Budgeting during the holidays can be very important. Halloween is a fun holiday to celebrate, so making it more affordable is ideal.

Halloween is a holiday full of creativity and tradition, which can make it harder to be on a budget. An example of this is pumpkin carving. Pumpkin prices rise in the fall, which makes it difficult to buy multiple. Even though this might be harder, growing your own pumpkins is always an option.

Another example of an expensive tradition is dressing up.

Reusing old costumes eliminates having to go shopping and buying an overpriced store costume.

You could improvise with a past costume to make it something new. You could also find clothes you already have to wear if you don’t want to reuse one of your old costumes.

Many students have said they go to thrift stores like Goodwill and Plato’s Closet to find cheap but good things to wear. Another tradition that can be troublesome is trick-or-treating. It’s not the actual trick-or-treating causing trouble—it’s the candy.

Along with pumpkins, candy prices also spike in the fall. It can be helpful to purchase the candy a few weeks before prices rise. The bags of candy that companies make just for Halloween with various mixes of candy are so overpriced, so just buying regular candy in bulk can be a good way to avoid the high prices.

Regarding saving some money during holidays such as Halloween, School Nurse Stacey Quigg said, “I go to Hallmark, Joann’s, and Goodwill when the prices have gone down, and there are sales on the things I want to purchase.”

Even though Halloween can be an expensive holiday, there are ways to celebrate it in the same way, but cheaper.