We are less than a week away from Halloween, which means it’s go-time to get your holiday plans in order. According to the National Retail Federation’s annual study, it’s estimated that Americans will spend a record $10.6 billion on Halloween this year, with $3.6 billion of that share going towards costumes for adults, kids and even pets.
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But that doesn’t mean you have to put a lot of your own money or time into perfecting the right look. There are plenty of ways to get into character on a budget, even at the last minute.
As CNN notes, with data gathered from Google’s Frightgeist (a metric analyzing the most popular searched terms for costume ideas), this year’s top 10 picks include witches, superheroes, dinosaurs, characters from “Stranger Things,” fairies, pirates, rabbits, cheerleaders, cowboys and Harley Quinn. And many of these can be done on the cheap.
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