Halloween Costume Shopping

It’s my favorite time of year and that includes shopping for a Halloween costume. Just purchasing a cheaply made packaged costume just won’t do for me. The best part about Halloween is being creative with the costume and to assemble it yourself. So, tonight we went to Saver’s (for you WI people it’s like Goodwill) to look for the items we need to assemble our fantastic idea. Since it’s not Halloween yet I will save the costume idea for when I post pictures after Saturday. Anyway, as we were perusing the aisles and talking about what we can do to this or that item of clothing I looked around at all the regular shoppers there. Andy and I both started to feel guilty for discussing our costume and talking about how we were going to damage the pieces of clothing while these people were actually shopping for clothes. I looked down and noticed my Coach purse, Andy’s new bright white shoes and nice shirt and then I really felt awkward. I just wanted to leave as I felt really out of place and maybe kind of like we were rubbing it in that we don’t shop there. We quickly paid and then we went over to Party City to get the accessories we needed and that’s when we heard a father tell his young daughter that they were only there to look because he doesn’t get paid until tomorrow. Again, feeling a little guilty and bad for another struggling family, so I was ready to just call it a night. If I could help out every struggling person out there I would, but I can’t and it was just a sad night while we were out shopping for our Halloween costumes. Will post pictures after our night out on Saturday.