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Halloween Costumes.
Oct. 27th, 2010 12:53 amI went shopping for Halloween costumes yesterday with the kids.
In years past we have made due with old costumes, gifts, dress up and even dollar store costumes. Definitely Halloween on a budget. I'm good at keeping us on a budget, but now that we are not hurting for cash I'm able to indulge my desires a little more.
And, make no mistake, this was definitely about my desires - it just so happens they aligned really well with the kids' desires too.
By the time we were done (hit three stores) the kids were happy, they each found a costume - H a stealthy ninja, S a majestic queen and C Spiderman. We didn't have to do this. We could have made due this year too. We could have gone to Goodwill as one friend suggested.
But I didn't want to.
I think this was satisfying something missing from my childhood. The classic do for your kids what you never got to have yourself. As far as I can remember we never got to go out and buy new costumes when I was a kid. We still had costumes, we still had the excitement, we still trick-or-treated, got lots of candy and had fun. We just didn't have the extra money to throw away on one shot use costumes.
As it turns out, we kept the damage to under 40 bucks. C wore his costume most of the evening, and all three kids dressed up to practice trick-or-treating. We have a party at M's old work, where costumes are encouraged, and still have Halloween on Sunday, so the costumes will get to be more than one shot throw aways anyway (which helps calm the frugal maniac living inside of me ;-).
I also fully expect to see spiderman wandering around the house from time to time throughout the rest of the year and probably well into next year if the costume doesn't fall apart first.
In years past we have made due with old costumes, gifts, dress up and even dollar store costumes. Definitely Halloween on a budget. I'm good at keeping us on a budget, but now that we are not hurting for cash I'm able to indulge my desires a little more.
And, make no mistake, this was definitely about my desires - it just so happens they aligned really well with the kids' desires too.
By the time we were done (hit three stores) the kids were happy, they each found a costume - H a stealthy ninja, S a majestic queen and C Spiderman. We didn't have to do this. We could have made due this year too. We could have gone to Goodwill as one friend suggested.
But I didn't want to.
I think this was satisfying something missing from my childhood. The classic do for your kids what you never got to have yourself. As far as I can remember we never got to go out and buy new costumes when I was a kid. We still had costumes, we still had the excitement, we still trick-or-treated, got lots of candy and had fun. We just didn't have the extra money to throw away on one shot use costumes.
As it turns out, we kept the damage to under 40 bucks. C wore his costume most of the evening, and all three kids dressed up to practice trick-or-treating. We have a party at M's old work, where costumes are encouraged, and still have Halloween on Sunday, so the costumes will get to be more than one shot throw aways anyway (which helps calm the frugal maniac living inside of me ;-).
I also fully expect to see spiderman wandering around the house from time to time throughout the rest of the year and probably well into next year if the costume doesn't fall apart first.
