Thread: Halloween Decor in my Neighborhood

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Just noticed this morning that 3 homes in my neighborhood have Halloween decorations out already.... hum- I'm fighting the urge for a couple more weeks.

What I do is put up the Halloween stuff more towards October (maybe a week before), and than keep it up until like the middle of November, and than here comes the Christmas stuff.

I've seen one in my neighborhood.

I went up & knocked on the door & they thought I was there to complain !
I quickly told them ''Why No....I just stopped in to introduce myself & THANK YOU for putting out the decor....it sure does raise the holiday ''spirit''.

I'll try to get them to join the site...never hurts to ask.

wow, so soon?
Mine goes up usually around the end of September to early October

Wow, that's... early.

I decorate the interior of the house the first weekend of October, and the yard gets snazzed up a few days before the big night for security reasons. September is just too warm and green for bones, pumpkins and autumn decor.

I have already started to put things out inside the house - just setting out the boxes and going over the things I squirreled away last year from the after-Hallow sales. I have been known to re-buy stuff (paper plates, napkins, silly things) and then end up with more than I needed. I have seen one house with a few webs out - and some pumpkin lights. We also wait to set up outside only about a week before. But one tradition I have created occurs on October 1. I set a huge pumpkin - about 2 1/2 ft. tall - with an electric candle - in our upstairs window to signal to the kids that we are starting to get ready. When the school bus goes buy - the driver always honks and the kids wave and point. It is really fun to see that the school kids are so anxious for Trick-or-Treat night!

I have seen pumpkins they were out in august and a blowmold ghost so far.

Dippedstix, I wish I lived in your neighborhood!
I don't expect anyone around here to do anything until October, besides me that is.

Ok I admit it, I couldn't help myself. I was home this afternoon with a sick child and got bored. At first I really was just going to get out the general fall stuff to decorate the inside and inclosed front porch. Then I saw some of my halloween stuff and couldn't resist. I do have some small ghosts and pumpkins on a shelf. Plus I may have put out the haunted dollhouse and painted witch's broom for the porch too.

Hmm... fall decorations or actual Halloween stuff?? I think fall would be ok, but if Halloween decorations start going up nearly two months in advance Halloween will become just as bad as Christmas, so by the time it's here it won't matter and people will be sick of it already. But, that's just my 2 pennies.