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myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life 4 years ago

Not everyone celebrates Hallowe'en, I understand that. But as someone who grew up in Ontario, I have been exposed to the "holiday" my entire life... and I LOVE IT!!!

I dress up every year, and decorate my house some too. I wish I lived in a nicer neighbourhood, because then I would buy some really great decorations for outside. However, I can't trust that items won't go missing, so I keep my decorating to a minimum, and mostly inside.

I try not to go with tacky decorations, although I admit, sometimes that simply cannot be helped. lol A prime example of that is my living room window, which is decorated with mini plastic "pumpkin" lights and a bunch of window clings.

This year, my "new" decoration is for my dining room table. A centrepiece display, I guess you could call it. From afar, it looks like a vase filled with stones. But on closer inspection, you will find those "stones" are actually all little plastic skulls, and topped off with a tarantula to boot! EEK! shocked I added a few (fake) black crows as well. You can see it in the picture I've attached to this discussion.

Do you decorate your home for Hallowe'en? What sort of decorations do you use?


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1. myLot reputation of 97/100. missybear (3128)   ranked 4 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

I wish i could.
i only have a 1 bedroom appartement and we never get any kids.
I like going around and looking at other peoples decorations thou.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

You could still decorate some inside your home, just like you might for Christmas.

Some would argue that I decorate for my kids, but the fact of the matter is I do it for me. I started long before I had kids of my own, and will continue long after they're moved out.

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. SukiSmiles (1544)   ranked 2,801 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

I love your center piece. My kids are having their first every halloween party. Although we are trying to keep it small and having it as a "pre" party because we can't do it on halloween due to cross country regionals that day (my husband is the cross country coach for the highschool he teaches at). What a day to pick for the regionals - really, someone wasn't thinking. But we're looking for fun things to do and decorate with.

Every year we get out lots of spider webs and have them go from the garage, down the walkway to the front door and across to our giant pine tree. We put spiders of all sizes (the biggest I have is a 6 footer) all over. Not the house to come to if you have a fear of spiders.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

A 6 foot tall spider! COOL!

I'm not a fan of REAL spiders, but the fake ones I have no issues with whatsoever! :D

I have some of that webbing stuff, and might consider putting some of it outside closer to Hallowe'en. I'll have to see what kind of mood I'm in.

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3. myLot reputation of 91/100. arcidy (4974)   ranked 1,568 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

Nope I dont think weve ever decorrated our house for halloween I dont think my parents ever wanted to since they hate halloween the only thing we do is give out candy to kids and thats about it. and maybe have a pumpkin outside nothing else then that lol.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

That's great that your family still shelled out candy for the kids, even though they weren't too interested in Hallowe'en.
Oh.. pumpkin carving is fun! I made a fantastic pirate skull picture on my pumpkin last year. I got the stencil off of the internet (I've attached a pic of it).


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4. myLot reputation of 95/100. ellie333 (8047)   ranked 498 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

Hi CanadaGal, I personally don't at all but it is becoming more popular here in the UK and my neighbour really goes to town with it and decorates her house as if it were Christmas and has all sorts of bas and spiders webs, and couldrons as well as pumpkins and dresses the whole family up and has a party too. It all looks very effective and very spooky LOL. Huggles. Ellie :D


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

I want to live in a house that I can do stuff like your neighbour does! :D Sounds like a blast! :D

It's getting easier to find decorations nowadays here, thanks to "Dollar Stores". Oh how I love them! Yes, they have tons of the cheesy decorations, but there are some lovely items in amongst them all as well.

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5. myLot reputation of 94/100. sedel1027 (12982)   ranked 1,113 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

I LOVE Halloweenthumbup!

I decorate every year. I wish I had a house so I really could go all out. I am hoping to get a few more things for thew windows this week.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

I only do the front windows in my townhouse, and even then, it's mostly window clings. I've attached a pic from last year. My favourites are the cheesy pumpkin lights and the witch twins, whom we've named Helga and Hilda. The plastic ghost and pumpkin on the ledge have green eyes that light up and flash. It's pretty cool at night.


