How much would you spend on Halloween decorations

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I've spent about £50 quid on some posh fabric pumpkins and other assorted stuff.

Make. Me. Feel. Better. What have you spent?

We’ve grown our pumpkins this year and will eat afterwards.
I have decorations I ve previously made out of felt and I bought a black raven from Wilkos for a fiver.

@RuggerHug, @IBelieveInAThingCalledScience thank you so much

@britespark1 Please come decorate my house! I love them!

I have spent loads on Halloween over the years, but have tried to reuse the decorations ever year (just in different places)

The ghosties that you are trying to scare away don't care how much you've spent on decorations 🤣
Scottish here, grew up with Hallowe'en. We never did any type of decorations.

Guising, dooking for apples, turnip lanterns, treacle scones on strings, a costume made out of a bin bag and Bob's your uncle.

This year, £3 for some paper window displays -- bought them earlier today after I realized while walking and seeing window that mine might not be visible to trick or treaters from the pavement (moved to a less well lit area with a larger front garden earlier this year & there are much larger decorations here - possibly for better visibility).

Fortunately, my local shop had some big brightly coloured sugar skull hangings that I can add to my decor box. Día de Muertos is one of the biggest holidays for us and as we're in the UK, Halloween gets added on for the community/related holiday fun. Some years I don't get anything, but I usually spend £5-30 between the two. I generally prefer paper or ceramic and reuse as our festivities expand.

I also bought some Día de Muertos badges as they're on school days - DD1 wasn't happy with that as it's the first time it hasn't been in the half term for her. While getting those, I spotted some skull baubles that I'll admit I'm tempted to get next year now that we have trees. Not sure how well they'd do outside, but even if tat, they looked like fun.

I like doing the fireplace autumny every year. Mostly it's wooden toys of DDs, some little woodland animal figurines with conkers and pinecones and some fabric leaves in autumn colours. This year i got a candle in the shape of a squirrel (£5), five quite big felt leaves that you can hang up (£7), one pumpkin for carving (£1). There was a bit of a pumpkin display collection of the various squashes that had come in the veg box but ate most of them last week. Specifically for Halloween I have added some Lanka Kade Halloween figures to the fireplace thus week, had the pumpkin and bat from last year but got the ghost and witch new this year (about £6). Some Halloween sweets and a sticker book for a few quid. So all edible or reusable and nothing plastic, I'm fine with that, I love the autumn woodland fireplace it makes me happy!

@britespark1

I’ve gone a little crazy and crocheted lots of my own little ghosts and pumpkins 🎃

The ghost garland is lovely

£0. We don't celebrate.
We sometimes do a harvest celebration but no real spend, we would use what we have.

Absolutely nothing.

Since when did Hallowe’en decorations become a “thing” in this country? Just carve a pumpkin and have done with it. Ridiculous.

Depends how long the decorations will last. I spent about a fiver on pumpkins because it’s fun for the DC. Everything else is reusable. I have a plastic skeleton and raven that go outside for a couple of weeks then get put away for next year. I got the skeleton 15 years ago when I was a student, he is older than my DC!

@VestaTilley

Absolutely nothing.

Since when did Hallowe’en decorations become a “thing” in this country? Just carve a pumpkin and have done with it. Ridiculous.

Well i started decorating for Halloween back in 1990

So in our house its been a thing for a while

I love decorating for any reason, don't get why people are so sniffy about it. If you don't like it, don't do it but other people doing it don't do you any harm. I keep stuff to use year after year. Part of the fun is getting it out and remembering what we have.

Think I started when the DC were small and it was the Jubilee followed by the Olympics and we did a window display. After that I did it for lots of things. Our house is on the way to the Dc's primary school so I think people enjoyed seei f what we'd done.

I'd stopped recently as they'd got older but have revived traditions a bit over the 'pandemic months' as we are spending more time at home.

I have stuff that I brought when ds was 1 he's 15!
Over the years I've replaced the vrappy poundland stuff for decent things that will last. Ceramic pumpkins etc.

What I have now is probably £300 worth on display. But it gets re used time and time again. I add to it each year. This year is 2 5ft scarecrows for the lawn

Nothing. I can't stand Halloween.

None this year but last year quite a lot. Halloween for us has always with the children’s grandparents who did it full on with amazing decorations and a huge family party and of course this was cancelled. I tried to make up for this by buying decorations but of course it didn’t work. This year though the decorations are all out again (grandparents still shielding). The decorations are lighting up the windows and hopefully will bring some spooky festive joy. Once the children are too old for them I will donate to the charity shop and they can get used again

I have a trick or treat bunting. Its lovely.
Lots of halloween toys/ witches
Velvet pumpkin
Lots of fresh pumpkins on the doorstep
Two autumn wreaths
Pumpkin salt and pepper shakers
Lots of halloween bits dotted around the house

Zilch. But I have already spent nearly that on some new Christmas decorations.

@VestaTilley

Absolutely nothing.

Since when did Hallowe’en decorations become a “thing” in this country? Just carve a pumpkin and have done with it. Ridiculous.

My parents always did it for us growing up, late 70s and 80s. We used to do spooky crafts to decorate the house with, dress up to trick or treat, and carve turnips.

I started decorating for Halloween mid-nineties when I had my first DD.

Honestly don't get why people doing something that makes them happy and hurts no one triggers so many posters on here

£0. I bought a pumpkin last week but it was to make a soup. We're catholic so we don't celebrate Halloween.

Also halloween cushion covers and a life sized vampire 🧛‍♂️

In also catholic

When my dd1 was small halloween wasn't really a thing( 28 yrs ago) I dressed her up as a witch every year and the neighbours gave her an orange, apple, packet of crisps and 20p.

Dd2 is 5 and loves it. I've bought her a costume I'll decorate the house and welcome all the kids in.
Halloween is about having fun with your children.🧙‍♀️😈👹🧙‍♀️

I don't get the catholic comment. Halloween isn't a religious festival.

I don't get all the hate for Halloween here.

Isn’t it largely because it wasn’t really a thing until about 10-15 years ago? I’m in my early 40s, and when I was young it was just apple bobbing and a bit of dressing up as cats and witches and maybe a carved pumpkin, but it was only for little kids, nobody decorated their houses, and trick or treating wasn’t a thing here (as a child I was really puzzled by it in US films like ET). I don’t think I even registered that it was Hallowe’en at all between the age of about 13 and when I had my own daughter.

Many people objecting to it are largely objecting to the wholesale borrowed US commercialism of it all - I personally hate trick or treating though DD loves it. Even the pumpkin picking farms are just fakes - most of them just buy in a truckload of cheap pumpkins grown elsewhere, and arrange them on the ground so toddlers can have a photo-op and pretend to “pick” one! It’s just all so fake and commercial and pretend-American.

And Hallowe’en now is often full of horror film imagery that I don’t much like either. A few years ago there used to be a popup hallowe’en shop in my town that had really grotesque and graphic gory horror film costumes in the windows, and screens showing horror clips at passers by; and it really was too much for small children. My DD was absolutely terrified by it and there were always a fair number of terrified toddlers crying at the sight! Thankfully Covid seems to have put a stop to it. 😂

A bit of apple bobbing and a witch iced biscuit is one thing, but graphic dismembered zombie costumes for kids and endless plastic commercial tat “traditions” magicked up by the supermarkets post-2005 is really not everyone’s cup of tea. Hence the “hate”. 🎃

@KurtWildeWitchOfTheWoods

I don't get the catholic comment. Halloween isn't a religious festival.

All Hallows’ Eve….?