# Do you keep your Jack-O's lighted after Halloween?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 1, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589 "2008-11-01T16:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589/1 "2008-11-01T16:41:51Z")

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I think Halloween SOP on pumpkins is as follows:

1. Set pumpkins out on porch/front steps/yard/whatever.
2. On Halloween, turn said pumpkins into Jack-O-Lanterns with scary faces.
3. The day after, wake up to pieces of pumpkin that have been stepped on and/or kicked down the street.

This morning, Jack and his brother are still intact and grinning on the front steps. Should I put more tealights in tonight or should pumpkins only come to life one day out of the year?

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589/2 "2008-11-01T17:41:34Z")

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Go for it if you want to. I think it’d be kind of cool. Maybe I’ll join you.

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**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589/3 "2008-11-01T19:08:59Z")

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I always light it up again. I spent a lot of time on that little bugger.

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589/4 "2008-11-01T22:56:11Z")

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So **Patty O’Furniture** , did you light yours? I lit mine about ten minutes ago.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-keep-your-jack-os-lighted-after-halloween/470589/5 "2008-11-01T23:40:41Z")

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When I was a kid, we always brought ours in on the First and lit them indoors every night until they started going rotten.