Do (or will) you have Halloween decorations?

[mysteryowl]

Do you decorate for Halloween?

Inside or outside or both?

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	None - not into it
	13 (57%)
	Scary
	1 (4%)
	Funny/fun
	8 (35%)
	Creepy
	1 (4%)
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[we can do it]

1. Very little.

[Silent Type]

2. Some pumpkins and a straw bale.

[Srkdqltr]

3. I have several quilts and table runners to put out. Some pumpkins for outside.

I bought 2 candle looking things for the table.

[mysteryowl]

7. Almost, but more of fall decor, which is awesome.

[CTyankee]

4. We're too old. We don't leave our outdoor lights on at Halloween.

I used to love giving out treats to the little ones but we're just too old to deal with it. So we go dark and I'm sad about it. But it's just too much effort now.

[mysteryowl]

5. We do a witches theme

on the door and extra large window cling images.

Also some ghost tricks.

[chia]

6. No Halloween, I do set out Fall decorations: leaves, tiny pumpkins, orange and yellow flowers, etc.

[niyad]

8. Have you seen my avatar? Of course I decorate for Samhain/All Hallows Eve!

I even have cute little orange and black tabletop trees.


And, just to annoy a particularly self-righteous xian neighbor who is offended by this "satanic" holy day, one of those inflatable vampires to hang from a tree.

[mysteryowl]

9. ha

Although, I do not consider Halloween satanic.

It is a paean traditions, IMO

[niyad]

11. Of course it is not satanic, that is an xian invention. Samhain is the Pagan

new year, but that does not matter to the fear mongers.

[Conjuay]

12. better watch out for that xian neighbor

these clowns are starting to think they are in the fourteenth century- I’m. starting to believe they are.

[niyad]

13. This one is more performative than anything else, gets all upset if one says

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"damn" or "hell" in front of her, but certainly is free with the "f" word when she is pissed.

[Elessar Zappa]

17. I was raised in a pretty devout Catholic home

and I don’t remember ever hearing that we couldn’t celebrate Halloween. Is it a fundie-evangelical thing?

[niyad]

18. It must be. I was also brought up catholic, and I always went trick-or-treating,

we always passed out candy. I don't remember hearing anything from the priest, excep for a discussion about Nov 1.. . All Souls Day. . .hmmmm

[Dulcinea]

21. I think so.

I was also raised Catholic. I never heard about Halloween being satanic until I moved to the Deep South. Of course, hardcore fundies don't think Catholics are Christians, so there's that.

[Lunabell]

10. I put no, but

I'm "into it," just no trick or treaters in my neighborhood. I love Halloween, but we turn off the lights because we get 1 or 2 all night long. And we have a lot of dogs that would scare the kiddos and not in a fun way, lol.

[blueknight73]

14. No,

I live on a dead end country road with only 6 other houses and haven;t had a trick or treater for years

[Dulcinea]

15. Yes!

Halloween is my husband's favorite holiday. I think we have more Halloween decorations than Christmas ones. Our yard features ghosts, tombstones, & a huge spider. Our next door neighbors have a huge Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man in their yard, so we get a lot of trick-or-treaters too. I usually just put on a hockey jersey to hand out candy. I even like handing out candy to the neighborhood ghosts & goblins. It's all about fun!

[niyad]

20. I usually spend Halloween evening at a pagan friend's house. We garb

appropriately, and take turns passing out treats while the other one cackles, etc. The porch is strung with orange lights, and skeletons guard the door. I think we have more fun than the kids. The refreshments are much better.

[Elessar Zappa]

16. Inside scary mostly.

I do leave the jack-o-lantern outside. Now that I’m thinking about perhaps I’ll put a skeleton or ghost or something outside too.

[electric_blue68]

19. I haven't given trick or treats I guess in around 12 yrs but I still put something in my apt door. .

last year a simple ghost.

This year I'm thinking I'll cut out a black paper silouette of a haunted house with a few cut out windows w little ghosts in them. Maybe glue a yellow full moon near the top and draw a few bat silhouettes in that. 👍

Maybe 15+ years ago I did a bigger more elaborate one with a foam core base.

If I decide to go easier I did a bit more elaborate ghost re silhouette and coloring.

[Niagara]

22. Yes! I love Halloween!

I'll try to post some photo's of my current and pervious outdoor decor later on today.





Right now, it's like 5:11AM on a Sunday and my SO is literally talking to me about his job experiences this week while I'm trying to enjoy my weekend and not wanting to think or talk about work.

[Niagara]

23. Photo's of previous Halloween outdoor decor.

These tombstones were made from leftover acrylic sheets that I got for free. I ended up throwing them away after Halloween since these were too top heavy. I need styrofoam sheets to make my own tombstones. I do have store bought tombstones, it's just not the same as ones that I can create.








Sometimes I use a tomato cage and place one of my kids old Halloween costumes on top of the tomato cage. I'll make a paper mache head and after dried, I'll place the Halloween mask from the costume on the head.




The Cat's Meow pumpkin that I carved one year.



Many years ago I took glass jars, removed the food labels and cleaned them up. I painted (free handed) the ghost, pumpkin and spooky tree with acrylic paint. I place battery operated tea candles inside the jars. I use these every year.

[Emile]

24. My wife grows pumpkins just for decorating.

[FakeNoose]

25. My neighborhood has very few children who go trick or treating

Last year I only got a handful of kids, and I ended up eating most of the candy myself.
We'll see what happens this year. It hardly seems worth the trouble.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. It depends. If there are trick-or-treaters, there will be skeletons.

You can't have skeletons if no one brings them to you.

Sometimes vinyl siding salesmen come around, but that's usually in the summer and no one is impressed by skeletons in the yard then. Leftovers are just tossed into the woods for the critters to divide amongst themselves.