Shops & Classifieds

The change of seasons has a couple of benefits that will reach through to well after Christmas. Here in North America fishing and gardening season is winding down and suppliers sometimes have sales. We may not dive on those, but others do.

Those others sometimes recoup part of an upgrade by selling off their old gear, clothing to bows and reels, ATVs and boats to trailers and tree stands. That can net us supplies for pennies on the dollar.

We might hit flea markets and yard sales for some of those, but keeping an eye on local seller websites and doing quick cruises through Salvation Army, Goodwill, or thrift stores tends to be more productive (unless you just like people, want to get some extra exercise in, or have a dog to socialize – then, go for it all).

We can sometimes luck into really good gear donated solely because it didn’t fit anymore at the start of hunting season or really cold weather, or because a Christmas present led to making extra room.

I tend to keep an eye out specifically for the growing boys’ boots and hunting, camping, packing, and cold-weather gear, but it applies to regular street clothes as well. Some parents also have kids donate some portion of their old clothes and toys after the holiday bonanza, so it’s worth keeping an eye out if you have a little one or a particular interest.

(Thank you Walt!)

Leaves Fall Down

Leaves are a big boost for those of us who can snag them from our own yards and neighbors.

Trees have nice deep roots, see, and all kinds of lovely micro-nutrients end up in those leaves. That makes for a really excellent compost (leaf mold), whether we bag them, add them to heaps/tumblers, or use them as mulches.

We can mow over them with a bagger (or strategically placed tarp or trash can) to get a head start in breaking them down, and they will deliver those nutrients even faster. Chipping or mowing them also makes them even better for use in worm bins and trenches.

Leaves can also help us protect young trees and tender perennials from the coming cold season. Sometimes we can just pile them up. Other times we may want to build a string or mesh cage around larger plants to help keep the leaves exactly where we want them.

In our own yards, leave some strategic piles and light layers here and there. Lots of beneficial insects use them for protection as the weather shifts.

So do slugs, though, which means we have to be mindful of where we use leaves as mulch.

The slugs and bugs are a benefit if we want to make a pile for covering our poultry runs, though. Pretty much all birds are delighted to rifle through leaves (and other mulches) looking for yummy hideouts.

Pre-Pre-Pre-Black Friday & Cyber Week

You won’t get me into a shopping area starting mid-November and I see fewer and fewer online sales that are all that good, but if you need to make a big-ticket purchase, it may be worth making an appearance on the Day(s) of Craze.

Maybe it’s a chipper-shredder to take more advantage of autumn pruning around the home, or maybe it’s the year you’re taking the plunge into solar or a generator. It might be as little as a couple of gas cans using the Harbor Freight coupon, or stocking up on pet food from Tractor Supply. Whatever it is, big or small, sometimes you can really make that trip into madness pay off.

Just stay extra alert for exhausted, drunk, and hungover people rushing to save money on the roads and in the lots.

You can also go out later on Black Friday afternoon. I got dragged out once about 10-12 years ago and it wasn’t as bad as I expected. Clerks look like they’re war-zone evacuees, it’s badly picked over, but the stupidity has largely died down to average weekend if not even weekday afternoon activity levels. Anecdotal evidence suggests it’s still so. (It’s apparently also still a really bad time to go to the movies, though.)

For online shopping, start tracking the price of things you might be interested in, from that low-price air gun to the new computer or mattress. Don’t hesitate to ask here and on subject-matter forums what others have paid.

Especially if it’s going on credit or a budget is tight, what seems like a great sale might not be.

If we know it’s only a difference of X or has hit that level six times previously in the last eighteen months, we can better prioritize if it’s worth the interest or hit to savings, or if we’ll be better served waiting a bit. Autumn has too much to offer for free and discount to blow budgets or get deeper in debt unnecessarily.

