I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. I am not a big fan of Halloween. I find all of the decorations, costumes and candy to be just too much. It's excessive, expensive, and totally unnecessary. My days of dressing up in costumes were 20 years ago. I'm just so over Halloween. I get that the kids do love Halloween. I do like making them happy. I've learned how to save money on kids halloween costumes. And they look cute dressed up. We carve pumpkins (mostly because I love … [Read more...]
Sure, you can carve your pumpkin this October and have a glowing creation on your porch, but doesn't freshly baked pumpkin bread, bars, pie, muffins & cookies from a pumpkin you picked and baked sound fantastic? If you were like me, you grew some pumpkins in your garden. This year our garden yielded 6 pumpkins, one of which my children wanted to give to the neighbor girl for her first Halloween. That left us with 5 pumpkins that we will bake and process into a puree and enjoy in several … [Read more...]
As a self-proclaimed cheapskate, I have a hard time with Halloween: Spending all that money on costumes and candy for one night of merriment is hard for me to swallow. But the kids love Halloween, and I love seeing them happy, so I've found ways to save money on kids Halloween costumes: Ask around. Perhaps a friend or relative has costumes from last year that they would lend your child. Ask on Freecycle.org if anyone has Halloween costumes to spare. Shop the secondhand stores. Thrift … [Read more...]