Halloween Decorating

Autumn is the time of the year that affects each person very differently.

Some people like the fact that children are back in school and their family can resume a routine, others are looking forward to the holiday season and others become depressed because of the shortened hours of day light and the coming of the winter months.

I love the fall. I love the colors of the leaves and the crispness in the air. I also like Halloween decorating. This is a trend that seems to become more popular each year.

When I was growing up we would carve jack-o-lanterns the night before Halloween and set them on the front steps. That was the extent to the Halloween decorating that my mom did.

My first year of college was a different story. I rented a house along with eight other women. We made ghosts to hang in the trees and had a witch on a broom that was attached to the door. When we opened the door the witch would fly across the front porch.

This was one of the cleverest Halloween decorating ideas I had ever seen. One of the other women’s family made one every year. The witch is made by tying a green helium filled balloon to a stick. A witch’s hat is then put on the balloon. The stick is attached to a string that goes around the door knob and the stick is balanced on something about six feet off the ground.

The house we rented in college had a window that we were able to balance the stick on the upper frame. When we opened the door the string would tighten and the witch would come flying at the head of the person ringing the doorbell. This was great fun. We had to take turns setting the witch on the window sill and running around the house to come in the back door. We laughed that our Halloween decorating was helping us get our aerobic exercise.

Today there are much more sophisticated Halloween decorating ideas. There are huge lawn ornaments as well as special lighting to use. One of our neighbors converts their yard into a grave yard. They put up tomb stones and tie bats in the trees.

They have sculls and skeletons as well as a full size Frankenstein. Their garage is set up as a haunted house. Her elaborate Halloween decorating costs several hundred dollars. Each year she goes out the day after Halloween to add to her collection. They have built a shed in the back of their property to store all the decorations.

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