[Ghost of Spookie]

Thanks for everyone's posts about how they use their broken glass.

BTW I also saw those foil tombstones at Jo Ann's but passed on them. Even at 90% I thought they were too small for my yard. I also didn't get the tin foil on them. I thought that was a bit strange unless it is meant to reflect light on it. Our store didn't have much Halloween left by the time I got there. A dozen or so of kids costumes (bought a police officer and a black lacey vampire dress, both reg. 29.99), I almost picked up the three Funkins I saw but two of them were scratched up pretty badly and the third one I saw was cracked.

 

[Jeffhawk]

I just got a freddy krueger head on ebay,it was one used from one of the movies,it looks just like robert in full make up.awsome!I was wondering what you all ment by the joann tombstones.I take it thats one..um,interesting?

 

[Ghost of Spookie]

I found my "Frankenstein" severed crawling hand (think Addam's family Thing but green and with sutures) on sale for $5 over at Dapper Cadaver. Got the last one. Really excited about it because prior to Halloween had looked all over for it and only found it in Europe along with overseas shipping charges so put my search on the back burner. Also picked up a realistic plastic butchers knife for my zombie farmer scene, an aged plastic old-fashioned shaving razor (thinking either Sweeney Todd or maybe a prop for my Egyptian theme--Lord Carnarvon's razor that cut him and he supposedly died from an infection after finding the King Kut tomb), a disappearing retractable knife, and an old rusty plastic wrench to go with my maintenance worker zombie. Dapper Cadaver had a number of other props I would have loved to have picked up but with the holidays approaching decided to hold off. All great stuff though, albeit a bit more on the blood and gore than I want to use in my haunt. If you aren't familiar with them you might want to check them out. From what I've read online and from an LA paper they are a pretty well-know prop shop.

 

[BlueFrog]

Depending on where you live, it might be worth checking out your local Goodwill store (as if you don't already make a regular pilgrimage, I know). My family and I jokingly refer to Goodwill as the "Target outlet store" and apparently Target must have just sent some salvage Halloween items to at least one store in IL. On my behalf, a friend bought an animated Halloween skeleton butler for $30 (originally $130) at Goodwill, still in box & working. Strangely he is missing all his clothing, hence the reason he's salvage, but that's easily remedied.

The same Goodwill also has a "Porch Greeter Grim Reaper" in a salvage box that she hasn't been able to look inside yet. Anyone have pictures? I couldn't find any even in Google's cache and if it's decent, I'll send her back for that too. She said there's a bunch of other Halloween stuff but "it doesn't look all that interesting." I can't get any more details out of her. As the store is a solid 90 minute drive from here, I'm not quite ready to make that trek. If I don't go, they're sure to have great stuff, but if I do, it'll probably turn out to be a ton of those Skelanimals I passed on at 90% off clearance. What to do, what to do....

Anyone else see things showing up at Goodwill in the last week or so? My local stores always pack up within a few days of the holiday and tuck it all away until the next year, but based on my friend's experience that's not the case everywhere.