Are you into Halloween?

[DL1WDW2]

I don’t decorate because I’m always at Disney for Halloween and the holidays.
I just saw a 15 ft inflatable Reindeer with a blinking red nose that lights up .
Wonder if my neighbors would appreciate that. Haha

This year my favorite is still that 12 foot skeleton that sold out last year at Home Depot. A neighbor has that and it’s impressive.

Where do people store this stuff ?

 

[disneychrista]

I celebrate Halloween similar to how I do every other holiday. With a themed playlist for work the day/week before.

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t hate it, but I am not one of those people who goes overboard with it either. I have some bats, ghosts and faux pumpkins decorating inside the house, but I won’t be handing out candy. I usually go hang with my sister or some friends on Trick or Treat night.

 

[MamaMermaid]

I used to LOVE Halloween. And then my Dad died in 2020. It was his favorite holiday and now it just upsets me plus I don't like all the death imagery. Totally a personal thing. Can hardly ride Haunted Mansion anymore.

I do LOVE fall! We have a fall tree, woodland creature figurines, do lots of pumpkins, etc. And, we definitely do non-spooky Halloween decor as well! Our 4yo is freaked out by some decorations so things are pretty mild in our house. He is nervous about trick or treating this year and doesn't want to go to the "scary" houses!

 

[JLTraveling]

I used to LOVE Halloween. And then my Dad died in 2020. It was his favorite holiday and now it just upsets me plus I don't like all the death imagery. Totally a personal thing. Can hardly ride Haunted Mansion anymore.

I do LOVE fall! We have a fall tree, woodland creature figurines, do lots of pumpkins, etc. And, we definitely do non-spooky Halloween decor as well! Our 4yo is freaked out by some decorations so things are pretty mild in our house. He is nervous about trick or treating this year and doesn't want to go to the "scary" houses!

I'm so sorry for your loss. My mom passed years ago, three weeks to the day before Christmas, which was her favorite holiday. It definitely took some time before I could truly enjoy the holiday again. Hang in there. You never get over it, but you do get through it. And for me, after some time had passed, I was able to pay tribute to my mom through the holiday. Hugs.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Where do people store this stuff ?

I guess that's the best thing about those blow up things. They deflate and can be put in a box much smaller.

 

[design_mom]

(I started a new job this year and people were talking about the "costume contest." Ugh. I don't want to wear a costume.)

I'm quoting myself here to give an update.

Yesterday was the company halloween party. It is at the end of the day and families were invited: decorations over the whole office, dinner + candy, games and activities for the kids, costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, doughnut eating contest, etc. This is my first year at the company and I was surprised by what a big deal it was.
My co-workers made it sound like EVERYBODY dresses up on the day of the party.. and some people really go all-out for the costumes. "It's so fun!" etc. I dressed sort of "holiday festive" but not in costume. (I put a witch's hat and black dress in the car, so I could put it on if I was really the only one with no costume, but I really don't like to dress up anymore.) Apparently some people dressed up for the actual party -- mostly the ones who had coordinating costumes with their families, but nobody was in costume all day.

I am SO glad, I did not wear a costume. There were several people wearing things that they could put costumes on over later but nobody was "in costume" during the work day. And, of my little department (me + 3 others), I was the most "festive" of all. The person who told me that "everyone" dresses up said "Oh wait? Was that today? I forgot." Another co-worker worked from home yesterday, so she wasn't in the office. And our boss had a client meeting, so he was more "professional" looking than usual!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

When I lived in the city I was more into it. Decorating a rowhouse picture window and putting a bale of hay on the steps with a scarecrow or a skeleton. Lots of kids around trick-or-treating so all the neighbors sit on their front steps with a big bowl of candy. Fun times.

Where I live now in New Jersey Christmas is the big holiday where people go all out with decorations. That's the only time we decorate the front of the house with lights and moving figures. Halloween isn't very popular in my current area because we don't have many kids, and the ones from surrounding areas generally go to the next town over. Last year nobody knocked at our door.

 

[Wendy1985]

I do my best to ignore the holiday

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Yes, we love Halloween and we love to decorate for it. I have a large size dog skeleton that howls. When my sister saw it she said, “I always wondered who bought those types of things!” (Yup, me!)

