How To Turn a Pumpkin into a Wine Dispenser — How To

Halloween is big in my neck of the woods. There are more than a half-dozen pick-your-own pumpkin places within 30 minutes of my house. There are two decently famous haunted houses, several ghost tours, and a few corn mazes. We even used to have the option to ride around in a Humvee and shoot zombies (read: high school kids who landed the coolest part-time job ever) with paintball guns.

That means we host a lot of guests this time of year. Our friends love to come up from the city for a weekend full of some quality fall-like activities. While I wish I had the time (and the resources) to get our house to rival the haunted ones we go to, my decorating usually stops with a skeleton sitting in a rocking chair on the porch and some purposefully placed pumpkins.

Last year, though, I did take my pumpkin game a step further: I turned one of them into a wine dispenser. It went over super well, and I fully plan on doing it again this year. Here's how I did it.

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