I've been stalking our stores...nothing yet but a little bit of fall stuff

 

Ooooh cheap chaser lights! I've wanted chasers for my carnival sign but I'm terrible about electrical/mechanical prop builds so just used regular flashing ones. But that's cheap enough to pull the old ones and get a strand or two for some circus stuff!

 

No Halloween at our store either. There is an aisle of Fall and still two aisles of back to school. They haven't even started clearing the near empty boxes of pens, notebooks, etc. Bummer. I'm going to keep stalking them though and hopefully soon there will be some goodies start to show up!

 

Nothing at ours either. Normally when I got to our Walmart stores is not a bunch of stuff. Is Walmart one of those stores that depending which one I go to I could see differing stuff?

 

I was just at Walmart last nite getting school supplies & they had zero Halloween things out. School starts the day after Labor Day here so they'll probably be setting stuff up next week at the earliest.

 

We have 2 stores close to me, and sometimes they have things at one store that the other doesn't have. Granted, one of them has about half an aisle at best of Halloween and maybe 1/3 of it is decor.

Our kids went back on the 15th of this month, so I was hoping to see something out. Oh well. Hopefully soon. People around here will grab up multiples of several of the items so if you don't act quickly you're out of luck. Especially anything in the vintage repro range.

 

Most retailers (including WM) wait until after Labor Day to put out their Halloween candies and goodies, so check back in a week or so.

 

Fall foliage decor and a trickling of Halloween themed shirts at ours, but that's it.

 

There are no Halloween items save for some children's clothes. There is a display of Christmas ornaments however.

 

Saw about a 1/4 of an aisle of Halloween candy at my local Walmart today, but that was about the only thing Halloween that I saw. Course I didn't get a chance to thoroughly peruse the entire store, so there may have been more Halloween stuff out than just what I saw in candy. Our Walmart just underwent an entire store reset so I am still trying to figure out where stuff is or where Holiday stuff will be put out.

I did stop by our local Dollar Tree today and they are starting to put out Halloween stuff. I was excited because I found both a left and a right skeleton hands and they were larger than my hands. The ones they have carried before were just right hands and were smaller than my hands. They will be perfect for my Grim Reaper.

 

very cool

 

Walmart has the 7ft Winter Dragron online for $321.83 with free shipping right now

http://goto.walmart.com/c/404739/56...w.walmart.com/ip/7ft-Winter-Dragon-Animated-Prop-Halloween-Decoration/760614968

 

. I was excited because I found both a left and a right skeleton hands and they were larger than my hands. The ones they have carried before were just right hands and were smaller than my hands

Doesn't that make you crazy? Whenever I see a display of Halloween hands of any kind I always check to see if they're all left & right or all left or all right. If I can get a left & right I'll buy them, otherwise I pass.

 

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this. I saw some pictures of a really cool snow globe (I think it was from HomeGoods?) but it had two of the same hand. Once I saw it I could see nothing else!

 

I went to our local Goodwill to look for "pirate clothes" for my "pirate skeleton" scene this year and found a bunch of Halloween stuff out in early August - costumes, etc. Also found 2 pirate hats and a couple wigs!

 

most likely right hands are made on one line and loaded into boxes of right hands and the left hands have another line so the stores don't bother to order a box of left hands and a box of right hands. whoever makes them could just run the lines together and pair them up then box as pairs but it would take longer and cost more.

 

Went this past Saturday for a few things & the school stuff was gone & there were boxes stacked in the 2 front aisles with 5 workers standing around. Was a few party type things out.

Went back today & was more out but still not done yet. Bought these...
Pix blurred but didn't want to take the plastic off since I might have one very similar to this canvas but maybe not:

Love me some Solar Dancers:

Cute coozies:

And Best of all, another lantern (they had purple with bats, orange with haunted house & green with ghosts & all 3 of these had hologram ghosts inside). This spider had skull hologram inside:

 

Forgot these...was looking for the nightgowns they normally have but didn't see them yet:

Had about 4 different patterns & also have matching tops but whatever top was with these was gone but I have many to use with these.

 

No Halloween at my Walmart none

 

One of my local stores finally put things out this past Thursday! There are inflatables, costumes, foam tombstones, and some pretty nice decor pieces. I saw some of the vintage inspired pieces like signs, votive holders, & medium sized figurines like they have carried in the past. There were also wax warmers again & some really nice potion bottles. I ended up getting a metallic skull wax warmer, the vintage inspired owl sorcerer, & a mercury glass potion bottle with an aged label. I saw no party supplies though. That section was empty. Hoping they get that out soon since my son wants a "dark Halloween" themed birthday party. My boy ?

 

I have paints to return that didn’t work out for a Halloween project so let’s hope school supplies finally took a hike!

 

Fingers crossed for you!

 

New animated items:

 

Whoa! I didn't see any of that at our store!! I hope we get those pieces with the little girls!

 

My store has all of their Halloween out, plus whoever set the aisle went crazy and covered it in black plastic so it's a dark and scary tunnel. Not sure if that's a company directive or someone was being creative. And they are carrying the Gemmy Fire & Ice lights this year, they had them for $14.97.

 

I bought a set of these and they work great with the 5v output of the Arduino controllers I'm using for props. They remember the last mode they were in when you power them back up, which is nice.

 

Went to mine with very little selection. This is what I saw.

 

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