When do you start hankering for Halloween?

[Pumpkin_Man]

I enjoy having my St. Pats Party, and I am very proud of my Irish heritage, which is why I celebrate St. Pat's Day so much. Next year I may go to the South Side St Patrick's Day Parade in Chicago, because I'll be retired. this year, however, even if I didn't have to work, it's just too darn cold.

As for drinking, I risk sudden death because of my gastric bypass, so I avoid alcohol like the proverbial plague. I am going to indulge in a Rueben sanwich for lunch today, however.

Mike

[ScreamQueen]

My birthday is in late June, so usually sometime after that is when I really start getting excited.

[Andybev01]

This photo gave me an early halloween tingle.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That is one creepy looking photo. A clown & a skeleton. That is very Halloween.

Mike

[jadewik]

I start getting the Halloween itch around Valentine's Day because of all the scary movies they usually have that come out then. This year was oddly devoid of Halloween in February.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Speaking of Halloween out side of October, don't forget about "Little Halloween," which is Friday June 13th. I will be retired so I will have time to really enjoy the day. I hope there's a good horror flick playing at the Harvest Moon Drive-In.

Mike

[Andybev01]

Also, this Wednesday is Walpurgisnacht, the halfway date from and to, Halloween.

[Fall fanatic]

It's almost May! And I usually start hankering for Halloween time around mid-July. I like all the seasons in their own time, but come August I start to see fall. The Back to School sales are going on, football training camp is starting, the new fall hunting stuff is in the stores and I start to see a sprinkling of autumn and Halloween décor. I love that time of year. I like to get some fall stuff out on Sept. 1 or so and then I like to put up Halloween stuff around Sept. 22 when fall technically begins. I like to have it up a week or so before most people put their stuff up around October 1. It's tough to hold off though when I see some homes decorated in early Sept.
But I try not to wish my life away, so I can get in the Halloween mood any time throughout the year with an old Halloween movie or something.
Ah, I needed this today. Good thoughts. Halloween always makes me feel like a kid.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I usually have Halloween on my mind by mid August, but mid September is when I really start getting excited about it, and my decorations are usually up around the end of September.

AND, for the first time since before I started kindergarten, I won't have to worry about school, work or having to be anyplace, because I will be retired, all though I may have to take another job to make ends meat for a while. But all in all, I am looking forward to an October full of Halloween fun, as well as a Summer full of barbecue, fireworks, motorcycle rides and maybe a vacation to Durango Colorado to ride the Narrow Gauge trains there.

[Spookymufu]

I should start around the 8th of May when I go to HauntX in Tahoe!

[Pumpkin_Man]

They're having some sort of monster movie fair in Pennsylvania, in June, but I really want to do that narrow gauge railway tour in Colorado if I can swing it. A lot of those fairs also have Halloween decorations for sale.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

It's almost May! And I usually start hankering for Halloween time around mid-July. I like all the seasons in their own time, but come August I start to see fall. The Back to School sales are going on, football training camp is starting, the new fall hunting stuff is in the stores and I start to see a sprinkling of autumn and Halloween décor. I love that time of year. I like to get some fall stuff out on Sept. 1 or so and then I like to put up Halloween stuff around Sept. 22 when fall technically begins. I like to have it up a week or so before most people put their stuff up around October 1. It's tough to hold off though when I see some homes decorated in early Sept.
But I try not to wish my life away, so I can get in the Halloween mood any time throughout the year with an old Halloween movie or something.
Ah, I needed this today. Good thoughts. Halloween always makes me feel like a kid.

Seconding this post! August is a transition month for me. I am getting tired of the intense summer heat by then, and I start to see subtle signs of autumn in nature.

[Pumpkin_Man]

After this past Winter, I will NEVER complain about Summer heat again.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

In July, I always wonder where that January cold went, and vice versa.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's how I use to think. It was that way in the Summer of 96, when we had that horrible heat wave that killed over 700 people, but I can promise you, in no uncertain terms, that this May, June, July, August, September, or October, I am not even going to be THINKING about January. Come November I'll start DREADING the arrival of January and February, but this Summer, I won't even be thinking about it.

In September, however, I will be a little preoccupied with October.

Mike