We decorated for Halloween on the last day of September.  It's too exciting to wait.  I held a very old fashioned Halloween party years ago and invested in some great pieces that I still use every year. Creepy black widow spiders, crows, haunted tree candelabra, a flying bat and a hairy spider that drops down on you when you walk beneath it.  You know, the usual.  Last year my son and I collaborated on the ghost garland pictured above.