Thread: If you had the choice to leave indoor decorations up all year...

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...would you feel right at home and that they were just as special, or would you prefer to have the certain couple or few months to look forward to?

See some of them at : hauntedravensgrin.com
The big skull is welded steel.
The pteradactyl skeleton is sheet metal, Bondo, steel rods, copper tubing.
The skeleton on the motorcycle (hanging on the big dent in the car door) I made from styrofoam over a sheet metal armature, then covered with a thin layer of Bondo.
I really try to build everything very weather and vandal-proof. Steel, welded steel, mostly.

I really enjoy the excitement right around August/September/October when I dig all my Halloween stuff out from under the stairs and look through it to see what I bought on clearance last year or trying to find just the right place for something. I get down right giddy over it! I have started to feel that excitement again just in the last week or 2. I like my "normal" home decor too, so for me my Halloween decorations come out only at Halloween except for maybe 1 or 2 small pieces that are on my desk.

Leaving it up all year would be fun too, but I'm afraid I wouldn't feel that child-like excitement about Halloween anymore!

Agreed, it wouldn't feel as special if it were ALL around all year, same w/Christmas.

Not that I don't have horror/Halloweeny stuff around all year, it's just a skull here, a vampire there, a little Living Dead Doll on a lamp, Halloween Pez on the table, things like that.

As much as I love all the decorations for both holidays, I'm also glad to have my house back to normal & less crowded w/holiday stuff.

I like having something to look forward to, as well. Though I do leave many items up year-round, if Halloween were everyday, I think some of the appeal would wear off.

I do have alot out all year long and there just as special as the day I got them!!.. I wish I could leave out my village all the time.. I really injoy turning it on and just watching the whole thing.

I'd totally leave it up all year round. I actually do leave certain things out all the time.

Nope. I look forward to getting it out and displaying it, but every thing has it's time. After Halloween, I'm glad to put it away for another year.

I leave some things out all year because I just feel like I can't get enough of them. But I do think Halloween wouldn't feel as special if my decorations never came down. So I'd have to have at least a few things that only came out for the holiday season!

I have a large cabinet that I display vintage Halloween items in all year. In my kitchen, one of my upper cabinets has glass doors and in there I have my old store stock related to Halloween such as vintage Halloween candy boxes and tins, Halloween shaped cookie cutters and other things packaged with Halloween graphics. Here soon I'm going to turn that into a dime store display with some of the Halloween toys and stuff that I got when I used to go to the dime store at Halloween. You know Mr. Bones candy coffins. A treat bag, soft plastic candy containers with colored head and clear body, puffy stickers, rubber rats, stuff like that.

Some things I never get tired of seeing. I think my house on a normal day would look decorated for Halloween to an average person. My haunt is up year round so when I'm working down there, I see everything and what's not there is in my prop shop. So I guess I really see it all year.

There are some things that I only put out for a couple of months though. My spookytown is too large to leave out and I would get tired of dusting it. I used to have an antique store and I collect Victorian (Gothic) furniture, so my house always has a Halloween-y feel to it kinda like an old haunted mansion, even without a single "Halloween" decoration. There are some things that are more special only at Halloween but for the most part I have to have it all the time.