How Will You Decorate for Halloween?

[LucyKKG]

My dad never decorates for Halloween because we raaaaarely have any trick-or-treaters. Maybe one a year. It's pretty sad, really.

I actually might help my friend (and former neighbor) decorate their house today or tomorrow. They get really into it.

[carnation]

Did anyone add anything new? We have more candy corn lights. My youngest, now 10, would love for us to cover the yard with inflatables like a neighbor does, but the electricity bill must be monstrous, no pun intended. Also, we hear the moaning and shrieks every time we open the back door and I wouldn't want to hear it inside!

I would've added more decorations but the roof on the Hobby Lobby in the next town fell in months ago and it just now reopened, so I may wait until next year to get more!

I stand by what I said about wizard purple and poison green becoming staple Halloween colors. My kids call it Target green because Target also uses it heavily in their Christmas decorations.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by carnation

Bumping this up!

I'm about to go to the next town to find more candy corn and pumpkin decorations! (Like I need them, lol.) Last year, I added what might be called primitive Halloween lollipops to the front yard. Inside, we added this cool Halloween tree from Target.

Does anyone have any great decorations?

Our son says we never do enough for Halloween, though we try. He's like me -- preferring decorations that are scary/spooky/creepy (though not necessarily bloody) over those that are cute.

My favorite decoration (also from Target) is the wreath of black feathers we hang on the front door. It just seems so Edgar Allen Poe/Edward Gorey.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

You dork.

I want someone to decorate their house with something absolutely terrifying. I love the commercial of the "hooded creepy thingie" on the porch and the kids are standing there trying to get the guts to get some candy. LOL. Full of win.

See, we already have that house around the corner. Yep, my daughter was once afraid to go to the door.

I go for more understated.

[carnation]

When I was a child, this doctor who lived nearby had 2 tall, long, and straight rows of boxwoods leading up to his house. They gave out full-size candy bars so everyone wanted to go there. However, he also dressed up like a monster and would leap out at you from the hedges and chase you up to the door; every year, we were scared to start down that row of hedges.

Good thing he was a doctor because some kids fell, trying to run! Boy, if you did that now...