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Is Halloween one of your favorite times to decorate?  Is your yard filled with cobwebs, gravestones and skeletons this time of year?

Perhaps you have a neighbor and a home in your town that goes all out for Halloween.

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I'm kind of simple with my outdoor decorating and mainly do it for fall with pumpkins and scarecrows. That way I can leave evreything up until Thanksgiving.

Halloween decorating seems to have become much more popular, however.

There is a house across town that goes all out and last year we drove by to take a peek. There whole yard was filled with ghosts, spides, pumpkins, cobwebs etc. There house was lined with orange and black lights similar to those used at Christmas time.

You could also tune to a local radio station that was playing spooky music. They lights flickered to the beat of the music.  Very cool when Monster Mash came on.  We were all singing in the car and enjoying the show. Fun.

 

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Halloween and Christmas are my two favorite holidays, but I decorate differently.  Halloween is only outside and Christmas is mostly inside with a few things outside.

It is fun to decorate for Halloween and have people come by to see what you have done... it brings smiles.  Maybe because it is rarer to see that you get a few more visitors, but as long as they enjoy it I'll do it.  More important, the kids love it!

Over decorate?  Not so sure because when putting things out I keep in mind I have to bring it in and store it.

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Oh I guess I'm a stick in the mud today.  I like decorating (naturally), but dislike over decorating.   Most of it comes at XMAS I guess.   I just don't want to hear music from the local radio station being blasted into my front lawn nor would I want to hear the neighbor's "invading my air space" as they blast music into the outdoors.   See to me that's too much and over decorated.

I like for halloween some pumpkins lit, maybe some pathway jack o lanterns, maybe some bales of hay and a scarecrow or some cobwebs and bats hangin in the doorway... but that would be about it.    Where I live Halloween is NOT celebrated so other than searching out a squash of some sort to carve a face into, I don't do much if anything in the way of decorating.