Do you decorate your home for Hallowe'en?
By CanadaGal
@CanadaGal (4304)
Canada
October 6, 2008 1:31pm CST
Not everyone celebrates Hallowe'en, I understand that. But as someone who grew up in Ontario, I have been exposed to the "holiday" my entire life... and I LOVE IT!!!
I dress up every year, and decorate my house some too. I wish I lived in a nicer neighbourhood, because then I would buy some really great decorations for outside. However, I can't trust that items won't go missing, so I keep my decorating to a minimum, and mostly inside.
I try not to go with tacky decorations, although I admit, sometimes that simply cannot be helped. A prime example of that is my living room window, which is decorated with mini plastic "pumpkin" lights and a bunch of window clings.
This year, my "new" decoration is for my dining room table. A centrepiece display, I guess you could call it. From afar, it looks like a vase filled with stones. But on closer inspection, you will find those "stones" are actually all little plastic skulls, and topped off with a tarantula to boot! EEK! I added a few (fake) black crows as well. You can see it in the picture I've attached to this discussion.
Do you decorate your home for Hallowe'en? What sort of decorations do you use?
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@cassandralynn (1084)
• United States
22 Oct 08
We actually buy ceramic pumpkins and skulls and I have a 6 feet tall spider web candle holder and black metal skull wall hangings. We actually find a lot of this nice stuff at dollar tree, family dollar and wallgreens. Except for the large candle holder, I got that at Spencers gifts years ago on sale after Halloween.I also have a ceramic cauldron and pottery glass bats and glass snow globes with Skulls and Bats in them. You may think this is odd but since my birthday is in October and friends and family know I like halloween and they often buy me nice Halloween decorations, like very nice glass snow globes and silver skull candy bowls..LOL We usually keep this stuff out until december because we have so much it's a pain to put away and since we don't have much storage space we have to store some of this stuff in our glass curio cabinet. I also have halloween fake potion bottles that look really cool and lots of halloween candles and candle holders, a large paper weight with a real tarantula incased in resin.Large black owl candle holder. I'll be here all night typing all the creepy stuff we have been collecting for years. We really don't do the plastic skulls on windows or doors, just mostly decorate inside except a few days before halloween when the pumpkins go out. Btw, your center peice table skull vase is cool. Great Ideal! :)
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
23 Oct 08
Ooohhh... your house sounds like a fantastic Hallowe'en lovers treat! Maybe one day I will be like you, and end up having just as many lovely Hallowe'en decorations as I have Christmas ones.
@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
22 Oct 08
I like to put out some pumpkins and usualy a few things by the front door. I like to put one decoration on the center of the door. I dont really decorate the inside of my home. I usualy have a decorative container by the door that I keep the candy in.I used to play a scarey tape with scarey noises for the trick or treaters and they really enjoyed that.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
23 Oct 08
I have a scary sounds cd somewhere too. Hmm... I wonder what I did with it?
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
6 Oct 08
I LOVE Halloween!
I decorate every year. I wish I had a house so I really could go all out. I am hoping to get a few more things for thew windows this week.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
7 Oct 08
I only do the front windows in my townhouse, and even then, it's mostly window clings. I've attached a pic from last year. My favourites are the cheesy pumpkin lights and the witch twins, whom we've named Helga and Hilda. The plastic ghost and pumpkin on the ledge have green eyes that light up and flash. It's pretty cool at night.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
7 Oct 08
If you think that centrepiece is cool... wait until you see the squishy ball with the blood and bugs in it. Now THAT is cool!
As for your xmas tree... you could always leave it up all year round and decorate it according to the nearest birthday or holiday, including "steak and bj day".
@arcidy (5005)
• United States
6 Oct 08
Nope I dont think weve ever decorrated our house for halloween I dont think my parents ever wanted to since they hate halloween the only thing we do is give out candy to kids and thats about it. and maybe have a pumpkin outside nothing else then that lol.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
6 Oct 08
That's great that your family still shelled out candy for the kids, even though they weren't too interested in Hallowe'en.
Oh.. pumpkin carving is fun! I made a fantastic pirate skull picture on my pumpkin last year. I got the stencil off of the internet (I've attached a pic of it).
@ellie333 (21016)
•
6 Oct 08
Hi CanadaGal, I personally don't at all but it is becoming more popular here in the UK and my neighbour really goes to town with it and decorates her house as if it were Christmas and has all sorts of bas and spiders webs, and couldrons as well as pumpkins and dresses the whole family up and has a party too. It all looks very effective and very spooky LOL. Huggles. Ellie :D
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
7 Oct 08
I want to live in a house that I can do stuff like your neighbour does! :D Sounds like a blast! :D
It's getting easier to find decorations nowadays here, thanks to "Dollar Stores". Oh how I love them! Yes, they have tons of the cheesy decorations, but there are some lovely items in amongst them all as well.
@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
28 Nov 09
We have a tiny apartment, a cat, and no kids in the building, so we do not decorate. However, we visit a friend of ours who does, because a lot of kids come by his place. The decorations are simple, but what draws the crowd is the speaker hidden by the mask outside, that he uses to "talk" to the kids. :) It's pretty great.
@SukiSmiles (1991)
• United States
6 Oct 08
I love your center piece. My kids are having their first every halloween party. Although we are trying to keep it small and having it as a "pre" party because we can't do it on halloween due to cross country regionals that day (my husband is the cross country coach for the highschool he teaches at). What a day to pick for the regionals - really, someone wasn't thinking. But we're looking for fun things to do and decorate with.
Every year we get out lots of spider webs and have them go from the garage, down the walkway to the front door and across to our giant pine tree. We put spiders of all sizes (the biggest I have is a 6 footer) all over. Not the house to come to if you have a fear of spiders.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
6 Oct 08
A 6 foot tall spider! COOL!
I'm not a fan of REAL spiders, but the fake ones I have no issues with whatsoever! :D
I have some of that webbing stuff, and might consider putting some of it outside closer to Hallowe'en. I'll have to see what kind of mood I'm in.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
6 Oct 08
I wish i could.
i only have a 1 bedroom appartement and we never get any kids.
I like going around and looking at other peoples decorations thou.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
6 Oct 08
You could still decorate some inside your home, just like you might for Christmas.
Some would argue that I decorate for my kids, but the fact of the matter is I do it for me. I started long before I had kids of my own, and will continue long after they're moved out.