The 2 Most Painful Parts Of Costume Shopping With Children

Halloween, if you've got children who need costumes you know there is a small, but annoying amount of pain heading your way. My wife and I went through it. We spent 30 minutes in a store and we still need costumes for our kids. Let's review the 2 most painful parts of costume shopping with children.

1. Nothing ever fits

These kids' costumes give you a size range between 4 different children's sizes. You have to ballpark it and hope that they're not right in the middle of the four possible sizes. Otherwise, you're entire night is spent pulling up the legs so they're not face-planting while carrying an overly heavy bucket of candy. The masks NEVER fit, I think Halloween masks are a scam. Kids never end up using them and they add to the price when only 75% of said costume is being used!

2. Leaving with nothing but an annoying, pissed-off child

Last night we went to the corpse of a store that the Spirit Halloween store took over for this Halloween season. Walked in thinking this was going to be easy. The boys both want to be Ninjas. In and out. I am an idiot. The store only had 3 rows and a wall of options for the boys to pick through. There were plenty of options and not like they had to go up and down a 50-yard-long aisle. Guess who left with no children's costumes because nothing did it for them.

There is a lesson to be learned from this. You've got a few options to lessen the headache. Buy the costumes online, like we buy everything else. Convince them to be some sort of athlete with the equipment you already have in the house! They may not be great options, but convincing them to use their sports equipment will save you those 2 painful parts of costume shopping.

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