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With Halloween only five days away, time is running out to find Halloween costumes and Halloween decorations for this year.

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The staff here at PennySaverUSA is here to help. We’ve come up with a slew of Halloween costume ideas for you to consider. And of course, all of them are very inexpensive and can be done on a budget. Take a look at the suggestions:

• Han Solo and Princess Leia (for a couple), but reverse the roles, so the man dresses up like Leia and the woman dresses up as Hans.
• Characters from your favorite TV show. Some options include Mad Men, Jersey Shore or The Walking Dead.
• This idea was taken from someone, but was kind of clever and very thrifty.  They were dressed all in black with real frizzy hair and had an assortment of clothing attached to them (hankies, a sock here and there,  undies, along with lint, string and some dryer sheets).  The costume was……………”Static Cling”.
• Cover yourself in a large trash bag with a bunch of balloons,  make a sticker and be a bag of jelly beans.
• A “picnic table”. Just get a red and white tablecloth and then hot glue some plastic food, a basket, some napkins, an empty soda can and plastic ants.
• For a couple – Both people dress in black, but the woman puts a giant white “Z” on her black t-shirt.  The man then wears a giant white bra over his black t-shirt. Together, you are a “Zebra”.
• For kids – one can go as ketchup and the other as mustard. A third can go as a hot dog.
• Buy a classic men’s top hat (look for one in our Halloween online classifieds section) and an old tuxedo jacket with long tails.  Take a foam core board covered with fancy napkins, a childrens tea set and some pastires and glue it to the top of the top hat. Call yourself “The Mad Hatters Tea Party”.

Hopefully those ideas will assist you in finding that perfect Halloween costume. Check our Halloween online classifieds section for more ideas, and make sure to enter our Halloween Co$tume Bash for Cash online contest for a chance to win up to $300.

Enter our Co$tume Bash for Cash online contest for a chance to win up to a $300 cash prize.

The entries are flowing in for PennySaverUSA.com’s Co$tume Bash for Cash online contest and the competition is intense. With Halloween less than a week away, we expect the submissions to get even better over the next few days.

You have through Nov. 1 to enter the Co$tume Bash for Cash online contest, because we wanted to give people a chance to send in their Halloween photos from this year.

If you are planning to wait, however, do keep in mind that some of the entries we’ve already received are nothing short of spooktacular.  To become a finalist, you better bring it with a costume that is truly epic.

This online contest entry was shared on our Facebook page. Click on the image to visit our page and share yours now.

This online contest has two categories: Ghastly Grown-Ups (for adults) and Little Monsters (for kids). There will be one winner for each category and each winner will receive $250 … unless they have downloaded our new mobile phone garage sale app MOGASA, in which case the prize will rise to $300.

On the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 2, we will pick three finalists for each category, and the winners will be determined by a three-day vote from Wednesday, Nov. 2 – Friday,  Nov. 4. We will then announce the winner in this very blog on Monday, Nov. 7.

MOGASA is completely FREE and lets you find and get directions to garage sales in you area. You can also post an ad for your garage sale through the app at no cost. Download it now for the iPhone or Android.

Should you be struggling to come up with costume ideas, we will put up a post on Thursday with suggestions from PennySaverUSA staffers. Included in the post will also post a funny video of what current and former employees dressed up as when they were kids. Stay tuned …

Halloween is just around the corner. Two weeks from today, it will be time for costumes, candy and scary movies. This edition of Save Money Monday is dedicated to helping you get Halloween costumes and decorations on a budget.

The key to top-notch affordable Halloween costumes is often face paint.

Our friends over at Just Married With Coupons have an excellent recipe for making face paint at home to save even more money, or you can get it at any local party supply store.

Check out PennySaverUSA.com's Halloween section.

PennySaverUSA staffer Elizabeth came up with one of the better zombie Halloween costumes you’ll ever see just by using some killer face paint. See the photo at the right. The whole get-up cost her less than $10.

Another way to Save Money Monday on Halloween costumes and decorations is by purchasing used items. The perfect place to do that is through PennySaverUSA.com’s Halloween online classifieds section or by going garage sale hunting using PennySaverUSA’s new mobile garage sale app MOGASA on your iPhone (download it now).

If you prefer the new stuff, but don’t want to spend a fortune, there are plenty of online discount stores like Costume Kingdom or Halloween Express that sell Halloween costumes and decorations.

