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Milliemoons · 2025-09-30T13:33:51+00:00

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?

mamagogo1 · 30/09/2025 22:46

How old is your dd? If 3 then it’s too early because she will be thinking it’s tomorrow! If 10 then ask her when she wants to put them up. In between well can they understand they need to wait?

HeyThereDelila · 30/09/2025 22:57

It’s still September.

And since when has Hallowe’en been such a thing here anyway.

HeyThereDelila · 30/09/2025 23:00

@phoenixrosehere Advent lasts from advent Sunday until Christmas. Christmas is 12 days until Epiphany then Christmastide lasts until Candlemas (2 February).

SabreIsMyFave · 30/09/2025 23:00

HeyThereDelila · 30/09/2025 22:57

It’s still September.

And since when has Hallowe’en been such a thing here anyway.

Halloween has been 'a thing' in the UK for about 2000 years.

And it will be October in an hour.

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PorridgeAndSyrup · 30/09/2025 23:05

Buxusmortus · 30/09/2025 22:43

Halloween has gone the way of every other day that can be used to make money for retailers by selling piles of tat. It's one bloody evening, wait till at least the last week of October before putting up decorations.

I also think that people should be more considerate of the type of decorations they use. There is a disgusting recent trend of having fake gravestones with skeletons partially coming out of them. Someone near me put that in their front garden a few days after my father was buried, not what you want to see in those circumstances. If people want that type of thing, or any skeleton or gore, or a skeleton with a noose as a pp said( what the actual fuck) then at least have the decency to put them in the back garden and keep the front for pumpkins, spiders and innocuous things which don't upset passers-by. You would imagine that families with little children wouldn't have the really horrible stuff but they do, god knows why, it's not funny.

I totally agree. Some of the more gory decorations are actually genuinely upsetting (as opposed to a bit scary in a fun way). Body bags, nooses, that sort of thing. Last year a woman in my town was actually asked by the council to remove some of the more upsetting "decorations", which I thought was very good of them.

Snugglemonkey · 30/09/2025 23:10

I have my autumnal wreath up already (I am Irish, though in UK). I am putting out the rest of the autumnal stuff tomorrow (minus the fresh pumpkins). I also going full on Halloween on the 12th October because that just happens to be the best date calendar wise. We love it and want to enjoy it for more than a few days.

WeMeetInFairIthilien · 30/09/2025 23:13

This morning, DD, DS and I walked to school wearing our pumpkin hats

I knitted them, we all love them (the DCs have faces embroidered on them).

And, as it was the Alley Alley O Day (🎵 On the last day of September 🎶) it is close enough to warrant pumpkin hats!

tellmesomethingtrue · 30/09/2025 23:49

XenoBitch · 30/09/2025 20:55

Their money. Who hurt you?

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What do you mean? Who hurt me? That doesn’t make sense.
The plastic tat for Halloween is such rubbish and for what? What exactly are people celebrating? It’s so weird to put up decorations for a whole month to celebrate imaginary ghost coming out for an evening. It’s so dumb. I honestly don’t get it.

KnickerlessParsons · 30/09/2025 23:53

Halloween is a day, not a season.

Snugglemonkey · 01/10/2025 00:36

KnickerlessParsons · 30/09/2025 23:53

Halloween is a day, not a season.

Halloween is whatever you wish it to be. It will be a season here. We will decorate the house (over several days) go pumpkin picking (one day), do the carving and make pumpkin and squash soup (one day), the school Halloween disco (one day), the day itself and we have been invited to a Halloween party in the Saturday night, which we will definitely attend.

Those things will not all occur on consecutive days. So it is certainly not a day here.

Icebreakhell · 01/10/2025 06:06

It does seem to have shifted from an event to a season. I have an autumnal wreath and some ceramic pumpkins and candles in the house now. But we put the Hallowe’en carved pumpkins on the doorstep on the actual night. I’ve noticed my village tends to become decorated in the week leading up to the event. When my kids were young it was all done on the day- looking back this was a lot of effort and then gone so maybe the week leading up to the night is a better thing. I would not do it weeks in advance though as I think it loses its magic, also it’s sad seeing decaying collapsed pumpkins.

Gentlydoesit2 · 01/10/2025 06:20

phoenixrosehere · 30/09/2025 15:19

It is September 30th. October is tomorrow!

There have been post about Christmas yet heaven forbid there be a few about Halloween.

Christmas Day is only one day but people make a massive deal over it every year for months on end.

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I know!! That does my head in too. People are so eager to be on to the next "thing"

Ohhellnooo · 01/10/2025 07:17

Buxusmortus · 30/09/2025 22:43

Halloween has gone the way of every other day that can be used to make money for retailers by selling piles of tat. It's one bloody evening, wait till at least the last week of October before putting up decorations.

I also think that people should be more considerate of the type of decorations they use. There is a disgusting recent trend of having fake gravestones with skeletons partially coming out of them. Someone near me put that in their front garden a few days after my father was buried, not what you want to see in those circumstances. If people want that type of thing, or any skeleton or gore, or a skeleton with a noose as a pp said( what the actual fuck) then at least have the decency to put them in the back garden and keep the front for pumpkins, spiders and innocuous things which don't upset passers-by. You would imagine that families with little children wouldn't have the really horrible stuff but they do, god knows why, it's not funny.

