Posts of Halloweens Past

Halloween secrets from the Conscious Shopper

As part of our Meaningful Memories challenge, I thought I'd do a few Superheroes Secrets posts directing you to some of our meaningful memories from holidays past, starting with Halloween. But yesterday, instead of getting that post ready, I cracked open The Hunger Games and spent the rest of the day neglecting my family while devouring the book (though I did manage to get a few jars of applesauce canned, so I think that redeems me). I finished the book at 10:30 last night and then immediately decided that I needed to run to Walmart to get the second book, stayed up until 1:00 reading it, went to church, and then read through the afternoon.

(I'm sure some of you can relate...)

So now here I am, finally forcing myself to come up for air so I can pass along a few posts from past Halloweens. At least it's still a week until the big night o' fun.

Halloween actually isn't a hot topic around here, but there've been a couple posts of note:

• In Simple School Party, JessTrev posted some tips for planning a school Halloween party that didn't involve "making the leaning tower of Pisa out of non-GMO, organic, whole-grain breadsticks." Her advice: keep it simple!

• In Getting Trashed on Halloween, Green Bean gets trashy. The kind of trashy that involves digging through her recycling bin to make amazing costumes for her two little ones. I mean amazing.

• We recently had a guest post from Condo Blues giving her tips for decorating and dressing for Halloween without spending a lot of cash.
  

• And hopefully you didn't miss Going Green Mama's recent Halloween posts: Avoiding the Halloween Headache of Consumerism and Reclaimed Halloween Costumes.

Tomorrow we'll have one more post about greening your Halloween before the big day next Sunday, and then next Monday, we'll have a Halloween costume parade to show off our creative, homemade, thrifted, or recycled Halloween costumes.

Happy Halloween! (now excuse me while I return to my book)