Halloween

Each year, an organization I am in has a Halloween get-together for its members.  We just have food and play a few Halloween themed games together, but it is a fun opportunity for us to get together.  Of course we dress up in costumes for this get-together, but we have a unique way of doing it.  We all come up with costume ideas and write them down on slips of paper, then we put them all in a bowl and draw out a costume idea.  The rule is that no one can tell anyone else what they are dressing as in advance.  We all have to wait to find out until that night.  Usually I will go to a costume shop or thrift store to get all of the components of the costume, and try to spend no more than about $20 in the process.  This year, though I drew the perfect costume.  While I will not say what it is for fear that other members of the organization might find out, I do not have to purchase anything for it.  I have a friend who was this last year for Halloween and she still has the elements of her costume in her closet, which she is going to let me borrow.  There are a few things I have that can make do for pieces that are missing, and so this year will be the first time since I have been a member of this group that I have not had to purchase anything for a Halloween costume.  Maybe I can use the extra money and splurge on some Halloween candy.