You know you're overdoing Halloween when...

• you're pestered all year by kids who want to know what the theme for THIS year is.
• you find yourself thinking that one corpse is more attractive than another.
• you get more excited over a fog machine than a new car.
• you have more help at your haunt than necessary for an old-fashioned barn raising.
• you have more than ten sound effect CD's.
• you have names for the skeletons in your closet
• you play spooky music all year round.
• you spend more on one Halloween than on your entire wedding. {considering the weddings I have had, that is definitly true}
• you spend more on one Halloween than on your spouse for the entire year.
• you spend more on one Halloween than on buying birthday presents for your children.
• you try to make Fido look like a hellhound every Halloween. {his name is Buster & I couldn't find an outfit to fit his short but fat body}
• your neighbors look slantwise at you and avoid you all of October. {not just october}
• your storage areas only contain Halloween props.
• the only candelabra you own is in a spider web motif.
• there a monster under your bed because all the other storage areas are full.
• your electric bill is higher in October than in December.
• the family dog ignores masked people breaking into your house.
• you see haunt possibilities with every road kill.
• instead of giving your child a pet you give them a gargoyle to play with.
• when your neighbors are asked about Halloween, they roll their eyes and point at your house.
• the guy at the paint counter at the hardware store sees you coming and starts stacking gallons of flat black on the counter.
• you can't watch a horror movie without jotting down ideas every two minutes.
• you're nervous about taking rolls of film in to be developed, for fear the developer will tell the police to go to your house looking for the corpses that he told them about.
• you have a room in your house reserved for special props/projects. Thus, you won't allow anyone in there because it'll "spoil the Halloween surprise!"
• you scare other family members or neighbors regularly, often without meaning to. {that's an understatement}
• your ideal pet would be a black cat, tarantula, snake, bat, or rat. {shoot, missing the tarantula}
• people refuse to walk into your house at night.
• people refuse to walk into your house in broad daylight!
• you have a customized license plate that has a Halloween idea.
• you start actually setting up your yard haunt in August and don't get it all down until almost Christmas...
• you still aren't finished on Halloween, but it'll do. [Gotta start earlier next year.]
• you cannot throw anything away that could even possibly be used to scare someone. [Even if you don't know how it will be used yet.]
• you judge homes by how well a haunt could be set up in them.
• the man in the white coat is afraid to come in your yard. {and he should be too *eg*}
• your children turn their bedroom into a giant spider web by stringing yarn everywhere and pretend to attack when someone gets tangled in it.
• your 4 year old announces to the class that he wants to be a vampire when he grows up.
  your toddler's first word is "Boo". {still says it and he's 9 now}
• the Kids hiss at each other and make claws with their hands when they fight.
• your teenager wants his own coffin. {not before I get mine though}
• "Addams Family" books are the most commonly read children's books at your house.
• you think your kids are well adjusted. {unfortunetly the rest of the neighborhood doesn't}