I still have things a few things out from last year. >.> <.< -_- It's stuff that needs worked on.


Actual on purpose decorating just depends on my mood, probably not until some time into October. I don't decorate so much as I put on a haunt, which occupies most of my time and mind, so any indoor stuff is secondary. I did display our vintage things last year, and we have ceramic "village" things that haven't been out in a while for lack of space.

Outside, a week or so before I'll start the "building" things like walls and fence, all props go out day of Halloween in a mad scramble.


I do have my planning book here with ideas for this year, the first purchase has been made, and I planted pumpkins in April - so that counts for something.

 

I'm planning on decorating at the beginning of October, but that's primarily because I'm decorating indoors. I'm in charge of the decorations for work and have big plans this year.

 

Whenever the bug bites! So it varies for me too. This year, half the stuff is already up and it's only July.

 

Due to my HOA, I can't put things out 30 before any said holiday, and have to have it down no later than 30 days after. That being said, I start with the small stuff right away, and save the larger items for day of. I may put out bits and pieces of the larger stuff out on random nights to test out and plan the layout. Projection show gets tested a few days before, mainly to make sure my lawn markers (PVC pipe pounded into ground) have not moved at all from rain and or dry soil. On the flip side, everything comes in after the ToT's stop coming around.

 

i start around mid September...the big animatronics don't go till october though

 

I start the indoor decorating the first week of August. The outside decorations with start to go up around mid September.

 

I wait until Halloween Month Day (October 1st) every year. That way I can have an early Halloween-style celebration to kick off a month of Halloween festivities!

 

On October 1, I put out the first item in the front yard. It is always something small that relates to the theme I'm doing that year. Then, as each day passes, I put out more stuff, increasing in amounts and impact as the month moves towards the big day.

 

That's about what we do as well. The neighborhood kids come by all the time to see what else has been added.

 

September 25th.

 

October 1st for me too

 

Usually the first weekend in October the stuff inside goes up & the blow molds go out. Everything else outside goes out the night of Halloween.

 

Whenever I first see pumpkins for sale. I can never resist buying them on the first sighting of the year. They give my home a distinct touch of fall that I've been missing all year.

 

Agreed! Me too.

I do all my inside stuff by mid-September. Outside on October 1st.

 

In the house, whenever the boss feels like it. Outside...I was supposed to stop?

 

We haul everything out of storage around mid Sept and keep it all in the garage. Then as I go through boxes I bring the indoor stuff in and set it up and leave the outdoor stuff in another pile in the garage. Then depending when my husband is off we decorate the yard usually the weekend before Oct 1st.

 

last year was the earliest for me ... friday september 13th ... i put out a few things ... and slowly add more stuff in the yard as i felt like

the weekend before the big day is when i really started putting stuff out ...

normally i have a ton of stuff that needs modifying/painting that i got the previous year's sales ... so that takes some time to do, and it goes out as they're completed

amk

 

Oh... I don't know. I've found putting a date of "when I have to do it" starts taking the joy out of it. Halloween just sort of ramps up as the season progresses, and I let it come to me.

I'll go here, then go there, start seeing some Halloween around town, in stores, fall decor, the smell of a candle, visiting an apple orchard, make a pot of chili..... BOOOM!!! Get the Halloween stuff out!!

Dunno man. It just sorta happens.

 

Labor Day weekend, lawn gets cut short, crashed witch goes up on side of house and fence goes up.
And the same as others, things get added, moved and taken away, lighting adjusted as the display gets creepier and changes over the next 60 days.
On the 31'st the last items added (vacation day), watch the school (k-3rd) Halloween parade, wait for school to let out and TOT starts.
The kids go home in their costumes, parents park for pickup on my street, so kids stop before going home.
After TOTs stop, everything but the fence comes down and out of site.
November 1st (vacation day) fence down and rebar pulled up , (so its ALL gone by the time school lets out) and then off to the 4-5 Spirit stores.

 

I typically hold out until labor day to start putting out the fall décor. Of course there is a little Halloween mixed in there, but I try to wait until the first day of Autumn to start putting out the actual Halloween stuff. I spend the next few weeks leading up to Halloween putting more and more things out. I like adding things to keep people coming back to check out what's new.

 

I always put u[ my decorations the first Saturday in October, and the decorations come down Nov 1st no matter what!!!

 

When my kids can help me move the funeral carriage

 

October 1st, cemetery goes up and gradually more stuff follows leading up to the big night.

 

November 1st! But the majority of my props come out in early September. --JaCk

 

Either you are super early or super late

 

September first, all my indoor and outdoor Autumn/Harvest decor goes up. The last weekend of September, we add in all the Halloween decor inside and out. We choose to decorate that weekend every year because the Fall Craft Festival and Pumpkin Pick is that weekend annually at one of our local Orchard/Pumpkin Patches. We make a big weekend out of it, decorating, getting pumpkins, cider and pumpkin doughnuts, ect. Now we have added in two other local farm/pumpkin patches that we visit, too, so it's a super fun weekend for me...one of my absolute favorite times of the whole year, that, and Halloween night, anyway, lol.

 

Wow that sounds like so much fun!

 

second week of September.

 

Usually @ 2 weeks before Halloween due to weather. It really all depends on weather, hoa restrictions, and whether you think your props won't be vandalized or stolen. Inside I start decor with fall leaves in sept and progress to Halloween in October