Anyone else decorate for Halloween?

[bbhaag]

My wife loves Halloween and over the past few years has added more and more decorations to the house and yard. It started in 2020 when we were stuck in the house due to Covid. She made the cemetery for the front yard and added a few more tombstones in 2021. She took a break in 2022 then this year she decided to make the house look like an evil face.

With the exception of a few things she makes all of this herself. She's the arsty one in the family. haha
Anyway, does anyone else decorate for Halloween? If so post up some pics and share!


This a photo of everything from the scary cemetery to the evil house and a few skeletons on the front porch.



Here is a close up of the teeth, eyes, and shutters she made to make our house look evil.

She made this fall wreath for the front door from Indian corn that we grew in the garden this year.

 

[nakedfrog]

Pretty good
I do decorate, but it's nothing fancy enough to bother showing pics of (this year, anyway, slowly growing the collection), a few gravestones from Party City, inflatable skeletal dragon thing, some purple lights along the gutters, an alien skeleton "floating" in my picture window. I did get this weird black wreath from IKEA that I put some bell-spiders from Jo-Ann on, and wrapped webbing around.

 

[allisolm]

Love those decorations. We do put stuff out, but nothing like that. Laughed at the tombstone inscriptions.

 

[BoomerD]

Nope. We don't do Trick or Treating in this town as a rule...(cougars and coyotes and bears... OH MY!) There are a few people who decorate for Halloween here and there, and for the second year, there's a list of people who are going to welcome the terrorists to their doors...but I ain't one of them.

 

[Oyeve]

Pretty cool! Where do you store this stuff off-season?

My co-op in NYC doesn't allow for any decorations for any holiday. Sucks because Halloween is my favorite time.

 

[sdifox]

off to costco online to buy a coffin

 

[Stopsignhank]

We try to be the fun/silly house.
First is the dueling banjo players for the parents. As someone who listens to Bluegrass music anyway I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how good these are.


Then this is the house. Not much but........


The kids love the Minion. It is the same size as some of the younger kids. Many times we have opened up the door and the kids are having their picture taken with the minion.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

off to costco online to buy a coffin

A Costket?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I tend to go for "Fall" Decorations. Not a big fan of Halloween decorations themselves, and I find going more generically fall allows me to keep my decorations up from the start of October through the end of November.

Tie up cornstalks everywhere, pumpkins (uncut so they last for ages) piled up around the yard and deck, a lot of oranges and yellows and reds everywhere as lights and in decor.

Less kitschy, less work, and every once in a while we grab a pumpkin off the deck and bake it into a pie.

 

[nakedfrog]

I tend to go for "Fall" Decorations. Not a big fan of Halloween decorations themselves, and I find going more generically fall allows me to keep my decorations up from the start of October through the end of November.

Tie up cornstalks everywhere, pumpkins (uncut so they last for ages) piled up around the yard and deck, a lot of oranges and yellows and reds everywhere as lights and in decor.

Less kitschy, less work, and every once in a while we grab a pumpkin off the deck and bake it into a pie.

You say that like kitschy is a bad thing.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

You say that like kitschy is a bad thing.

-Not a bad thing, just not my thing.

I thoroughly enjoy walking the neighborhood and seeing people who have gone all in on the giant skeletons, haunted houses, etc.

One place around here went a bit too extreme on the "execution" animatronics and I still remember the kids actively foregoing candy if it meant they didn't have to walk passed a guy getting electrocuted, another guy being hanged, some guy buried alive trying to get out of his casket, all while the stereo system played slasher movie soundtrack greatest hits.

 

[nakedfrog]

Some day I'll have that damn 12' skeleton...

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Can we combine two threads?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

If you can sing without any soft tissue whatsoever, I don't care who you are, you're the most talented musician in the world bar none.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

We put up a few inflatables but that's about it. Not really worth putting up some pics lol

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I have some RGB lights under the eaves that I have set for a mild warm white for now. I'm thinking about setting them to fade orange to violet for a couple of days. I might set them to a red/green fade in December for a few days.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never bother for Halloween but sometimes I think it would be fun to buy one of those giant Home Depot skeletons. Probably wouldn't be my worse purchase decision.

I would probably use it for every holiday to get the most of it.

 

[sdifox]

I have some RGB lights under the eaves that I have set for a mild warm white for now. I'm thinking about setting them to fade orange to violet for a couple of days. I might set them to a red/green fade in December for a few days.

Do humans even visit your house?

 

[MrSquished]

I like Halloween decorations that people put up.

Those big blow up figures that have fans in them keeping them inflated, my dog goes a bit crazy at them. It's pretty fucking cute, until he almost pulls my arm out of it's socket

 

[BFG10K]

Guys, guys, you're doing Halloween all wrong.

 

[brianmanahan]

i was forbidden from participating in halloween when i was 7

because of all the needles in the candy