Buy Costumes Order Arrived

Sometimes I wish that I lived closer to a lot more stores.  I grew up in central Jersey and there were at least 5 malls within half an hour of my hometown.  I now live in the heart of Texas and the nearest Target is 85 miles away.  Yes, we have a Walmart and a couple grocery stores.  There is technically a *mall* but it has less stores than I can count on both hands.  I end up ordering things online a lot because of these.  Ordering things online does sometimes gives you many more options and it's a whole lot easier to price comparison, but sometimes you just want to see what it is that you're getting.

For online shopping I recommend always using coupon codes and using Ebates or some other cash back option, like some credit cards offer.  If you haven't ever used Ebates it's pretty awesome.  It's free to sign up and then you go to their site before buying things from other sites and it will link you to the store you wish to shop at.  Then a percentage (advertised for each store) of your purchase gets credited back to you.  You can choose different ways to get your money back.  And no, I wasn't perked in any way to mention it.  I just really think it's a good deal.  Yes, you can refer people and get money, but I didn't provide any referral link.  So I'm not trying to make money off it, I just already have gotten back over $100 in a year.  I shop online a lot.

Well my newest online order arrived yesterday.  My newest Halloween order that is.  This one was from buycostumes.com.  (once again, not paid or perked...I just write about what I really do).  They do have some pretty good ideas for costumes, but I don't usually buy full costumes online...I usually make them.  I've gotten a wig from them before and it was nice and some dog costumes. I think I've ordered from them maybe 5 times before and I get emails, so I waited for a 20% off coupon to make this purchase.  I ended up having to pay for shipping, but it was only $6.99 and the 20% off was a much better deal.  You can only use one discount code. :(

First I got these pathway lights.  They are special lights meant for lining pathways.  I have an entire vision for my front path and I stumbled upon these.  They were $24.99, but they are individual lights spaced 3 feet apart.  I really wanted to line a pathway up my front path without having to turn on invidual battery lights every night and I had tried solar lights, but they work really well for the first hour, but dim pretty quickly after that.  They would work wonderfully in July, but not nearly so much in October.  (Yes, I actually do wait until the first weekend in October to put my decorations outside).

Next I got this little witch hat on a headband.  I found a picture of a giant adult tutu that would make the perfect witch costume.  So I really wanted to wear that costume to work.  So instead of getting a big huge witch hat, I wanted this little one. I wore my kitty cat ears from my Josie and the Pussycats costume from High School for several years to work.  I actually wore a whole costume last year (Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter) so I want to try to do that again this year.  I just have some limits since I work in a factory and must wear steel toed shoes...it limits things...steel toed shoes are not cute...no matter what.  Enough work ramble, back to the witch hat.  It is really quite cute, and a nice almost fascinator size.  The "veil" thing is a little strange.  It was more spread out tulle in the picture, but I think I can totally make it work.  It was $9.99.

I have a small obsession with creepy trees.  I wanted one last year.  I tried to spray paint a branch that fell on my roof to make it look like a creepy tree, but it just looked like a branch in a bucket.  I bought some lighted twigs last year too.  They also looked really sad.  So if I don't have one for outside yet, I wanted a little baby one.  This was my splurge at $29.99.  But he's a cute little creepy tree.

The last item I got were some spider picks.  They are for like cupcakes.  I was a little confused that they just came wrapped in bubble wrap and not in a package.  But we may just have to get washed really quickly.  They were $1.49 for 12 I think.  

Now I'm just trying to keep myself calm as I set off for a real shopping adventure this afternoon.  To the nearest place with real stores, you know a Target.