| Not so cheap "cheap" costumes | | I am so frustrated this morning. Against my better jusgement I let my hubby cave and go buy costumes for our kids this year. The prices are ridiculous! And the quality is just terrible. Case in point, my 4 year old wanted to be Jasmine from Disney. The costume was $30, and this morning when we were getting her ready for the Halloween parade at school I was getting her ready and her foot got stuck in the pants and the pants to it ripped right up the seam! So then I had to so it which was the equivalent of trying to stitch of Kleenex. I am so tired of paying out the nose for items that have no quality. Next uear we'll go back to homemade costumes. Any of you have this problem? | |
| | What character are you going to dress like for Halloween? | | As children living in the United States, Halloween was the only time of the year you can go to school being dressed up like whatever character your parents could afford.Some of the kids were in the really cheap costumes that looked like superheros with really large heads and a Hazmat uniform with a cape. Then there were the more traditional fairies, witches and ghosts that on any street Halloween night, you can count up to about fifty each. The best part of "Trick or Treating" was the candy. The older kids knew which houses gave out the good candy and which one gave out...fruit. Avoid the fruit, they will crush the candy. Even today as an adult, my favorite part of the evening is the dividing of the bounty. We dump everyone's bag on the dining room table and as the "Snack Inspector", it is my sole duty to make sure the really good chocolates don't have razor blades in them. Up until my youngest daughter reached the age of eight, she believed that all the candy bars were laced with razors. I can't get away with that now. So I figure I have a couple more years to go out with my last young child on Halloween before I begin to look like a "Weirdo" on the loose. She... | |
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