Sorry to hear that but it does seem to be a growing trend this year. Lots of threads on the same subject. I thought I would be there too but I somehow pulled out of my funk in the nick of time. I understand the feeling though. Hope to see you back next year!
i was on the verge of not setting up this year as well, due to not getting my MIB and ankle blaster not finished. those are pretty small dilemmas but i guess when i took a final look at my monster mud reaper last night, i decided to put everything out. i guess ill have to put those two projects to work for next halloween.
Don't worry. Take it easy this year, enjoy other displays, watch some spooky movies and relax! Haunting should be fun. Maybe next year you'll be back with new vigor happy halloween
Right there in the same boat as you. Whether you choose to do "Halloween Lite" or just keep the lights off that night, I hope you have an enjoyable Halloween all the same.
This is why we only go big on Halloween every other year. I always decorate outside but I tone back my walkthrough to alternating years. I also limit my Halloween audience to close friends and family. They are the ones who really appreciate my hard work. As a matter of fact it's been 3 years since my last big Halloween. I took a year off because of my daughter's wedding. I almost took this year off too but then I realized I needed a Halloween break.
I don'lt know if it will work for you but sometimes taking a break can help freshen the spirit. Just sit back and enjoy the time of year. Maybe take a trip to someplace that bolsters the Halloween spirit. Sometimes we burden ourselves to the point where the fun is gone. If that's the case then step back and decide where you want to go next.
I'm so very glad to see that I'm not the only one that's not feeling into it as much this year. Everything's just off for some reason. Thank you for sharing that.
I agree with the above advice, take it easy - maybe enjoy some of the attractions this year. I was delaying working on our haunt this year as it seemed too overwhelming for just me to pull off, but my oldest daughter stepped up and helped all last weekend and we should have a great one this year. It sounds like the harshest critics are ourselves.
You just need to take a year off and recharge your Halloween battery. I agree with other posts, watch some scary movies, figure out what still spooks you and you will get your mojo back for next year!
I feel the same way! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Halloween but it just hasn't happened for me this year! Im hoping to decorate some tomorrow...but just having a really hard time getting into it! I think part of the problem is the I have SO MUCH stuff and I'm so overwhelmed that I just don't know where to start so I give up. Hoping going to a Halloween party will get me into the Spirit! I haven't even watched any scary sitcoms this week which is so unlike me!
Don't force it if it's not there. Take it easy and enjoy the simplicity of the season. Passion for Halloween (like all things) is a marathon, not a sprint. Sometimes you have to step back and appreciate what's happening around you. Let somebody else do the work for once!
For me at least, I get so into it and so excited that I plan for way too much too late and try to cram it all in there as much as possible...
Plus, this year hasn't been the best money wise and as we all know Halloween stuff starts to add up...
Those 2 things can be a real drag!
Add on top of it when stuff just doesn't want to work. Like last night I was trying to make some star lanterns to hang on the front porch and they just did not want to get made! The paper kept ripping!
So I just decided - you know what? I'll leave what I have done (still looks great!) and if the rest decides to finish itself then good!
And from now on - if I get a *great idea* in February - I'm going to start in February and store it so that in October I can just put it out and enjoy it.
last year i was more stressed out than this year ... have no idea why, except for maybe i had a ton of new stuff that i had to modify ... this year i also have a bunch of new stuff, but not as much as last year ... i think i'm at the point that i have enough stuff that i don't have to purchase anything more ... well, if i see something that is unique, i'll jump on it now ... waiting for the 1/2 off i risk not getting that something ...
my future halloween, i think, is going to focus more on building props from "scratch" as opposed to modifying new store bought props ... time will tell how this will pan out, but i have a gut feeling that this is the direction i want to go ... i built/modified/corpsed a skeleton this year ... couldn't just corpse it ... had to modify it as well ... so i added a larger skull, but moved it and added another "normal" one to it as well, so now it's a siamease corpse ... but that wasn't enough, so i added a third smaller one "bursting" out of the chest/ribs ...
my future halloween, i think, is going to focus more on building props from "scratch" as opposed to modifying new store bought props ... time will tell how this will pan out, but i have a gut feeling that this is the direction i want to go ... i built/modified/corpsed a skeleton this year ... couldn't just corpse it ... had to modify it as well ... so i added a larger skull, but moved it and added another "normal" one to it as well, so now it's a siamease corpse ... but that wasn't enough, so i added a third smaller one "bursting" out of the chest/ribs ...
Off topic, but now I really want to see your finished product on that piece!
To the OP: I am there myself this season in terms of decorating, desire to do the whole nine yards as previous years, but kind of just have to plunge into it anyway due to desire of family members after one having a illness and wanting the display up/worked on to 'get back to normal' - so there's no shame in losing the impetus for whatever reason for a year.
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