Sep 24 2008
Decorating For Halloween Early This Year
On the day after Halloween last year, Chrissy and I bought a whole bunch of new decorations on clearance. In fact, Chrissy left early that morning in order to get the best deals on the 50%-off holiday swag, and she grabbed so much that she had to call me at home to come and man a second cart. We toted two jammed grocery carts out of Target that day! We got two stand-up interactive monsters, a giant pumpkin, several new tombstones, a weird skeleton lamp post, and other assorted goodies.
Fast-forward to this year. I usually wait until the last second to put up Halloween decorations, but the neighbors next door started putting theirs up last weekend. Then the people across the street saw them doing it, and immediately ran outside to get theirs started too. What’s the rush? There’s still a good week of September left! Of course, Chrissy saw all this and ordered me to pull all of our own Halloween decorations out of storage as well.
I had completely forgotten about last year’s post-holiday haul, so I was amazed at home much I had to carry down out of the garage rafters. We almost have as many Halloween decorations as Christmas decorations now! Well, maybe a 2:3 ratio, but close to 1:1. I used as many extension cords to electrify everything as I usually do for Christmas, so that’s a lot. I’ve got a big front yard, so I haven’t really been satisfied with our anemic Halloween setup until this year.
Everything looks really good though. And I haven’t even put out my strobe lights and fog machine yet! I took Aiden outside with me last night to plug in the final few decorations (the mosquitos chased me off the first time). He’s enamored with the six-foot-tall monsters on our front porch. And anything that even remotely looks like a cat. He loves those. We’ll have to see if he still loves them when they get all spooky on Halloween night!
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Seriously, Halloween over here is no big deal, it’s quite a shame. It passes with minimal fuss. I always thought it would be amazing to visit America for Halloween =D
Halloween might be my favorite holiday. Aiden is just getting big enough to enjoy it, and my nephews come over every year to Trick or Treat with us.
Michael