It doesn’t matter what or who you wish to be this Halloween, everyone wants to save a buck right? Ok, so let’s take a look at several ways to cut costs on your Halloween costumes this year.

1. Use Coupon Codes – one big advantage online retailers have that offline retailers don’t is coupon codes. This can make the difference between getting a hot costume for $70 versus getting it for less than $50 online. A huge price difference. I don’t know about you, but I get crazy happy when I’m able to pocket an extra $20 to $30 because of coupons or discounts. Yay! Look for them at your usual coupon code sites such as RetailMeNot and of course yours truly, has a discount Halloween coupon codes page.

2. Buy Off Season – a trick many seasoned savvy shoppers use is to buy off season. Huge savings can be had. Essentially what you want to do is shop during the non-Halloween months, meaning December through July. It doesn’t matter if you shop online or offline, when you buy during off-peak months you many times will score super cool costumes for as much as 90% off.

3. Visit Discount Retailers – Not a fan of Walmart? You should be. Because they are the granddaddy of mega-discount warehouses and no one can beat them. No one! This only matters if you want to save a buck (or twenty), if you’re not price conscious, then visit Saks and buy yourself a $300 costume. Blah! Suckers.

4. DIY – this one is not for the faint of heart. Gulp! How about making your costume instead of buying? If you’re even semi-crafty and feeling a bit adventurous try looking around for inspiration from a movie or magazine and see what you can come up with. You never know you might find an inner Martha Stewart inside, that you didn’t know was there. Lol. and Good luck! If you do go this route and come up with something super sexy or at least note-worthy, feel free to share with me. Love to see it.

5. Shop Online – the savings on the web can’t be beat. In fact, if you do some price comparison at offline retailers versus online retailers you will be shocked at what you find. Why? Because when you take into account the coupon codes you can use along with any other discount promotions, it will floor you. For example let’s say you want the hot new Avatar costume
for 2010 which at your local Target sells for $49.99 plus tax and shipping, but if you opt to shop online and take advantage of a coupon code plus free shipping and/ or sign up for cash back from a cash back site, you can get it for much less than that. Let’s do the math real quick.
CostumeKingdom.com costume price – $46.99
10% coupon code – $4.69
subtotal – $42.29
free shipping (on orders over $65) or many times a coupon code is offered for this as well (a savings of $6.50)
6% cash back from eBates – $2.81
Total saved – $14
Not bad for a brand spanking new super sexy costume you can then re-gift to a relative next year. Double-score!
