In the sixties, mom let us carve the pumpkins the day before Halloween. The day after, she would peel them, remove the bits with candle wax, chop them up and make pumpkin pies.
Funny that people never do that anymore. They were good.
better be careful with some of the suggestions P.P. – someone might take a picture and post it on social media for all the country to be divided as to whether what you did was fair to the pumpkin.of course the upside may be that you get a million likes or hits or followers!!!!!
I always think that it is sad to see rotting Halloween pumpkins on people’s porches and time has marched on. Pumpkins still rotting away at Thanksgiving. Makes a nice decoration for people when they approach your door.
Halloween evening, I put left over candle wax in it, with a little bit of used motor oil. A old rag or something, I then light it and it burns for hours…I call it the flaming pumpkin. It is amazing how long a pumpkin shell will burn when the inside is black carbon and it is hard and dried out. Eventually the top will collapse and problem solved.
It also helps to scare people too. Don’t over do it though, one year I had flame 8 feet high. Took a few tries to get the formula just right to burn long enough but not all night.
knight1192a about 8 years ago
I just set it out someplace I’m not going to grow anything and let nature take it’s course. Can be interesting to see how long that takes.
Kim Metzger Premium Member about 8 years ago
I never had that problem. My jack o’ lanterns would always disappear from our porch before Hallowe’en was over.
Adiraiju about 8 years ago
Set him out in a distant corner of the backyard and watch him slowly become squirrel food. Or watch his face slowly melt. Whichever comes first.
bigcatbusiness about 8 years ago
Just talk to it as you would with Charlie Brown. There isn’t much difference.
snoopy1959 about 8 years ago
“The Pumpkin of Halloween Past”
therese_callahan2002 about 8 years ago
My dad always tossed our jack o’lanterns after Halloween. He said it was either that, or keep them around until they rotted.
orinoco womble about 8 years ago
In the sixties, mom let us carve the pumpkins the day before Halloween. The day after, she would peel them, remove the bits with candle wax, chop them up and make pumpkin pies.
Funny that people never do that anymore. They were good.
NormyBates about 8 years ago
Don’t worry, just eat it.
Chad Cheetah about 8 years ago
Animals ate one of mine before Halloween was even over.
Darryl Heine about 8 years ago
This followed up with a Sunday that Peppermint Patty turned the pumpkin into a pie.
GROG Premium Member about 8 years ago
His look almost says it all.
BJB about 8 years ago
If it was freshly cut, give it to grandma and she can make pies out of him..
David Rickard Premium Member about 8 years ago
How do you tell a pumpkin you don’t need him anymore?
I usually do it with a trebuchet…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
Save them for Thanksgiving.
Saddenedby Premium Member about 8 years ago
better be careful with some of the suggestions P.P. – someone might take a picture and post it on social media for all the country to be divided as to whether what you did was fair to the pumpkin.of course the upside may be that you get a million likes or hits or followers!!!!!
GirlGeek Premium Member about 8 years ago
Cut it up
summerdog86 about 8 years ago
I always think that it is sad to see rotting Halloween pumpkins on people’s porches and time has marched on. Pumpkins still rotting away at Thanksgiving. Makes a nice decoration for people when they approach your door.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 8 years ago
With a pie.
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
Halloween evening, I put left over candle wax in it, with a little bit of used motor oil. A old rag or something, I then light it and it burns for hours…I call it the flaming pumpkin. It is amazing how long a pumpkin shell will burn when the inside is black carbon and it is hard and dried out. Eventually the top will collapse and problem solved.
It also helps to scare people too. Don’t over do it though, one year I had flame 8 feet high. Took a few tries to get the formula just right to burn long enough but not all night.
Number Three about 8 years ago
You don’t. You just keep it like an ornament.
xxx
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member about 8 years ago
Make pie!
velveeta about 8 years ago
First, have it over for dinner…..Second, belch loudly…..
gocubzgo about 8 years ago
Play Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack”
route66paul about 8 years ago
Ask Lucy to do it. She gets pleasure out of hurting people and pumpkins. And dogs
ootey over 6 years ago
Let me introduce you to le heap de compost…