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I Have a Halloween-Obsessed Husband—And It's My Least Favorite Holiday of the Year
24.10.2023 - 16:35 / bhg.com
EDWIN FOTHERINGHAM
Every fall, I push aside my taste for tidiness, quiet, and calm, and I indulge my husband’s passion for my least favorite holiday. At some point on October 1, I walk into my dining room to find a standing-room-only staging area crammed with 9-foot witches, vampires, werewolves, even a motion-activated, smoke-spewing Cerberus.
I plan a strategic path to the mailbox to avoid the 27-gallon storage bins filled with disembodied heads (and the pulleys and ropes required to hang them), lights, monster cages, zombies, and other animatronic frights for the cemetery that will take over our front yard.
Courtesy of Liz Vaccariello
I hide behind a book while neighborhood kids gather on our lawn, wondering when Mr. Steve will toss the first decapitated head over a tree branch, signaling the start of Halloween. For 31 days, a witch cackles and screeches when anything triggers the doormat. Cable channels start their rotation of horror movies (Steve watches them all). And I share my family room with a 7-foot-tall Pennywise, a Frankenstein, and a werewolf who stand, strobe-lit, at our front window. Behind them are my carefully curated built-ins and side tables with fresh flowers.
Lest you think me a crank, I do love autumn—the vibrant colors, the cool air, the countdown to Christmas. I love a good kids costume party, can carve pumpkins for hours, and will go apple picking anytime, any day. It’s the noise and themes of gore, fear, and violence that are lost on me.
Jamie Meier
I decided to find the humor in it by posting my #halloweenhusband displeasure on my socials. But then last year a production crew from Inside Edition filmed our house. They interviewed Steve and costumed kids from the block. “What does it feel like
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