Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Nice pics, I love the CT shop very cool store one of my favs. You know here in Ohio we got way too many general stores (at least 20 fully loaded now) that carry Halloween decor that I'm almost burn out just looking when I need one item.......I know that sounds crazy.And next month I will have Spirit,Halloween USA, and Halloween Express just a few miles away not to mention the Marts and Targets will be stocked. My head is spinning but its a good thing !!!

Sigh... No Xmas Tree Shop, Menard's or Garden Ridge in CA...
Why don't these stores sell online?!

Pics from today's trip to Dollar Tree. For prop builders needing hair, check out the 60 inch braid material. I also think the school magnetic caddy vinyl material would make a good gel material to cover white LED spotlights (available in red, blue, green) to wash your tombstones and such. Seems pretty consistent in color throughout.

I also stopped in a Party City to find the ice cube trays posted about in the last day or two and the store was still floor to ceiling full of boxes of halloween merchandise to still unpack and stock. Saw some foggers on the floor for $20 something. The ice trays were no where to be seen yet, but I spied an interesting Gemmy Haunted Wall Plaque that I hadn't seen before. 3D skull mummy that is motion and sound sensored, talks, eyes light up and mouth moves, he sticks out his tongue. Very similar to the door knockers but substantially larger. He was way up near the ceiling and they took him down for me. I couldn't resist his charm (although I wish Gemmy would come up with another sound track or two for their props). The grandmother behind me at the register bought one after seeing it work. I'm not quite sure what sale I walked into but the cashier said it was on a sale for $6.50. The receipt also indicated a SRP of 24.99, so I stumbled into a great deal on him. The kids will love him. He'll have to go on a hallway in my haunt.

I've posted updated pics here.

Oh I like the 3-D moving Mummy pic.I'm gonna get one if I get the deal you got. I did notice the Creature from the Black lagoon sign, thats the same one I bought 3 of, figure it may even cover any liability issues....ha !

Originally Posted by bozz

Oh I like the 3-D moving Mummy pic.I'm gonna get one if I get the deal you got. I did notice the Creature from the Black lagoon sign, thats the same one I bought 3 of, figure it may even cover any liability issues....ha !

Or if any ToT body parts are found...

BTW on my receipt it says if you sign up with your email (easy-to-complete form in store at register), you'll get $10 off next qualifying Party City purchase of $30 or more. I didn't notice this when I was checking out or would have picked up the form. I have to go back at some point for the ice cube trays and this location said they should be fully stocked in about a week and a half. I use to see or get advertisements of their sales when I lived closer to them. Does any one know how or where they advertise?

I usually get Party City ads in the mail when it gets close to a holiday or at the start of summer. Also Ghost of Spookie, thank you so much for all of the wonderful pictures you take when you go everywhere. I went to Lowe's today and mine had no Halloween yet, but I'm heading out to Home Goods now. I'm on the hunt for that spiderweb cupcake stand you found! If there's anything new I'll take pictures.

I was at the Dollar Tree today and saw that they have the ice cube trays from last year. Purple skulls or orange pumpkins. They also have those little skeletons (4 for $1) that some of us were making dead fairies out of.

Originally Posted by Ghost of Spookie

Or if any ToT body parts are found...

BTW on my receipt it says if you sign up with your email (easy-to-complete form in store at register), you'll get $10 off next qualifying Party City purchase of $30 or more. I didn't notice this when I was checking out or would have picked up the form. I have to go back at some point for the ice cube trays and this location said they should be fully stocked in about a week and a half. I use to see or get advertisements of their sales when I lived closer to them. Does any one know how or where they advertise?

I usually get the advertisements with the Sunday paper. If you sign up through that form you get some of the info by mail plus that $10 off coupon. You can sign up multiple times if you have multiple e-mail addresses.

Party City's website with Halloween is up. The stuff on the site can be ordered online BTW. Small amount of what I was seeing in boxes though. I'm definitely going back when the mdse is out. Thanks for the feedback on their advertisements, I'm going to have to start picking up the Sunday paper for halloween ads I think. I get a local paper but they don't advertise in there.

There's a couple of the items I liked, all very reasonably priced I thought for this economy: 5 pack of nice bottle labels (1.99), halloween party umbrellas set of 12 (1.99), black leaf garland 9 ft (6.99), Haunted Manor Cupcake Stand (5.99)--I know I just picked up the spider one at HG, Boo Scary Icing Decorations set of 12 (2.49), and a pair of arm stakes for the grave (12.99).

Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl

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.

If Garden Ridge is quite a drive, I honestly wouldn't even bother, Frankie's Girl. My mom and I stopped there yesterday and were quite disappointed with the Halloween items for this year, plus that place seems to be turning into more of a flea market than anything else