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Meanwhile, Back In Peoria...

A Travel Blog In And Around The River City With Your Host, Marty Wombacher

August 27, 2025

Boo Hoo…To Halloween In August!

by MBIP


Last year I wrote about that stupid-ass Spirit Halloween store that opens up in August.

Well it opened up again a couple weeks ago and I thought about doing a blog on it, but then I thought to myself that I already done that last year, so why do it again and I set off to go to the store.

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Schnucks Grocery Store

There’s the Spirit Halloween store next to Schnucks, Halloween in August, what a stupid fucking thing. Let’s go in Schucks and get our stuff and get out of this premature trick or treat world!

As I walked into Schnucks what’s the first thing I see, a Halloween candy display!

They’ve joined into this whole Halloween in August campaign! This is ridiculous, we haven’t even celebrated Labor Day yet!

Let’s just keep moving along here and try to forget this ridiculous effort to start Halloween in August.

I had to make a stop at Walgreens and they have two aisles of Halloween crap on display in here!

There’s ceramic pumpkins, plates, ghosts and…wait a second…Halloween Peeps? You’re an Easter candy, Peeps. Stay in your own lane!

They even have Halloween cards out and hold on just one second here…right next door to those are Thanksgiving cards! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!

Holy turkey neck, Batman, let’s get the fuck out of here!

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JC Penney At Northwoods Mall

I’ve had enough of this Halloween madness for one day. It’s time for my mall walk.

Let’s take a stroll through JC Penny and get back to living in August again!

Aaaaahhh!

Okay, I’m beaten down, let’s go take a look at this year’s Spirit Halloween store.

Apparently there’s no escape from this early Halloween madness!

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The 2025 Spirit Halloween Store In August

Here we are back at this idiotic Halloween store that opens up in August.

I really don’t get all this early hoopla over Halloween. I mean as a kid, I looked forward to it, but it was one of those secondary holidays that you didn’t even get a day off from school for. Kind of like Valentine’s Day.

The good news is that they’re hiring! The bad news is that you’re job will be over in a little over two months.

Oh well, let’s go in and experience Halloween in August against our best wishes.

It is big in here, I’ll give them that. But of course, size doesn’t always matter!

Let’s take a look around at some of the costumes on display in here.

A mechanic and butcher costumes?

Don’t they have anything more exotic than that in here?

Here we go, a Pig Butcher costume.

Ah yes, pork, the other white costume.

What the fuck is this?

I’m starting wonder if the Spirit people here are on drugs?

Socks and a stocking cap? What the hell do these things have to do with Halloween?

Oh…they’re made with Spooky Fabric…now it all makes sense.

Well, not really, but let’s just keep moving the fuck along here.

Wow, check out the Beverage Blaster.

Back in my day you just put water in this and it was called a Squirt Gun, but time moves on, I guess.

And speaking of moving on, let’s do just that and keep moving along in this ridiculous store.

Soap and Loofah costumes and Avocado and Toast?

Okay, these Spirit people are definitely high on some crazy-ass drugs.

Let’s get the hell out of here before they try and dose us and force us to believe this shit makes any kind of sense!

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The Next Day At JC Penney In The Northwoods Mall

Okay, it’s a new day and time to put all of the early Halloween madness out of my mind!

Let’s take our mall walk and this time we’ll steer clear of that Halloween display we saw the other day in here.

Time to get back to August and start living in the here and now!

Hmmm, what’s on this cart that’s waiting to be put up on display in here?

AAAAAHHHHHHHH! NOOOOO!

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Spirit Halloween

4816 N. University Street

Peoria

1-855-704-2669

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Related Post: Halloween @ Soderstrom Castle.

This is Halloween…

Surprise link, click on it…I dare you!

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