Whatever happened to Halloween?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:37pm

I just drove around my neighborhood and found that only 6 or 7 homes have decorated for the holiday. In years gone by every other home had decorations up. Now the local stores and garden centers have those huge air blown lawn decorations for sale and the party shops have been doing brisk business for weeks now, but where are the jack-o-lanterns and scarcrows on the lawns?

My home with its modesst decorations seems to glow like a beacon in the darkness of the neighborhood.

Updated On: 10/29/05 at 09:37 PM

[Liam]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:40pm

i agree.my house looks lovely as it dose evry holiday

[zepka102]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:40pm

there's a house down the street from me that has 18 blow up figures on their front lawn. seriously, do they have a separate generator to keep those things up? it's crazy!!

Updated On: 10/29/05 at 09:40 PM

[Liam]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:41pm

i HATE thoes things i can not stand them!!!!!!!i want to pop evrone of them!!!!!!!

ugg

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:42pm

Of course your house looks lovely Liam, the maid has been working overtime getting all the decorations up.

Now go to bed.

[Liam]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:45pm

maid? me my mom and my sister do it

and im sick of you telling me to go to bed.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 9:49pm

If you, your sister and your mother did the decorating, what was the maid doing? Taking pictures of the three of you?

It's way past your bedtime, little tyke, so scram.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:18pm

The last couple years, there's been an increase in Halloween decorations in my town and nearby. Some of the blow-up things, but other stuff as well.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:23pm

I have three jackolanterns and some orange lights on the bushes. :)

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:27pm

I have two jackolanterns carved into theatre faces.

Posted: 10/29/05 at 11:52pm

Halloween is my mothers holiday. The yard is decorated, inside is decorated. And halloween wouldnt be halloween in our house if someones costume didnt start off as curtians or a table cloth (wich would be mine this year). The holiday will end with the HUGE halloween blow out party in our garage which is turned into a castle ballroom annualy! Halloween day will be pumpkin carving day. My theme this year? The nightmare before christmas, I printed the patterns offline! Awwwww if only my family was this festive on any other holiday! And no none of our decorations are blow up!! those things drive me nuts. Everything is homemade and collected from the past 15 years or so.

~~EM~~
Updated On: 10/29/05 at 11:52 PM

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 12:01am

One of my Grandma's neighbor has a fake scarecrow tyed to a tree, looking like a hung person. Scares me every time.

No one trick-or-treats on my block since we're all Jewish and boring, so no one decorates.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 5:49am

What's the big deal about Halloween?

I've never had it, and it just seems to me that it's just an excuse to get American/Canadian children even fatter...

Though the dressing up sounds fun...

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 8:25am

I just think that at this time of the year, orange lights, jack-o-lanterns and scarecrows look nice on front lawns. I'm going to say it looks "homey"--at least in the suburbs.

[kate2]

Posted: 10/30/05 at 8:53am

zepka, i've got you beat. this one house in my town has ATLEAST 30 cheesy blow up things (i counted last week, they might've gotten more) but not only for halloween, they have that many for EVERY HOLIDAY. i just dont get why you would spend that much $ on those AND your electric bill just to make your yard look like junk.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 6:44am

I love Halloween, but I'm not into decorations. I feel that decorating just draws trick-or-treaters to the house, and damn it, I can't stand getting up and down to answer that door all day (when/if I am home). Also, nobody in my house (including myself) is really home to answer the door.

Also, the teenagers in my neighborhood can be real ***holes. They would probably ruin people's decorations.

I like Halloween parties, decorartions at work, and costumes.

I HATE those lawn-blow up things! And they have them for almost every holiday. I want to go around and pop them.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 8:03am

i live in a very orthodox neighborhood.. so nobody ever, and i mean ever in the past 7 years has come trick or treating by our house, so theres no point in us putting up decorations anymore .

[RobbO]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 8:40am

is it wrong that i put my christmas nativity on my lawn and dressed up baby jesus as mini me, with joseph as dr. evil and mary as frau Farbissina from austin powers?

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 9:50am

No, but making Mrs. RobbO stand out there in a yellow fedora and trench coat is.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 2:43pm

It's only wrong if you don't have a sense of humor.

[RobbO]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 3:17pm

but mrs. robbo wanted to be in the halloween nativity and the only part left was that of the jackass.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 4:35pm

Come to my town, they had a parade with about 700 kids dressed up, and we are about to go out and hand out candy....

It's like a Norman Rockwell painting!

I'm loving it!!!!!!!!!

[RobbO]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 4:40pm

an awfully BIG norman rockwell painting!! 700 people, yikes!