Welcome Wednesday: Is it too early for Halloween decorations?

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Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It’s that time when it’s more socially acceptable for me to be dressed up in costume without judgement that I’m weird. I also have two small children that love this time of year as well.

My question for you this week: When is it too early to start decorating your house?

Personally, much like Christmas decorations, we wait until the first of October before we start putting up decorations, but I have neighbors that have started getting things out as soon as the kids started going to school and I have other neighbors that will only put out a jack o' lantern the day of Halloween.

I’d love to hear your personal thoughts and opinions on this in the comments below.

Have a great rest of the week!

[Melissa Brown]

Okay, here’s the my opinion with decorations:

Christmas can wait its turn until after Thanksgiving—because let’s be real, I’m not skipping over pie and mashed potatoes. And honestly, people take Christmas down way too early! Technically, the season runs strong until mid-January. So don’t worry everyone, you’ve got December 1st through January 13th to crank up the Christmas music and deck the halls. Let Thanksgiving have its spotlight, folks.

Now, fall decorations? Bring ’em on the very first day of fall! And Halloween? Totally fair game to start early (first day of fall), because let’s face it, some people need a whole construction crew and three weekends just to get those skeletons climbing their houses. Plus, enjoy that cozy Midwest autumn while you can… because if history has taught us anything, it’s that the first snow loves to crash the Halloween party. 

[Stephen_Lugton]

It’s that time when it’s more socially acceptable for me to be dressed up in costume without judgement that I’m weird.

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This suggests that there's ever a time when it's less socially acceptable!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

I used to put my big scarecrow dressed in fall colors out on my porch as soon as fall started and I would put indoor decorations in the windows, but, when I would put out pumpkin(s) varied based on the weather where I lived—I didn't want them rotting before the day arrived. 

Of course, now we live in a neighborhood with a Homeowners Association that dictates when you can put decorations out and when you have to take them down. 😢

[John Funk]

I think it's fine at the start of Fall for both Halloween and Thanksgiving/Fall type decorations. WAYYYYYYY to early to start wearing the costumes though!!

[Amanda Barber]

We always put up Halloween decorations around now - I definitely prefer having an entire month of decorations. So, it just depends on when we have the time! (We put ours up last weekend.)

For Christmas, we tend to put up some lights and prepare when we clean up the Halloween stuff - mostly to do the bulk of the prep before it gets too cold. We don't officially turn anything on until the day after Thanksgiving here in the U.S. (Again, I really love having a whole month of decorations!)

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

I agree with @Melissa Brown 

Now is the time for Halloween, a few days after Halloween and Turkeyday is fine.  Xmas not until I finished my Turkey leftovers.

[Daria Kulikova_GitProtect_io]

In my country, Halloween is not so popular - it is only gaining its popularity :) But in my family, I always wanted to celebrate it and decorate the flat... Usually, we start decorating the flat in early October to have all those decorations for about a month... and on Halloween, we always try to take some photos with all the decorations we prepared :)

[Joseph Harris]

I'm all about having some sort of holiday decoration pretty much year round, so I say start the spookyiness as soon as ya want!

[Stephen_Lugton]

Having a 9 year old daughter we try and spread Halloween out over the whole of October, small plastic light up pumpkins gradually appear, cushion covers get changed, fake spider webs start appearing, cardboard bats get tied up, etc.