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[stagesofabreakup]

Stages of a Breakup: Week 34

1. Wish you were farther along in the weeks

2. Wake up and drink 2 beers

3. Watch XXX: Return of Xander Cage

4. Enjoy it, but know that it’s very bad

5. Leave your house to go to work with all the stuff you will need for Philly

6. Find out that your friend’s flight got cancelled so he won’t be in New York tonight

7. Go to your other friend’s and get Chinese food still/anyway

8. Eat an edible and listen to all of 808s and Heartbreak

9. Feel connected to the music in your shoulders in a way you haven’t in a while

10. Be happy

11. Stuff yourself with Chinese food until hunger is a distant memory you don’t even believe in

12. Stay up too late looking at your phone

13. Fall asleep even though you can’t figure out how to turn off the Apple TV logo so it just glows at you all night

14. Buy lots of dumplings

15. Go to Philly

16. Your friend/roommate from college picks you up from the bus station and asks if you want to go to a gun range

17. You do

18. Shoot guns

19. You are good at it

20. Eat dinner at a Mexican restaurant

21. Get some disappointing mushroom quesadillas that you wish were chicken

22. Do a show in a comic book shop

23. Have an ok set but get more time than you were told so you’re unplanned and kinda lose energy/momentum for the last 3 min

24. Feel terrible and bad about that

25. Be annoyed at other people but know it’s your mistake!!!!

26. See your friend from high school who is gay now

27. Go home

28. Sleep on a couch in a room that looks like it’s from an Anthropologie catalogue

29. Say goodbye to your friends because they are going camping, they let you stay in their apartment

30. You cannot make yourself leave the house, stay inside all day until 8:00pm when you take an Uber to your high school friend’s house

31. He is in business school and has one of the nicest apartments you’ve ever seen

32. Cook a meal of fancy ravioli, sweet potato fries and some stovetop sauce

33. Drink whiskey and wine because you did not know how the evening would go

34. All of your friend’s roommates are gay Brazilian men (because he lived there for 5 years) and that is a fun experience

35. They invite someone from Tinder who is 20 years old

36. You can see the shiny glow of youth upon him that legal alcohol hasn’t sucked out yet

37. Your friend from high school keeps steering the conversation towards porn which you’re not 100% comfortable with just because not everyone seems on board

38. This is confirmed when you and the Tinder guy get really engrossed in a conversation about gay Brazilian sites vs. American straight ones and tropes in porn and everyone else at the table is silent/on their phones

39. One of the roommates tries to get you to come back to Philly next weekend and pay 40 dollars for an open bar, which is a hard no thank you

40. Feel weird but also good?

41. Get an Uber back

42. Share it with a couple who seem bad and a bartender who seems fine

43. Sleep

44. Meet two black cops from Charlotte, NC (your home state!), talk to them about racism for a while

45. Go to an outdoor installation art museum called Magic Gardens

46. Marvel

47. Go on a walking tour with a soft-spoken guide, an unfortunate combination

48. Learn about muraling

49. Think about what surface in your life you can cover with cement and broken pottery

50. Ask a woman to take your photo in the cool garden because social media likes are a huge currency for you right now

51. As she’s taking your picture she says, “Have fun with it!!” which makes you laugh and is the best picture of all of them

52. Go into a fancy olive oil store because you think they will have good free samples

53. You are right and you try ridiculous combinations like Blood Orange Olive oil and Basil Pear Balsamic vinaigrette

54. Meet a woman who you end up talking to for a long time about poetry, a woman’s worth, and the beach

55. She gives you her email and says to keep in touch

56. Get a cheesesteak!

57. It’s just ok. It’s not even that great

58. Watch all of American Vandal with your friend Nate

59. Simultaneously respect & be let down by the ending

60. Talk about relationships with your friend Erin

61. See the grass from both sides

62. Have the most amazing breakfast she makes you of eggs, feta, mushrooms and fresh bread with butter

63. Take the train back to New York

64. Rush to a Halloween show in Brooklyn called Schtick or Treat where people do impressions of famous comedians

65. Immediately see your crush

66. Say hi then ignore him because that’s your only move

67. Run into a comic from Atlanta you know

68. Sit with him and his friends strategically (but also luckily) NEAR your crush

69. Hang out after the show

70. Meet some people

71. Go to 2 more bars

72. Stay out until 4:00am with people you just met tonight

73. Eat a lot of free popcorn

74. Your new friend BUYS YOU AN UBER BACK TO THE CITY FROM BROOKLYN (it’s 18 dollars)!!!!!

75. Get home much sooner than you expected

76. Bask in that kindness

77. Remain awake forever