Halloween on your street

[monkeyboy]

Good? Bad?

Have a family down the street has house really done up

maybe it's GAME ON

 

[java]

GREAT! here there is a family that throws a huge Theme party every Halloween. It's a surprise. One year it was the Wizard of OZ- they got a hot air balloon to take the kids up. Another it was Harry Potter With a huge train that ran up and down the block!
I can't wait to see what this year is.

 

[C.Ann]

Up here at the lake, there's a house on the main road over to town that does an awesome job every year.. One of the best I've ever seen.. Each year it's a little different, so if I'm going to town for something I bring my camera and take a picture of it.. (First time I knocked on the door and asked if it was okay and they told me I could take photos of their house any time - then thanked me for my rave reviews..)

 

[Hillbeans]

The two big events in our town are the Memorial Day parade and Halloween. We get hundreds of people in our downtown area and it's like a huge block party, loads of fun. I think it's one of the best days of the year in our town, can't wait! We leave for WDW the next night as well so it'll be a fun couple of days.

 

[beccab]

Our street is a dead zone when it comes to Halloween. No kids at all last year. So, we take off up the street to downtown Salem, MA. Lots going on there. Haunted Happenings parade was tonight. Events going on all month.

 

[DisneyWhirled]

Ours is CRAZY, but we love it. We live in a cluster subdivision with one way in/out and about 90 houses. There are usually 2 haunted houses, but one house that REALLY does it up. The area attracts over 400+ kids that night!!! We have spent upwards of $100 on candy and still ran out. The police patrol the neighborhood on foot or bike. It really is a good time.

 

[plutotek]

I've .een doing displays since high school, but moved to the south a couple of years ago, so I'm slowly adding props to mine again (wanted to get a feeling for the climate in the Bible Belt). So far, so good. This year, things will be grabbing and banging

 

[dodukes]

Man I always tried to do up my house a bit but I would love to live in one of these subdivisons that goes all out. I love halloween and passing out candy!!! OUr block was rather blah, I was one of only a few houses that had actual decorations and such altho a large amount of houses did open the door for candy.

 

[bettymae1121]

I live in a neighborhood with a TON of kids, we get T or Ter's pretty solid all night long. Not that many people put up decorations but our former next door neighbor went ALL OUT. Had those blow up things and everything (should have seen the place at Christmas too). His place looked better than ours, but we give out full sized candy bars!

He moved and the guy next to us is single and no kids, and doesn't decorate for the holidays, so our home will finally stand out. And we are still giving out full sized candy bars!

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Needless to say I do a HUGE display and garage haunt. It's the most wonderful time of the year!

 

[MushyMushy]

Our neighbors are Halloween masters! They spend at least a week leading up to Halloween decorating their house (which is like a funky museum inside) and getting ready for their big costume party. They have jack-o-lanterns coming out the wazoo, and even keep a coffin in their sitting room. It's a real treat going to their party. I swear, they should charge admission for people just to go in and see how they decorate. They could charge admission any time of the year, actually. Their house is so cool.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

We just had new neighbors move in next door last year. They put up tiki torches etc. It was a windy night and honestly I think it could have been a fire hazard if they fell over etc.

People came to me next door and asked about them, parents were telling me their kids refused to go there etc. We will see what happens this year.

Our nighborhood is known that you beter give out candy to the older teens or else. I have my own routine. I always sit outside with the candy on a little table and have them pick some etc. It helps me keep an eye on the roaming teens who carry eggs, tp, shaving cream etc. and I dont want anyone seeing what we have in our house. Sadly our neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I used to be Halloween crazy with our decorations. DW, however, has had me tone it down the past few years since our children have been small. We're done with having kids, though, so in another year or two (as our 2 get older), the neighborhood better watch out!

I've got some new bushes in the front yard that are just begging me to wire up some zombies that would crawl out from under!

 

[pixiewings71]

No one does much but us, we are the only house that really decorates, we have lights, a scary spooky tree, gravestones and on the actual day we will put out a demon & arch angel figure, we put them on the porch, oh we also have a vampire head that we put in the window, it's all creepy and cool. We get probably 10 families of ToT'ers but we live on a weird street so not many people come this way, we've lived here for 6 years now and last year people were saying "this is the house I was talking about" when they came up to the door for candy, we still only got like 10 families but it was neat to have people say that. lol

 

[helloirishkitty]

I always do lights, gravestones, everything but I am pretty much the only one on my street.

 

[kathymc]

We live in a big circle of about 45 houses just outside of of hilly dark rural streets so parents drop a bunch of kids for surrounding area so we have ton of kids. I'd say about 1/2 the houses decorate (some already) we keep adding every year - fog machines, spooky window coverings, noises etc.

I love it and cant wait to decorate - oh yeah - we have no kids!

 

[auntie]

I decorate with a harvest theme. Corn stalks, bales of hay, pumpkins, mums that sort of thing. Not much into the ghoolish aspect of the holiday. I do enjoy seeing the little one's in their costumes and handing out candy. I could do without the teens/shaving cream and eggs.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

At our first house, we were "the Halloween House". We had tons of stuff set up and would get at least 100 kids. The whole neighborhood would have their lights on and many were decorated really cool. We had people stop by just to take pictures and videos.

Then we moved here. It's sad really. We get maybe 15 kids. Our neighborhood (it's only 22 houses) is full of folks who don't celebrate Halloween because it's against their religion.

Because we are near the end of the street, very few people from other neighborhoods venture down it when they see the lights off on the houses at the front. We used to do it all up cool but now we just decorate the porch, put up the graveyard and ghouls with a couple of black lights and call it done.
If it wasn't for my kids wanting the graveyard up, we probably wouldn't bother with that anymore. At least the garbage collection guys get a kick out of it. We change the tombstones and add new ones with different writing every year. I've seen the garbage guys reading the tombstones.

My oldest is too old for trick or treating so he hands out the candy (my husband is home with him) while I take my DD over to a friends house and we go trick or treating with them so she has some fun.

I really miss our old neighborhood at Halloween.

 

[Maridw]

One year while living on base, we were getting ready to re-seed our lawn and just had dirt, so DH dug a couple shallow graves and put head stones out that we bought at Wal-Mart. We had a couple of other things out and he used a couple masks that he had bought and made people out of them. We had a huge spider web near the door. DH dressed up and just stood near the door where I was passing out the candy. People didn't realize that he was real. Occasionally he would move and it would scare whoever was there.

When we moved off base, we rarely get trick or treaters so stopped putting decorations out.

I loved it when we decorated. Halloween is my birthday so I have a great time.

 

[hereyago]

I am not really decorating at all this year. DD and I will be at wdw, then come home Halloween-as it's Dd12's last "legal" year of tot. But hardly anyone comes down our cul de sac anyway.

I usually buy a whole bunch of candy. leave it in a "cauldron" and leave a note to say help themselves by a big Halloween light, but we would come back and hardly any candy taken.

I may get a couple bags this year, of course of candy I like ha ha