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CTyankee

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

Reply to mysteryowl (Original post)

Sat Sep 30, 2023, 05:42 PM

Sep 2023

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.

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Do (or will) you have Halloween decorations? [View all] mysteryowl Sep 2023 OP

Very little. we can do it Sep 2023 #1

Some pumpkins and a straw bale. Silent Type Sep 2023 #2

I have several quilts and table runners to put out. Some pumpkins for outside. Srkdqltr Sep 2023 #3

Almost, but more of fall decor, which is awesome. mysteryowl Sep 2023 #7

We're too old. We don't leave our outdoor lights on at Halloween. CTyankee Sep 2023 #4

We do a witches theme mysteryowl Sep 2023 #5

No Halloween, I do set out Fall decorations: leaves, tiny pumpkins, orange and yellow flowers, etc. chia Sep 2023 #6

Have you seen my avatar? Of course I decorate for Samhain/All Hallows Eve! niyad Sep 2023 #8

ha mysteryowl Sep 2023 #9

Of course it is not satanic, that is an xian invention. Samhain is the Pagan niyad Sep 2023 #11

better watch out for that xian neighbor Conjuay Sep 2023 #12

This one is more performative than anything else, gets all upset if one says niyad Sep 2023 #13

I was raised in a pretty devout Catholic home Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #17

It must be. I was also brought up catholic, and I always went trick-or-treating, niyad Sep 2023 #18

I think so. Dulcinea Sep 2023 #21

I put no, but Lunabell Sep 2023 #10

No, blueknight73 Sep 2023 #14

Yes! Dulcinea Sep 2023 #15

I usually spend Halloween evening at a pagan friend's house. We garb niyad Sep 2023 #20

Inside scary mostly. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #16

I haven't given trick or treats I guess in around 12 yrs but I still put something in my apt door. . electric_blue68 Sep 2023 #19

Yes! I love Halloween! Niagara Oct 2023 #22

Photo's of previous Halloween outdoor decor. Niagara Oct 2023 #23

My wife grows pumpkins just for decorating. Emile Oct 2023 #24

My neighborhood has very few children who go trick or treating FakeNoose Oct 2023 #25

It depends. If there are trick-or-treaters, there will be skeletons. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #26