Thread: Time to decorate

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We start decorating the weekend before October begins.

It's usually just the cobwebs first - we put them out REALLY early to get really dirty and get bits of stuff caught in it, and it looks really fantastic after being through a few rains.

We have a long walk to the front door that is basically a corridor made between a wing of our house and the garage, so that's where the majority of webbing goes to make a ceiling of webs.

We put up our cemetary pickets around the yard at this time as well.

The lights change about two weeks prior to Halloween. We switch out our outdoor spots to green, and the front porch light is replaced by a blacklight.
We then put out the static props that are not easily stolen - things hung up high, or wired down.

The main stuff, especially the animatronics and tombstones, go in a few days before, and we cross our fingers that nothing dissapears. (although the animatronics do get put up when we're not actually home and only put out for a few hours in the evening.

So far, our neighborhood is pretty good about nothing getting stolen or vandalized.

I have been trying to fight the temptation to start dragging the stuff down out of the attic! Once it comes down and takes up space in the house, it has to be put up. [or I will never hear the end of it!]

We are slowly putting things up around the house. Haven't really gone through all of our decorations yet, but we have pulled them out so we can get started on an idea of how we want everything this year. Last year we decorated outside about mid-september. We had so much heavy rain that DRENCHED our stuff we will probably wait until the 1st of October. We don't have much of a problem with theft, so as long as the weather permits we can keep the more expensive props out. I have a couple of ghouls that I move from spot to spot during the season so they will appear to be "wandering" the yard from day to day.

Last year it was this time that I started my sideyard scarecrow maze,a few at a time,had to get about 10 of them out. This year I have two new ones and I'm just wanting to put out front now and its ok to start the fall decor......later on I will put a mask on them to change them from happy to spooky, its really cool to see people noticing them changing over night.