Clicky: Carving pumpkins

CDMay2006 · October 2011

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snowflake54 · October 2011

Last year during mid-October some friends and I went to a pumpkin patch, and then I hosted a pumpkin carving afternoon which was super fun. There were still probably two weeks until Halloween, and I didn't want my pumpkin to fill with spiders, so I kept it on my kitchen counter until Halloween.

Yeah.

It was in a far corner of my kitchen, it wasn't in my way or anything, so life was good.... and the day before Halloween I decided it was time to put the pumpkin outside. Sad sad moment, my pumpkin who was looking all awesome? He was moldy inside. He spent Halloween in my garbage.

I learned my lesson. Carved pumpkins should not be kept for extended periods of time on my kitchen counter.

uwhuskygirl · October 2011

I would carve pumpkins if someone cleaned out the guts for me. That's the part I hate the most.

Tygirljojo · October 2011

I'm actually having a pumpkin carving party the weekend before so I chose a week prior. Last year the party was two weekends prior and the jack-o-lantern didn't fare too well past the first week.

KST_ · October 2011

I don't carve every year. We were in Magnolia for 2 years and there was no good place to put our pumpkin outside so we didn't bother. I usually do sometime of 1 week to a few days before. I've tried the spraying the inside with hairspray and with acrylic sealant and neither helped retard the mold. Maybe one of the few things I hate about the PNW - it's so damp our pumpkins don't last long!

mrandmrsbrist · October 2011

We carve every year. It's so much fun! We carve exactly a week before Halloween.

soralette · October 2011

We'll probably carve once the baby's old enough to care, lol. These days, though, we don't bother.

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