This is the first Year I will be decorating for Halloween. My Fiancee and I have been debating how soon should we decorate. So I was wondering when does everyone here start.
When do you start decorating for Halloween?
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How exciting! Have you been shopping for decorations yet?
I think once October hits then it's fair game! This year my refurbishments at home are keeping me from decorating yet. Usually I start gradually with subtle things mid September and gradually build as the weeks go by with everything up by end of first week of October or soon after. It's our first year in our new home so I am excited about decorating, it will be a new experience. I really enjoy the halloween season so for me I like to enjoy as much time as I can with it.
I usually start on October 1st. We do a fairly large display which includes projections and synchronized lights to music. It's really a warm up to our large Christmas show.
I decorated for Halloween last weekend. The house looks very festive. After Halloween, I'll take down any Halloween related decorations and put out Thanksgiving ones. Some decorations I have are for Fall, so they will stay up until I take everything down after Thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas.
For me, weather has a lot do with it. Living in here in Southern California, just last weekend it was 90 degrees out. And for as much as I wanted to, I just couldn't get into the Halloween spirit as much as I would have liked to when it's that hot out. At this point it really hasn't cooled down at all from Summer time. Even during Christmas time it's been hard to get into it because it often is warm here in December. So this year, it wasn't until last Friday that I finally dug everything out and started putting it out. I'll finish with the lights later today or tomorrow.
Whereas I know if the weather was much cooler and more Fall-like I can get into it much easier. So much so that even by mid-September I can already be in full Halloween mode. I actually plan to move somewhere with a much cooler environment, and a big reason for that is my love for the Holidays and wanting to revel in it as much as I can.
Whereas I know if the weather was much cooler and more Fall-like I can get into it much easier. So much so that even by mid-September I can already be in full Halloween mode. I actually plan to move somewhere with a much cooler environment, and a big reason for that is my love for the Holidays and wanting to revel in it as much as I can.
My Halloween decs come out the first of October. I hold off on getting pumpkins until the week before Halloween. The weather is often very mild here during October, so they tend to start rotting quicker. I have small, permanent Halloween display in one corner of the kitchen so I can have a bit of the spirit year round!
Autumn decorations go up in September and stay up until Thanksgiving. I add the Halloween Decorations in Early October and remove them on November 1st, when the Thanksgiving decorations go up!
Is September 1st too early? I start decorating for Christmas on November 1st, so why not start a month early for Halloween?
In reality my wife will probably never let me get away with decorating that early because she wants to put up her Fall decor and then do Halloween on October 1st. Of course the solution is easy: Just put up the Fall decor on August 1st. Problem solved. Of course then the neighborhood will think we've completely lost it.
So I guess my answer is October 1st.
In reality my wife will probably never let me get away with decorating that early because she wants to put up her Fall decor and then do Halloween on October 1st. Of course the solution is easy: Just put up the Fall decor on August 1st. Problem solved. Of course then the neighborhood will think we've completely lost it.
So I guess my answer is October 1st.
Usually early September, but one year I admit I started in the middle of August. I'm a believer in "If it makes you happy, then do it!" I did wait for the outside decorations until mid-September though...didn't want the neighbors to think I was completely crazed.
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