Halloween does not have to cost a fortune to feel like a big deal. People celebrating this year plan to spend around $115 each on Halloween, according to the National Retail Federation’s yearly survey. Most of that goes to candy, costumes, and decorations that end up in a bin by November 2. This guide is…
Halloween costume trends move in circles. Give it roughly twenty years, and whatever your parents wore trick-or-treating starts showing up in party store aisles again, usually with a higher price tag attached. The comeback list leans hard into the decades between the 1960s and the 1990s, with a few older classics that never really left….
A front door does a lot of talking before anyone knocks. A bare one says “we’re busy.” A good fall wreath says “come in, there might be cider.” The catch is the price tag. Store-bought fall wreaths often run $40 to $90, and a lot of them are the same orange-and-burgundy circle in a different…
Plenty of people will tell you they’re not superstitious. Then they’ll knock on wood while saying it. Superstitions are the cockroaches of belief: ancient, unkillable, and thriving in modern buildings. Surveys regularly find that large shares of adults admit to at least one, and many buildings still quietly skip a 13th floor. The strange part…