Trying to make this one small area of the front yard look festive for trick or treaters when the rest of the yard looks like a horror show. Budget Halloween porch: bags of spiderwebs, spray painted wreath, pumpkins, dead plant, hastily cut construction paper bats, and tacky jack-o-lanterned kitchen light. Ta-da!

The spookiest part of the whole front yard is the section that isn’t decorated for Halloween – the paused landscape project, complete with rusty rebar, random bricks, crumbling plant beds, shovels, dirt piles, and blown down trash cans. Eeeekk.