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OK today I was out looking at all of the wonderful clearance christmas items that can be "transformed" or "halloweenified" and my mom said to me, thats great, but, where are we going to store all of this?

As of right now, there is no room in the basement, and I mean *NO* room (half of our basement is storage room, and it's all full and the other half is a games room and a theater room. There is no more room in the storage room, and now, in between ther slot machine and the fooseball table in the games room there is a huge box marked "EVIL BRIDE".)

Our other storage area is our garage, we bought a shelf that hangs down from the celing JUST for halloween stuff, it's full!

So this year, we decided to leave some stuff outside. So also now, we have a 55gal. drum filled with tarps.

It seems to me like there is no room to store decor and no room means no extra props next year

Then I see all of these posts with people building lifesized cages, fence pilars enterance archways, and I just don't understand where you store everything! So, I guess that's my question, Where do you store your decorations?

Thanks for your help,
the halloweenie

EVERYWHERE! Seriously though, I own a two flat building with a bunch of space underthe back porch that we use for most. But we also store:
-The garage (in the rafters, on the walls, in storage cabinets)
-Our pack porch (this is our level on top of the other area underneath
-Closets (2 of them)
-In the dining room (when I'm working on stuff....man what I'd give for a workshop)
-On the landing in front of our apartment (although I've been told that needs to change soon *SIGH*)

We also own another building that has a nice big sturage room and a boiler room that's holding 4x8 sheets of insulation foam waiting to become tombstones (who knows where I'm going to put those).

But we're lucky. Some people have much less space. I'm sure there are at least three other threads on this somewhere. But, I have a bunch of totes and throw them whereever they'll fit.

I have a small attic over an addition. An 8x12 shed that house mainly tools and some random Halloween stuff as well as my full size casket which also doubles as storage until that gets its own animatronics.Also in my home office where i have all my Daytime work along side all my Nighttime halloween projects... Luckly if things go as planned I will be building a 16x30 work shop with its own attic. Ahh ...stretch... It will be plenty of room to build store and double as a haunted house during halloween...

Just bought an outside storage shed this year. It's full. sigh...

My girlfriend and I split up so when she left and took her kids and all her stuff, I got a ton of storage space back. My funeral carriage is now in the garage where her car used to be.. Then my daughter graduated from college a couple weeks ago and moved out...so I've got three empty spare bedrooms to work with.

Besides that, I built a 10x16 shed a couple years ago that has quite a bit of loft space. I also have an attic that is conducive to storing a lot of stuff so I laid down some plywood up there. And, if we hadn't split, the funeral carriage would be on the RV pad and can be used for additional storage.

Then to top things off...my neighbors cut down a bunch of plum bushes in November that took away a lot of my backyard privacy. so I'm thinking of building another big shed to block their view. Plus, I'm thinking about jumping into the lightorama thingy and just bought a bunch of artificial trees that I know won't fit in the boxes they came in once I open them up.

Luck Devil Scatterbrains! not the splitting up thing. But MAN...that's a ton of space I wish I had.

Because we have limited storage space, we make most of our props so that they can be broken down into smaller parts for storage. Everything fits into our attic. But last year we rented half of a basement storage area from my brother in law so that we wouldnt have to drag all those props up to the attic. Now we just have to drag them to the basement storage area lol But at least that doesn't involve a wobbly wooden ladder that lowers from the ceiling.

MsM

I love all of the ideas, it just sucks for me because im 13 so my parents want our house to look "tidy". I talked to my dad about building another shed in the backyard (the other one is filled with like lawnmoers and stuff) He laughed at me

I like the idea of putting stuff in the attic, I asked my parents about that one to, but they said that we can't go in our attic without special gear like apperently a gas mask.

I'm going to bring up the subject of a shed again and see what my dad says.

Bye,
the halloweenie

Originally Posted by the halloweenie

I love all of the ideas, it just sucks for me because im 13 so my parents want our house to look "tidy". I talked to my dad about building another shed in the backyard (the other one is filled with like lawnmoers and stuff) He laughed at me

I like the idea of putting stuff in the attic, I asked my parents about that one to, but they said that we can't go in our attic without special gear like apperently a gas mask.

I'm going to bring up the subject of a shed again and see what my dad says.

Bye,
the halloweenie

Tell your dad that all the cool dad's build sheds for their kids.

LOL I will!