When will you/ when should you put up your Halloween decorations?

LordSutch

I've passed two houses today with their garden/porch Halloween decorations already up!

9th Oct - bit early isn't it?

optogirl

I'd rather not put up decorations at all for Halloween but now that it's all the rage & my kids see them in other houses you're kind of forced to. Not a big fan of Halloween at all but kids love it so will probably stick a skeleton or two up in the week running up :rolleyes:

Kimbot

LordSutch wrote: »

I've passed two houses today with their garden/porch Halloween decorations already up!

9th Oct - bit early isn't it?

Feck sake my neighbour has theirs up weeks at this stage :P

baldbear

Jaysus. Halloween decorations.

super_furry

Notions.

outsourced_ire

Halloween decorations?? This isn't America, like.

riffmongous

The morning of the day itself, it makes it more fun then as the entire day is given over to it.

dudara

Is putting up Halloween decorations a thing now?

super_furry

The only Halloween decorations anyone needs is a truck-load of pallets, some old doors and sofas and a match.

branie2

We never put up Halloween decorations in my house

Noveight

We never put up decorations for St. Halloween's Day.

retro:electro

We don't put up Halloween decorations. People are trying to turn Halloween into a festive event. It ain't. It's one day where you go a bit lakes and wear a bin bag. No build up or decorations needed.

endacl

Halloween? Don’t you mean Disconnect Doorbell Day, OP?

Mint Sauce

Halloween Decorations! I might get a few bags of sweets in, incase the neighbour hood kids come a knocking, there again, I might just go out instead so that I dont have to ignore the doorbell and hide behind the blinds.

lazybones32

I just let the spiders build their webs in the house - much cheaper than buying decorations.
The outside of the house looks kinda $hitty anyway, so it works in my favour for one night of the year.

Scotty #

Now that the kids are a little older we don't bother with Halloween decorations but when we did, they went up a few days before hand - never more than a week.

I live along a small ring of 16 houses all facing each other. I've two neighbours who put up their Christmas decorations while taking down their Halloween ones, ie. first of November!

Irish Guitarist

Never. This is Ireland, not America. I don't know where this malarkey came from in the last few years. In my day it was about children wearing cheap plastic masks. No one over the age of about twelve cared about it, except maybe for teenage scumbags setting off bangers.

Postgrad10

Nope. Not ever going there. Christmas is enough, thank you very much.

LordSutch

Christmas decorations now on sale in Woodies DIY > alongside/behind the Halloween decorations :cool:

What next? Easter eggs on sale in the run up to Christmas?

The World's gone crazy.

lazybones32

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Never. This is Ireland, not America. I don't know where this malarkey came from in the last few years. In my day it was about children wearing cheap plastic masks. No one over the age of about twelve cared about it, except maybe for teenage scumbags setting off bangers.

It is an Irish pre-Christian holiday/celebration, so i like the thought of us celebrating it, just not with imported customs and traditions.

Postgrad10

LordSutch wrote: »

Christmas decorations now on sale in Woodies DIY > alongside/behind the Halloween decorations :cool:

What next? Easter eggs on sale in the run up to Christmas?

The World's gone crazy.

They started selling Cadbury's mini eggs during the summer holidays.

andekwarhola

Can everybody PM the OP with their projected decoration schedule before proceeding?

We need to move forward with this ASAP as the festive offence period will be upon us before we know it.

Thx.

LadyMacBeth_

My missus is German and didn't grow up celebrating Halloween and now she is definitely making up for it. She started working on her costume last month. The decorations have been bought but I told her to wait a bit as she wanted to put them up the last week in September. She's already bought pumpkins and she ordered pumpkin spice mix online because she wants to make a pumpkin pie. I keep buying her Halloween sweets and she is delighted, brownie points for me. I think she is cute. Love is truly blind.

chopperbyrne

Postgrad10 wrote: »

They started selling Cadbury's mini eggs during the summer holidays.

This is perfectly acceptable.

La_Gordy

Someone in my neighbourhood has giant spiders over their window and it looks fantastic.

Bigbagofcans

I'm putting up a few Halloween decorations this evening. The build-up to fancy dress parties has begun!

I laugh at the outrage others putting up decorations seems to cause some Boards users.
I'm sure I'll be having fun at a fancy dress party while some boardsies will be typing furiously how much they hate Halloween.

NewsMeQuick

The amount of Halloween bedgrudgers in this thread is almost beyond belief. It doesn't address what the OP asked at all either. I bet some of them steal sweets from kids too. :pac:

OP, put them up when you want to! Forget the neighbours!

I loved this period as a kid, and as an adult, what do you know, it hasn't worn off. Now I make sure all my nieces and nephews have a great time. I studied in continental Europe where few celebrate it or have ever seen it in person and I held a big bash at my apartment and everyone loved it. I also lived in North America and it was of course enormous there, no limits. I bought decorations yesterday. This week I'll put them up with the kids and I'm planning a family party at my house for the night itself. I bought a truck-load of pumpkins last year and had a big pumpkin-carving with all the kids, I'll be doing it bigger this year. (I'm typing this and I now see just how many begrudgers are going to quote this and vomit, that being their nature :pac: )

If I hear one more American say Halloween is American, they're going to get a pumpkin thrown at them.

Bottom line OP, is do what you want, as much as you want. Whatever makes you happy.

Aglomerado

I don't mind the decorations, I think they are fun! Some people are very creative about their houses of horrors. But I wouldn't be bothered myself, I don't have kids so it's pointless. Also decorations = treats so most kids stay away from the non decorated houses.

