How long should people keep Jack-O-Lanterns? Many of them are rotting now. Their faces look all droopy and sad. Some are beginning to smell. They all look interesting and a little grotesque in a "I’m a rotted pumpkin" way. There were two spectacularly rotted pumpkins in the window of Slope Sports last week but I think they disposed of them.
Is this part of the symbolic fall ritual of death?
i was thinking the same thing this morning. my girlfriend had us carve our jack-o-lanterns as close to halloween as possible so they wouldn’t have that “sad sack” sort of look. i’m going to compost them this week. hopefully.