 

[DodgerGirl]

I think Halloween has changed with the times because you don't hardly see kids treat or treating in the neighborhoods anymore because parents worry about things that could happen to the kids like kidnapping and stranger danger. Even though the kids have an adult trick or treating with them parents still worry during Halloween. When I was a little girl I was crazy about Halloween and I would dress up as different characters like my first ever Halloween I was dressed as a cute bunny and then I dressed as Barbie and then I dressed up as Mulan in her matchmaker outfit but I didn't have the actual outfit so my mom let me borrow her silk kimono nightgown and I even had my face painted too and I was a really nice Mulan. But today Halloween is a normal day for me and my family gets few trick or treaters but never a lot. But I think since the pandemic I think it changed the way Halloween is celebrated and also trick or treating is not as huge as it once was for kids. And if you go to the stores there is few bags of Halloween candy being bought which tells me that Halloween has started to change. Of course I do pumpkin carving every year and I have celebrity jack o' lanterns and Marvel ones every year. But I think the stores mainly focus on selling Christmas and Thanksgiving stuff rather than Halloween merchandise to get people ready for the holidays. Will the traditional Halloween make a return someday?
Dodger

 

[OKW8297]

Not really. I’ll help at my church’s Trunk or Treat event but not dressing up this year.

 

[Alicefan]

I love the cutesy version of Halloween and decorate inside my house but never outside. What I hate about Halloween is the way adults who dress up, come walking up to you with that expectant look on their face waiting to see what you have to say about their costume. I hate faking that they "look so cuuute"....because they don't...they look like someone who went and bought a store bought outfit and put it on. Oh and the worst one...the dude dressed up as a woman. Not at all funny, never has been funny, but yet every year of my life someone does it and expects everyone to just die laughing, and even weirder, a lot of people do laugh and laugh at that. You have to be pretty clever to impress me with a costume. I like to see toddlers in costumes, not adults trying to look sexy etc...that's just cheesy. Sorry to anyone who gets into that but....yeah.

 

[Cadiewampus]

We hadalways decorated up until the last 2-3 years. Since the amount of kids coming by trick or treating has dwindled (had 1 last year) we have just kind of lost interest. Plus we go to the beach in October so that cuts into our decorating time.

 

[GreatLakes]

I like fall/harvest season more than Halloween specifically. We put up a few decorations and since we have a young kid we do stuff with him but we don't do nearly as much as we do for Christmas.

 

[mrodgers]

I buy loads of candy, then hope to high heaven that I am home on Trick or Treat night to get rid of it. Unfortunately (accountability from the diet/exercise thread...) I no longer have as much candy as I did when I bought it now.

That's about it. No one ever decorated for Halloween before like for the entire month. This year, so many people have enormous displays in their yards. Stuff that had to have cost hundreds and hundreds, possibly into a thousand dollars of crap in their yards. I just shake my head, they probably go on the internet and complain about gas prices just after they put all the crap up.

 

[Mokat76]

I do a little decorating. I give out TONS of candy. Our neighborhood is the go-to in our town for trick or treating. Hundreds of kids come by. It’s great fun.

 

[Maple Moose]

Personally, it's not my favorite. I spook easily. I have young children so I play along. We paint pumpkins, decorate a bit, and leave out candy while we go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. But truthfully I'd rather stay in and watch a holiday themed movie instead.

 

[DisneyAuntie12]

I think part of it probably depends on where you live. Where I am, summer is a blazing humid swamp, and then in fall the weather is usually amazing, with gorgeous leaves and nearby farms used for pumpkin patches all over the place. I also used to work for a nonprofit that put on one of the country’s top ranked haunted houses as a fundraiser every fall - us employees would typically volunteer, so I have a lot of fun memories from that (although typically haunted houses are too much for my taste - I prefer cute / quaint type stuff). I don’t do a lot of decorations because I just don’t have the time or the money right now, but I could see getting into them in the future.

What I find now is that by the time Halloween actually rolls around, I’m in the Christmas spirit, ha ha. By like October 25th, stores have condensed their Halloween stuff into a sale section and started to put out holiday decorations, Hallmark movies are on… I feel like the Halloween “vibe” ends around October 25th.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Where do people store this stuff ?

My DH was wondering the same thing!