Perhaps the easiest way to plan phenomenal Halloween costumes and decorations is simply to use things you already own. Those old sheets you don’t know what to do with? They could make a riveting ghost. That scrap paper you have lying around? It could make some awesome decorations.

Once you’ve got your Halloween costumes all set, don’t forget to enter our Co$tume Bash for Cash online photo contest for a chance to win $300!

Buy and sell Halloween costumes on PennySaverUSA.com.

Online classifieds are a phenomenal source for buying and selling Halloween costumes and decorations. To make that process even easier for you, PennySaverUSA.com has developed a special Halloween landing page, specifically for buying and selling Halloween costumes and decorations.

One of the most fun occasions of the year is dressing up in your Halloween costume and either attending a party or taking your child trick or treating. The problem is that it’s no fun to dress in the same costume year after year and it’s so expensive to annually buy a new one at the store.

PennySaverUSA.com solves those issues. You can sell your old Halloween costumes and use the money you make to buy yourself a new one all on our online classifieds Halloween landing page.

It’s a win-win situation. That person who was searching for the exact vampire costume you wore last year can buy it from you, enabling you to then buy that new Captain America costume you’ve had your eye on.

Get your Halloween decorations from our online classifieds.

While Halloween costumes are a blast, there is more to the holiday than just getting dressed up. Getting your house or apartment full of decorations can be just as much fun. Having trick-or-treaters drop by in amazement as the see the detail you put into your decorations is always satisfying. PennySaverUSA.com also has a Halloween decorations online classifieds section intended to help you make your place as spooktackular as possible.

And don’t forget … we also currently have Halloween paid icons available for just $2.50, so that even your online classifieds ads look sharp. You wouldn’t want to put up an ad for one of the awesome Halloween costumes you are selling and not include a snazzy Halloween icon, after all!

After receiving an enormous number of costume contest entries, we knew that we had quite a task on our hands when it came to narrowing it down. The variety was amazing. The costumes ranged from wildly creative, scary, hilarious and quite peculiar. We have some seriously creative people out there in PennySaverUSA Land!

But, alas, not everyone can win, and we had to narrow it down to the Top Three. Although difficult, we loved the following costumes the most: Drum Roll please……………..

Our 1st Place Winner is: The Life-Sized Angry Birds!

These guys have made quite a splash on the Internet this past week with their homemade costumes inspired by the popular video game, Angry Birds. They actually blogged about making the costumes, go here to check it out.

Our 2nd Place Winner is: The Mad Hatter!

This cute little fella just won his parents $75!

Our 3rd Place Winner of $50 is: Mrs. Owl!

You know that we have to say that we found this costume to be quite a HOOT!

Congratulations to all of our winners and thanks so very much to everyone that entered! Go to our PennySaverUSA Facebook page to see more of the entered photos!

Our Halloween Landing Page turned out to be quite a success and is full of colorful, crazy and reasonably priced items for Adults and Kids alike! We decided to dedicate this week’s installment of Steals of the Week to some great and entertaining deals that we came across in PennySaver Halloween land.

For any Star Wars fans out there, this is quite a find. This is a Rare Star Wars Ben Cooper Halloween Costume and Mask. It’s a Large 12 to 14, and fits a child 53″ to 58″.   It is a 1977 original and has the box that it came in. Quite a collectors item indeed!

Have the kids lay down the law with this Police Officer Costume in Harbor City, CA for 10 bucks! This boys costume is for sizes 8-10 and comes with a navy blue top, pants, hat and toy gun.

For any of you scary movie aficionados out there, give this a looky: This is a handmade, latex Michael Myers mask in Chicago, IL. They are signed and dated by the artist and there are only 2 left for $120 a piece!

Disney Fans: We have something for you! This person has an adult medium-sized, unisex, authentic Tigger costume that has never been worn. This will impress! It is located in Huntington Beach for $120.

Have you found any great Halloween deals? Comment below and tell us about them!

What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?

As kids, we all dressed up to venture out into the night to retrieve the candy that was rightfully ours. By house number two, the costume was falling apart, the rubber band on the Spider-Man mask had broken and you had already eaten a week’s allowance of sugar by the time you got home and were ready to REALLY dig into that candy.
Ah, to be young. Our PennySaver Web Team recounts their earliest Halloween Costume memories.