Thread: Ways to deal with Halloween withdrawals

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Is anyone still having Halloween withdrawals? How are you dealing with it? I had to find something non-alloween to kind of cure the post season blues. We repainted a couple of rooms in our house just to have a project to keep us busy and distracted. I'm just not ready to make the switch over to that other holiday yet!

I still have with drawls from time to time. Halloween has been my favorite holiday since I was five years old. I usually listen to halloween sound effects or music when I'm on the board or chatting to friends online.

I've also been playing a few video games, thats creepy. One is Alice Mcgees and Luigi's Mansion. You have to suck up ghosts with a vacuum, it's pretty creepy when you're playing it late at night.

Then I'm always on the look out for some new halloween props online.

YES! I don't know what to do with my time anymore, in the months before halloween there was always a prop or decoration to work on, now nothing. I would normally garden in my spare time but now it is too cold to plant anything. Yesterday I got out my sketch book and starting drawing layout ideas for next year, so that made me feel better. I feel I could start making props tomorrow and still not have enough time by next Halloween, that and my family would be very irriated if I started already. I just finished putting away everything from this year...

I don't have Halloween withdrawals because Halloween never ends in our house. We're always planning and making new props. As I type this, I have two props under way and two prop repairs...

1) Vines for our haunted pumpkin patch for next years kiddie walk-through.
2) corpsifying a blucky
3) repairing our 3' flying bat (it's a slipped gear thing, I think).
4) repairing a set of pop-out/folding demon wings.

And there's much much much more on the to-do list. Halloween never ends in our house.

I hang out here and that takes care of any sort of withdrawal I may have. I also search through the internet looking for deals. And I need to do repairs to a torso I made. The seam on the bottom of the jeans split and I have to sew it back up.

Oh, and seeing pictures and videos of people's haunts always makes me happy.

in the months before halloween there was always a prop or decoration to work on,

Well technically we have 11 months before Halloween 08, so that should give you plenty of time to get things made up.


For me? I like to go back and read some of the older posts in the prop forum. It gives me some idea's about what I would want to make next year for my garage haunt. : )

I work on repairing minor parts of my props that are worn out or need adjustment. And I plan new props for next year and start gathering supplies for them.
I also run a fixed position, black and white security camera on Halloween night. It's fun to watch the videotape and catch things/people I might have missed.

We go into a deep hibernation until September 08. We Always have something Halloween related going on around the house.

I had bad withdrawls Monday as I was scooting the Halloween decorations over and pulling out the Christmas decorations At the same time, I also despised the fact that these two holidays are too close together. For heavens sake,,,I just put the halloween stuff away. I wanted a little break from decorations for awhile.

I am still working on tombstones and skeletons and a paper mache mask for next year though...

Like others, I'm already working on next year's props.. Animatronics is going to be a big part of next years haunt... talking, singing, dancing pirate skellys and as I'm a noob in that field I wanted to get into it early to give me time to learn the field.. plus the technology can be used for Christmas(Jack Skellington)..

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