Thread: How long are you set-up?

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I am curious as to how long the rest of you are set-up with your Halloween display?

I used to do it for a couple of weeks in October but I now start the first week of October and go until midnight of Halloween. The reason I have mine up so long is because I collect food for the local food shelf. At least that is what I tell my wife. The truth is I would love to keep it up all year.

Clean up time is when everything has to be out of the yard by midnight. The last TOT shows up around 9PM and then it is a mad dash to put everything in the garage. That preserves the magic of Halloween for the TOTs who come past the house the next day!

We put everything up around September 20th or so and take it down typically the weekend after Halloween. I like to have it up as long as possible...especially since it takes us so much time to get everything the way we like it. For the past few years I've contemplating how I could integrate our Christmas decorations with the already standing Halloween ones...LOL

I usually have it all up for 2 weeks, the best things only the day of. The weather gets so crazy here in late October that I usually have to take a bunch of things down at least once and put it back out, so I try to lighten that part up by only having things out a short time. May start putting the more sturdy items out first week of Oct. this year though and cross my fingers.

MrsMyers666,

I know what you mean about the crazy weather. We normally get lots of wind, rain, ice and snow in October. I also hold back the good stuff for the weekends and the best stuff for Halloween.

Deadend,

Florida weather must be a little easier on the props and displays. Or perhaps you are just weathering your props longer that I can up here in the frigid north.

We set out a few tombstones about ten days before the Big Event, and place a few more every evening until the Graveyard is full. Then a Static Ghost here, a Grim Reaper there, with the animatronics going in Oct. 30th. We do a "dry run" with the sound & lighting that night. The neighbor kids all show up for that, they love it. It's all down the following weekend.

Originally Posted by DeadEnd

We put everything up around September 20th or so and take it down typically the weekend after Halloween. I like to have it up as long as possible...especially since it takes us so much time to get everything the way we like it. For the past few years I've contemplating how I could integrate our Christmas decorations with the already standing Halloween ones...LOL

do the night before christmas theme and kill two birds with one stone

We pull down all the stuff and sort thru it and stare in amazement for days sometime in late September.

The wife puts up her decor stuff around the first of October. About 2 weeks before Halloween, I start setting up the graveyard and yard props. I add a little more as time permits, usually at night.

The week of our HW party, we put EVERYTHING out. No matter how much time we allow, we are always running like crazy when the guests start arriving.

Without exception, all of the outside stuff, even garden flags, comes down the night of Halloween. For some reason, I get a kick out of the fact it's all decked out when the kids see it that night, then gone as they get on the school bus the next day.
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Usually we start dragging the stuff out of the attic storage in the last week of September. We start decorating October 1st. The inside is much more decorated than outside, due to my son's teen Halloween party- then the adult party on the following night. Every room in our house is decorated/themed somehow. We also do TOT tours through the house.

I dont start decorating outside until about 2 weeks before Halloween night.
In years past, I have always taken all the ouside decorations down immediately after TOT is over- fearing the worst. However, there has not been any vandalism or mischief in my neighborhood for as long as I can remember. But, it never hurts to take precautions.

i start sorting through stuff in september and i'm pretty much all set up the beginning of october and i take it down shortly after halloween