Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Our closest Target's back to school area is pretty sparse and they already have an aisle almost completely cleared. I think last year they used "value basics" like cereal, etc. to fill the aisle before Halloween went out.

I found a blog with illustrations that are part of this year's Target line, if I find the blog/illustrations again I'll post them here for sh*ts and giggles.

Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

I had taken pics in Target last year the second week of September. Not sure how much before then things were getting put out in my area.

Looking at Target.com there does seem to be a gothic theme emerging with a skeleton king with crown and gothic motifs on metal castles, lanterns and wall hangings. Target seems to also have white,purple and red as themes in additional to the traditional orange.

Originally Posted by prestonjjrtr

Menards has the Gemmy Lifesize Pirate Drake at $149.99 and the Butler this year.

They also have the Kicking Pumpkin face scarecrow at $69.99.

Thats cool, I need to get up to mine again. I love my Drake and I know somebody on here is looking for one. I also like that Kicking Scarecrow and wouldn't mind having that prop for sure. Menards is such a cool store and beats the heck out of Lowes and Home Depot. I bought my deck lumber from them and built my new deck in a day with the help of my boy.

I just happend upon a Halloween Express store near me. It looks like almost all costumes, but it's open!

I was browsing my Kijiji site and low and behold, Spirits has an ad for jobs, so excited, that means it is coming, coming SOON!! This is killing me, no halloween stuff here in Ontario, Canada.

I took a drive over to the Christmas Tree Shop and they were loaded for bear!!! Spent about $75. Prices were absolutely great!

Although I usually don't go for the inflatables the 3 ghost pumkin rotates and was $29.99. It might make a good backdrop and eye-catcher for a my haunted pumkin patch. I'll have to think on it.

TumblinDice, you are KILLING me with all those awesome pics....

I wish we had that store around here. I'm going to head to Garden Ridge this weekend and hope that they've got something more out, but that's the closest I can think of in this freaking huge city that would even come close to the cool stuff in your pics.

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I checked out one of the small HomeGoods near my work on lunch. Nothing really jumped out at me. They've gotten in mostly the cutesy/sparkly decor items so far. I did see one pretty nice black metal "haunted" house that was about 2.5 feet square and held votive candles in each of it's windows, but I couldn't tell how much as they had buried it under a mountain of witch dolls.