To put Halloween decorations up tomorrow?

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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?

LOL, exactly - it is odd to get uptight about someone talking about Halloween, at the end of .... September! 😳But, but, it's like 30 days away!!!!!!!!!!! 😱

Yep, I went to my local Home Bargains today. One aisle of Halloween stuff.
At least 4 full of xmas stuff.

I just think it ruins it when people do anything too early. Yes of course people ‘can do what they like’ but it just looks a bit desperate and dumb when it’s totally out of usual time frame that most people decorate.

Like everyone rolls their eyes at the person who has the blow up Santa up on their porch on 1st November. Just why? It’s not Christmas yet! Same with Halloween - it’s one day - 31st Oct. It’s not a ‘season’. At least wait until half term. As a pp said, model and teach your child delayed gratification.

No. We are not Americans.

Go for it! Halloween season started last week

🙄

Don't do it, a lesson for children and indeed one that is for life about not extending events too long and overcelebrating. You are helping a child's resilience and indeed mental health by only doing any decorations a day or two beforehand.

Ridiculous. Can’t you people see how money grabbing and stupid the whole thing is?!?

Their money. Who hurt you?

Do it.

My DCs are 6 and almost 3. They love Halloween and watch Halloween themed cartoons and like reading/listening to spooky themed stories throughout the year.

It’s only decorations - no harm!

Edit: We are putting ours decorations up tomorrow!😬

Halloween has always been an evening for us.

How on earth would decorating for Halloween, in any way whatsoever ‘ruin it for everybody’? She’d be decorating her house not actually recreating scenes from the Halloween movie or conducting ‘Saw’ type murders within the community.

OP, if you want to put your decorations up, eat spooky sweets and let your kid dress up as a spider then knock yourself out. Hurting no one, bothering no one.

It’s 31 days till Hallowe’en: that’s longer than Christmas is from opening the advent calendar. Wait until much later, or it will be forgotten, and the excitement long gone; and the night itself will be a damp squib if there’s too much anticipation.

Mind you, I can’t wait to put up a Hallowe’en decoration I saw at someone else’s house last year: a pair of feet sticking out of the hedge, with a red ribbon round the m like a mouth, and paper plates decorated as fierce monster eyes, so that it looks like somebody being eaten. With the sign “this could happen to you!”

Dress up as a spider?! 🕷

Thanks @ainsleysanob You've given me an idea for a Halloween outfit. I was struggling!

Halloween decorations? Plastic tat? No thanks. When my dc were small they dressed as ghosts and the street had a party with apple bobbing etc. but we never decorated the house, apart from carved pumpkins outside. I'd much prefer something like that.

It's up to you. But yes much too early for me.
I have only seen Halloween decorations in houses on actual Halloween not weeks before.

I speak from experience when I say that crawling babies are best dressed up as spiders - especially when the outfit has sticky out leg attachments and the crawl along the floor! Excellent entertainment!

Because there's no anticipation for what's ahead if you don't bother waiting and just wang out all your decs just cause a little kid wants it. Everyonbe that has to walk past your house for a month will be bored of it within a week. Excitement, gone. Anticipation, gone.

Halloween is not a month, it's not a season, it's not even a weekend. It's one night.

Why can't people just bloody do other stuff for a few weeks.

It's a bit desperate.

Halloween is a complete non event in our house thank god, we used to do some decorations and even had some parties when the dc were younger and into it but they are all past caring now and I couldn’t be more delighted 🤣
I also hate having any kind of ‘tat’ cluttering up my house so it wouldn’t be for me. Even when we did have Halloween decorations they went up on the day and down and away by the next day.
If you think you won’t be fed up with them stick them up, it’s only you that has to live there, not us!

So is xmas.

If halloween decs bring OP and her kid joy then they are harming no one. And the weird flex about passers by being bored of it is just strange.

Can’t you walk past someone’s house without gawping in? I manage to do it regularly! It’s really easy, you just don’t look in, so you point with regards to ‘everyone’ having to walk past her house for a month is moot really and whether they’re bored of someone else’s decor is irrelevant. Their excitement and anticipation has sweet FA to do with OP!

The thing is, someone’s unique appreciation of a season, weekend or one night is entirely individual and is neither a sign of ‘desperation’ nor anything else. They can keep it going as long as they wish, providing they’re happy.

You ask, why can’t people do other stuff for a few weeks? I ask, why should they?!

It's not. Xmas is 12 days from the 25th to the epiphany.

And halloween is however long someone wants it to be. It does not affect you at all.
Get a grip.

The stupidity of it all affects me. Walking past halloween houses on October 1st is going to pee me off.
I don't want or need to get a grip thanks. I can think it's unreasonable if I like - this is AIBU.

I say Yes.

Then you need to get a life and learn some resilience if Halloween decorations in early October affect you so much.
You could just walk past and get on with your day.

Put em up! She excited and so are you. I decorated at work last Tuesday becuse I am out of town. We all enjoy them for the month. I love the anticipation of a holiday and the decorating heightens it.