We do! Mostly outside stuff but a few indoor things. Outside we do tombstones, a life sized skeleton to sit on our porch, zombie hands in the bushes, a giant furry spider climbing up the house, and I just got some luminaries to put out this year ( this sounds horribly tacky typing this out - it's not that bad! A few places near me go all out. They block certain streets off for TOTing and the houses almost compete froth their decorations. Lots of animatronics and smoke machines. I love it)
Inside I have some random things I put out, but not much.
I do indoor decorations/ mums/ gourds/ pumpkins on October 1st. Outdoor decorations go up mid October /closer to Halloween. Certain things like our screaming doormat only go out Halloween night
Everything goes up inside and out on 10/1. I mostly do the living room and the front of the house. Target had some fun stuff today in the dollar section. :-)
I've slowly started taking my autumn and my Halloween decorations out of storage. I intend on putting up orange outside up on the house tomorrow. Plus I have orange lights I put up on top of my china cabinet. But it's too early for me to get all my Halloween decorations set up. I'll be getting out my generic autumn decor out, and when Halloween is a couple weeks away, I'll put up the Halloween stuff.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I don't decorate, but carve pumpkins with a theme every year and leave work early to make sure we don't miss any trick or treaters
Last year I did Gru pumpkin surrounded by lots of minion pumpkins. Years past I've done Harry potter facing off against Voldemort, Toy Story, Sesame Street, and a few others I can't remember. Usually carve 4-5 pumpkins total. No clue what to do this year. I don't have kids so I'm never sure what's popular. Taking suggestions if anyone has ideas!
We decorate (and early! I love Halloween). I have a Halloween village collection, similar to the ones people put up for Christmas. I also have a lot of knick-knacks that I've picked up over the years.
Outside, we have Halloween icicle lights on the house with a giant lit spider and a lit window decoration in each window. We have a full-sized coffin, a graveyard of like 15 tombstones, skeletons, a life-sized Dracula creature, a life-sized deranged farmer creature, a life-sized Freddy Krueger, random stuff in bushes, a hanging mummy, gargoyles, a decaying corpse, a haunted lantern, and a bunch of stuff that makes noise when you pass by it including a welcome mat that makes screams and other noises when you step on it.
Inside, we have a black Halloween tree, a huge table of Halloween village pieces (actually it takes up two tables now), a life-sized mummy, haunted pictures hanging in place of my usual artwork, mirror clings on all the mirrors, bathroom decor include shower curtains and towels and soap dispensers, tons of candle stuff, and a bunch of random knick-knacks.
We take Halloween pretty seriously here in the sporky household. And all of our trick-or-treaters always say we have the best house ever. ::preens::
We decorate big time, but this is the first year the boys will be gone for Halloween, both of them, and the first year we won't have a halloween party.
Sigh.
I was trying to decide whether to decorate at all this year.
Yes you should still decorate. if you don't it would be more of a reminder that they aren't there. Unless you don't like Halloween that is.
Post by crazycakes on Sept 20, 2014 19:27:07 GMT -5
Yes, a few random things inside and some light up Jack o lanterns on the porch. A friend of mine posted an awesome diy wreath she made on Facebook and now I'm thinking of doing one myself for the front door.
I'll start putting stuff up first week of October.
No, just for fall. And I do pumpkins and gourds and stuff. And I change my picture walls to fall pictures from the pumpkin patch. I also do a fall wreath. I LOVE Halloween but I prefer to decorate for fall.
just for fall, really. pumpkins and leaves and such. it's all out already, since i'll be giving birth soon.
we plan to try to hit a pumpkin patch toward the end of Oct when we're able to get out and about more with the baby. we'll always get pumpkins for the front porch, but C has never shown an interest in carving them. maybe this year!
Hell yeah! Cobwebs, skeletons, giant spiders, crime scene tape... I love it.
I'll probably start putting stuff up once I see someone else do it. I don't want to be the first person, lol. Last year I think I started decorating the second week of October.
Post by peachykate on Sept 20, 2014 21:36:39 GMT -5
Yes, our neighbors started decorating for Halloween about a week ago so I pulled out our fall decorations this week. Jax loves Halloween so I already let him paint a pumpkin and he wants to put the blow up on the lawn. I'm going to try and his out until the 1st.
Some years we have a fall wreath on the door. I just threw one up as our last but the dust. It's been a couple years since we had a Fall wreaths and it dresses up the front of the house.
We will get pumpkins for the front steps in Oct, and I have a pot of mums at the top of our walkway.
Inside - no. Maybe a single trinket. But that's it.
Post by lightyears on Sept 20, 2014 22:12:13 GMT -5
we are starting to add to the outside more this year. inside is sort of an autumn/Halloween hybrid.
We only have a Halloween wreath outside so far, but I've been thinking about doing purple lights and some hanging ghosts from the foyer/front porch windows.
Post by RoxMonster on Sept 20, 2014 22:17:06 GMT -5
I do fall decorations, not specifically Halloween. I will probably put some up tomorrow or next weekend and keep them up through Thanksgiving.
I have a fall wreath, a few fake pumpkins on the steps (black, white, and orange), a couple hay bales, and I just planted some mums in my planters. Inside, I put out some fall-scented candles.