8 Tips To Spookify Your Garage This Halloween!

Turn your garage into a spooktacular room of fright this Halloween for friends and trick-or-treaters alike.

Image of Haunted Garage Kit from Shindigz.com

Just how creative you want to get is up to you. We’ve scoured the web for the best tips and ideas on how to convert your “gore-age” into a scream inducing experience!

1. Put away or move dangerous tools, and straighten up the area. Use coverings such as old sheets, ripped netting, burlap, or anything else you have around to conceal larger objects and shelves. The more ragged looking the better!
2. Arrange spooky props like tombstones and coffins, cobwebs, dripping blood, dead flowers, old candelabras, haunted paintings and animatronic bats, skeletons and zombies.
3. Cover a table or bench with Halloween table cloth and decorate it with plastic spiders, cobwebs, and any other plastic creepy crawlers your local party store offers.
4. Place your candy buckets with narrow openings on the table. If you feel like playing a trick, fill one bucket fill with candy and treats. The other place red Jello and cooked spaghetti to simulate innards.
5. Illuminate the scene and any moving or glowing decorations with a strobe light or black light. The odd lighting will also keep your guests off kilter and make them think the decorations are even spookier.
6. Play horror movie soundtracks or eerie sound effects. You can also lighten the mood by playing classic Halloween songs like “Monster Mash.”
7. Put a friend or older child in a cardboard box or large garbage can and conceal it as best you can. Have them jump out of the box as trick-or-treaters are taking their candy.
8. Make the garage even moodier with a fog machine

You can read these tips and more at:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2267391_make-garage-scary-halloween.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Garage-Scary-For-Halloween

If you decide not to turn your garage into a haunted room, you can still have fun decorating the outside. Think of the garage door as an empty palate. What you can do with it is limited by your creativity!

• Use sneakers and an old pair of jeans stuffed with newspaper to mimic a garage door accident.
• Purchase some decals and stickers from your local party store to spruce up the wall.
• String cobwebs, bats, spiders and more around your garage door.
• Put fake blood on and around the door.

For more great tips ask the salespeople at your Halloween store. Happy Halloween!

Three Simple Solutions To Your Homes #1 Security Threat

The garage door is the single largest entry point into your home. Even if you have a detached garage you still have valuable items stored inside, least of all being your car. But it is scary how quick and easy it is to break into your garage.

Thieves Use Garage Door Openers to Enter Houses

A recent string of burglaries in Rye, NY highlights the biggest weakness to the garage door – the remote. In Rye, thieves used garage door remotes left in residents cars to gain access to garages and homes. One of the victims said he thought he was dreaming when he heard his garage door opening one early Sunday morning.

Another homeowner had an even scarier encounter when she came within feet of the burglar in her house. “I was upstairs and he passed behind me down the stairs and onto the landing very smoothly, not running. I didn’t say anything to him because I didn’t want him to turn around and confront me. He then walked out the door, down the path and across the street to his car.”

It’s clear from these stories that it’s important to lock our doors, but as others point out a determined thief can still break your car window and gain access to your remote and your house. Following are a number of safeguards you can take.

Automatic Garage Door Locks

All of your garage door safety precautions are for naught if your garage door isn’t properly locked.
Automatic Garage Door Locks will automatically close and lock with a deadbolt if accidentally left open. The homeowner pre-sets the length of time to wait before auto closing. The deadbolt lock ensures that no intruder can gain access to your home through the garage. These systems work in tandem with your garage door opener, so you only need to have one remote to open and close your garage door.

Key Chain Remote

The simplest solution is to purchase a key chain remote. You always bring your keys in with you, so having a key chain remote attached to them ensures your remote is always out of reach from would be burglars. You can pick up a key chain remote at your local Sears or hardware store or through Liftmaster.

Biometric Entry

Guarantee your security with biometric entry. To open a door all you need to do is place your finger over the sensor. The reader than scans your fingerprint and matches it against the fingerprints you preregistered. If your not registered it wont open, so even if it somehow was stolen a thief could not use it to gain access to your home. It’s wireless so it can replace the existing garage door remote in your car, and is easy to program.

Be Prepared!

Regardless of what method you use, be sure to take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of your family and your possessions.