Look closely and you'll see that there's a pumpkin, painted to look like a jack o' lantern sitting on the porch of this apartment.
Not much to note except for the fact that this photo was taken IN MARCH.
MARCH!
Now, you know me, I'm a Halloween Addict.
But I know when to box up the decorations and turn the non-carved pumpkins into pumpkin pie.
But this guy (or girl)... he's a rebel. He's hardcore.
MARCH.
FREAKIN' MARCH!
JACK O' LANTERN STILL ON THE PORCH!
So an informal poll, dear readers: when do you put your Halloween decorations away?
OR: What's the longest you've kept your Halloween decorations up?
Sound off in the comments below.
10 comments:
We take down the real big or fragile stuff usually in the beginning of December, but we have subtle decorations that stay up year-round- a jack o'lantern and a couple of tombstones, that sort of thing. And the inside of our house stays decorated all year. You'd dig it. It's wall-to-wall. I'm very grateful for my Halloween freak of a husband (even my ring is coffin-shaped), lest I be forced to take them down.
The important stuff, particularly the antique stuff and the spook sheets (sheets with fluorescent paint that glows under my black lights) that my mom made back in the 70's gets put up and taken down all on Halloween only so nobody can steal them. The rest of it gets put up on October 1 and taken down the day after Halloween.
I find that if I keep these things around too long, I stop noticing them. As you said about your Halloween T-shirts, absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.
Malenfant: December? Wow. Impressive.
Hurricane: How dare you quote me back to me! Buuuut you/I'm right.
Of course the main display comes down the weekend after Halloween. But there is a skeleton in my garden all year round and I have my concrete skull hanging around all year in my rock garden. And the concrete skulls are on the patio all year....I change the candles out for pastel colors around Easter time.
The house....is Halloween 365 days a year! :D
Love it. If I could leave my stuff up all the time I would!!
Cheers!
I have one ceramic jack o' lantern up 24/7....oh, and there is the Halloween movie poster!!!! Can't get enough!!
i usally leave mine up till the first week in november then i start taking it down but it usally takes me about 2to3 weeks to get everything down and put away but everything is up for about a month to a month and a half
I have put my decorations up the first part of September, and taken them down the first week or so of November. However, I made changes, additions, etc., through that period.
I start planning in September, decorate on October 1st (it's a family party/tradition), and take the truly Halloween decor down the first week of November. I leave the generic Fall stuff up until the first week of December.
Well, I start to design in Aug. and then to decorte in Sept. (Labor day weekend) Mostly fall items and then add the creepy and horr items as we get closer to Oct.
I have all of it done by the first weeknd of Oct. and then remover all the bats, whitches and ghosts. Leaving the pumpkins and cornstalks for Thanksgiving. The Christmas comes out two days after urkey day!
oh, and there is the Halloween movie poster!!!! Can't get enough!!
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