It is October. That means Halloween is just days away. The specialty Halloween stores have been open for some time. I have been getting emails announcing sales from Halloween costumes, candy, along with various ghoulish accessories.

My spies have been telling me the cost of getting a Halloween costume at one of those specialty stores is not a good deal. A decent costume will cost a $100′s or more. This includes all the accessories like make up and bloody knife. In my way of thinking this is one way to waste lot of money for a costume that is only going to be worn for couple of hours.

The fashion experts are telling me that Captain America is going to be big this Halloween. Well, super heroes are always big when it comes to Halloween costumes. A particular costume is big when a recent movie has been in the theaters for the past few months.

Summer vacation is over. The kids are back in school. Over the next few months we are going to have more and more indoor activities. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas make up the three great days holidays remaining in this year. These holiday make a perfect time to record memories with family and friends.

Still picture are okay, but they just give you a fraction of a second of that event. A video camera can capture that fraction of a second plus what led up to the picture and afterwards.

Who knows maybe the video of this Halloween party may be the video of the day on YouTube. You want the video you take that goes viral video look the best. After all the whole world is going to see it. It may even get featured on the Today Show.

To accomplish a great looking viral video, you are going to need something more than just the camcorder feature on your cell phone. You are going to want the picture sharp and clear as you can possibly.

Halloween has long been thought of as the point that divides Fall and Winter; life and death. That is why we see Halloween as the day when the dead can return to the earth. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation. The secular community turned it into a children’s holiday. Although there is still superstitions around the holiday people still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season.

For the younger minded adults it is a time to let their dark side shine in some devilish erotic costume. Kids use the time to dress up as some character they would like to become when they grow up. Older adults organize places and parties for kids and grand kids to enjoy such a ghoulish night.

If you read yesterday post about Halloween Costumes you saw where I visited them of the specialty stores in Boise, Idaho.

Today, I want to look at some of the other places where to get a good Halloween costume, without spending a whole lot of money.

Yes that would be Wal Mart, Target, and Shopko to some extent. Wal Mart, Target, and Shopko sell costumes, candy, and other items for Halloween. They having been displaying and selling since the start of the school year. This gets the kids and parents thinking about Halloween. Then the kids can start pressuring their parents for that all important Halloween costume.

We get our modern day Halloween from a mixture of Celtic, Catholic, Roman, and European religious/folk traditions. It is this blending together over time that caused us to create the holiday we know today.

Adults began the tradition of dressing in elaborate costumes for Halloween. They were known as Masquerade parties. I was not until the twentieth century where children were included into the an annual event dressing up in Halloween costumes.

The 1930′s was when stores started to carry Halloween costumes. These costumes not only copied mythical characters, but character portrayed in movies. As movies got more and more realistic with its’ makeup and costumes, Halloween costumes followed right behind. Televisions entered the home, thus making young boys and girls wanting to dress up as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman for Halloween.

Yesterday, I was walking out of the local grocery store, the headline of the local newspaper jumped out at me. It read, “The Great Recession Is Over.” My first thought was that it was a cruel trick.

Then I started asking myself, “Is The Great Recession really over?” Jobs are still tight. Milk and other staples have gone up in the past month. Big box store are worried that this Christmas’ sale will be at record lows.

Friday the stock market dropped almost 250 in both the New York and Dow Jones stock exchanges. This is in spite of good financial news for the week.

It is the day before Halloween. Jack-O-Lanterns fill the media. Those movie channels are rerunning blood filled slasher movies like: Halloween 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Then there is all the media hype about zombies our children walking around wondering if being a zombie is a good thing or bad.

These are not the things that scare me. Let me tell you what really scares me.