Last year my girls costumes were homemade or put together using items we have. I made tutu's for Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter. I bought a few Dollar Tree items and made a red yard braid wig for Jessie (Toy Story), and put together a pink and purple outfit with a pouch of pixie dust for Izzie from Jake and The Neverland Pirates.
A few days before Halloween last year, friends of ours invited us to do Lazer Tag with them on Halloween. I had put so much time and effort into costumes, we couldn't do it. But the girls want to do it this year! We'll put the money we would have used to buy candy, and items to make costumes into playing lazer tag. I thought the girls would have forgotten, and a few weeks ago I mentioned something about Halloween, and they all mentioned that we are doing lazer tag, so they didn't forget!
It should be fun though!