Good grief…school no sooner started then the supermarket shelves were stocked with trick or treating candy. Come to think of it, we received our first costume catalogs in the mail before school even started!
I know full well that Halloween planning starts right after school starts but I’m still surprised by it every year. My oldest started 6th grade and has decided not to dress up this year. I guess it’s not cool, although I’m sure she’ll be raiding her little sister’s candy bag when the day comes! Or will go scurrying around the house trying to put something together if she’s invited to a costume party at school.
My little one wants to be Hannah Montana AGAIN. Except she doesn’t just want to resurrect last year’s costume. Oh no! She wants the new Hannah costume that we found online!
It’s always been fun for me to see the girls being creative, thinking about what costumes they wanted to wear or what character they wanted to be. Sometimes my mom would sew the costumes and other times we would shop online for inspiration.
Of course, shopping online sometimes backfired because there are always more costumes online than in any printed catalog! Buy Costumes.com has 18 pages of Halloween costumes for girls and 20 pages of boys’ costumes. Yes, it will be many hours of fun for your kids to surf, looking for just the right costume!
Even though I hated the thought of buying new costumes each year, we usually got our money’s worth because the kids were allowed to bring costumes to school and they loved to dress up in the costumes straight through til Thanksgiving, so I really can’t complain about the cost.
But they were also incredibly spoiled, getting a new costume every year. When I was little, it seemed like I alternated between being a gypsy (with my mom’s costume jewelry and scarves) and a hobo (with my dad’s clothes and burnt cork on my face so I looked dirty).
Now that I’m older, I much prefer just sneaking the kids’ chocolate eating the leftover candy bars.
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