You can’t police what other people do.

I am sorry you lost your dad. I lost mine last October. And yes, we go big for Halloween, I love it, so the gravestones and skeletons were out the week of his funeral.

I was able to separate decorations and my father’s burial, so were my children.

I know people who aren’t religious in the slightest and think Jesus is made up and who go absolutely mental for Christmas, decorations up from November to January. That’s crazy to me but hey, we can all do as we please in life, and if it make them happy, they can crack on with it, good for them.

Santa shaped tat makes them as happy as ghost shaped tat makes me.

You can’t go round be offended by everything you don’t like.

PorridgeAndSyrup · 01/10/2025 07:23

Ohhellnooo · 01/10/2025 07:17

You can’t police what other people do.

I am sorry you lost your dad. I lost mine last October. And yes, we go big for Halloween, I love it, so the gravestones and skeletons were out the week of his funeral.

I was able to separate decorations and my father’s burial, so were my children.

I know people who aren’t religious in the slightest and think Jesus is made up and who go absolutely mental for Christmas, decorations up from November to January. That’s crazy to me but hey, we can all do as we please in life, and if it make them happy, they can crack on with it, good for them.

Santa shaped tat makes them as happy as ghost shaped tat makes me.

You can’t go round be offended by everything you don’t like.

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Well you actually can… The council in our town asked someone to remove her more morbid decorations (body bags, nooses etc hanging from trees). Also, it’s just common decency isn’t it, to have some consideration for others? Halloween is supposed to be spooky in a fun way, not trigger people’s PTSD when they’re just trying to walk to the shops.

Gentlydoesit2 · 01/10/2025 07:33

ticktickticktickBOOM · 30/09/2025 19:49

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

Don't ruin it for everybody.

Let your child develop some delayed gratification.

This!

SoftCyanWool · 01/10/2025 07:36

YABU to decorate for Halloween at all.

HelpMeGetThrough · 01/10/2025 08:01

I’m sure our performative neighbour will start putting her shite out soon, usually takes them about 2 weeks, front is full of all sorts of bollocks.

She surpassed herself last year with a spider about 8 foot tall and speakers playing all sorts of shite. Latest is a count down clock on the front of the house, counting down to the day.

The family’s 4 cars will be put on the street causing traffic jams. Got so bad last year the Police turned up and “had a word”.

VaxMerstappen · 01/10/2025 08:10

Never understood what it is about Halloween that people like. Horribly tacky, overly Americanised 'holiday' (as they'd doubtless call it).

So yes, put the decorations out tomorrow. In the bin, where they belong.

SoftCyanWool · 01/10/2025 08:11

VaxMerstappen · 01/10/2025 08:10

Never understood what it is about Halloween that people like. Horribly tacky, overly Americanised 'holiday' (as they'd doubtless call it).

So yes, put the decorations out tomorrow. In the bin, where they belong.

Love the name and the sentiment

ConnieHeart · 01/10/2025 08:24

SabreIsMyFave · 30/09/2025 20:40

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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ConnieHeart · 01/10/2025 08:27

VaxMerstappen · 01/10/2025 08:10

Never understood what it is about Halloween that people like. Horribly tacky, overly Americanised 'holiday' (as they'd doubtless call it).

So yes, put the decorations out tomorrow. In the bin, where they belong.

I know. My dd is going to a Halloween party and dressing up as something completely not scary. That sort of thing has come from America quite recently. I think there should he a strict only scary costumes allowed policy!

ScrubbingLife · 01/10/2025 10:13

Its 100% up to you, don't let anyone on here put a downer on you having your Halloween decorations up. I for one will be putting mine up today as my child absolutely loves Halloween, its hurting absolutely no one and it will be making your daughter happy, thats all that matters not what people think or here or walking by your house, put them up and enjoy it with your daughter 🙂

Sartre · 01/10/2025 10:31

Not an issue at all now it’s October. What I do have a problem with is the woman up the road who decorated about 3 weeks ago. It’s just crazy to me and I love Halloween but don’t really want to see the big spider web and such in early September!

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Milliemoons · 01/10/2025 10:42

Mushroo · 30/09/2025 14:38

We do autumnal decorations from tomorrow (non-spooky pumpkins, autumn candles) and then only do proper Halloween the week of.

This is a good idea. Our Halloween stuff is sort of divided between candles/punpkins/leaf garlands and then skeletons, bats and tomb stones. Could be a nice way to mark the difference.

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Milliemoons · 01/10/2025 10:44

ConnieHeart · 01/10/2025 08:27

I know. My dd is going to a Halloween party and dressing up as something completely not scary. That sort of thing has come from America quite recently. I think there should he a strict only scary costumes allowed policy!

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Yes and no from me on this one. My almost 4yo will be a witch, classic Halloween costume. But I felt it was a bit weird for my 4 month old so she has a strawberry costume 😅

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