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Thusfar we have spent $303.75 unless I paid for something in cash and forgot about it. We're not done either we still have to buy the food for our party, pumpkins and also haven't gotten a new piece for our Department 56 Halloween Village. So I would estimate at least another $200.

I don't think we have any Halloween Expresses near us this year. Halloween City seems to have more and Spirit seems to be less. The nearest Spirit still has stuff in boxes when I looked through the window. So we drove 20 mins yesterday to get to one.

That is awesome of your dad Witchy. Neither my parents or my inlaws are that into Halloween.

Demonic Duck wrote:I don't think we have any Halloween Expresses near us this year. Halloween City seems to have more and Spirit seems to be less. The nearest Spirit still has stuff in boxes when I looked through the window. So we drove 20 mins yesterday to get to one.

While I rarely buy anything there, I love walking through the Spirit Halloween stores more than any other. When all of their displays are set up, it is pretty cool. Michael's is a close second. Maybe that is because I love the Lemax Spookytown village collection.

I rarely spend anything on Halloween. I think the most I have ever spent is $50. I like most of the decor that I have. If I buy anything else, something that is on display now, would not be up. I don't have that much room. All of my table space or flat surfaces are spoken for.

My problem is I would drop the money on some of the awesome animatronics they have there but I would want to put them outside. However all of them say at best for sheltered outdoor use. My lawn has no shelter at all. Sigh my next house will have a front porch for sure.

So far all I have spent is for a few Halloween-themed magazines and a pair of cookie cutters (I needed a skull one I didn't have to make some Day of the Dead cookies). I will most certainly be buying candy for the ToTers, but otherwise have no big plans to spend lots of $$. I will have to buy a few pumpkins closer on to the day. Oh, and I guess I've bought a new Halloween DVD or two.

My daughter played a zombie in a school talent show a week or so back, so if she costumes, I will encourage her to do that. I don't know what she plans for Halloween itself, though. I have gotten her a couple of adorable Halloween-themed Hello Kitty t-shirts which she seems to love. I guess those cost me just under $20 together. And the DVDs were about $20 together. And the cookie cutters were about $2. So I guess I've spent a little under $50 already, not counting the mags.

I always re-use my decorations, and I have quite a few, so I don't really need to spend a lot on yard or house stuff at this point

Witchy which Witch house did you get? I haven't gotten my yearly building yet hopefully this weekend if budget allows.

I would love to see the bat cloud.

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I think we should start a thread to come up with a name for SpookyBK's baby. Something Halloweeny sounding.

Casper sounds good. Or Vlad if you really want to be out there.