Halloween fans

My whole family loves Halloween and Christmas. The decorations being out early has never bothered me. I have already picked up the haunted house blowmold from Cracker Barrel as it is a hot commodity and I really liked it. I have seen people posting all the ghost sitting in flamingo floats and all the pink and summer ghosts, I will probably not be buying any of those, they are cute but not my style.

No, not a fan at all.




Obviously I jest. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday and I actually love that people are celebrating Summerween.
I allow myself one trip to Home Goods during the season, because otherwise it would not be good for the old bank account. I am desperate to find the bat shaped door mat that says "unwelcome" this year.

Last year I was downloading Halloween images from Etsy and there were some pink and peachy-orange ones there. I got some of those too; they were cutesy, little girly type images. Once I'd got over the initial What?! I quite liked them. I planned a mini album specifically in those colours but I was also thinking of mix and matching them in another one with especially ghoulish images. Maybe this year.

I love Halloween decorations, but I find that as I get older the less and less I put out.. So while I drool at all the cute stuff, I don't buy anymore. Whatever I have is in a box that is hard to get to, and I haven't broken it out in years. I think the only holiday I decorate for anymore is Christmas. I

Esther's birthday was October 30th. So we did Halloween very big all her life. I love Halloween. I did not decorate the Halloween after she died. But I have since returned and this year I said I would not buy anything but....I planted a ton of the little 3" pumpkins in my garden. They are springing up all over the place.

Oh yes, the Falloween stuff comes out at the end of August in my house and stays up until mid-November (at which time it just becomes "fall" where all the pumpkins and stuff stay out but the skeletons etc get put away).

Outside decor I have to show a bit more restraint due to the HOA, so it's up from Oct 1 until very early November.

Our house is pretty much in permanent Halloween mode on the inside, but July 5th I do switch our front door wreath to one of when my Halloween wreaths.

Granddaughter was born on Halloween. I said to my son that I was sad that she was born on Halloween. He asked why and I replied that because her birthday was Halloween then ALL her birthdays would have a Halloween theme. I sometimes thought she (and all those kids born in December who have Christmas nudging their big day) should have an "nonbirthday" celebration in the summer--just to have a party with a different theme.

Since she lives so far away, there is nothing I can do about it.

She could have whatever theme she wanted, no reason it HAS to be Halloween just because it's on that day.
I never had a themed birthday party but being born NYD, I never felt it had to be wintery or that I wished I had a summer birthday.

Oh, we decorate for all seasons. Most of our Halloween stuff is NBC, so it’s just up year round.   But  the house just looks like Halloween all the time with other holidays added in when appropriate.  
I love the bunnies and Christmas stuff a lot too.  I never knew what to do in August and September anyways, so Halloween just always started early.  

I have done, yes.   Not for a while though.

My Esther was born on the 30th.  She missed actual Halloween by about an hour and a half.  LOL!  But she loved the Halloween birthdays.  She always got to have a gaggle of kids and candy and cake.  Usually pizza for dinner.  And we went overboard on the costumes and decor.  We just made it a very big deal and made her feel like we were celebrating her birthday the entire season.  

LOVE Halloween. DH likes going all out on the outside decorations. Some years time gets away from us and we don’t get much put up. It just depends on how the weekends hash out with taking out docks, etc. at the lake. I’ve pretty much stopped buying new things because we are pretty maxed out as far as storage space for holiday stuff between Halloween and Christmas which is all in the same closet.

I used to LOVE Halloween, had a huge Halloween Party in our big shop every year that everyone looked forward too. Went all out with a different theme each year and amazing props. We live in a small town, and after year 3 of my party the local (one and only) bar started closing on Halloween because no one went there for Halloween anymore (the owners were even at mine). Used to hire a popular local live band too. I quit doing it about 5 years ago, when each year more & more people would show up that we didn't even know. The last straw the final year was after the party was over, the band was packed up and gone, & there were still about 25 stragglers there that I had NO CLUE who any of them were. One of my friends husbands had to yell "Listen Up! The partys over; you people need to leave NOW!". Haven't had one since. THEN a couple of years later I went to a new insurance advisor (in a town 30 miles away) and when I introduced myself, she said "I know who you are, I've been to a couple of your Halloween Parties! Whats the theme this year?".