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Inside are folding paper lanterns, jointed cardboard skeletons, and honeycomb tissue pumpkins that pop open like an accordion. For a few cents, an ordinary family could turn a plain room into a party overnight, and that is exactly what millions of Americans began to do. The story of Halloween decorations is really the story of how a homemade folk holiday became something you could buy, and how those flimsy paper items grew into the glowing light-up yards you see today. Along the way, historians and collectors keep arguing over which pieces matter most, and why.  \nThose catalog boxes did not appear out of nowhere; they arrived with the first wave of printed party guides. In the early 1900s, publishers like the Dennison Manufacturing Company sold inexpensive booklets, sometimes called \"Bogie Books,\" that told hosts how to throw a Halloween party and, conveniently, which crepe paper and cutouts to buy. The advice was practical: drape orange and black streamers, hang paper cats, and set the table with matching napkins. Because the same company printed both the how-to guide and the products, the booklets worked as instructions and advertisements at the same time. This double role is why some historians treat those party books as the moment Halloween shifted from a neighborhood tradition into a commercial industry.  \nIf the party books turned Halloween into a business, imported decorations turned it into a treasure hunt. Before World War II, Germany produced much of the world's finest holiday material, and its papier-mache jack-o'-lanterns and spun-cotton figures were shipped to American stores by the crate. German makers pressed pulp into molds, painted the pieces by hand, and pressed thin printed paper faces into the fronts, giving each item a slightly different expression. Today, collectors will pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a well-preserved German lantern, precisely because it was never meant to survive. That is the strange logic of collecting: an object made to be cheap and disposable becomes valuable exactly because so few people saved it.  \nThe value of those fragile lanterns depended on scarcity, but the next chapter of decorating ran in the opposite direction, toward more and bigger. For most of the twentieth century, Halloween lived indoors and lasted an evening, but starting in the 1970sand 1980s Americans began carrying it outside onto their lawns. Plastic made the difference, because a mold could stamp out weatherproof pumpkins, tombstones, and skeletons by the thousand for a fraction of what handwork cost. A single porch pumpkin slowly became a whole yard scene, and neighbors quietly competed to outdo one another. Where a 1910 family spent pennies on paper, a modern household might spend far more,  \nand the totals add up fast across the country.  \nThat rising spending is not a guess; it shows up in the numbers retailers track every fall. According to a National Retail Federation survey, Americans plan to spend billions of dollars on Halloween each year, with a large slice going specifically to decorations rather than candy or costumes. The survey also finds that decorating has become popular across all ages, not just among families with young children. Economists  \npoint to this data as evidence that Halloween has grown into one of the biggest decorating holidays of the year, second mainly to the winter holidays. When people argue that Halloween is \"more commercial than ever,\" this survey is usually the evidence they reach for.  \nThe clearest proof of that growth is now something you can see glowing from a block away. Modern yards feature inflatable characters that stand taller than a grown adult, animated figures that move, and LED lights that let a display shine for weeks without running up an enormous power bill. 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