Will your kids wear a Halloween Costume TWICE?  

When my kids were younger (they are 9 and 11 now), I could get them to wear a costume more than once. In fact, my duaghter will still play dress up in them (with the ones that still fit). You can go to places like Savers and Goodwill for costumes or items to make a costume out of. Don't forget yard/garage sales as well, or online sites like ebay. Last summer I had to spend $65 on a dress for a ballet recital. I was so glad that my daughter decided to be tinker bell for halloween last year. The recital dress was perfect! Thank goodness it was green. She wore her ballet shoes (we were done with ballet so I didn't care), tied up her hair with a ribbon, found the wings we had bought for the halloween before (she was a blue fairy princess that year), and pulled out a wand (we have many in this house) and off we went. I flat out told my 9 year old this year that we were not buying a store bought costume and we would make up whatever she wanted to be - which turned out to be a vampire (what happened to all the cute stuff?). My son doesn't want to dress up, he didn't last year either. He likes to hand the candy out.