Thread: Any afer Halloween vandals?

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The past couple of years I noticed that ny pumpkins that were left outside Halloween night usually became compost in our street the next morning.

Thankfully, Mother Nature decided to give us some rain at around 11pm with strong winds. So nothing got stolen or destroyed on our street.

I generally don't give them a chance to...

I usually take the day off from work and spend the whole day putting the stuff up. We had our Christmas inflatable penguin stolen 4 years ago and we don't want to go through that again, especially since some of this stuff is hard to replace. So my husband and I take everything down after the last TOT has gone through. Yeah, it's tiring, but I would rather be tired than wake up the following morning to find some jerk has stolen my skulls or cauldron.

I haven't had any issues with stolen, broken, or vandalized props. I usually do pull in the big things that are motorized long after the last TOT has left though. I do think a small part of that is that in my very immediate area my house and another are the big haunts that attract whole families and while I never really had a problem with roudy teens, this year I saw they were showing respect, seeking me out among the other 'standing' props to ask how I did things, and telling the other kids they were with not to touch! Must have been a full moon or something.

I put out the high value portable items at 5pm on Halloween night, and pull them back inside the garage after the last TOTer. The rest of the stuff stays out until I get around to taking it down. This year, I lost nothing after Halloween, but had three skulls from the top of my fence (of 30) walk away in broad daylight last Saturday. Disappointing, but easily and inexpensively replaced.

We brought in everything that was portable after TOT was over, but I drove to work the next morning and several neighbors left JOLs out and NONE were smashed.

I didn't even have any damage to the foam cappers on our fence columns and the kids pass by my house going to school. We put the graveyard up the second week of October, and the worst that happened was a little wind damage to some tombstones.

Our JOLs got put on the compost pile today. I'm so sad to see them go, but the gnats and worms are happy campers.

I lose a rat or two every year - it amuses me to think that some kid is putting it in a sibling's bed. This year I also lost a string of skulls that was hanging at the corner of the graveyard. I am sorry about that, I liked the prop. It was a Big Lots purchase, not very expensive, and I did put it in an easily-accessible area right next to the sidewalk. My bad, won't do it again.

If anybody tried to make off with my pumpkins this year, they were in for an unpleasant surprise. We did half of them on Sunday, and those were getting pretty gooshy by Halloween afternoon.

Both my neighbor and I lost pieces from our yards last year....so this year, we both tore down and put away everything that was at all "portable" as soon as the ToT onslaught ended.

It's SAD that we can't leave the displays up so people could come back and see them again on the weekend...

We have been very lucky ........nothing has been taken at all. My outside stuff is all still up as we been busy the last few days w/ candy orders and I still need to shoot pictures both outside & inside.

This year we did it again me & the Ex-hubby w/ no help. I was concerned because there was so much going on outside & no one was out there to keep an eye on things. We had to have someone running back & forth to keep the music going.

The house was so full of people that I was worried things may diappear from the foyer because there was so much small stuff in there and I forgot to put all the liquer away from my booze cart. The kids could have easily got off with all of that. It was something I just forgot about at the last minute.

When we finally shut down we walked the whole place and not one thing was gone. Actually we even had less damage outside this year than last year too. There was only a couple of stakes that hold c9 lights that got broke. All in all we had a good year.

Mistress Muffy