To Carve or Not To Carve....That Is The Question

The answer is simple. There is no way in h--- I am carving another pumpkin ever in my entire life!!

Do you carve pumpkins for Halloween? I don't. Even thinking about it might make me puke. As a child I had a very strong gag reflex and lots of things made me almost throw up. The fact that strong smells bothered me, seeing yukky stuff bothered me and touching slimy things bothered me...made pumpkin carving sheer torture! If I wanted a pumpkin though....I had to clean it out myself.

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So I would sit and gag and cry and almost puke every Halloween, but I would clean that friggin' pumpkin amidst the laughter of some not so sympathetic siblings and parents. I remember one year doing it with a close pin on my nose!

Tresa and Irv

Tresa, Me and Michael

I did my best to put my pumpkin carving phobia aside when my kids were little, but Irv did most of what I was unable to do. Once the stringy smelly goo was out of the inside, I was great at scraping it clean with a spoon. I had to have a nice clean inside with no sign that the yukky stuff was ever in there.

Matt

Just thinking about pulling that top off and seeing all of that stuff just makes me shudder. I can smell it right now and there isn't a pumpkin anywhere in site!

Angela at Pickles On Pizza did an awesome "bejeweled"pumpkin this year. Maybe I should try that. Or maybe I should just go down and get my little lighted plastic pumpkin from the basement, sit him in the window and say Bah Humbug to Halloween....or is that Christmas?

The funniest thing is....I LOVE pumpkin pie and can eat a whole one myself!