{"id":68703,"date":"2016-10-26T00:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/halloween-spending-may-rise\/"},"modified":"2016-10-26T06:56:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:56:16","slug":"halloween-spending-may-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/halloween-spending-may-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween spending may rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:bb0007ee-b2f7-42b5-bbe2-41e7f363853c --><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, plenty of shoppers were digging through Halloween racks and bins in town uncovering quaint and bizarre costume ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Parker discovered a giant inflatable green suit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/lpchumanesociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Plata County Humane Society Thrift Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would be the greatest $3 of my life,\u201d he said, commenting on the price, as he bounced his arms off his new found girth.<\/p>\n<p>The Humane Society Thrift Shop\u2019s highest grossing month is always October because of Halloween and outdoor sporting good sales, thrift store director Kieth Dunning said.<\/p>\n<p>The store prices costumes to move by setting prices at $3 unless otherwise marked, and that helps bring shoppers in, he said.<\/p>\n<p>This year, he expects October sales to be slightly above last year, he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is in line with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2eAog8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Retail Federation<\/a> projections that spending on Halloween across the country will outpace last year\u2019s totals. National sales could be up to $8.4 billion from $6.9 billion. The average consumer is expected to spend about $83 on the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>As for costume trends, superhero and princess costumes are always some of the most popular, said Jerilyn Davis, an employee at Second Time Around, a consignment boutique.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, superhero costumes edged out princess dresses for the most popular costume for the first time in 11 years, the National Retail Federation survey found.<\/p>\n<p>At Durango\u2019s thrift stores, Saturday shoppers said they were looking for both savings and originality, rather than a trendy guise.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Green and his girlfriend, Brittainy Banwart, who build multiple costumes each year, pick a single item and build costumes around them.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Green was searching for items to complete his butcher\u2019s coat and found a 50-cent chef\u2019s hat at the Methodist Thrift Store. Online he would have paid about $8 for a pack of hats, when he only needed one.<\/p>\n<p>The couple wasn\u2019t on a set budget, in part because they were looking for items that could be reused over the years, like a black skirt, Banwart said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re general costume collectors,\u201d Green said.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have yet to start planning a costume, Davis urges shoppers not to complicate the search. \u201cOne little prop goes a long way,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A hat or glasses, anything that is out of your character, can fit you on Halloween, she said.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shoppers seek deals at thrift stores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3543,598],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clothing","tag-public-holiday"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68703"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}