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[QUOTE=tchaunt;55604]@asanve:
I've been checking in on Craigslist since your post. So far, I haven't found anything (that's still open).
It would have been nice to run into one of the deals you found, let alone ALL of them.
It kind of came all at once. I had been looking for quite a while then all of sudden there was a ton of stuff all at once. Within three weeks I had acquired all of the stuff. I haven't found anything worthwhile in the last 6 days. Just keep looking--stuff will come along. Just before Halloween I found straw bales on craigslist and picked up 14 of them for free, but then I didn't start finding things again until late December.
Let me bore you for a moment with a story. My passion for Halloween stems from my childhood--my mom used to decorate our house every year. She got empty cardboard refrigerator boxes and opened them up and cut out a haunted house from it. She made a witch from an old string mop (used for hair), pinned a pair of pants to an old blouse and stuffed it with newspaper to make the body, then covered it with an old raincoat, put on a pair of old high-heeled shoes and put on a witches mask and a broom in her hand. She made a giant monster out of my dads shirt and pants--she cut the legs off of one pair of pants and sewed them onto the bottom of the other pair of pants to make it really tall and then sewed the shirt to the pants and stuffed it with newspaper for the body and put a devil mask on it. She then hung it between the gates into our yard and people had to walk underneath it to enter. She also stuffed a sheet to make a ghost and put it on a pulley. She hung one end of the pulley from the telephone pole outside our yard and pulled the ghost up to the telephone pole and when people would enter the yard she'd let it go and it would fly down in front of them and scare the s**t out of them. We had some other stuff too, but you get the idea. This started when I was about 5 years old--in 2 weeks I will be 55! It was great fun and it cost practically nothing back then. There's a lot of stuff that can be done inexpensively to start out, and each year you just add and get bigger and better. Halloween is my passion, but like most other people I hold down a regular job (60+ hours a week)! I've always decorated for Halloween but in the last 6 years we have had a home haunt and hope within the next few years we can go pro. Over the years I have probably invested over $20,000 in Halloween. That's not really that much but it's a hell of a home haunt right now and we're growing bigger each year. Don't get discouraged--start out small and grow. You have a lot of years ahead of you to make your dreams come true. Whatever money you make from it put back into it and eventually you will have your dream!
I've been checking in on Craigslist since your post. So far, I haven't found anything (that's still open).
It would have been nice to run into one of the deals you found, let alone ALL of them.
It kind of came all at once. I had been looking for quite a while then all of sudden there was a ton of stuff all at once. Within three weeks I had acquired all of the stuff. I haven't found anything worthwhile in the last 6 days. Just keep looking--stuff will come along. Just before Halloween I found straw bales on craigslist and picked up 14 of them for free, but then I didn't start finding things again until late December.
Let me bore you for a moment with a story. My passion for Halloween stems from my childhood--my mom used to decorate our house every year. She got empty cardboard refrigerator boxes and opened them up and cut out a haunted house from it. She made a witch from an old string mop (used for hair), pinned a pair of pants to an old blouse and stuffed it with newspaper to make the body, then covered it with an old raincoat, put on a pair of old high-heeled shoes and put on a witches mask and a broom in her hand. She made a giant monster out of my dads shirt and pants--she cut the legs off of one pair of pants and sewed them onto the bottom of the other pair of pants to make it really tall and then sewed the shirt to the pants and stuffed it with newspaper for the body and put a devil mask on it. She then hung it between the gates into our yard and people had to walk underneath it to enter. She also stuffed a sheet to make a ghost and put it on a pulley. She hung one end of the pulley from the telephone pole outside our yard and pulled the ghost up to the telephone pole and when people would enter the yard she'd let it go and it would fly down in front of them and scare the s**t out of them. We had some other stuff too, but you get the idea. This started when I was about 5 years old--in 2 weeks I will be 55! It was great fun and it cost practically nothing back then. There's a lot of stuff that can be done inexpensively to start out, and each year you just add and get bigger and better. Halloween is my passion, but like most other people I hold down a regular job (60+ hours a week)! I've always decorated for Halloween but in the last 6 years we have had a home haunt and hope within the next few years we can go pro. Over the years I have probably invested over $20,000 in Halloween. That's not really that much but it's a hell of a home haunt right now and we're growing bigger each year. Don't get discouraged--start out small and grow. You have a lot of years ahead of you to make your dreams come true. Whatever money you make from it put back into it and eventually you will have your dream!
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