Goodwill Industries of the Valleys offers recommendations on Halloween purchasing with out breaking your funds

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – Halloween is only a few weeks away, and whether or not you do or don’t have your costume picked out, you is perhaps in search of some inexpensive methods to have a good time this 12 months like purchasing secondhand.

“Yow will discover a whole lot of totally different items to say combine and match when you have an thought of what you wish to be,” Chelsea Moran, Advertising and Public Relations Supervisor for Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, mentioned. “Or perhaps you don’t have an thought the place perhaps you discover like a cute witch hat so then you definately determine, ‘Hey I’m gonna be a witch,’ so then you realize what to search for.”

The National Retail Federation says this 12 months, Halloween spending is predicted to achieve a file 10.6 billion {dollars}, with shoppers planning to spend a median of $100 on issues like costumes, sweet, and decorations.

Moran says when purchasing at Goodwill or different resale shops, you will get extra bang to your buck with objects which have a number of makes use of.

“These items, perhaps you should utilize all year long they don’t need to be a one-and-done to your Halloween costume, and that’s the one time you put on it. Or, it’s one thing the place perhaps you could have some objects your self and also you simply want to search out the right shirt or good accent to complete off your costume,” Moran defined.

Moran additionally says another excuse to buy at Goodwill for Halloween or any time of the 12 months is to assist native applications and job coaching.

“You’re serving to these people who’re in search of a job, perhaps they don’t have a job or they want some new abilities to realize a greater job,” Moran mentioned. “So, you by purchasing and getting your Halloween costume or simply purchasing all year long you might be supporting these applications to assist people proper in Harrisonburg.”

Goodwill Industries of the Valley has a particular part of their web site for Halloween costume inspiration and DIY tasks. Yow will discover out extra by clicking here.

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