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6. myLot reputation of 91/100. Myrrdin (1641)   4 years ago

I am not a big decorator. I do the CHristmas tree at christmas time but that's really about it. That centre piece of yours is pretty cool though.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

If you think that centrepiece is cool... wait until you see the squishy ball with the blood and bugs in it. Now THAT is cool! w00t

As for your xmas tree... you could always leave it up all year round and decorate it according to the nearest birthday or holiday, including "steak and bj day". whistle

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7. myLot reputation of 83/100. rjscott (3069)   4 years ago

Nope, I don't decorate for Halloween, but some folks in my neighborhood do.

I'm such a Scrooge that if kids come trick or treating, I toss them to an alligator that resides in a nearby canal.

With losing my job and having to keep a tight string on my purse (no smarta$$ remarks), I couldn't justify the expense of Halloween decorations.

I doubt that I'll decorate at Christmastime either. The cost of electricity has ZOOMED upward and I cannot justify spending an additional $100 for a month of having upwards of 15,000 lights outside, plus a tree inside with an additional 2,000 lights on my tree inside.

Memo to self: Those were the days. Lots of lights, lots of joy. No subprime meltdowns and SANTA was REAL! (C) 2008 RJScott


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myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

The electricity rates are crazy expensive, I agree! I don't go overboard with xmas lights either. I have my tree, which it all dolled up in white lights (can't remember how many, but a LOT lol), and one small string of mini lights in my living room window. That's it. Not very fancy at all. Of course, there's the other odds and ends like placemats and towels and pot holders that I use every year too. I have enough stuff to make my house look like a tacky xmas museum, but I hold back, and put out a few items only.

Thank you for sharing the picture of your old house. :) That is a lot of lights for sure!

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8. myLot reputation of 96/100. eaforeman6 (4202)   ranked 6,623 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

happy I like to put out some pumpkins and usualy a few things by the front door. I like to put one decoration on the center of the door. I dont really decorate the inside of my home. I usualy have a decorative container by the door that I keep the candy in.I used to play a scarey tape with scarey noises for the trick or treaters and they really enjoyed that.


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

I have a scary sounds cd somewhere too. Hmm... I wonder what I did with it?

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9. myLot reputation of 99/100. cassandralynn (903)   ranked 6,504 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

We actually buy ceramic pumpkins and skulls and I have a 6 feet tall spider web candle holder and black metal skull wall hangings. We actually find a lot of this nice stuff at dollar tree, family dollar and wallgreens. Except for the large candle holder, I got that at Spencers gifts years ago on sale after Halloween.I also have a ceramic cauldron and pottery glass bats and glass snow globes with Skulls and Bats in them. You may think this is odd but since my birthday is in October and friends and family know I like halloween and they often buy me nice Halloween decorations, like very nice glass snow globes and silver skull candy bowls..LOL We usually keep this stuff out until december because we have so much it's a pain to put away and since we don't have much storage space we have to store some of this stuff in our glass curio cabinet. I also have halloween fake potion bottles that look really cool and lots of halloween candles and candle holders, a large paper weight with a real tarantula incased in resin.Large black owl candle holder. I'll be here all night typing all the creepy stuff we have been collecting for years. We really don't do the plastic skulls on windows or doors, just mostly decorate inside except a few days before halloween when the pumpkins go out. Btw, your center peice table skull vase is cool. Great Ideal! :)


myLot reputation of 93/100. CanadaGal (1628)   ranked 475 out of 32,936 in life  4 years ago

Ooohhh... your house sounds like a fantastic Hallowe'en lovers treat! Maybe one day I will be like you, and end up having just as many lovely Hallowe'en decorations as I have Christmas ones. thumbup

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10. myLot reputation of 83/100. teresat (138)   ranked 18,421 out of 32,936 in life   4 years ago

Usually I do...but not this Halloween. And it was a good thing too. It would have been wasted. For some reason I only got about 6 trick or treaters and usually I get 100 or more kids.

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