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Halloween is just around the corner. Did you get your costume yet?
Americans are expected to spend $3.1 billion on costumes alone this year, according to the National Retail Foundation’s (NRF) 2016 Halloween Consumer Top Costumes Survey.
Last year, we spent spent $1.2 billion on adult costumes, $950 million on children’s costumes and $350 million on pet costumes. So there’s a predicted year-over-year increase of roughly half a million dollars for 2016!
But that doesn’t mean your Halloween costume has to be expensive. Our own Deacon Hayes recently wrote about 10 amazingly cheap Halloween costume ideas.
If you need some inspiration to get your mind going about what you could be this Halloween, here’s what the NRF says are the most popular costumes…
Read more: 5 ways to spend less on Halloween
Read more: 10 healthy Halloween alternatives that will save you money
This post was last modified on March 22, 2017 4:32 pm
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