Halloween Costumes and my E-bay adventures!!

I know there are still a lot of days left till Halloween... see countdown in sidebar. But you know, if you're going to order a costume from online somewhere, you have to give yourself enough time to get it in the mail. And for things to "go wrong" as far as mail is concerned.

I have known basically what Andrew & I were going to do (it's a couples costume) for a while. It changed a tiny bit today. Just a slight modification. But it's a cooooool modification. No, I'm not telling you yet. You'll see after Halloween when I post pictures. But it's going to be fun. :)

This year we're doing a scary costume. I don't think I can remember ever doing a scary one! It's usually something sexy-- Xena, Marilyn Monroe, an Anarchy Cheerleader, a PunkRock Angel, a flapper one year. So this year there's kind of a theme going on with our costumes & the decor, and the food. You'll see. Quit begging. It's not becoming. :)

But. This is the point of this post. I just bought the costumes! Yay! Andrew's was purchased online at a shop that sold it cheaper than the E-bay going rate. Mine I got on E-bay-- and just won the auction after an eleventh hour bid by the other person who was trying to get it to outbid me. She went a mere 50 cents too low. Had she but known. Mwah ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! There area couple of other final touches I need to get, but it's almost ready. The last final touches are mostly things I can buy at Target (there will be some makeup required.) One other item may be purchased on E-bay, cause it's something that the costume Andrew will wear has included in the photo of the costume, and I think it might be necessary to buy. It doesn't come with the costume but it looks so coooool.

I'm quite happy right now about my costume purchasing. I love outbidding people on E-bay. Here's a tip: always go for an odd price on your bid. Remember on Price is Right how they'd bid 3.01? And they'd beat someone cause of that one cent? That's the secret! Cause people who aren't very experienced will guess in round numbers. And if you've bid that one cent difference, you keep outbidding them. My bid was 9.99. She got up to 9.49. See-- she knew that the odd numbers were happening, but she couldn't guess how much higher I was willing to go. I could have outfoxed her with the old 10.01 price, too, but still I won with the low, low price of......

I wasn't going to bid any higher than I could buy the thing from another auction on the "buy it now" price-- which was 10 bucks. So... that's my strategy.

Anyway. Just wait till you see the Halloween festivities. It's my biggest holiday, and I adore it! There will be fun food, and drinks (ugh-- the drinks!) Last year, I posted halloween pictures for a little while on the blog, but that was way before most of you readers who didn't know me before the blog were here. And the pix were, sadly, on my computer which died not long ago.... so maybe they're recoverable if I can get computer nerd friends to help.