How to celebrate Halloween within budget

How to celebrate Halloween within budget

Are you going to be baking cookies or other recipes that call for chocolate bars? Halloween candy at clearance prices can help you save money and stick to your budget. Hershey’s kisses are used in some Christmas cookies like Peanut Blossoms, and solid chocolate can be chopped up for use in chocolate chip cookies. Chocolate-covered toffee candy bars such as Heath bars are tasty in Giant Chocolate-Toffee Cookies.

Halloween Candy

Clear, colored hard candy such as Jolly Ranchers stay good for some time and can often be purchased inexpensively after Halloween. If you are not setting wrapped candy out but will be enjoying it yourself, the Halloween wrapping will not matter. You can even have a little fun using Halloween candy in Christmas stockings, and an assortment of brightly colored hard candies are required to make beautiful Stained Glass Cookies.

Opaque hard candies like Smartees and Sweet Tarts keep for a very long time, so if this type of candy is your favorite, right after Halloween is the time to stock up.

Decorate with Pumpkins

Using pumpkins in fall decorating is very inexpensive if you buy pumpkins on sale after Halloween. Your budget harvest time decorating can start with two different-sized pumpkins combined with seasonal squash and gourds which can be purchased at budget prices from October through December. Add leaves from your yard and some inexpensive ribbon for a seasonal display. If you have an unused basket around the house, create your harvest time arrangement in the basket.

A word of caution: Harvest decorating used outdoors will need to put into the garage or other shelter overnight in northern regions so Jack Frost does not turn the pumpkins, squash or gourds into mush.