Is Halloween getting to be decorated like Xmas?

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At Xmas, there are always those homes that are over decorated to squeeze out every drop of Xmas- Santas all over the place, a creche or two, snowmen, elves, reindeer, 20 Xmas trees, 2,000,000 lights.. Now, I've noticed that really decorating for Halloween is getting to be the same. Instead of a couple of pumpkins, there's huge displays in orange and purple, with ghosts and all the holiday stuff.
Is Halloween getting to be decorated like Xmas where you live?
 

Is Halloween getting to be decorated like Xmas where you live?

No, not where I live Fuzzy - no kids around here, no trick or treaters, no pumpkins - zilch, nadda, nuttin, nowt 😁
 

What do you mean going to be?

Small apartment with small patio that has a decorative bench on it under my window. Skeleton sitting there with his skeleton dog and a crow on his hand. A Halloween truck plaque hanging from my back door.

Front door has a lighted ghost. He's cute. And a witch lantern.

Indoors, a black cat sitting among pumpkins picture that lights up. Put that up a couple of Halloweens ago and never took it down. She's too pretty a kitty and reminds me of the one I had for 18.5 years.

Also this sign:

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I think I'll just lieave that up year round too. Saw it in the background of someone's YouTube video and said ooh, I have to see if Amazon's got something like that and prompty found out where they bought it. Only $9. A real bargain. I've got $9 worth of joy out of it already.

Gotta suck what joy you can out of life. But eh I guess I'm not quite what you were talking about.
 
Nah, never happen!

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fuzzybuddy said:
At Xmas, there are always those homes that are over decorated to squeeze out every drop of Xmas- Santas all over the place, a creche or two, snowmen, elves, reindeer, 20 Xmas trees, 2,000,000 lights.. Now, I've noticed that really decorating for Halloween is getting to be the same. Instead of a couple of pumpkins, there's huge displays in orange and purple, with ghosts and all the holiday stuff.
Is Halloween getting to be decorated like Xmas where you live?
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yes..absolutely......the stores are full of Halloween decs... all for the sake of one night....ridiculous...
 
I see more wacky ostentatious displays on my street. Also more jacked up pickup trucks and large-scale fireworks too. I guess to many people "consumption is life."

Every day is starting to feel more like Hill Valley after Biff Tannen gained money and power.
 
When my daughter was young enough to take trick-or-treating, I really enjoyed all the decorations people did -- tho the first few places scared her until she caught up with some other kids then she enjoyed the scares of decorations that moved and made spooky sounds.

This retirement community is awesome in so many ways, but apparently a dud when it comes to Halloween. Only sign of it is a few pumpkins in the table runner under the fall fake flower arrangement at the clubhouse, and I think those pumpkins are more Thanksgiving-y than Halloween-y.
 
Well, this person makes videos of any houses decorated for Halloween and Christmas. Enjoy these examples


Halloween used to be a door film and an expertly carved pumpkin by hubby. We have pumpkin tea lights on table with spiderweb runner. Last year and this year, no more pumpkin carved (no children in area) but table gets decorated the same.

This year, there's the addition of a pumpkin shaped candy jar for our favourite gummies (just refilled two days ago) with the addition of a orange and white pumpkin salt and pepper set. No more opened flame candles due to kitty kat.

I can't bring myself to make pumpkin pie from scratch as it was hubby's favourite. I might get one from shop this year, along with party foods from Aldi... We'll see!
 
Thinking back, before I retired I kept a few things in a drawer. A small flag for 4th of July, a small wreath with battery lights for Christmas, and a small Jack O' Lantern (actually it was a wax candle but I never lit it) for Halloween. That was about it for decorating the offices and cubicles I had over the years.

The walls mostly had family pictures, road maps of various states and a few counties (with one map of northern Ontario), and later on full-sheet ink-jet prints of better photos I had taken.

Anyone else do holiday workplace decorating at all? We were pretty restricted for "diversity sensitivity" reasons.
 
With the exception of Christmas, I don't do a lot of holiday decorating anymore, but I sure do enjoy the efforts put forth by neighbors and friends.

With all the struggles going on in the world, I love being able to stop and smell the flowers or enjoy the clever decorations. ❤️
 
StarSong said:
With the exception of Christmas, I don't do a lot of holiday decorating anymore, but I sure do enjoy the efforts put forth by neighbors and friends.

With all the struggles going on in the world, I love being able to stop and smell the flowers or enjoy the clever decorations. ❤️
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I agree. I have a beautiful witch, but need some twine or something to suspend her from the porch overhang and someone to actually do it.
 
The decorations for Halloween have become extreme in my community in the past 7 or eight years. We always had pumpkins and an occasional scarecrow or something. Now people turn their front yards into cemeteries with headstones and sometimes corpses hanging from the trees. We have fake spiders thirty feet tall climbing up the sides of houses in my own neighborhood which I find unsettling cuz I'm not a fan of bugs.

But It's creative and harmless and maybe it keeps people on edge from killing each other so I don't care what others do with their own property because it's their decision.
 
Some homes are decorated to an excess but most are not.

Me, I don't do Christmas and I don't do Halloween. I am not Mr. Scrooge like you might think.

I just think that I have been there, done it and don't want to do it anymore. I have "liberated" myself which is a good thing since I don't like to follow the crowd.
 
Supernatural said:
Well, this person makes videos of any houses decorated for Halloween and Christmas. Enjoy these examples


Halloween used to be a door film and an expertly carved pumpkin by hubby. We have pumpkin tea lights on table with spiderweb runner. Last year and this year, no more pumpkin carved (no children in area) but table gets decorated the same.

This year, there's the addition of a pumpkin shaped candy jar for our favourite gummies (just refilled two days ago) with the addition of a orange and white pumpkin salt and pepper set. No more opened flame candles due to kitty kat.

I can't bring myself to make pumpkin pie from scratch as it was hubby's favourite. I might get one from shop this year, along with party foods from Aldi... We'll see!
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Ooh. Thank you for the addition to my Halloween playlist.
 
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