Thread: What was your first decoration

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What was the first Halloween decoration you bought or made that started your present obsession?
Mine was a simple ghost made from a sheet that hung from a tree, in 1958.

The one that started my own personal obsession as an adult was a simple pumpkin with a flashing bulb inside. Someone saw it and invited me to a slew of HW parties one night in Seattle. That got my juices flowing again!

I was a HW kid all my life until I went to college and had to grow up. Luckily, that was a short-lived stint.

We started as kids in the late 80's from what I can remember......and our decorations were the ones you put in your windows...the big orange pumpkin with the some what scary face...the big skelaton that can bend it's limbs (made from soft yet good card board type paper)....and the small brown ish freaky/scary looking skelaton we called it's mini me lol.

We would go on to fill our windows are the years progressed with more and more stuff...eventually moving to yard props...lighting....those small ghosts that the IT SORE used to carry with batteries in them - they would shake and make noises.

Yes fun times.

A four foot spider. We named her Webigail.

It was the first year in our house, and while we'd always done jack o lanterns and even married on Halloween, it wasn't until we got our first house 4 years ago that I realized that I could really go crazy with Halloween decorations.

Up until then, it was pretty tame, but the last 4 years we've been adding stuff and this year I'm actually attempting our first home-built animatronic.

Do you guys remember paper pumpkins? Basically, they folded flat and you would expand them into a pumpkin? For the longest time the only HW decorations you could buy were classroom decorations like that. Witches, Frankenstein, skeleton, etc... Those were the days!

My best friend's grandmother had a life size Frankenstein that covered her front door, EVERY YEAR.

I grew up a HK (halloween kid) as well. I lived in a regular suburban neighborhood, but the property I was on had a two story apartment AND a regular 2 story house. There were 6 cousins, 2 uncles, 2 aunts, a grandma, and my parents. Everyone did something for halloween. Always got everyone involved - jumping out of bushes, etc.

I think the actual prop that I go back to in memory was a Freddy Kruger dummy that my uncle put on the peak of his roof - two stories and 1 attic high. It was a menacing view from down the street.

Originally Posted by wilbret

Do you guys remember paper pumpkins? Basically, they folded flat and you would expand them into a pumpkin? For the longest time the only HW decorations you could buy were classroom decorations like that. Witches, Frankenstein, skeleton, etc... Those were the days!

My best friend's grandmother had a life size Frankenstein that covered her front door, EVERY YEAR.

I believe the Skelaton I mentioned was the same size but we used to put it on our big window because the area we lived in was filled with kids that would run a muck and putting it on the door would mean it would be ripped off or stolen.

Those were the days how do those years just wisk by wow!

And to the person who stated they had a life sized Freddy wow I wish you had some old pics to show us!

Heh... I was only five or six years old at the time. Taking a picture wasn't even an afterthought. I've learned. Pictures, pictures, pictures.

Oh wow lol I can see your point...I was infatuated with anything Freddy as a kid..I remember I didn't get a chance to get a very nice replica version of Freddy's mask and glove from this one costume shop and I some what cried...but my parents made up for it by buying me a fairly decent knock off mask and clows and that year I had one of the best costumes.

Horror movies were at their peak in the 80s and some what the 90's and having the best Freddy outfit meant king of the block for the day.

I even found some Freddy decorations a few years after we started deocrating it was cool.

Probably some Styrofoam tombstones I made back in elementary school.