Thread: When will you start displaying in 2009?

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There is only 65 days left until Halloween. With everyone's builds being kicked into high gear and storage space at a premium this close the the big day I'm wondering when the majority of "large scale" yard haunters begin staging decor and props in their yards? By "large scale" I don't mean a full on maze or walk through but those with decor that pretty much fills out their front yard ...

I do apologize if this question has already been asked this year so please delete if needed MOD, thanks.

Stuff is starting to creep into the garage now.Sept 20 I get the greenlite to do what I want.

Sign's already up.

I'm preparing like we all are but in my neighborhood you better not put anything out before Halloween day (that's not attached to the house like lights) or you're asking for trouble.

Yep Stev. Same here.

We habitually put the Graveyard out 7 days before the Big Event, with lighting and animatronics added as the day approaches. But a few years back we had a neighbor, an elderly lady, who was battling cancer. She could see our front yard from her Kitchen window, no way could I put out a Graveyard, she didn't need to see that every morning. But, wouldn't you know, SHE approached US and asked when the stuff was going on display! She got as big a kick out of it as anyone.

My graveyard will start going up three weeks before Halloween and all the static & animated props will be laid out where it will go but not put out until the saturday before Halloween for our open house. It all comes back in the same night and will be put out again on Halloween day.

We start the first week of October.

The outside lighting changes to green and purple, the stretchy webbing goes up over the walkway (so as to get really yucky by the big night - it catches leaves, twigs and gets stretched out really nicely by weather).

The graveyard fence and cheap tombstones go out 2 weeks out.

We do more in the house than outside so we have already started. The boxes are all down out of storage & we are going through stuff. Sept. we start in the garage & work throughout the house, by the 1st week of October we are gonna be outside stringing lights. Since we have not had any problems with people getting into stuff...... we so far have been able to get the display up outside early.

Well, since mine is mainly inside (college apartment) I display my stuff from October 1st-Nov. 1st... when I get a house the outside might be a different story.