What is scarier than a Halloween haunted house?
There are lots of answers to that question. Snakes, spiders, public speaking and failure are top items that scare the average person. Here’s another one 
you can add to the list. Jumping into a end-of-year home improvement project that creates a big mess without ordering a rental dumpster. That’s not the scariest part of the story. The horrifying part is when the main character realizes, just as the project is finished, that the mess now has to be cleaned up and moved. A dumpster in place during the project means the mess is NEVER a second thought.
Contact the BlueBox Rental office in Hagerstown, MD for your rental dumpster. You can connect by clicking here, calling them at 301.333.9500 or texting a representative at 240.219.5839. They deliver to 
most places in the Tri-state area. They have six different dumpsters for your specific need. You can view the company’s six dumpster options on this page.
Expand your October and Halloween knowledge with some interesting information below. AND, don’t forget to “change your clock, change your batteries,” when Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday November 2nd. This means to replace your smoke detector batteries when you turn your clocks BACK on that date at 2 a.m.
October Facts
- The name October comes from the Latin “octō”, meaning “eight”, because in the Roman calendar October was the eight month of the year. January and February were added to the beginning of the year after the Julian calendar reform.
- Famous people born in October include Angela Lansbury, Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Julie Andrews, Hugh Jackman, Alfred Nobel, Anne Rice, Arthur Miller, Auguste Lumière, Friedrich Nietzsche, Christopher Columbus and John Keats.
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Opal Gem Stone
According to folklore, if the deer have a gray coat in October, you should expect a hard winter. Other natural signs include thick onion skins and corn husks, tall ant hills or early bird migrations.
- The birthstones for October are the tourmaline and the opal. Tourmalines display a wide spectrum of colors, such as yellow, pink, blue, red, green, black or brown. Opals exhibit different colors (green, white, yellow, blue, pink etc.) depending on the conditions under which they were created.
- The traditional flower of the month of October is the Calendula, symbolizing comfort, healing, protection and grace.
Halloween Trivia
- The name Halloween comes from “All Hallows’ Eve” or the night before “All Hallows” day (All Saints Day). In old English, “hallow” means “to sanctify.”
The fastest pumpkin carving, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, took only 16.47 seconds. Stephen Clarke of New York holds this record, carving his jack-o’-lantern in a October 2013 contest.- Princesses and superheroes rank as the most popular costumes.
- Candy corn was originally named “chicken feed.”
“This is my second season utilizing BlueBox Rental for my agricultural business. The service is always prompt, the scheduling is done quickly, the dumpsters arrive on time, and they’ve always worked out a solution if I needed more time or another dumpster. 10/10 would recommend and will continue to be a returning customer.” – LeeAnn H.