When the bug bite wears out too early

[SIEFKA]

I remember when I was a kid I used to feel this especially. I would be so excited for a holiday to come up that I would celebrate it way far in advance. I would do it mainly with Halloween and Christmas. I finally chose Halloween as my favorite holiday and I just love enjoying everything about it. I was doing a display for work and with growing pumpkins I was bit by the Halloween bug in may. It would bite every once in a while but now that it is august I have been bitten by that bug since the last week in july. For me I always try to cool it down so that I am able to have enough excitement by the time the big day comes around. Plus I have gotten into carving foam pumpkins so that does not help very much. What I plan to do is just get all the tools I need to carve the foam pumpkins but not carve them until September 13th. That is the day Halloweekends opens at Cedar Point and so I am making that my day to start celebrating the Halloween season. Heck I even love racking leaves I consider that fun for Halloween. I usually do it with some Halloween music as well. I think this is the right move since it would be hard to keep up the energy for 79 days. I know that once I get older I either want to operate a haunted house, work in one again. I have worked in two so far and absolutley loved it! Or I at least want to operate one in my yard. So I would have to get ready months in advance. Has anyone else had this issue of celebrating to early that it is hard to celebrate later? Or have you stopped celebrating early so that you have some left in the tank for more?

[Boogeyman]

Yes. I generally put up my Halloween decorations around September 20. After that, I slowly begin to celebrate for Halloween. By the first of October, I am celebrating every day in some way. Whether it is listening to my Halloween playlist, watching a movie or listening to the Halloween internet radio stations, or the one that plays the old time radio programs. But I have burned out early.

I tend to get the bug before the end of July also. But I don't do anything that I would consider Halloween related until September. As for Cedar Point, I have made tentative plans to go there for Halloweekends next year, provided I have a job and I still have any of my savings left. The way things are looking, it isn't too promising right now. Gatekeeper is seriously calling my name.

[Pumpkin_Man]

My Halloween decorations usualy go up around the 28th or 29th of September and they stay up until the 3rd of November. It's a great way to celebrate both the Halloween Season and the big day itself. In fact, I already started my Halloween house cleaning. If that's not being bitten by 'the bug,' what is? I also put in the paper work so I can take Halloween and All Saints day off from work. I do that every year, and the absence request forms have allways been, for every year I worked here since 1984, signed and turned in by no later then mid to early August.

At any rate, that little twinge of excitement that I use to feel when I was a kid was with me this morning when I leaft wor work. It was a very chilly and dry morning, more like October then August. It had to be in the mid 50s at the most.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, I know what you all are saying. That's one reason why I try to find something to celebrate in every season, maybe even every month. For me, September is the kick-off. I won't let myself watch any of my Halloween-themed movies before that.

[tantraman]

I have ran into that as well I would start celebrating in july then by the time halloween comes around I am done with it its sad so I learned how to pace myself.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That's a big part of the reason why I usualy wait until the end of September before I get going on Halloween in ernest, but I am going to clean my house, and I already did plan to have Halloween and the day after Halloween off.

I agree with you, however, because of the way Christmas comes back with a vengence, some times as early as August or Sepember. My sister in-law is already planning her Christmas cookie budget, and you can rest assure that by erly October, most of the Halloween merchandise will be picked over, and the Christmas merchandise will be out on several isles.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Well, if you are a crafter, or if you spend a lot of money on any of the holidays, it makes sense to start early in your preparations.

[adrian]

I just bought my first router last week and we're wanting to cut out around 10-12 8' Ghost for one side of our front property! the lot is clear with several large oaks that look AMAZING during the fall. i'll have to take pictures this year

[Pumpkin_Man]

Good point, Murf. My sister in-law also makes some of the best Christmas cookies I ever ate, boo, and a whole host of different verieties to boot. It was just being pointed out on the original post to this thread that when some people get the "bug" for a certain holiday too early, and do it to death, they will tire of it by the time the actual holiday gets here. It seems that the stores are celebrating Christmas earlier and earlier. Christmas music starts chiming from the store Muzak system in early October, and by the time it's December I tend to be all burnt out on Christmas music. I will be playing it starting on the day I start my Christmas cleaning, but I never play it during any other time period other then mid November to the end of December. Come New Years Day, the Christmas records and CDs go back on the shelf for the year.

Mike

[Boogeyman]

I think one of the reasons I start to get the bug in late July is that is when Universal Studios usually begins to update their Halloween Horror Nights website for the coming event that year. They usually do at least a decent job on the website. Some years better than others. I tend to check the site often and each update is like a little treat before the season.

Now the question is, do I have a problem?

[Pumpkin_Man]

I don't know if I have a problem with it or not. I think the point is that some people do have a problem by starting off too early, and then they get bored with it before the holiday gets here. In my case, that has never happened with Halloween, the 4th of July or Thanksgiving, but I am pretty much burned out on Christmas. I also hate those two long months of January and February which come almost right after Christmas.

Mike

[adrian]

No you don't have a problem. If you did I think we'd all have to worry. I get excited for Halloween every time I walk through our towns antique/flee mall and see a booth selling ANYTHING Halloween related!

[ScarecrowJack]

I decorate the inside of my house is September, around the equinox, and the outside the beginning of October. However, all during the summer I'm on ebay and esty looking for new things. And July I'm haunting craft stores for their early Halloween offerings. I usually don't start looking until April/May area. I haven't gotten burnt out on Halloween looking early, but like everything else I imagine YMMV.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I more or less try to do the same thing. I do very much get into other seasons and holidays, but I am allways thinking in terms of what would be fun for Halloween.

Mike

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, I like to start decorating around the equinox. Anything earlier just seems too early around here, where we are often having summer weather in September.