Anyone decorate for Halloween?

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We are in the UK and my little one loves Halloween so we love to decorate, their bedroom, downstairs and the front garden. We've got inflatables etc. The same for Christmas, these are the best months! Does anyone else in the UK especially enjoy decorating for Halloween? And when do you start? I know its not a big thing over here and obviously I wouldn't bother like I do if my child didn't love it so much. Just intrested I suppose if anyone else enjoys these simple things haha

I love decorating! But DS is a young adult now so I'm decorating for autumn rather than halloween. The good thing is I can decorate for autumn earlier than I'd feel i could for halloween!

I mainly decorate outside.

I love doing it, but I restrict it to the porch. My dc are grown now so I do it really for the neighbours dc. (And me)

Me. Bloody love it.

got a great new ghost inflatable last year!

I love decorating for all things. Halloween is usually just the week of half term for us (as Halloween is usually the end of half term) although bedding will probably come out a week before that and stay out a week later.

I can barely be arsed decorating for Christmas, certainly not for any other time. The last two years I've had a weekend away at the start of December and DH and DC have got the tree and done it all. Which works brilliantly for me.

I live in a neighborhood with lots of Americans and they go all out for Halloween. Decorations have been up for 3 weeks already!

DH and I love decorating for Halloween but we don’t have any children at home. We just do the doorway and front of the house but we play spooky music when people come down the drive from a speaker under the car and give out enough sweets to feed a nation to trick or treaters 🤣

No, I save decorations for Christmas.

I have a big bay window that I decorate for Halloween, I don’t decorate anywhere else and tend to put it out the first weekend in October. For Christmas we decorate the living room, trees in the kids rooms and we have lights and a couple of trees outside on the front along with my bay window that gets filled with my Christmas tree collection.

Halloween is a big thing on the estate where I live. We get crowds of children going around, it's really busy.
Some of the houses look amazing.
I decorate the front door and windows but I don't have any indoor decorations or bed covers.

Hi everyone, I was thinking about starting a thread on this this morning! Glad I find you!

I’m looking for something large to have on the front lawn, ideally motion sensored so it will “ come to life” when folk walk past. Open no idea where to start… Could anybody recommend a good online retailer?

I’m getting quite into decorating for Halloween. Nothing crazy but a good few decorations inside, projector outside etc.

I think I prefer it to decorating for Christmas because there’s so much pressure for perfection at Christmas. Halloween is less intense.

I don't normally but I'm doing a Halloween party this year so I've gone all out. This is new to me so I've really enjoyed it actually 😅

I decorate fur Autumn. First week of September I take down the bunting that spans the rear glass doors (across the whole wall) and put up autumnal foliage garland, and similar across the mantle in the living room, with some candles. This year I gut a matching wreath fur the door - I’m undecided about that to be honest. Halloween only on the 31st - I carve the pumpkins a couple days before but the lit up ghosts or bats or spiders (whatever I do of a year) only go up on the day of and are taken down the next day.
Christmas I decorate the weekend closest to Dec 1, we go and buy the fresh tree then too.

Goodness the typos!

Yes I’m one of those people who is probably considered ‘cringe’ as I decorate for most holidays, I have festive wreaths for them all! I can’t even claim I do it because I have young DC. My husband is exactly the same and we would decorate before we even had children 😂

I just like a sense of occasion and it brings me joy to acknowledge the changing of the seasons (especially autumn and spring). There’s something quite grounding about marking the passage of time, especially when society feels quite bleak.

Looks great!

That sounds great haha!

If you are in the UK I know the range have some good stuff in, I have a clown from a few years ago that holds a tray you fill with sweets and when someone takes a sweet his eyes light up, he speaks, laughs and shakes. Definitely worth a look, they have some good inflatables also

Yes I'm the same, decorated for easter even lol! Just alittle bit of happiness i think, I've already decorated for autumn 1st September the pumpkin door matt and wreath, my pumpkin spice plug ins, and bits in the house. Wanting to do the Halloween stuff the first week on October i think haha

We do a Halloween party most years but I barely put anything out the front as everything gets nicked which is a shame as I'd go all out. I do go all out in the house though, every room apart from bedrooms gets done but that's mostly because of the party.

If I am at home, I put one of my lit up witchy dollhouses in the window, complete with tiny witches and wizards, along with the pumpkins. They signal that I am at home to guisers or trick or treaters.
On my altar are some photographs of my Beloved Dead, with candles, etc, then we set a place for them at the table when we eat.
However, often I'm out in the nearest city, guising with the pagans. We all dress up as ghoulies and ghosties, then have a party.

This sounds so much fun!

I have autumn fairy lights out and a wreath on the front door but I don’t decorate for Halloween as such. Just few candles and spooky heads out. Tesco have got some nice small ceramic ghosties