ONE woman revealed she earns £80,000 a year from her Halloween side hustle earning £250 in just five minutes but admits her work was "tacky" to start with. Heather Torres, 41, from Dallas, Texas, has found decorating thousands of porches with pumpkins to be more lucrative than expected. 5 Heather Torres, 41, from Dallas, Texas, is a pumpkin porch decorator Credit: SWNS 5 The stay-at-home runs a successful business decorating local homes with pumpkins Credit: SWNS Clients pay her to decorate their porches and front gardens with pumpkins during the spooky season.
Customers can fork out as much as £1,000 for one porch but the very least she charges is £250. But her work starts as early on in the year as summer where she starts accepting orders - and she's already received 1,052 this year. She said her biggest design can take her 35 minutes to arrange and her smallest can take just five minutes.
READ MORE in Fabulous COSTUME CRIMES Inside if it is illegal to dress up as a police officer on Halloween NOT SPOOKED I spend £5K on Halloween horror decorations - my neighbours hate them The mum set up Porch Pumpkins four years ago after being inspired by her local botanical gardens. In 2013, Heather lived across from the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden and often visited their pumpkin display. She said that the display in the botanical garden inspired her to do one of her own.
Heather said: "They would have a little pumpkin village you could walk through and see all the variet.
