The $3 Target Buy That Makes Me a Cool Mom the Whole Month of October — Shopping

I am one of those people who loves Halloween. Very much so. I loved all the crafting, decorating, and dress-up that goes into the holiday way before I had kids, and now that I do and they're old enough to get into the holiday, we really go into Halloween overload.

It starts October 1, with planning what they'll wear and what we'll serve for our neighborhood trick-or-treating party — and, let's be honest, epic tantrums when I refuse to buy things like 12-foot-tall, red-eyed howling werewolves at Home Depot. See, I believe that Halloween decor should be homemade, age-appropriate, and, ideally, inexpensive.

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