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How much storage do you have for your props? My basement is full of Christmas and my shed is full of pool/4 wheeler stuff. lol I'm out of room!! With those who have larger props, do you take them apart? Do you beg space from your neighbors? lol Where does it all get stored??

This is the 1st year for bigger props so I think that will be a problem this year and some things I can't take apart!!!!! we will see

I generally try to build my big props in a way that they can be stored as flats. If a prop will be used for more than 1 year, I spend the time up front to plan it out and build it so it can be stored. My basement is full of Halloween and Christmas items, so creative storage is a must. I store my four Buckys in a large coffin along with smaller items that will fit. Plastic covered totes hold a lot and stack easily. I am just about out of space though this year, so some items will have to go.

Eric
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I built my major feature when living in a much much smaller place with fairly limited storage potential. All my Halloween props had to fit in the garage with my tools, yard work equipment, mower, snowblower, and my wife's car. My foam crypt was made to store flat, so it all comes apart. It's the largest prop so it's usually the biggest pain in the butt to deal with. I stacked the pieces together, strapped them together with velcro tie down strips, and hung them above head level on one wall of the garage. I used 2 of those big bicycle hooks and suspended the crypt package with heavy cotton clothesline. Everything else either stores flat or fits somehow into a tote or box. My scarecrows are "disposable". The major features [head, scaffolding, clothing, faux barbed wire wrapped at wrists and throat] all come off and dismantle or otherwise fit in a tote. The main body and the arms are whatever cool looking branches, vines, yard waste I saved over the summer and I 'flesh' them out with corn stalks. the durable props go into storage; the yard waste parts go into the compost or fire pit. A lot of the lights do double or triple duty as landscaping or Xmas lights. The landscaping stuff stays out all year--no storage issue at all. The Xmas stuff is my wife's province [I put the strands up and take them down, but otherwise won't touch it] and all the colored floods except the black lights gets stored in her storage section of the basement. I used to keep my best prop in the house, but no more [see below].

Our new house has a lot of storage but I've been limited by the wife in how much can be devoted to my props and what props can be stored in the house. She absolutely forbids my to store any standing humaoid props in the house where she might come across them in the dark. [Geez, she finds *one* skelly bound with barbed wire standing in a corner of the basement during a thunderstorm power outage and it's somehow *my* fault ;-) ] I recently acquired a huge shipping crate [96Lx30Wx30H] that I plan to make into another raised tomb. I'll store a lot of stuff in it and I'll store it in the 10x12 shed out back. Once that gets filled, I'll stack totes/boxes on top of it until I fill that space. I've also got access to the rafters in the garage at this place so long thin and relatively light weight stuff can go up there.

Originally Posted by Dragonomine

My basement is full of Christmas

Well see, THERE'S yer problem! Time for a yard sale.

Originally Posted by UnOrthodOx

Well see, THERE'S yer problem! Time for a yard sale.

LOL I know! But my husbnd would NOT be happy. He's every bit as fanatic about Christmas as I am about Halloween.

Storage? Well, the inside of my garage hasn't seen an automobile in years...

Last year, I bought another shed just to store halloween props.. This year, I'm buying a 10x10 unit at the storage place down the block. I hate being cluddered!

Originally Posted by UnOrthodOx

Well see, THERE'S yer problem! Time for a yard sale.

LOL! To funny!
that's what I did this year.....I got rid of two x-mas tress and loads of x-mas decorations.....I was tired of being the only one hauling the stuff out and setting it up....

anyhoo...as far as storage for Halloween goodies....we're lacking....not sure where I'm going to put new props we bought this year.....are closets are bursting!

I say you get rid of Christmas.....