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I answered "trick" -- I don't decorate for any season or holiday, other than changing bedding and doing other practical things. And decorating for Halloween? Ugh!

I couldn't even vote trick. Nobody trick-or-treats in my building. Once every few years, I will buy a pumpkin/gourd no bigger than the size of a softball and attempt to draw a face on it. I think the leaves changing on the trees is plenty of decoration for the season, although I do not really begrudge anyone their skulls and gravestones and bat wing things. I've been really impressed by some of the suggestions for Halloween other than the common drugstore supplies, as well as alternates to the Jack-o-Lantern. I can understand why white and gray pumpkins might be trendy, but I can really do without that sort of nonsense.

Decorating for Halloween? Bah, Humbug.

I live in a secure building so I don't even get roving candy beggars at the front door.

IMHO, Halloween is a gigantic commercialized waste of time, money and resources.

My wife and I decorate for several seasons, Halloween and "Thanksgiving" are two of them.

For Halloween, we now have some small ghost candles from Crate and Barrel last year, and a spooky one from Z Gallery. We have a glass pumkin, which we usually fill with candy corn at the end of Septmeber, but this year we elected to use a couple orange napkins instead. We have ghost and spiderweb center table mats for our dinning and living room tables respectively with 4 coasters to match each. We found this year a pretty spider web table runner and spiderweb black basket also from crate and barrel which we filled with napkins and apples.

After Halloween we switch to a more fall leaves and changing color theme.

Christmas is white, silver, and some red. Winter is just silver and white.

Spring is green! Summer is sand and rocks and clear glass with more muted colors.

That is all we have right now, but I am sure there will be more when we move to a large place.

Halloween is my birthday so decorating depends on how I'm feeling that year. This year is the big five oh so I'm not really decorating much but I won't be around home that weekend!

I don't know how you feel about me, but I love you bepsf.

i LOVE to decorate for halloween and for fall. i go as all-out as possible, and it's not for trick-or-treaters, it's just for me! fall-themed things (pumpkins, leaves, gourds) come out mid-september and stay out all the way through thanksgiving. halloween specific items (witches, ghosts, bats, etc) make their appearance october 1st and stay out all month. after thanksgiving all the fall stuff goes away and the winter stuff comes out - christmas stuff stays up through december, but other things like snowmen (and even strings of lights) can stay up until february or march.

my mom loved to decorate and i definitely picked up that trait. in my opinion it makes the house so much cozier and homier. each season comes with its own colors and holidays and traditions and i like my house to reflect that.

My friend and I are making papier mache pumpkins ala Stolloween. We're super excited.

we have a garland type thing of leaves on the mantle, i put an orange lightbulb out on the balcony, and we have a small halloween themed thing on the door. Adding some jack o lanterns to it soon, the pumpkins are just setting on the balcony right now.

We don't really get trick or treaters, but we also don't go over the top with the decorating either. Just a few things here and there to set the mood.

Ditto KTG
:-)

I love Halloween so of course I decorate! Even if no one trick-or-treated at my house, I'd still do it just for me. It makes me happy cuz it's the first big holiday of fall! I love watching scary movies...or Charlie Brown... and putting together a costume to go out. It's just so fun!

I bought some of those fake jackolanterns from Target (with the cutouts & bulb inside) since they keep longer than a real pumpkin. We have all kinds of Halloween related candle holders and candy dishes. I have orange string lights over the window and I put up those window stickers (and some cool gel window decorations of fall leaves from Target).

Since I don't have little kids, nope. And my neighborhood is scary enough.

No, I'm a curmudgeon...

Plus I'd rather be drunk and covered in fake blood on Halloween, than hang out at home eating popcorn and giving kids cavities ;)

LOL to K T G and bepsf

I have a four year old who couldn't care less about any of it. But you don't decorate for other people on Halloween. You decorate for yourself, in the true nature of the season. You put up the jackolanterns and blood-dripping houses etc. that make you smile and then you settle in with someone you like and watch Corpse Bride. Of course, you keep all the candy for yourself.

"Plus I'd rather be drunk and covered in fake blood on Halloween, than hang out at home eating popcorn and giving kids cavities ;)"

I'd rather be drunk and covered in fake blood than be sober and covered in real blood, for sure!

Up until a few years ago, I used to bypass Halloween decorations. I lived in apts in areas where there were no trick or treaters, besides I was always out at some kind of party.

Now that I live in an old-school residential neighborhood where a lot of young families live and the older residents are into it, I do decorate for Halloween.

On Halloween night, I sit on the front step with a few friends and a glass of wine and hand out candy. It's great seeing the kids in their costumes and fun to chat w/the neighbors and visitors to the neighborhood.

my husband and i are definitely decorating this year and hosting a halloweenie roast. we got married earlier this month so a halloween party is a great reason for me to wear my dress again, serve hotdogs alongside candy, and have friends visit our new home.

Holiday decorating is so tacky kindergarten teacherish.

sounds like someone got one too many apples w/razor blades.

Seaside... LOL.

K T G, you have broken my heart. i've lit a candle for you ever since ... maybe July or August and here you go dashing my dreams to the floor. UGH!

Oh my goodness I can't believe how many of you don't decorate. It's a joyful fun time made to wake up the kid in all of us. It's great-my only problem is I don't like the cheap, horribly designed mega produced items I find in the stores now. I've decided I'm going to have to start making the things that I really want. I think I'm either going to go with a theme of day of the dead or old german halloween items.