Pumpkin Decor
There is something fun about gathering around a pumpkin with your kids and gutting it into a delightfully scary or happy jack-o-lantern, but one per family is good enough. After you buy your one locally grown organic pumpkin to carve (don't forget to eat the seeds, leave them for the birds or save them to grow your own next year) if you want more jack-o-lanterns to decorate your home for Halloween or all fall, take out your reusable carved pumpkin decor and display it again this year. Don't display them exactly the same way as you did last year though. If you don't have reusable pumpkins or jack-o-lanterns to display below is a fun list of the ones you can find on Amazon, ebay and a few other online stores. These days many of the fake (reusable) ones look almost as real as the real pumpkins. They might be even save you money and a lot safer to light a candle in a fake one than a real one.
Contents at a Glance
The Pumpkin Carving Debate
Make The Green Pumpkin Choice
Before You Buy New Pumpkin Decor
1. ask for it on freecycle or other recycling sharing networks
2. look for it at resale shops
Pumpkin Stands
Use real pumpkins, but let the pumpkin stand give it character.
Tag Halloween Party Wrought Iron Pumpkin Stand, 10.625" Tall
The Pumpkin Spider
Tag Halloween Party Wrought Iron Pumpkin Stand, 10.625" Tall
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
Place your pumpkin on top of a Spider Wrought Iron Pumpkin Stand. No mess, no cuts.
Halloween Bat-Shaped Wrought Iron Pumpkin Stand - Large
Tag 770183 Bat Wire Pumpkin Stand, Black Finish
Amazon Price: $22.50 (as of 06/02/2012)
Display your pumpkins with these wide-eyed, bat-shaped wrought iron stands this Halloween. The black powder-coated finish is the perfect accent color against orange pumpkins making the bat shaped designs really pop! Small: 2.375H X 8.875L X 5.125W, Large: 6H X 20L X 12.5W. Available in either small or large. Pumpkin not included.
Light up Pumpkins
Blossom Bucket Jack-O-Lantern with LED Candle Halloween Decor
Blossom Bucket Jack-O-Lantern with LED Candle Halloween Decor
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
Jack-O-Lantern LED Light
Jack-O-Lantern LED Light
Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 06/02/2012)
This 8" Jack-o-lantern is a great way to add some festive decorations to your home or office. The LED light is much safer then traditional candles and changes color too! This Jack-o-lantern makes a great teachers gift!
Jack O'Lantern Luminaria - Small
Light-Up Jack-O-Lantern
Light-Up Jack-O-Lantern - Style 39025
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
No Face Pumpkins
Halloween Crows & Bats On Pumpkin
Halloween Crows & Bats On Pumpkin
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
Floral
Small Floral Carved Pumpkin
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
Halloween Lighted Spider Web Pumpkin
Hot Socks - Medium Red - Never Have Cold Feet Again!
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 06/02/2012)
Pumpkin Sets
Simply Boo Set of 4 Terra Cotta Pumpkin Jack O Lanterns
Simply Boo Set of 4 Terra Cotta Pumpkin Jack O Lanterns
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
2 Halloween Orange Jack O' Lantern Pumpkin Candle Holders
Set of 2 Halloween Orange Jack O' Lantern Pumpkin Candle Holders 14"
Amazon Price: $78.99 (as of 06/02/2012)
Cast an eerie shadow when you light up these spooky pumpkin candle holders
Amazon Spotlight
Department 56 Pumpkin Heads, Set of 5
Amazon Price: Too low to display (as of 06/02/2012)
No tricks this Halloween. Just treats - like the fun you and your little spirts will have decorating for a scary good time. Black cats and pumpkins, witches and goblins and things that go bump in the night! All await you in the enchanting world of the Department 56 Halloween Series. Set of five resin accessories.
Not Sure How To Label These Quirky Pumpkins
Distorted Pumpkin Candle Holder by SpookShop
Distorted Pumpkin Candle Holder
Amazon Price: $7.01 (as of 06/02/2012)
Cast Iron Jack-O-Lantern Antique Orange
Cast Iron Jack-O-Lantern Antique Orange
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
If you buy
buy something that you can use again for the next couple of years until you swap it for something else
What do you think about reusing carved pumpkins over and over again?
Share you super duper honest thoughts here or just say hi or don't maybe just wave, though I really wont be be able to see it and neither will anyone else unless you record it on video post it on You Tube and then send me the link, but that would be a lot of work so why not just leave a super duper honest comment. 
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Waxing-Lyrical Nov 28, 2010 @ 1:04 am | delete
- I don't do the pumpkin thing, but reusable sounds like a great idea!
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Nenkai
Oct 28, 2010 @ 11:15 am | delete
- I so admire the way you have taken your "eco/reuse" brand an inch wide and a mile deep. Great work!
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Othercat
Oct 28, 2010 @ 12:34 am | delete
- I think the reusable ones are cute, but I think I would miss the great times my family has while carving all our pumpkins.
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capriliz
Oct 27, 2010 @ 7:04 am | delete
- I think it is time we start looking at reusing items over and over! As you said, there are things you can do to creatively display the same pumpkin each year.
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Joan4
Oct 27, 2010 @ 6:02 am | delete
- I do love the pumpkins -- and I like the real ones best of all, but I learned years ago to use the "recycled" ones and love them too. I have a cloth stuffed pumpkin Ohme gave me that I display every year!
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Ooooh!!! Ebay has novelty pumpkins too
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