Going to? It's already done LOL.
I hit the after halloween sales at 9am yesterday. A few years ago I bought some of that dress up stuff at halloween sales, this year since we are finally settled into a house I wanted decorations and we have zero halloween decorations. With the kids getting older I see them getting more into decorating the house for each holiday, but I can't afford to pay the full price for this stuff (and some of it isn't worth that), so I am doing the after-holiday stuff.
I realized last year that the after halloween sales go fast - they really want that stuff out of htere to make way for the xmas stuff, so you can't wait a week and go looking - which is why I was out yesterday. I got a lot of christmas stuff on sale last year, so I'm excited to use it, my plan this year is to decorate and make note of what I feel we need to decorate and then at the after sales look for those things. (Meaning if we felt we needed a wreath for this door or lights for this tree, etc)
I'm pretty happy with what I got. I spent $100 total (more than I really should have spent) and got one of the big metal haunted houses they had at Joanns, the big metal pumpkin from them too, some purple lights, some electric candles shaped like ghosts and some with some spider and mummy designs, two trick or treat door hangings, a Happy Halloween doormat, a huge halloween cookie cutter bucket, some foam stickies for fun halloween crafts next year, some ceramic candle holders, some black and pumpkin garland, a couple pumpkin picture frames (my mom loves that stuff - so I got one for her), some little pumpkin candles and those hanging jackolantern tealight candle holders that hang on shepards hooks for outside. Actually I'm kinda debating going back and getting more of those because I think I'd like to have the shepards hooks for decorating for other holidays too I could make things to hang from them and they were only like $1.25 each.
I didn't go for the costumes because we have a lot of that stuff and I'm thinking next year I'm going to make their costumes. I was debating buying the fabric now but I don't know what they'll want to be and the actual patterns were not on sale (I would have bought some patterns)
Seems like each year I'll pick a holiday to fill out decoration-wise -last year whas christmas, this year was halloween, maybe next year I'll do the fourth of july or easter
I would like to get some lights (like a string of orange lights) for our walkway, so I might swing by CVS today and see if they have any! Our target empties when things even go to 50% off.
