Ranking 💀Cursed 💀Vintage Halloween Decorations🎃

Why the cabbage? The Cabbage Growers Association attempted to take over Halloween from the Pumpkin Growers Association. Lucky for us, they failed; otherwise, Starbucks' offerings would include Cabbage Spice Latte.

That apple, walnut, celery, mayo salad is a classic Waldorf Salad, a favorite of my mom’s. At the time it would have been considered the height of sophistication.

That's it. You've convinced me. Next year's Halloween theme: CURSED CABBAGES.

AAaand during the twinkle lights rants, Abby could scare a cryptid...LOL My parents have a Twinkly brand Christmas tree. They can set the lights to ANY color and pattern so it mostly just stays up all year and gets decorated for whatever holiday or season is going on. Right now it's covered in skulls, pumpkins, bats, and the like, and the lights are green, orange, and purple. After Halloween, it gets turned into just a fall tree with yellow and orange lights, leaves, and flowers. (Christmas is a HIGHLY planned tree depending on my sister's decorating mood each year - candy one year, vintage stuff the next, snowflakes another...)

My grandmother did the oranges , it's more than likely not shaved ice. It's a chocolate cake and black icing Hence why peices of the cake are missing

The aesthetic whole house decorations for a Halloween party were amazing. 100% goals!! But the oranges and the cursed cabbages....and that foot were highly unsettling. So fun to look at vintage advertisements

Celtic carved turnips definitely are scare-a-cryptid vibes. Doing it next year.

Would be fun if you did a round up of adults fancy dress costumes (like what they’d wear to balls before Hallowe’en was a costume thing) from various eras. I know there’s tons up until the 20s, but some evidence of them back to the late 1700s too, right? I find stuff on pintrest but I see the same ones over and over again. Maybe you’d pick an era like Victorian or Edwardian/Twenties and just stick with that for a whole video.

When you were looking at a sample from the 1940's, I instantly thought that they may have been using materials easily available at the time. I'm not sure about WWI era (1914-1918), but the WWII era, there was a lot of rationing going on in order to direct food and materials for the troops. I wonder if those ideas were borne out of what they had at their disposal at the time. However, they certain achieved their objective...the decor was very creepy.

Apple salad is actually really good😅. We do grapes instead of orange or orange rind. It’s like arby’s chicken salad without the chicken, in my opinion a huge improvement lol!

I am proudly displaying and using my fairy lights all year round! 🧚 Mostly use warm tones during the year (like around fireplace so small battery operated in jars) as esthetic and will occasionally do colors for specific holiday.s

I am 100% doing those creepy cabbages but will advertise as “ooo look at these cute decorations I made for our table!” Those are straight up unnerving. I personally love decorating in not so obvious ways like with books: Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty with a holographic skull. One day, though, I just want it to look like the Addams Family home.

This makes me want to search through my boxes of vintage women's magazines from the 60s-70s. (My mom used the (very large) linen closet for magazines and knitting supplies.)

I have some vintage Halloween decorations from my grandfather, they scare the heck outta me! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it wasn't evil. 😈🎃🦇 Happy Halloween!

"Twinkle lights are valid for the entire fall and winter season!" YES! My thought exactly! I keep my outside Christmas lights on ALL WINTER because the outside is dull and drab during winter in the midwest!!!

I think if you made that cursed cabbage salad, add some chicken to the mix. That would actually be a good chicken salad. Maybe uhhhh a bit less celery. Swap the celery for chicken and just put SOME celery in it. 😂 ETA the scariest part about those twinkle light decorations is how they would have been attached to electricity at that point in time. A literal fire hazard! Have you ever seen how they had their houses wired? It was literal dangling wires with as many things hooked onto it as possible sometimes. It wasn't sockets which you plugged into, it was A BLOODY LIVE WIRE! There also was NO regulation on power use, so appliances and lights might use an extraordinary amount of electricity, and everything would have their own requirements. Many a house burned down because "Fanny rigged up too many appliances to the kitchen wire." so while the decorations and use of lights is spoopy and aesthetic, the electrical usage would absolutely scare a cryptid!! 😱

I'm 98% sure my mom made that celery/apple/walnut salad mayo monstrosity on the regular. She probably added jello, too. Thank goodness she never put it in a cabbage 🤣

Does anyone else want Abby's sweater??? Because it's amazing <3

I totally want to make a Halloween-themed gingerbread house.

Abby, you’re one of my favorite humans in this world, but we need to stop perpetuating the myth that it’s ok to start decorating for Xmas before Thanksgiving. Every time a person hangs Xmas decorations in October, Kirk Cameron amasses more power. Nobody needs that!