Thread: First Halloween sighting in stores...

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Plague,
I totally agree with you about Big Lots. Years ago they used to sell *lots* of Halloween stuff for a very decent price. I've (still) got several bluckies they used to sell for $8--and that was assuming you didn't buy them on clearance for even less. But in the last few years I hardly find anything there. Too bad.

Originally Posted by Plague

I went to two different Home Goods this past weekend and went rather nuts. Both stores had almost completely different stuff- so I'm wondering if that is an actual practice or if they just are putting different things out at different times...

Also went to two Big Lots- one had nothing as it was going out of business, the other had one row and I have to be honest, it was the most overpriced junk I've seen in a while. Thin, plastic pumpkins with lights in them for 10 and 20 bucks, really? Most of the items weren't that special and the Dracula's and Morgue signs just seemed rather "eh" and cheap as well.
BIG Disappointment- as last year I found a ton of good stuff there. And cheaper as well.

The Home Goods stores do get some different items from store to store. Most are the same, but there will be a few things that are different. The same with the TJMaxx stores too.

Big lots has an aisle out. They had this trio of skulls with flashing eyes and random sounds that are played on sound activation. LEDs are of high quality and really shine. Anyhow for $15 it was worth it.

Our "Everything's a Buck" store has Halloween stuff out as of yesterday. Saw a couple of things to consider. Black crows - not very well made but great price. They run about $8 at Michael's. Also some 3" glittered foam skulls - black, silver and white glitter. Would be great for centerpieces at an elegant celebration (I did a Halloween Wedding Reception theme that these would have been great for).

Just came back from my local big lots an dollar store to find halloween stuff on the shelves. Was disappointed as well in big lots as a lot of things r cheap n dumb but I prolly will be buying the skull that is a fog machine an all u do is add water but its 20bux which is a rip. They had way better stuff last year. And dollar store is junk also they have skulls an severed hands an feet an a few lil cutsy stuff. Hopefully walmart won't be a let down also if they would ever put their halloween stuff out like everyone else lol

I went to Homegoods today looking for the Scaretaker. My 6 year old daughter picked up a stuffed bear and said "look at this Dad" I said Oh thats cute and went on looking, she then said no look what he does and the she pushed the button on the bears arm and it started singing and moving.
My kid has the eye!
I ended up buying all the bears they had.
Pirate Bear with Parrot, they sing a duet of "Hot, Hot, Hot" 19.99
Ghost Bear, He sings a version of Queen's "We will rock you" -"We will Haunt You!" 14.99
Vampire Bear He sings "Monster Mash" 16.99

I gave my daughter the candy corn, She said she needed a finders fee!

While Im working on this post, my wife called from another Homegoods, She is getting a Witch Bear that sings "Girls Just want to have fun"
and an Orange dressed Bear that sings "Spooky"
I will take a picture and post all of them when I can!

Can somebody direct me to directions on How to inbed pictures?
Thanks

I copy and pasted this from another fellow forum member the other week...Follow it exactly...It's easy and it works!...ZR


Here are a couple of tutorials on adding photos and uploading them (from here, no less) for Kenpilot and anyone else interested:

HOW TO MAKE AN ALBUM & UPLOAD PHOTOS:

1) Once signed in, click 'USER/CP' (3rd choice at top, under orange line).
2) Under 'Your Control Panel', on the left side, find 'Networking'.
3) The 3rd choice under that will say 'Pictures & Albums'; click it.
4) Click 'Add Album'.
5) Fill in 'Title' and 'Description' areas, then hit 'Submit'.
6) Click 'Upload Pictures'.
7) Click 'Browse', then find your pictures; click on one.
8) Do this 3 times (how many you can do at a time), then click 'Upload Pictures'.
9) Click on the album title to get back to it, then repeat steps 7 & 8, doing this until you've added all your pics.

TO POST UPLOADED PICS:

1) Open 2 Internet browsers (this will make it much easier, trust me).
2) Sign into your Halloween Forum account in both browsers; one will be for retrieving pics, the other will be for posting them.
3) Click 'USER/CP' in one browser, then open one of your albums.
4) Click on a picture.
5) Under the pic, it'll say 'BB Code' (second choice under image); right-click that, then click 'Copy'.
6) In the other browser, hit 'Reply' or 'Add New Thread', or whatever you'd like to do.
7) Right-click where you want the pic to be, then hit 'Paste'.
8) Go back to your 'retrieval browser' and click the album's title to return to it again.
9) Repeat steps 4 & 5, come back to the 'regular' browser, then repeat step 7.
10) Follow steps 8 & 9 again until done.

I tried to make these as simple as I could. Hope they help

I went last week to Home Goods and bought some wine bottle toppers that are stacked galss eyes that light up. Love them!! There were several things that caught my eye, but that is all I took home. On Sunday I went in quickly to see if they had anything new and was surprised to find they had sold so much merchandise already! I guess I am not the only one who is excited for Halloween in my town.

Still in search of the elusive scaretaker at HomeGoods and not on today's truck. Lots of new items however. Pics added to my photostream. Lots of nice signs. I bought the Salem seminary and Tombstone carving ones. Also took home the really, really large haunted moon (I think he is something like 4 feet tall) as well as the owl. I loved that I can backlight him and his eyes will glow yellow through the plastic. I have a large second story window at the front of my house that I'm thinking of putting the moon in and hanging a sheet behind that I'll direct a colored flood light on. I'm hoping he'll fit in the window, at least he made it in the back seat of my car going home.

BTW when I was in HG I asked about the "Elusive One" and was told no large props yet. But then I was told that this is just a preview of some of the stuff that will be coming out in the next three months....


A quick stop at ROSS revealed some new items. Also in pics (see link below). Both stores had halloween baking tools out. Everything from cookie cutters, spatulas, cake and cupcake molds and such.


My updated pics
Click on picture and then "All Sizes" for largest size.