To put Halloween decorations up tomorrow?

[Milliemoons]

Dd is finally of an age where she’s excited about Halloween. She’s very excited to decorate the house (I have some old decorations from a Halloween party I had a few years ago). AIBU to put them up with her tomorrow? Is it too early?

I want to put mine up this week but have promised myself I will wait until I see at least one other house.... maybe if you do yours I can count that!

Came here to say the same thing.

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Nah it's still too warm and sunny. When weather cools down I'll put mine up 👻

Whatever. But the word 'Halloween' actually comes from All Hallows' Eve.

Bit early for me. But I am putting my Autumn display up tomorrow.

Halloween decs will go up, (alongside the Autumn ones,) maybe 6 days before Halloween - so like, the 25th Oct (the Saturday before Halloween which is on a Friday...) Then I will leave them up til Monday. (3rd Nov.) So they will be up for 8-9 days altogether. Autumn decs will then stay up til around 27 Nov. Then 1-2 Dec, up goes Christmas!

Oh god it's one night, not a season.

Don't ruin it for everybody.

Let your child develop some delayed gratification.

Kids love Halloween. Do what works for your family!

I wish Christmas was just an evening. There are decorations in the shops now and it is still September.
Spare a thought for the retail staff that will have to put up with xmas music for the next 3 months.

People who decorate for Halloween - what do you do, exactly?

People who love Halloween - what do you love about it?

I’m genuinely interested. I’m 60 and it just wasn’t any sort of a thing when I was grieving up. Guy Fawkes was the big thing where I lived. We made a ‘Guy’ and pushed him round in a wheelbarrow asking neighbours and friends for pennies ( ‘Penny for the Guy?’). Then there would be a village bonfire party with fireworks and sparklers and toffee apples/ apple bobbing.

All I do for Halloween is buy some treat-sized bags of Maltesers in case any trick or treaters call.

Personally, I wouldn't. I love Halloween, but I do think it's a one day event - we put our decorations up on the morning of 31st October, and take them down on 1st November (or late on 31st Oct if we can be bothered). Everyone in our road does the same.

But if you enjoy it, and don't mind them for that long, then YANBU to put them up whenever you like. As long as you don't mind the occasional child knocking for sweets before 31st, which is what tends to happen here.

And? All the promotions around me is calling it Halloween. Not sure why you needed to tell me something that is common knowledge.

I wish it was too.. I saw Christmas stuff in August. I dread when Christmas music starts playing. By time December comes, I’m already over Christmas.

When I worked retail, thankfully they didn’t make us listen to Christmas music. It was a mix of music with one or two Christmas songs in the playlist. Funny enough, we had customers compliment our music because it wasn’t constant Christmas music.

Some people in my village have them up from 12-14 October! They are quite elaborate though, and take 2-3 days to put up. So I guess they want to show them off for 3 weeks.

It has become a bigger thing in recent times, much bigger than Nov 5th.

I put a gang of skeletons out on garden chairs in our front garden. There are fake gravestones to make it look like a cemetery and orange and purple lights. There are cute dangly Halloween themed items hanging in the trees (felt mice dressed like mummies and witches, nothing horrendous). There's a speaker with themed music (not too loud!) The skeletons are having a party with beer and they look really happy. The visiting kids love it and pose in it to have their photos taken.

It's all very light hearted and focused on the trick or treaters enjoying themselves. It takes me most of the day to set it up and most of the next day to take it all down, but I don't mind because it beats actually trick or treating with my dc. I did many years traipsing the streets with my charges and this is my way of paying back.

I wouldn't personally put decorations up early but we can do what we like with our own homes. I actually passed a house nearly a fortnight ago that had Halloween stuff out and I thought it seemed early, but it's none of my business.

Do it…

Well as long as they are inside and nobody else has to look at them.. all good.

@PrimeTimeNow

Further to what @ShodAndShadySenators said........

All sorts of ideas here (in the link below...) as to what people do/get/display. We have witches and skeletons hanging around outside. (2-3 ft in length.) A screaming ghost - 4 feet long. 5-10 pumpkins, orange fairy lights, cotton 'spiders web,' huge spiders, bats, halloween bunting, balloons, 6 ft plastic skeleton on the front door, all sorts.... I am also nearly 60 and didn't do anything as a kid (wasn't a thing,) but my DC (born mid-late 1990s) used to love it, and we had Halloween parties and pumpkins and a few decorations about.

But now (2020s,) in my village people go crazy! (And I do, a bit!) Around 50 of the 120 homes here take part.... I LOVE Trick or Treat. Love the kids coming around in their wonderful outfits. They make so much effort. Luckily the kids aren't feral here, and are lovely and well behaved. Mostly!

Some people don't take part, and that's fine, that's their perogative. Moreso (some of) the elderly - who find it a bit intrusive and exhausting having to answer the door every 2-3 minutes for 3 hours! 😬

www.thepioneerwoman.com/holidays-celebrations/g32894423/outdoor-halloween-decorations/

Bless you! I bet everyone really appreciates you going to the effort to set all this up make something fun for everyone x

My house has ghosts, witches and skulls out all year! I have a book shelf in the front room with all sorts of dark stuff on as well as another in my office.

in the back garden I have a skeleton hung in a noose. A macabre scarecrow and headstones along with a couple of 6ft skeletons.

i have some bits that just go up a couple of weeks before Halloween

I love darker stuff.

it’s your home, if it’d make you and your little one happy do it!

I actually passed a house nearly a fortnight ago that had Halloween stuff out and I thought it seemed early, but it's none of my business.

Halloween does actually involve other people trick or treating. So it sort if is other people’s business.
Nothing to stop anyone putting out a load of plastic shite 4 weeks early. Or lots of St George’s flags or Easter Bunnies. Won’t stop people being fed up adults who have no sense of the wider community.

I think I want to be your friend. 💀

@PrimeTimeNowI love the (old fashioned) idea that the veil between worlds is thinnest, the stories of goblins and spirits etc being out, the fun of wearing disguises and costumes, the sweet treats, the extra opportunity to have a cosy bonfire or lantern, the adorable excitement of (most) children to be ‘out’ in the dark, plus it all ties in nicely with my general love of autumn and cooler weather. I also grew up with a parent who follows the traditions of ancestral spirits getting their day/night of coming back and enjoying food and drink, so I suppose something resonates there too, even if I’m not remotely religious.
But I’m not a fan of gore and chainsaws and serial-killer clowns etc, quite old and fusty in my tastes haha, and thus secretly judge others’ decorations accordingly 😂🧐

Yeah, I agree with @XenoBitch too. I wish there was no Christmas items out at all, until at least 1st November. Still seems early-ish, but at least it's nearer to Winter, and it's only around 7 weeks before Christmas!

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It's four weeks away.

Do you ask why people are even talking about Christmas four weeks from the event?