When I was a kid I put paper decorations on the glass part of the screen door on my Grandparent's porch. Sometimes we put fake spiderweb up and carved a pumpkin. I had a Halloween display on a shelf in my bedroom most of the time all year.
For the past few years Dagon & I have decorated our porch for Halloween. We lived in a trailer to start with and we hung stuff up in the windows, but we didn't have a porch and not much of a yard (we were in a trailer park) so we just decorated inside.
When we moved in a house (we were in it for 2 years) we decorated 1 year there. We gave out candy and scared the kids and some parents with our decorating. We had people going across the street, to avoid walking past our house, and crossing back over at the next house. Even though we were giving out huge handfuls of candy/treats, lots of people wouldn't come up to the porch to get the candy/treats.
The next year we had some decoarations out, mostly some stuff in the windows and some store bought decorations on the little porch. Dagon was working moving stuff into our new store that day and I went home to watch Halloween specials on tv. Since I was their alone and had been busy I turned all the lights off and went in the bedroom on the backside of the house, to watch tv. People knocked and banged on the door all night. Even with the lights off.
The next year we moved in our house and started decorating our porch (we have a wonderful porch for decorating, it's huge, it goes all the way across the front of the house). The only problem is no one, but us, really sees it. We are the last house on a dead-end dirt road with only 2 other homes on it. We have 3 neighbors including a child and they don't live close to our house. Which is good all the rest of the time, but I like for people to see my Halloween decorating.
So we go over to my in-laws and decorate their porch and give out candy. They live on a busy road with lots of trick-or-treaters. The kids like it when we give out candy. I put big handfuls of candy in their bags, sometimes more if the trick-or-treating is slow. I still like decorating my own house more.
