When do you put up your Halloween decs?

[Greenbutterlfy566]

When do you put up your Halloween decs?

Pumpkin in the window when kids were small. Now, thankfully, fuck all.

I have a spider living in the conservatory - does that count?

We stick a pumpkin in the window and that's it. Neighbour had some out last year and they got stolen.

OtraPosaMariposa... God forbid anyone has anyone FUN! You can recycle Halloween decorations by the way! You can usually use them for a good few years then the plastic stuff can go to the charity shop, the paper stuff can go in the recycling bin and the single use plastic can go in the recycling bin too.

We need a Halloween equivalent of Scrooge or Bah! humbug! Bah! Hauntbug! is all I can come up with atm.

I hope all the posters talking about commercialised plastic tatt apply the same sentiment to Christmas!

Yes, absolutely. I don’t do Christmas cards or decorations either.

I didn't realise people were so snobby about Halloween! Are they the same people who won't let their kids wear character clothing, insist on saying Father Christmas as opposed to Santa Claus. Get annoyed about children being referred to as kids, are disapproving by nature and talk a lot about in our day...

Stop saying "never" you boring sods

Might carve a pumpkin or two and put it in the window and a small plaque on the door... do that on the 31st of October as funnily enough that’s Halloween.

Halloween isn’t like Christmas. I understand the concept of a ‘Christmas period’ putting dec up before hand, 12 days of Christmas etc.

But Halloween is a one day only thing.

Christmas period’ putting dec up before hand, 12 days of Christmas etc. Does anyone do the 12 days of Christmas any more - leaving everything to Christmas Eve and then down on 6 Jan - I think times are a changing.

It is not ‘snobby’ to opt out of some of the endless succession of commercialised ‘events’ foisted on us by a retail industry which actively creates, promotes and perpetuates such things to maximise their own profits.

It is not ‘snobby’ to question why others so unthinkingly buy into such wasteful consumerist nonsense at every opportunity.

Oh I'm hugely snobby about it. The day you find me in Asda, loading my trolley with orange tinsel and plastic skeletons you'll know I've given up on life.

Half of mumsnet is saying never and the other half is saying they've had their decs for years. Someone must be buying the tat in the shops.....

where I live the council out the town Christmas decorations up before Halloween.

What’s scary about a giant plastic Santa hanging from a street lamp?

I get the feeling that some people are happy to enjoy all the commercialism of Christmas but they apply different standards to Halloween because they don't approve of it.

Anytime from next Monday. Got a good 2 weeks with them up then and get into the battle of the Halloween's best dressed houses haha but Halloween aside .... how long after do you take them down then put Christmas ones up????

I say day after bonfire for the Halloween decys to come down and the first December for Christmas to go up (although I'd do it tomorrow haha)

I'm just a Merry kind of gal I adore Christmas and that magical feeling with the kids! 🤗🤷🏼‍♀️

I get the feeling that some people are happy to enjoy all the commercialism of Christmas but they apply different standards to Halloween because they don't approve of it

I don't care about Halloween, it means nothing to me. I'm not a pagan or a rampant consumer. I apply different standards because its not a proper holiday as far as I am concerned. I wouldnt care less if it disappeared off the calendar.

Christmas is a religious festival and a national holiday. It's worth celebrating.

We don’t. We’ll do a pumpkin a day or two before but that’s it.

Many if us are not religious - christmas to me is a retail festival and creates a lot more waste than Halloween.

I enjoy marking autumn season, we have black crows, pumpkins, cute black cats, witches hats, cauldrons.....

Think wizard of oz meets Stephen King. Very atmospheric... Moving towards the end of the year, festival of all souls.
We enjoy marking it. Change in the air.

I apply different standards because its not a proper holiday as far as I am concerned.

While you can rate festivals anyway you want the fact you rate Halloween as being not proper and Christmas as being so it really just your individual outlook on the world.
There are lots of festivals that have little or no cultural value to me that are celebrated in the UK I don't apply different values to them.
The origins of Halloween are no more or less religious than the origins of Christmas.

Halloween IS a religious holiday for some.

Myself included.

I don't

I don't, we do a pumpkin for the youngest to take to the school competition but I don't really "do" Halloween other than that.

I don't put decorations up as I don't appreciate people ringing my doorbell in return for stuff tbh - no decorations = no guisers (mostly!)

Halloween decs?

Are they a thing?