Meh, I say just run with it and have fun. You'll know after your first season.
I went out on a limb last year (first Halloween in our home). Nobody in my neighborhood decorated at all and I started getting somewhat leary but thought, "damn it! This is what I've always wanted to do but never had the space for".
I actually had neighbors thanking me for doing it all through the night. The kid across the street just told me only a few weeks ago that it was "the hit of the neighborhood."
This year, it's getting bigger!
BTW, you have a beautiful house and it's got a lot of potential for a haunt! have fun with it!
Beware Wandererrob........thats how it got started with me. The more people enjoy it the more I want to shock them and do more.......and trust me, you will want to do more each year .....and to make matters worse or perhaps better!!lol this is the place to give you OH so many ideas to do just that!
Beware Wandererrob........thats how it got started with me. The more people enjoy it the more I want to shock them and do more.......and trust me, you will want to do more each year .....and to make matters worse or perhaps better!!lol this is the place to give you OH so many ideas to do just that!
Don't I know it! I've got enough ideas down on paper to keep me busy for the next 5 years, and they KEEP COMING!
We're actually seriously talking about getting/building a second shed just to house all the Halloween stuff.
HAHAHHAHAHHA! Son you've got the the FEVER already.....all ya gotta do is play catchup now!!! I started putting things down on sheets of paper...graduation time comes wandererrob when you start getting things arranged in TABLETS!!lol I have 5 tablets that I surf the web with and I'll tell ya.....in your spare time go back in the sections of our Halloween Forum here and just read the pages & pages of stuff.......lots of really neat ideas!!
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PS regarding room.......if ya get a chance go to my blog & read the section called "Coffin Decor"....it talks about not having enough room!!lol (Blog entires here on the right just click the number 3)
-We rent a storage room 10 X12 for my Halloween and Christmas decorations. Haven't found a new place here yet, the entire garage is filled to the rafters.
-I'm 40, with 5 kids, btw. The neighborhood has tons of kids. I live a block away from the largest mormon temple in eastern WA. Many of my neighbors are mormons. I don't know much mormons, outside Donny and Marie. lol
-We did have some of our neighbor's sons here yesterday and I heard at the bus stop this morning that they got in trouble for playing Mario Galaxy with my son.
-I'm thinking I might go with a Haunted Mansion theme, like the Haunted Holiday thing at Disneyland.
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Testing the Waters for sure there Pumpkin Princess. I know when I moved into this house new hubby said maybe we should go easy the 1st year with decorations just to see what everybody else does. I shouted ...."No Way" its only going to get more outrageous each year so why put it off?
The kids are gonna love you!
And hey I sat here & got a good laugh off that "Donny & Marie" comment......be careful tho if the neighbors come over and ask you what you know about their Mormon faith....lol....not sure that responce would get a laugh out of them!!
Mormons are the least of your worries. My ENTIRE family is packed full of Jehovah's witnesses, and I can tell you that Mormons have NOTHING on these guys. I grew up in the Kingdom Hall's around here, and if the elders got wind that a member was celebrating ANY holiday, you were disfellowshipped. In most religions, disfellowshiped means the pastor asks if you would like to be counseled on your problem and the rest of the flock provides moral support until your back on track (this is the case even with Mormons), but in the Kingdom Hall, you are outcast. No other member is allowed to associate with you or else they are also disfellowshipped. Most Mormons have a "to-each-his-own" attitude toward Halloween. There are a few in my neighborhood who celebrate "mildly". They bring their kids TOTing, but only with mild, cutesy costumes and they're back inside before dark. I'm sure, like any other religion, there are a few extremists, BUT NOT LIKE THE WITNESSES. My Mother is one of those Saturday morning doorbell ringers, and as extreme as they come. She will not come near my house if there is any holiday decorations around. Even a flag for the Fourth of July because they are completely anti-military. Luckily, we came to an understanding long ago: she wouldn't try to covert me, and I wouldn't call her religion a "cult" anymore. (yes, it use to get pretty nasty) My point is; Mormons are OK, be thankful they're not Witnesses. I don't mean to sound cruel, but I've earned the right to be bitter, trust me.
Wow you're house looks lovely! Man, sooo many things you could do with that backyard balcony (the ship idea is great, or you could have live-action haunt scenes going on.) Or you could have a game of catch-the-candybar where the TOTs have to catch the candybar that you toss off the balcony in their trick-or-treat sack/pumpkin (surely kids would do it for sugar, right?!) Anyway, looks like you'll have lots of fun decorating no matter what you do!
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Hey I am Mormon, and I freakin' LOVE Halloween. Mormons and Halloween are kind of weird. I know the church doesn't have a problem with it, and most members of the church are cool with it, but you do have the odd family that won't let their kids do anything that doesn't involve the church directly. I guess that's true for any Christian church, though.
Around here, Halloween at my congregation is a blast; and I'm even smack in the middle of the Bible Belt. Every year, our church has a huge Halloween party with carnival games and a haunted house put on by the youth group. And its not one of those lame "don't do bad stuff or you'll burn" kind either. I'm talkin’ your old school, jump out and scream, lead by the Grim Reaper kind. At the end, they have a massive trunk or treat in the parking lot where everybody decorates their cars with spider webs, lightning machines, blacklights, etc. Oh yeah, and they never have it on Halloween. Halloween night is reserved for scaring people at your own house.
One year when I was in high school and part of the haunted house committee, we even had it outside in the woods, complete with gunpowder fleshpots, chainsaws, and the living dead. It’s still one of my all time favorite Halloween memories.
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The kid across the street just told me only a few weeks ago that it was "the hit of the neighborhood."
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