slo’s TUESDAY 10/10 poll - Real Pumpkins 🎃

[CynBeth]

We always buy 1 real pumpkin close to Halloween that we carve and put out on the porch.

 

[#1hoosierfan]

The boys each pick out one to make into a jack-o-lantern right before Halloween. I buy several smaller ones to spread across my large flower bed with the mums.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I don't celebrate traditional Halloween, not for me. When I was younger, I did enjoy decorating with stickers/markers, etc. a real pumpkin or simply having one. I do like pumpkins as part of Harvest/Thanksgiving decorations. The Great Pumpkin was a cute movie, too

 

[SandyinMonterey]

I bought 2 from Kroger last week only because it was a digital coupon deal. $3.99 (limit of 5) each and the pumpkins were huge. Normally a $20 pumpkin. I only got 2. I used to buy a lot of real pumpkins, but just like everything else, it's gotten expensive so I don't buy them as often. I also put out two very large (and heavy) ceramic pumkins that have witches hats and place candles inside. This year I bought plastic pumpkins (2 sets/stack of 3) from Targer. Got them a long time ago. Each $20 and they light up.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Marie likes to buy one or two larger real pumpkins for the various critters that come in the back yard. She sets them out and over a few weeks they are demolished and mostly eaten. For decorative in the front of the house, mostly artificial along along with a few of the little real pumpkins.

The carving days with the grandkids are history now.

 

[leebee]

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I think we've gone crazy over Halloween. To me it's one of those made-up holidays. Sure, we went trick-or-treating when we were kids, through elementary school, but that was it. Now Halloween is a whole "season" and I don't get it. I also don't bother with all the Halloween stuff, so I may or may not bother to buy pumpkins. I buy candy and hand it out to the kids who knock on my door- I'm not that much of a Scrooge (not to mix holidays here)- but I just don't "get" all the hoopla about Halloween.

 

[1420Elexismc]

My son and I will each get one to carve this weekend to put on our steps

 

[tvguy]

We'll probably buy one a couple of days before Halloween and carve it on Halloween. Generally is still warm enough around here that if you carve a pumpkin too soon, it will be all moldy by Halloween. We did buy Halloween candy already. That is always a guessing game. We had 12 kids last year, more than we have had in probably 20 years. Hard to believe that our first Halloween in this house 40 years ago we had over 100 kids.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

We usually have one real pumpkin. Most years it is bought. Some years I've grown pumpkins and we use those.

We also have small, paper mache, rubber/plastic and candles (pumpkins, ghosts, etc) I use for small decorations.

 

[Moliphino]

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I think we've gone crazy over Halloween. To me it's one of those made-up holidays. Sure, we went trick-or-treating when we were kids, through elementary school, but that was it. Now Halloween is a whole "season" and I don't get it. I also don't bother with all the Halloween stuff, so I may or may not bother to buy pumpkins. I buy candy and hand it out to the kids who knock on my door- I'm not that much of a Scrooge (not to mix holidays here)- but I just don't "get" all the hoopla about Halloween.

I'm right there with you, just don't see the point as an adult. We don't get any trick or treaters on my street, either, so I can generally just ignore it.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

No real pumpkins for us. We don't decorate for Halloween, and if we *did* put real pumpkins out the squirrels would think it was just for them and eat them. I actually love the holiday, probably because I like the decor, but it's just not a big deal around my neighborhood. We only get a trickle of kids between 5 and 7 and then we turn off the outdoor light to discourage anyone else. Not that we get anyone else anyway.

 

[LoveDaisy]

I voted other because we grow pumpkins and gourds in our garden. This was not a great year, lots of rain but we still got a few. There are a couple more that weren’t quite ripe I’ll pick those this weekend.

 

[Wendy31]

We just got our pumpkins & gourds yesterday from a farm in the mountains.

We always get 4 large pumpkins - one for each kid to carve for Halloween & one to last through Thanksgiving. (I have a set of wooden turkey feathers & a turkey face. The wooden pieces have dowels attached which get poked into the pumpkin to make a “turkey pumpkin.”)

And, in addition to the 4 large pumpkins, we get several other smaller pumpkins & gourds in different colors for decoration.

And, after Thanksgiving, the leftover pumpkins & gourds feed the deer that live in the woods behind our house.

 

[amcnj]

Have a large one for carving. Not sure what it will become. The problem is most of the kids come by before it is even dark!

 

[georgina]

Used to buy and carve pumpkins when we had kids at home. i used to buy colorful small gourds to decorate my table. I don't bother anymore decorating for Halloween at all. I have a few fall things - my door wreath (in avatar), a door mat, and a tablecloth with autumn leaves on it.

 

[nene0182]

I buy a bunch of the baby pumpkins and scatter them around my porch decor and in pots but I can’t remember the last time I bought a full size pumpkin

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

When the kids were little, we always went to a pumpkin patch and let them pick out their pumpkins. Now, the squirrels eat them almost as soon as I put them out, so I don’t buy any.

 

[BayouQueen]

We planted mini pumpkins for DGD. We ended up with six of the little guys for her to pick and paint faces on. That's all for us this year.

 

[DaisyDuck001]

I didn't buy a whole one, but I did buy a can of real pumpkin.

 

[MamaMermaid]

We have 1! We have another our son has to decorate and take into school on Halloween. We may get another