From Marci (our giveaway winner)
a frugal tip for making your costume is to take old white bed sheets and safety pins, cut them into long strips and make your own homemade mummy costume--it works and keeps them warm too :)
From Eva
Frugal Halloween tip? Make your own Halloween costume! We've bought headbands at the dollar store and then glued felt ears to them. Add a little face paint and solid-colored "fur"-colored clothes and you can be any number of animals on the cheap!
From Maggie
We try to make the costumes to save money. One year my son wanted to be a robot, so I made a silver shirt and pants and we attached dryer vent for the arms and lower legs. Then my husband put together a bunch of gizmos and gadgets from the garage as his robot panel. It was one of the coolest costumes!
From D
halloween tip: sprinkle the under side of your jack-o-lantern lid with ground cinnamon and/or nutmeg to get a yummy aroma :)
From Dax and Steph
My cheap Halloween idea is to add tonic it water to your drinks and they will glow under a black light. It adds a nice touch to a Halloween party, and tonic water is pretty cheap.
From Degood
My frugal tip is that each year after halloween I wait until the stuff is 75% off and I buy a few costumes for my kids and some fun decorations and pack it in our halloween container and don't tell the kids and then when we pull it out next october, there are fun costumes and decorations that I bought on clearance. This year we had all sorts of star wars and princess stuff to choose from and fun new decorations!
From Baby Mama
My frugaltip is to keep all costumes. You never know what you can reuse the next year!
From Anonymous
We buy costumes at 75% to 90% at clearance sales and use them the following year! (rosanova_family)
From Leslie
We grow all our own pumpkins and gourds so that we don't have to buy any! That's our frugal tip!
From Rhonda
I always buy items for parties when they are on clearance. I will then put them away at home and take it our when I need it. (ME TOO!)
Thanks EVERYONE for submitting these wonderful tips. Did you ever know that tonic water makes a glow under black light? I had no idea.
Cheryl
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