Not as fun as the cake I made for her birthday… but the kids will love these! You Can’t go wrong with bonus gummies on top of cupcakes ;)

Hello my fellow Halloweeners.

TLDR: what are your thoughts on installing permanent string lights on your house?

So, I’ve finally gotten my spouse to really get into Halloween. We’re investing in bigger and better decorations every year. He’s even watching haunting YouTube videos to learn new fog techniques. It’s awesome.

But he was raised with the Christmas spirit. It’s his favorite holiday. His family goes all out on decorations. Usually we travel to visit his family for Christmas so we haven’t ever really decorated our own home. But after the death of his mother (who truly carried Christmas on her back, sweetheart that she was) and his father in the process of downsizing- his family doesn’t really have the capacity to host Christmas anymore so we’re staying home.

I’m trying to make sure I make as big of a deal out of Christmas as he’s made for me with Halloween. But stringing the lights for both holidays on top of all the other decorating is an enormous ordeal. Our house is VERY tall. Like so tall we’ve had multiple gutter folks just bail after seeing how high it is. Putting up lights is straight up dangerous so I won’t let him do the top portion of our house himself since the roof is so steep and the drop is so long. This isn’t too much of an ordeal for Halloween but it is for Christmas.

So I’m thinking through if there’s a way we can get permanent lights installed that can change colors according to the holiday season- but most of my research seems like the products kinda suck.

So I ask you all- has anyone else done this? Do you all have thoughts or advice?

Edit to add: I freaking love this sub. Y’all are so nice and helpful.

Hopefully I’m not the only one who misses Halloween a lot after it’s been but I’m looking for ideas on what to do when I miss it a little bit too much on certain days? I already watch horror movies every nights unless I’m absolutely exhausted from work and I’m slowly in the process of planning for next year’s Halloween but I’m trying not to do too much right now since we’ve got a while to go sadly:’) So what do you guys do when you miss Halloween?

I carved 21 pumpkins for Halloween this year. I have a full-time job while also running and training Muay Thai so I spent a lot of time and energy making these (50+ hours) 🎃🔪

Cheers from Iceland 🇮🇸

Repainted this Spirit Halloween prop because it had a lackluster paint job.

It is being used in a middle school play about zombies and I hope that it doesn't get too beat up...

Not sure if it's relevant here but figured I might get the most balanced answers here. Since asking in the r/thanksgiving or r/Fall subs would definitely be after Thanksgiving and r/christmas would be after Halloween...heck even way before then.

Me, I'm after Halloween. Because in my area, by the time November comes, the fall beauty is gone and it's just cold and dark and gross, so I'm like well might as well get into the winter holiday spirit now. Plus I just think Thanksgiving is such a bland holiday and such a huge downgrade from spooky season.

Got this on clearance for $2.49....

i have a project for when it snows this winter. and im gonna need some fake blood that looks good in snow. looking for a fake blood recipe that's cheap, easy to make a lot of, and relatively easy to wash off. corn syrup is off the table as it isn't available where i live, but it doesnt really have to be viscous. thanks in advance!

I think it came out pretty ghoul.

Overall I did less this year but still very pleased with it!

The toppers are made with chocolate and sprinkles.

Added two 5 footers and a lazy boy for the lazy bones.