Photo Source: Odd Stuff Magazine
When I was little, we used to buy a cardboard skeleton from the super market and hang it on the door for Halloween. We carved a couple pumpkins, put them on the doorstep with candles inside and I think, maybe we leaned an old-fashioned broomstick against the side of the house.
It was festive but certainly not labor intensive. It was pretty much what every house on the block did. Nobody felt like they had anything to prove.
Of course, we didn’t have Pinterest back then to show us all the amazing things we COULD be doing for Halloween. The elaborate pumpkin carvings and the DIY haunted house decor and the scary versions of all your favorite foods, with the potential to not only impress your neighborhood but the ENTIRE INTERNET.
Is it my imagination, or is Halloween trying to outdo itself every year? Is all this really happening in the real world or is it just happening online?
Who knows. In any case, it’s a lot of fun to look at.
Here’s what Halloween would look like if you left your neighborhood and trick or treated within the confines of a Pinterest board.
Your yard would look like this:
Your windows would look like this:
Your cupcakes would look like this:
Photo Source: It’s Always Autumn
Your pumpkin would look like this:
Your door knob would look like this:
Your door wreath would look like this:
Photo Source: Apartment Therapy
Your mason jars would look like this:
Your ice cream cones would look like this:
Photo Source: Three Little Kittens
Your pigs in the blanket would look like this:
Your cake pops would look like this:
Your mother-in-law would look like this:
Photo Source: Dishfunctional Designs
Your father-in-law would look like this:
Your apples would look like this:
Your paper plates would look like this:
Your doughnuts would look like this:
Your front door would look like this:
Photo Source: East Coast Creative
Your doormat would look like this:
Your fence would look like this:
Your closet would look like this:
Your vegetables would look like this:
Your fruit would look like this:
Photo Source: One Little Project
Your stairway would look like this:
Your toilet would look like this:
Photo Source: Canadian Nickel ScrapN
Your toilet paper would look like this:
Photo Source: Practically Functional
Your son would look like this:
Your daughter would look like this:
Your kid’s friends would like this:
Your liquor cabinet would look like this:
Photo Source: Flashing Blinky Lights
Your local library would look like this:
Photo Source: Apartment Therapy
Your solo cups would look like this:
Your candy bowl would look like this:
Your gingerbread cookies would look like this:
Your vitamins would look like this:
Your husband would look like this:
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Remember to post pictures of your kids’ costumes on the Mommy Shorts Facebook fanpage or tag #mommyshortshalloween and @mommyshorts on Instagram. I’ll be posting the Halloween costume awards next week.
Check out the best family costumes, what Mazzy and Harlow will be wearing tonight, Mike dressed as Superman and make sure you read this before you take your toddler trick or treating for the first time.
I hope every one has a fabulous Halloween— don’t eat all your candy at once!
XO,
Mommy Shorts
As someone who really dislikes seasonal decorating this post gave me anxiety. I cannot even.
My costume tonight is going to involve a detox clay facial mask while I read cooking books in bed in my comfy pjs.
Happy Halloween.
When I had a house, I did go pretty all out. Gravestones, fog machine, grim reaper, strobe light. In an apartment now so Halloween is lacking as is storage space but it is my favorite holiday!
I have to say though, the half-rotted pumpkins on the fence would be a disaster. They look cool, but it would be awful to clean up.
No idea why this didn’t show up as my own post!!!
Ha! I didn’t even get our decorations this year and the pumpkins are still not carved.
I love and hate pinterest all at once. I love seeing other people’s creativity and then kick myself for not being clever enough to come up with or execute those kinds of cute things! Gah!
Another use for toilet paper rolls that you will find on pinterest is the eyes. Take empty rolls and cut shapes in them to resemble eyes and insert into bushes, windows trees…etc. Too much prep work for me.
My decorations right now are a carved pumpkin…thats it.
That ‘mother-in-law’ ghost freaks me the F out!!
We did those paper plate cats this year. They were cheap and easy.
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