Regardless of how old you are, Halloween can be a day (and night) of spooktacular fun. Between the parties, candy, costumes and decorations, it can easily also be ghoulish on your bank account.
Particularly for young adults who are straddling multi-generational celebrations – partaking in more adult-catered festivities and kid-friendly haunts – it is easy to spend a few benjamins on October 31 celebrations.
Below are just a few ways you raise your Halloween carousing from dead as a doornail to wickedly spectral.
Get Creative With DIY Décor Around The Home
Turn your home into the neighborhood's creepiest house with a few basic supplies. DIY decorations can be just as thrilling as store-bought, will inevitably be unique and can get the whole household involved in the holiday spirits.
- Cost: Around $10 for 250 feet of kraft paper, $2 a roll for masking tape
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- Cost: $1.00 for 40 count brown paper lunch bags, 36 flameless YouTube or similar websites, or downloadable on iTunes.
- Cost: 200 glow sticks for as little as $10, "free" empty toilet paper rolls (just save the ones you already use)
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Ghostly Costumes That Barely Cost
Even if you have gone all out in the past and purchased a ready-made costume, chances are the costume, regardless of price was of rather poor quality. Made only to last a wearing or two, costumes can lay a serious beating to your Halloween budget.
It might take some extra time and creative juices, but with cardboard boxes and some paint (a box of nerds candy, an order of fries, a best seller book, an old school robot, etc.), the plethora of possible costumes is astonishing. Make your costume designing a fun activity and you're sure to enjoy it more than anything you could pick up willy nilly at the local party shop.
Spooky Snacks
No Halloween event is complete without food. You don't need to buy fancy cakes or cookies or black candied apples to set the ambiance.
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With a little creativity, any ordinary dish can become festive. Make a plan, be willing to improvise and have fun.
The most important part of celebrating on a budget is to embrace the experience – make the decorating and creating as much of an event as the actual night. When budgeting is seen as a challenge or game instead of a limitation, you can turn it into a lifelong habit.
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