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when your under 18, got low to no budget and live in a absolutlly tiny apartment, where do you haunt? HOW do you go about creating a good haunt? any dos and don'ts I should know about?

Save your money for after-Halloween sales. If you buy this year in preparation for next year, you can maximize every dollar you spend.

As for don'ts, in a tiny apartment, I'd advise against any open flames.

You can get lots of black material pretty cheap at a fabric store, which is great for decorating and making props out of. Hang some up as curtains, or over walls. Paint lots of little white skulls on them to break up the monotony!

thanks, any ideas on how to make little space look BIGGER? its a shot gun apartment, where the hall way runs straight through the house from front door to back door, with the rooms branching off, only two rooms plus the usual bathroom, kitchen, ect...
I have a theme, haunted carnival, or a kinda haunted freakshow, I'm not sure which it is, Im also doing a kinda twisted spinoff from the Addams family on another week, but I get stuck on decorating ideas besides the usual, spider webs, strobes, fog, bones, rats and ghosts. what do you think?

Well, the best way to make a space look bigger is with mirrors. If you can cover an entire wall with continuous mirror, it makes the room look double the size. If you line both sides of a hallway, it will look bigger and fit in well with your haunted carnival theme.

Also, if you have a place to store them, you might want to take the doors of all the rooms off their hinges for the party (have someone hold the door while you pop out the hinge bolt) to create a more open concept. You, um... you probably ought to leave the bathroom door on, though.

I would also invest in a good black light. A good one around 24" or so should last you several years if you take care of it, and it will work alone in an average room. Then test stuff you already have to see what glows. A lot of glasses and dishes do. And hilighter markers glow great. Soak one opened in water for a day or two and you have a cool glowing science mixture.

You could make a cool spooky science lab in a small space.

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nightmare b4 x-mas, your speaking my languege thanks for the advice guys.

Tonic water glows under black light, of course since you're under 18 you can't mix anything with it.

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Small, homemade props scattered throughout is a fun way to go. See how many people notice some of the small details...i.e. I replaced recipie cards in my holder, with haunted recipies...I picked up small items all year (and add to my collection every year) at thrift stores and second hand stores for a kitchen display that looks like a witches kitchen with small jars full of dried plants, plastic spiders, slime (like you find in the toys section at Walmart) and made my own lables, aged with coffee or tea with names like zombie blood, pickled goblin brains...ect. We also made our own "Vampire hunting Kit, Werewolf hunting kit and Excorcism Kit" that we display on little tables, that we put together using everyday items. you can find 'dried garlic' at Hobby Lobby or places like that, along with a cross of anykind. We found an old bottle at at second hand store that we filled with holy water. And you can make a stake out of just about any piece of wood. Our homemade stuff is always the biggest draw at our parties. People love em.

sounds like a lot of fun, I'll try it, I'm trying to decide whether to go with my old theme or to go with a new one, the old is kinda an "Addams Family" twist, the new one is like the freakshow half of a haunted carnival. what do you think?, the old one is a classsic, fun and easier to do, the new is alot more challenging, its untried and different.