NewsMeQuick

LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »

My missus is German and didn't grow up celebrating Halloween and now she is definitely making up for it. She started working on her costume last month. The decorations have been bought but I told her to wait a bit as she wanted to put them up the last week in September. She's already bought pumpkins and she ordered pumpkin spice mix online because she wants to make a pumpkin pie. I keep buying her Halloween sweets and she is delighted, brownie points for me. I think she is cute. Love is truly blind.

I think your missus and I are destined to plan some brilliant Halloween events together. :):pac:

Sam Kade

NewsMeQuick wrote: »

The amount of Halloween bedgrudgers in this thread is almost beyond belief. It doesn't address what the OP asked at all either. I bet some of them steal sweets from kids too. :pac:

OP, put them up when you want to! Forget the neighbours!

I loved this period as a kid, and as an adult, what do you know, it hasn't worn off. Now I make sure all my nieces and nephews have a great time. I studied in continental Europe where few celebrate it or have ever seen it in person and I held a big bash at my apartment and everyone loved it. I also lived in North America and it was of course enormous there, no limits. I bought decorations yesterday. This week I'll put them up with the kids and I'm planning a family party at my house for the night itself. I bought a truck-load of pumpkins last year and had a big pumpkin-carving with all the kids, I'll be doing it bigger this year. (I'm typing this and I now see just how many begrudgers are going to quote this and vomit, that being their nature :pac: )

If I hear one more American say Halloween is American, they're going to get a pumpkin thrown at them.

Bottom line OP, is do what you want, as much as you want. Whatever makes you happy.

Please tell why do you think they begrudge Halloween?

Oops69

Never , guys its head examining time if you're wondering about Halloween decorations !!, ffs

whisky_galore

(a) Never.
(b) Whenever. Knock yourself out.

I love Sean nos

Never. Because this isn't America.

GalwayGrrrrrl

I love doing a "haunted house" look for Halloween. Will put up decorations about a week before Halloween itself. I leave the pumpkins until the day before otherwise they go mouldy for the big day.
We got a black cat in the summer so I'm looking forward to incorporating her into our instagrams of the decore.

meeeeh

I like carving pumpkins because there is a bit of creativity about it. I'm a bit too much of a snob to decorate house in tacky plastic stuff for Halloween or Christmas.

Widdershins

About a week beforehand. I love Halloween. I try to make it a bit more tasteful than the American style but I've no objection to some garish plastic eyeball lights. Off topic but there are some great balls and events in the UK for Halloween. We did a ghost walk tour thing of Highgate cemetery one year. I'd like to do the Loftus Hall lockdown.

murpho999

Halloween decorations.

Now that's scary

andekwarhola

I love Sean nos wrote: »

this isn't America.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I may develop a heroin habit to comfort myself about the fact that putting up the Halloween decorations in now apparently a thing, and a question of when and not if.

I'll compromise and spray the blood from the syringes on the walls.

December2012

What else is good to carve instead of pumpkins? Like, do melons work?

Peatys

This weekend. I wanted to do it last weekend, but my wife vetoed it.

LadyMacBeth_

December2012 wrote: »

What else is good to carve instead of pumpkins? Like, do melons work?

Irish people traditionally carved turnips. I tried it one year, wouldn't recommend it. The place reeked of farts.

Rubberchikken

Did all tjevhalloween games as a kid. We never did trick or treating though.
When kids were young we went all out with bonfire trick or treat neighbours kids included and plenty of games.
Now I can't be bothered. The bangers and fireworks set off for weeks beforehand scaring the bejesus out of our dog is enough to put me off.
Roll on Christmas I say.:)

c68zapdsm5i1ru

It's a nice bit of fun for the kids to have a few decorations up for a couple of days around Hallowe'en. But putting them up nearly three weeks in advance is ridiculous. Is Hallowe'en going to turn into another festive 'season', the way Christmas has?

Peatys

Kensley Repulsive Limb wrote: »

It's a nice bit of fun for the kids to have a few decorations up for a couple of days around Hallowe'en. But putting them up nearly three weeks in advance is ridiculous. Is Hallowe'en going to turn into another festive 'season', the way Christmas has?

Holiday season is from start of October to end of April. Halloween, Christmas, New Years, St Patricks Day, Easter. Then we have the championship in the off season.

LordSutch

Peatys wrote: »

Holiday season is from start of October to end of April. Halloween, Christmas, New Years, St Patricks Day, Easter. Then we have the championship in the off season.

"Holiday season" what :cool:

Never heard of it, and what about the summer holidays?

BPKS

There's an auld lad who lives nearby and strolls past our house a few times a day.

One of the neighbours started putting up Halloween decorations a few years ago, usually about 2 weeks before. Nobody else around bothered.

I met the auld lad on the road one day soon after the decorations went up. He says to me, 'What's up with your one in that house, she must be a bit mad. Its 10 weeks til Christmas'.

Spanish Eyes

No children in our house.

Cannot stand all the Halloween shyte.

Off for a meal and a few drinkies until the little kids have gone to bed. Then it's safe to come back.

Don't get me wrong, I gave gazillions of sweets, nuts and coins to the little monsters over the years, but have had enough of it now. Bah Humbug. At least I did it back in the day, but no more.

The fireworks and bangers are a different animal altogether though. The poor doggies and cats, they go bananas. Not mine, but the neighbours.

That's why it is safest to get out of Dodge for a few hours.

Atoms for Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDMDda5DNg

Peatys

LordSutch wrote: »

"Holiday season" what :cool:

Never heard of it, and what about the summer holidays?

as i said, thats the off season.

Cork Girl123

Sure it is just a time when we can act like children again and get away with it. I am not into the running around dressed as a crazy clown and scarring people such that they potentially have a heartattack but what is so bad in celebrating this night.