Our house is the "Haunted House" on our road and the kids love coming around on Halloween. Starting on October 1st, we put up our inside decorations and hang lights up outside. As the days go by, we add more stuff outside for our yard haunt. For our family, it's more fun than Christmas!
We've collected a huge amount of decorations over the past 20 years, we had to buy a cargo container to keep it all in! We put up wreaths that we've made, displays that we've made and bought, spooky pictures get hung in place of the usual ones that hang up all year. We put a Halloween themed garland on the mantle of our fireplace with orange lights running through it. We just go crazy this time of year!
We hang lights on the house just like Christmas lights but we use orange or purple or the mixed lights with green, orange and purple. Sometimes we use them all, one color for the roof lights, another to go around doors and another to go around windows. It's a good thing our lots are big in this area, our neighbors think we are nuts as it is, if they lived close and could see everything we do outside they'd run away in fear!
We just love Halloween, what can I say?
