I shopped at Hobby Lobby and Michaels for fall decorations. I found deals at both, but one had way more Halloween spirit.

• I shopped for seasonal fall decor at Hobby Lobby and Michaels.
• Hobby Lobby doesn’t do Halloween, so it had decor for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and football season.
• Michaels was in full Halloween mode, with sections for Thanksgiving and Dia de los Muertos, too.

Halloween is one of my family’s favorite holidays to celebrate, but we also love having decorations up throughout autumn.

We’re known to host spooky dinner parties and serve as the home base for our kids and their friends as they go trick-or-treating, so it’s important to me to decorate our house with plenty of jack-o’-lanterns, skeletons, and witches.

When Halloween ends, we also like to hang harvest-themed decor for the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving.

That said, I love adding a few new decor from stores like Hobby Lobby and Michaels to my collection each year — and I visited both chains to see what they had on offer for the 2024 fall season.

Here’s how they compared.