Halloween
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| Sun, 11-01-2009 - 9:26am |
I usually spend much too much money on Halloween and this year I think the grand total for candy (we get tons of trick or treaters), decorations and costumes was under $60.
Usually the kids want new costumes every year but this year we dug into the cooostume bin mostly reused bits and pieces of old costumes and they were very funny and very creative. My oldest son has a tuxedo for orchestra and he stuff the tummy, used a cane and a top hat leftover from past years and had monopoly money spilling out of his pockets as the banker from monopoly. I bought a $20 witch costume for my daughter and we added cobwebs, make-up, plastic spiders and a white wig. And the best costume of all was my skinny middle son who wore an old scraggly black wig we had, too short blacks pants, white socks and black shoes, mirrored sunglasses, one sequined glove and a black hat. You guessed it -- Michael Jackson. With a little white face make-up he looked so much like him it was scary. Anyway, the costumes looked great and I was so glad not to overspend. now if I could just do the same for Christmas.
Jenny

Good job on keeping yours underbudget. Good luck with Christmas. I know it's hard.