So my lovely white-trash neighbors have already started celebrating Halloween. They filled their yard with 2 blow-up spook houses, real, fresh-dirt graves with headstones, and creepy blaring music that repeats every 20 seconds. It’s a nightmare on my street. And dear GAWD, it’s only the 3rd week of September? Oh, right…they put these decorations up last week, my husband reminds me.

When we took our garbage bins to the curb last week, I remarked that it looked like “Devil Christmas” in their yard. My husband laughed, but I was serious! These people have Halloween lights in the shape of spider webs and ghouls in every window! As if the 2 blow-up spook houses weren’t enough…

It seems their yard has become the new hangout for the neighborhood children….should we worry about this? Maybe they like having 10 kids traipse through their lawn until the sun goes down? I dunno…seems a little creepy to me. But then again, the fact that they like to celebrate Halloween so dramatically and so early is creepy in and of itself.

We do have to give them credit, though…the music is off and the houses are deflated by at least 8:30, and they don’t turn it all on every evening…thank gawd! I guess in their excitement over Devil Christmas they have some bit of brain in their heads.

Want to know the most hilarious part? Of course you do. For the last 2 years, we have had a total (total for BOTH YEARS) of 7 trick-or-treaters. Yep. Seven. Siete. Seize. Na-na. But we did have several houses sell on our block, and several families with young kids moved in. Damn it. Guess that means I have to actually give out the candy this year instead of eating it myself…poo.