Back east hanging ghosts from trees, with their "arms" spread wide, was popular. I see a few around here and will hang one of our own, soon. Morgan is excited to be Darth Vadar this year and has insisted that "Mama and Papa" (my Rog and me) have to wear costumes, too, so I'll probably put on my skirt, loose blouse, scarf and earrings and be a gypsy fortune-teller. Rog might pencil in a moustache and wear a beret as a "Frenchman" which he comes by honestly anyway.:-)

We will also cut out pumpkins and put them out on the front steps; put on the scary music tape and gleefully await ghosties and goblins to knock on our door begging a treat. It's still great fun here and i always look forward to it. It's my fav. holiday.

I agree about the commercialism. Most everythng we put up is homemade. Yesterday I did see a neat blowup decoration, though. It was an almost life size black carriage with black horses rearing up off of the lawn as if taking off into the air. Their eyes were red and the driver, if I remember right, was a skeleton or something like the driver of Death's carriage in Darby O'Gill and the Little People. It was really cool!