Schreck the walls!

[muckefuck]

There's nothing like the first kernel of candy corn of the season! Someone brought a bag into work today and it'll be an effort to avoid dipping into it more than once or twice more. Our neighbour put out his Halloween decorations in the backyard yesterday, and they're pretty choice. I can't decide which I like better--the dismembered glowing skeleton or the screeching reaper in a cage. Decorations are just beginning to appear around the neighbourhood, but there's already a manor on the southeast side of Evanston that's gone the whole nine yards with massive fake skulls and yards of fake cobweb.

So here's a poser: When is too early to begin decorating for Halloween? Unlike, say, Christmas, it doesn't come on the heels of another major feast so there's no natural terminus post quem. (I mean, who decorates for Labor Day?) September was always "Back to School" month in the decorating traditions I was raised in (despite the fact that we always started school at the end of August), so does that make October 1, as the beginning of "Halloween Month", the natural go-ahead point?

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[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

One house on my block has been decorated since mid-September. That's a bit extreme, I think....

[porysski.livejournal.com]

Clearly (based on my ex-neighbors), Halloween decorations go up when Christmas decorations come down. I have to give them credit for efficiency -- only one use of the ladder per year.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

October 14th. No reason will be given.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

Candy corn! I love that stuff, but it makes you feel so nasty after you've stuffed yourself with it. It's not so commonly available here, I see it from time to time and get it when I can, usually the jelly belly one.