Halloween Decorations Set UP

I begin decorating for Halloween in September. I call it Septober. It takes many weeks to unpack, unwrap and set up. My kids love it (not). Every year they ask "Why?" and my answer is "because I love it!"

It takes a full day to get the bins out of the garage and bring them into the house. There have to be at least 30 bins out there. There are also boxes of items that don't fit in bins. Every year more is added. I start planning and preparing the new items in the summer.

We do a cookie party every October so friends and family can come walk through the house and see all the new items. A hundred or so families come and walk around. I make around 450 Halloween cookies.

One of my favorite decorations is my orange tree. I fill it with purple lights, spiders, cauldrons, witch hats, skeletons, etc. (Sneak Peak I have purchased a black tree from a garage sale for this year). My second favorite is decorating my hutch. My third favorite is decorating the fireplace mantel. Another favorite is a Halloween quilt my mother-in-law pieced together for me. It hangs on the wall all of October.

Almost everything I have for decorations I have made myself or found at garage sales and thrift stores. Lets be real I have four kids and adult person bills. So, everything I do needs to be inexpensive. If I buy Halloween decorations from the store it is after Halloween when everything is on sale.

Here's a look at the set up from a couple years ago. I wish I had more current pictures but I just decided to start the blog and will need to take a lot of pictures when I get everything set up this year. #halloween #spooky #witch

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A Good Husband Buys You An Orange Tree

A great birthday gift for someone who loves Halloween is an orange tree. My birthday is in December and I usually get a variety of Halloween decorations. Odd? Maybe to you. To me, it's wonderful. One year, my husband surprised me with an orange tree. Let's just say it isn't easy to surprise me. If a box comes to the house I automatically open it. So that year he had it sent to his office and I never knew what was coming. That year I was able to buy white ornaments at an after Christmas sale. I cut various pictures on black vinyl to put on them. I have black cats, cauldrons, spiders, spider webs, sayings, polka dots, etc. on the ornaments. It has been one of my favorite decorations for years!!!! This summer I found a black tree at a garage sale. So I am excited to get some decorations made for it and add it to the house full of decorations this year. He bought the tree from: https://www.treetopia.com/

Addams Family Photo

Addams Family is a thing around my house. I have a child who will watch the movie all year long. Another child who will not and DID NOT WANT ANY PART of this picture. He was so grumpy that it made the picture all the better. We just rolled with it. If you look close you will see a doll with no head. The doll just happened to break (it is like 30 something years old). I had every intention of fixing that doll. But, it has been like 6 years and I still have not fixed it, yet. This picture is one of my favorite things. I had originally thought I would take a new one every few years. I can't do it! I love this one so much that I want to put it up every year. #halloween #spooky #addamsfamily

Until I was eleven years old, I lived in Preston, Idaho. When I was growing up, Halloween was a town event. My mother worked at the local bank. Everyone who worked there dressed up for the entire day. They also had a guessing candy game. One year I had the closest number of guesses and brought the jar home. Not only were employees at the bank dressed up but also at Kings, gas stations, the library, grocery store, etc. The children wore costumes to school for the whole day. School parties were filled with games and treats. Then at night we went trick or treating. And I mean the real way! Without parents, walking miles and miles with a pillow case, knowing which houses gave out the BIG bars, and coming home after dark. I remember my mom asking where we went and when I told her she was surprised because that house was 10 miles away (one way) from where we lived. Then came the sorting! There was the “I like pile” (snickers, milk duds, dots, etc) the “I dislike pile” (smarties and dumb ...

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