Thread: Inflatables are taking over my neighborhood!

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First of all, I appreciate all Halloween decorations. All! I do like inflatables for their ease of set up and WOW! factor. They make a yard look great, blah blah blah etc.

I have alot of homes decorated in my hood...and ALL of them are inflatables. Again, fun to look at, glad they are there, but it gives me anxiety. It takes at least 2 days for me to set up, and I refuse to set up until at least the 2nd week in October. All my Halloween gooodness is unable to be unleashed.

I have a house in my hood that has an inflatable arch incorporated with props, and it looks very nice.

I feel like I am missing out on weeks of Halloween fun.

I put some lighted vine glitter pumpkins and a stack of lit jack o lanterns on the porch. And a grinning Skelly sign that says "Spooky." My son saw it and asked me why I was going to the light side. I said I don't know. I need something to decorate until I can decorate.

Guess I am just venting here.

I despise inflatables.

Originally Posted by GhostTown

I despise inflatables.

I used to, but I appreciate the Halloween spirit that moves people to decorate!

I also appreciate the ease of instant Halloween vs. weeks or months of tortured propmaking and set up. Someday I will be really old and I will be too feeble to set up. I will grab an inflatable and set up for Halloween then. It is a cheaper and easier way to go.

It's just hard to wait to display. Everybody is ooohing and aaaahing and excited...and my naked yard is sad.

I do an indoor & outdoor set up. I set up one of the windows. It's suposed to be a sitting room in an abandoned funeral home. Aged walls, haunted portrait, and a small table with some flickering candles and a skull. Anywhos, I also made and laminated a sign for the yard letting neighbors know that our house will be set up by the 18th (my b-day). The neighbors kept driving by really slow last weekend end when they saw me testing our electrical decor, and bringing out the other decorations to check for damage from our move this past spring.

Maybe you could make a sign to let your neighbors know your haunt is coming and to watch out for it.

Cool thing is that you have a lot of people in your neighborhood that decorate for Halloween. I don't get to many in my hood wish I did it's almost like the little ones get something every third house. As for inflatables I don't use them for Halloween just like making my own decorations. People keep stopping by and asking if I am setting up yet and all I can say wish I had a little more time

Originally Posted by hollow

I used to, but I appreciate the Halloween spirit that moves people to decorate!

I also appreciate the ease of instant Halloween vs. weeks or months of tortured propmaking and set up. Someday I will be really old and I will be too feeble to set up. I will grab an inflatable and set up for Halloween then. It is a cheaper and easier way to go.

I see your point.

They just remind me of xmas, and of a particular house that I'm forced to be associated with that uses about 20 inflatables and nine tons (or tonnes, depending on your location) of other crap that looks completely horrid.

I guess I'm a "less is more" type of guy. Some people just over use stuff too much for me. Inflatables tend to be one of them.

Originally Posted by hollow

Someday I will be really old and I will be too feeble to set up. I will grab an inflatable and set up for Halloween then. It is a cheaper and easier way to go.

O.o as an avid hater of inflatables (yet an open-minded person with a soft-spot for the oldsters) you really got me thinking! I may have to make allowances for old folks, yet for the most part, the neighbors using inflatables in my neighborhoods were upscale yuppies. THe older folks didn't do any decorating (and I'll be 50 next month so when *I* say old, i'm talking over 70, lol). last OCT i moved to yet another new neighborhood and 95% of my neighbors are over 55 -- not a single house had any decor up and there was not a single TOT on Halloween it was very sad for me. makes it hard to get up the energy to do a yard display at all.

HOLLOW: i'm curious why u can't put your outdoor decor up earlier if u want to so badly? I have all my indoor decor up already -- perhaps that could help satisfy you until u feel ready to go outdoors?

bringjoy.... I'm in Nampa and the neighborhood I'm in is almost all retirees. They do little bits of decor, but nothing that stands out. Thankfully no inflatables. I love them all though, even if they did the blow ups.

Honestly, other than my small graveyard, I have nothing for the front yard. Everything is concentrated in the garage. Although, my husband insists that he not have to mow because it makes the house look spookier.... Maybe a blow up is a good way to make my front yard look more appealing?

Originally Posted by GhostTown

bringjoy.... I'm in Nampa and the neighborhood I'm in is almost all retirees. They do little bits of decor, but nothing that stands out. Thankfully no inflatables. I love them all though, even if they did the blow ups.

Hey GhostTown! My first year in Idaho i decorated a friend's house in Nampa inside and out and the neighbors loved it! the yard display was pretty elaborate and took several days to set-up so we had kids and entire families walking by to check out all the new additions! it was awesome and tons of TOTs on Halloween.

Next couple years i was in Boise and again, there were tons of TOTs and many houses with decor up. Now i'm in Meridian and...well....it's just very sad as i said