Title. If you have children & prepared costumes for them I’d love to hear as well!
Asking because Halloween was never really big wherever I lived, and a combination of shyness + perfectionism basically prevented me from ever getting a costume… so in a sense I’d like to have some inspiration
Depends on the costume. One year I spent almost $200 on Wreck-it Ralph, but that was a pair of overalls and two shirts I can still wear. The next was like $1000+ on electronics and components for a LED wizard orb I spent a month making and like $20 in fabric for a robe. This year was probably $50 for fabric, cardboard, and tape for a terrible Ken The Butcher costume.
What you do is entirely up to you and your situation. Cheap materials make it cheaper, but the costume may only be single use. The orb was stupid expensive because I went fancy and made an object that would last, but that’s hardly necessary.