1. Shoot it. Get the best gun you can, blow the shit out of it.
2. Catapult it. Make one if you don't already have one.
3. Smash it. On the road, with a bat, with a hockey stick, with a frozen fish, or (my favorite), steel toed boots.
4. Put it on someone's car, with a little note "I know what you did on Halloween..."
5. Go curling.
6. Do something really kinky...
7. Recarve it
8. Get everyone else who has a pumpkin still and play dodgeball.
9. Return it to where you got it out of, and ask fora refund, saying the thing is possessed [only if the face is kinda scary].
10. Put it on wheels and roll it down a steep fucking hill...

This is a good question but I can't offer a good solution. We luckily have a municipal "composting" program and all our organic "garbage" is put in a green bin. Including old jack-o-lanterns.

Do you know someone who has a regular back yard composter?

All the best.

Congratulations on the birth of your daughter!

You could try to eat it, but really, the type of pumpkins that are used to make pumpkin pie are a special variety of pumpkin ... the ones you buy at the store that are large, have thick skins/pulp and are used to carve are edible but won't taste particularly good.

Best solution is to take it to municiple composting (if it is available), or put it into a bag and huck it in the garbage. I know that where we live, if it isn't in a bag, they won't take it.

:-)

Smashing it would be a good way to get frustration out, though!!!

This may sound gross but we have a strategy that just seemed to evolve and is very effective:

We leaves ours in the rain where it sat on Halloween night (if on wood, I'd move it to cement), It eventually starts to 'melt' and at that point I throw it into our bushes where it can rot, hidden away, to its hearts content and provide some nutrients to the bushes. Our bushes are such that you can't see them, and we've never noticed an odor from this method.

Pumpkin pie is not your only option! How about pumpkin bread? Pumpkin cake? (great with cream cheese frosting!) I've even seen recipes for pumpkin cookies. If you still have your pumpkin and want a recipe for any of the above, let me know!

Re-using and eating and composting is all well and good, but I'm liking Sachyriel's choices much better! And I'm giggling from visions of all sorts of trouble one could get into with old pumpkin shenanigans.

Calgary recycling takes pumpkins with the leaf collection every fall - if your recycling/compost centres don't take pumpkins - well, start lobbying... :)

i throw mine in the composter we have in the backyard. i also run around collecting other peoples pumpkins too... they make great compost, and they melt so fast that you don't have to worry about them plugging up the composter for the winter.

Hehe. Excellent suggestions, all. I'm not a gun person, but I imagine that careful application of fireworks could have the same effect. Hrm....

I live in the country and grow my own pumpkins for Hallowe'en. We carved eight this year and then put them back out in the garden the next day for the deer to eat. They're completely gone now. The deer never touch them until they're carved and laid out for them for some reason.

Set up a video camera and do a time lapse of it decaying. That would be fun! In fact, its been done once!

... Well I think its cool! Haha..

thanx for the link, Jamesadin, I'm always looking for new ways to entertain my grandson :) he's gonna love watching that pumpkin - yuck...

Put several lumps of concrete, bricks etc in it and leave it in the middle of the road and see which car is unlucky enough to drive over it.

On the other hand that's irresponsible...so compost it.

Pumpkin soup man!

look for recipes you might enjoy online. here's one possibility :
4 Macintosh apples - peeled, cored and chopped
1 tablespoon butter
1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon curry powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
4 cups chicken broth
1 cup water
1 teaspoon white sugar
DIRECTIONS
Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, garlic, curry, and cumin; saute, stirring often, until onion is soft and fragrant.
Stir in apples, pumpkin, broth, water, and sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring often. Cover, and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Puree soup in a food processor or a blender.
Return soup to saucepan; reheat, covered, over low heat.

Oh, I concur! That soup is absolutely delicious! Definitly on of my favs.

oopsy
cept for the can of pumpkin puree, you'd just have to roast the pumpkin in the oven until soft, then scoop out the flesh.