Last year around this time I experienced a dilemma with my dogs. My sister and I decided it would be fun to create/buy costumes for our dogs for Halloween. It was a GREAT idea, we thought, but when it came time to look for the costumes it quickly turned into a nightmare. We went store to store trying to find costumes that were fun and would fit our large breed dogs. We couldn’t believe how difficult it was.

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Growing up we never had a lot of money and I was the youngest of seven kids.  As you can imagine Halloween time was a hectic time for my mom.  It normally ended the same way, rushing from store to store trying to find a costume last minute.  This time around I want to do it right.  I update coupons for this website, so with Halloween not far away I started looking around.  I was impressed at the cost and selection they offered at Costume Discounters. I was able to sort them by price, themes, age groups, and more.

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I am constantly looking for cheap deals on dress up clothes for my boys.  Yes, even boys like to dress up.  Just not as princesses.  But, they love to play pretend and want to be cowboys, firemen, race car drivers, super heroes, you name it.  So, this time of year is the best time to look at costume shops and of course, online places have the best selection.  Tons of kids costumes are on clearance as they clear out everything for the new line of costumes next fall.  I found a great clearance selection at buycostumes.com.  Of course, with the big Houston Livestock show and rodeo starting up, my kids are all about the cowboy stuff right now and they have a decent one on clearance.   It’s hard not to want to buy everything on there.  I wish I knew what they would want to be the next Halloween so I could go ahead and get it on clearance as well.  Ah well.  There’s always craigslist which I have gotten 2 costumes from for cheap as well.  Anybody need a Lightning McQueen….?

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It happens every year. I get all excited about what I may be for Halloween, as early as Spring or Summer. I will get crazy ideas about what the whole family could be as well and the ideas remain just that: ideas.

I procrastinate all Summer because, let’s face it, Summer is fun. Then I get sucked into the vortex  of pre-Fall, with Back to School worries and new TV shows (yes, I watch a ton of shows) and things at work usually pick up with many fiscal years ending in Seotember, etc. The next thing I know, it’s time to go to the Halloween party and I have no costume. So if this happened to you, let’s promise each other we will be more prepared next year.

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