Thread: what is the right time

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ok so I know we are all a little bit crazy for halloween and alot of us start getting in the spirit a tad early, my mind thinks halloween 24/7 365 lol but I am just wondering when do all of you really start to decorate your house inside and out? I ususally do it oct 1st.

Oct 1 the inside decorations are put up.

Same day I start bringing down props to check them --and continue to bring them out of the attic until about the 15th. 3 Rooms of my house and garage hold the outside stuff until we're ready to start setting up around the 28th or so....big guys go out on Halloween only.

Inside decor in September. Outside around October 15th or so.

we used to always decorate the first or second week in October... to coincide with our town's Firetruck rides... lately though we've been soo busy building during those weeks that we haven't actually decorated untill Oct. 25-31st (our big stuff comes out for one day)

Oct 1, our neighborhood kids watch for it

My sons birthday is the 25th of august so after that we start bringing stuff out and figuring out what will go where. The first week of september things start to go up inside and we usually have inside done about mid september.

The outside stuff goes up October 1st. And then late October we have a Halloween party in our garage. We start setting that up about a week or so before (it's a LOT of work).

Im sure a lot of people think I start too early but that's the way I do it. If you love something enjoy it as long as you can. I do.

Inside, there are Halloween decorations out year-round but it really gets creepy around the end of September.

Outside, I start the second week of October.

But lighting gets changed out October 1st. (green or blue spots in our garage/porch light fixtures). Webbing goes out the first day also so it's nice and yucky by Halloween.

Graveyard fencing and cheapy stones around the second week.

Big stuff doesn't come out until the night of, and then it ALL gets taken in at the end of the night so November 1st it's like it never happened.

My countdown sign IS up now....

otherwise, I start the week before.

I'll have out all my decorations out by the end of this month so I can go through them. I'll start decorating inside right after Labor Day and then do the outside. My goal this year is to be decorated by the end of Sept. I live close to a elementary school(I can see it from my porch). The kids that go by my house to and from school love looking at my display. This year I am trying to go a little bigger then last year!

Inside I strat decorating mid September with more harvest type decorations. Around the last of Sept. I finish my Halloween inside decorationg.

I usually don't do alot of outside deocrating, but this year I decided to go all out and start decorating the first week in October.