Halloween costume shopping at the Hudson Goodwill store on Coulee Road is not only very inexpensive, but offers a diverse set of attire. They have odd-ball but fantastic costumes the Big Box Stores don’t carry, and the choice to buy the pieces you need, but necessarily the whole kit, just the accessories you require, not pay for the rest, their managers say. An example is a Darth Vader mask; you can pay for just that and utilize that black robe you already have in your closet, if you desire, and save because of shopping Goodwill and getting an already reduced cost. And they have many different styles of wigs, for example, not just one or two. On top of this, you can get a 25-percent-off offer on Halloween fare if you bring in a bag of donated materials.
(Also, check out this web site for periodic updates on “pre-haunt” happenings and decore around town in the local clubs, as well as where the best costume contests are — on three, you read it right, different nights — as this big night of Halloween revelry nears).