🎃💸 73% of Americans Are Spending Less Than $50 This Halloween?! 😱🍬

Looks like this Halloween is gonna be more spooky than spendy! 👻💀 A new poll found that nearly three out of four Americans are keeping things seriously low-budget this year, spending less than $50 total on costumes, candy, and all the Halloween fun. 🕸️

🧛‍♀️ Here’s the breakdown:

💰 32% said they’re spending nothing at all — zero, zip, nada.🍭 22% said less than $25 total.🎃 19% said between $25 and $49.😬 Only 6% are spending $100 or more this year.

That means 73% of Americans are keeping Halloween under $50… which, honestly, is hard to do when even a bag of mini Snickers costs, like, a mortgage payment these days. 😩

📉 So what’s going on?

People are cutting back across the board, especially Boomers in the South and Midwest, and it’s not about politics or pumpkin spice preferences. It’s the economy, baby. 🏦💀

Between rising prices and flat paychecks, a lot of folks are skipping costumes, candy bowls, or even the decorations this year. (Although, let’s be real, there’s always that one neighbor who goes full haunted house with fog machines and animatronic clowns. 🤡)

🍬 Fun Fact: Only 41% of people said they’ll even be giving out candy tonight, while 45% are turning off the porch light altogether. 🚫🍫 And just 19% plan to take kids out trick-or-treating this year.

So yeah, maybe this year, Halloween’s all about creativity on a budget. 🧙‍♀️ Grab a sheet for a ghost costume, buy one bag of candy, and call it a night. Or maybe everyone’s just saving up for the real horror show… Black Friday. 🛍️😱