You can always buy it and resell it for
3-4 times it’s cost like everybody else. Who would pay that much for a skeleton is out if their mind.
I would love one in my yard, I just don’t have an extra $300 laying around.
@kostia When we bought our house a couple of years ago, we found out a month later (we closed first week in September) that we were the “Halloween” street when someone left a flyer on our door giving us a heads up.
Halloween is my wife’s favorite holiday as well. So, we would go all out anyway, but this makes it extra special. Hearing people come back year after year and say “ohhh yeah! I remember this house!” Is fantastic.
The neighbors have gotten permission from the cops/city to put up saw horses and close off our street for the past ten or more years. We’re the first house on the corner across from a large church where everyone parks and/or drops their kids off at from other neighborhoods that don’t celebrate quite as much as we do here.
We just have a party at our house and then entry fee is a bag of candy. Some people just hang out, others help give out candy if they want, and others use our house as a “home base” to take their kiddos around our neighborhood. It is great.
@kostia@tsigley
That’s awesome. I always wanted to live somewhere there were a bunch of trick or treaters bc I love Halloween too. Then I finally moved into a big neighborhood (even has a school in it) and was so excited the first year. I bought so much candy, made special bags, filled to the brim with a bunch of Halloween themed stuff for the kids next door. Turns out we’re on the outskirts of the neighborhood and nobody comes down this far. That first year all I handed out was those few special bags for the neighbors and they moved away a couple of years ago. We don’t even turn out light on anymore. There are some house in the neighborhood that go really crazy with decorations so I might start putting some of my dads (he was really big into Halloween too) up bc we get a lot of traffic down our street, everybody uses it as a cut through or to try and beat the train.
@Star2236 if you build it; they will come. Perhaps you can draw more people down to your end of the neighborhood.
Lights are a key component too. Decorations in the dark don’t attract too many. Of course, this depends on where you live. If you’re somewhere that it doesn’t get dark until really late, then no worries.
@tsigley That sounds fantastic! I put decorations on my townhouse, but the one thing the local kids love and remember is the WowWindows creepy eyes in the two upstairs windows. They love that.
Unfortunately my neighborhood seems to have “turned over,” with most of my trick-or-treaters now teenagers with better things to do.
One thing I do like, although it doesn’t happen as much as it used to, is smart parents from wider-spaced neighborhoods who drive their kids here to the townhouses. The higher density makes for much more efficient candy collection!
Seems like they might be planning on getting some more of these in stock, cuz i just saw a story about it on my local news this morning. Or, they could just be the grinches of Halloween & are taunting people about the scarcity. Anyway, for those who are in the market for them!
Boo YA!!!
You can always buy it and resell it for
3-4 times it’s cost like everybody else. Who would pay that much for a skeleton is out if their mind.
I would love one in my yard, I just don’t have an extra $300 laying around.
I have one… and it goes up in my yard for the month of Halloween.
We also have a plywood casket and fog machine and lights and a bunch of faux gravestones and a bunch of “normal sized” skeletons and such too.
Of course, we get like 1300 trick-or-treaters every year and go through 70-80 lbs of candy, so we do go all out.
@tsigley Do you go all out because you get so many, or do you get so many because you go all out?
@kostia When we bought our house a couple of years ago, we found out a month later (we closed first week in September) that we were the “Halloween” street when someone left a flyer on our door giving us a heads up.
Halloween is my wife’s favorite holiday as well. So, we would go all out anyway, but this makes it extra special. Hearing people come back year after year and say “ohhh yeah! I remember this house!” Is fantastic.
The neighbors have gotten permission from the cops/city to put up saw horses and close off our street for the past ten or more years. We’re the first house on the corner across from a large church where everyone parks and/or drops their kids off at from other neighborhoods that don’t celebrate quite as much as we do here.
We just have a party at our house and then entry fee is a bag of candy. Some people just hang out, others help give out candy if they want, and others use our house as a “home base” to take their kiddos around our neighborhood. It is great.
@kostia @tsigley
That’s awesome. I always wanted to live somewhere there were a bunch of trick or treaters bc I love Halloween too. Then I finally moved into a big neighborhood (even has a school in it) and was so excited the first year. I bought so much candy, made special bags, filled to the brim with a bunch of Halloween themed stuff for the kids next door. Turns out we’re on the outskirts of the neighborhood and nobody comes down this far. That first year all I handed out was those few special bags for the neighbors and they moved away a couple of years ago. We don’t even turn out light on anymore. There are some house in the neighborhood that go really crazy with decorations so I might start putting some of my dads (he was really big into Halloween too) up bc we get a lot of traffic down our street, everybody uses it as a cut through or to try and beat the train.
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
@Star2236 if you build it; they will come. Perhaps you can draw more people down to your end of the neighborhood.
Lights are a key component too. Decorations in the dark don’t attract too many. Of course, this depends on where you live. If you’re somewhere that it doesn’t get dark until really late, then no worries.
@tsigley That sounds fantastic! I put decorations on my townhouse, but the one thing the local kids love and remember is the WowWindows creepy eyes in the two upstairs windows. They love that.
Unfortunately my neighborhood seems to have “turned over,” with most of my trick-or-treaters now teenagers with better things to do.
One thing I do like, although it doesn’t happen as much as it used to, is smart parents from wider-spaced neighborhoods who drive their kids here to the townhouses. The higher density makes for much more efficient candy collection!
Seems like they might be planning on getting some more of these in stock, cuz i just saw a story about it on my local news this morning. Or, they could just be the grinches of Halloween & are taunting people about the scarcity. Anyway,
for those who are in the market for them!