Do you remember when we all used to love getting our very own pumpkins?
Do you remember going to farms and farm stands to get your pumpkins?
Do you remember pumpkin festivals?
Do you remember the simple joy in carving and decorating pumpkins with friends and family?
Yeah well, apparently wistfully remembering good pumpkin times makes us anachronisms.
Except I call bull twaddle on that.
There is more joy to be had in doing your own pumpkins than having a service vomit dozens on your porch, steps, stoop. You can even have BloomBox deliver pumpkins you choose if you are short on time, and then you can decorate. Or you can visit places like Sugartown Strawberries, King’s Pumpkin Farm and Corn Maze in Honey Brook, Smith’s Produce Farm in Glenmoore, Yeagers in Phoenixville, Wilcox Farms in Boyertown, or the East Goshen Pumpkin festival (just to name a handful of places.)
And let’s get real, how long does it take to place pumpkins yourself? The answer is it doesn’t. You can do it yourself, promise!!
But remember: to be trendy you are supposed to hire people to pumpkin. Personally, I will never be trendy and I am proud of it. I also skipped the beige beige world of interior decorating like I live in a Pottery Barn/ West Elm catalog too. (And I am damn proud if it too!)
And these people who have to be “professionally” pumpkined? Ha! How does your HOA feel at the end of pumpkin time when they need to be disposed of if you are a development dweller? And not all of these pumpkin vomiting on porch businesses offer removal, and if they do, yeah, that costs extra, doesn’t it?
Pumpkin placement services are joy suckers. And expensive. And everything these people do no matter where you live, all looks the same.
Do you really want to be Stepford about pumpkins too?
I wrote about this last year and am again this year. Don’t be a pumpkin joy sucker. Go forth and find your own pumpkins.
Live dangerously and remember how fun it used to be to do your own pumpkin styling.