1. Halloween decorations are appropriate in September.

Come September 1st, even though it's not officially Fall yet, it's close enough. This is a fantastic opportunity to pull out those lights, the scary masks to hang on the walls and doors, the lively battery-operated hands that crawl, and of course the front yard decorations. Make your house or apartment a dark but comfortable place to relax. The pumpkin scented candles are always a must, and easily make a room smell sweet.

2. Clothes! Clothes! Clothes!

Once the weather begins to cool down (here in Florida, that has yet to happen), wearing your favorite cozy clothes becomes a norm. Fall makes a great time to fashion leggings with long-sleeve blouses or t-shirts and scarves, combat boots and jewelry, and even dark nails or hair colors. A personally satisfying thing that I do each year is dye my hair to go with the seasons and the weather accordingly: lighter with blonde in the spring and summer, darker for the fall and winter.

3. Baking yummy foods.

One of my personal favorites, pumpkin bread, is such a good housewarming food (literally) for a get-together or a special event. Not only does pumpkin bread spice up the smell of the home, but it's a better choice over that Halloween candy. For now…

Home-made applesauce with its' cinnamon-y smell, sugar cookies with the patterns on the top, pumpkin pie as a dessert after a hefty meal, the list goes on and on.

4. Pumpkin flavored drinks.

To my fellow coffee addicts, September brings with it pumpkin flavored beverages at Starbucks and surrounding locations. Having a gold card will really help you out this year with free drinks every 125 stars - not that I'm counting or anything.

For those that aren't pumpkin people, there are plenty of other chocolate or vanilla options and tea. Even pastries and lunch meals. You'll never not have a myriad of choices.

5. Halloween makeup, costumes, trick-or-treating and parties.

Because such a wide span of people prefer this to that, this staple is open to lots of different things. Halloween makeup is fun to buy and experiment with. Creating horror scenes or faces/masks can be very artistic and real, and will trip up a lot of people. Costumes bring out the fun in the child we all have in us, going to houses and scooping up candy from strangers. Parties are fun when you can dress up as someone you're not and play for a day.