Frighteningly Frugal Halloween

1. Frighteningly Frugal Halloween Halloween has certainly become a more and more expensive holiday to celebrate over the years. Store-bought costumes, haunted house decor, and giant inflatable lawn decorations can really add up. But you can do Halloween on a budget with all the fun and at a fraction of the cost. Creative Costumes Homemade costumes are always more interesting and creative than the store-bought variety, so plan ahead and make it a project that you and the kids can enjoy together. And a great place to start is the thrift store, where you can find all sorts of unique, inexpensive clothes for re-purposing. For girls, pick up some scarves, a long skirt and a peasant blouse for an easy gypsy fortuneteller costume. For boys, an old suit and studious eyeglass frames (no prescription lenses) can easily become Clark Kent with a Superman t-shirt peeking out from underneath. Here are some other creative costumes you can put together using thrift store finds.

2. Devilish Decor Create a spooky mood around the house with black lights and green, purple and red bulbs that can be bought inexpensively at your local home-improvement center. Eerie lighting will give all of your other decorations haunting ambiance. Bags of fake cobwebs that you can stretch across doorways and furniture (tip: the more you stretch them, the more realistic they look) can have a lot of impact for very little money. In general, cluster displays in a few focal areas — like the mantle, entry hall, or dining room table — for greater impact. Ghoulish Graveyard Lawn decorations can cost a lot when bought at retail stores, but you can create your own cemetery of styrofoam tombstones for less than the price of one fancy inflatable. Buy thick sheets of styrofoam and cut them into an array of tombstone shapes; then paint your forms a dingy greenish gray and letter funny sayings on them. Use wooden dowels to stick them in the ground. Skeleton hands from the party store reaching up through the earth will add posthumous Do you have any great inexpensive and creative Halloween ideas? Share them! For more information, visit our website at http://www.usequityadvantage.com/ personality to your display. Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/10/13_diy_halloween_costume s_for.html http://familycrafts.about.com/od/hauntedhouse/a/CreativeEpitaphs.htm