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Remember the game you used to love as a child? Clue. Or how about that classic movie, about the mean person who stole Christmas?  I would even say that, you probably already know what the elves do on their favorite holiday, if you have seen the movie about elves. These costumes are not only inexpensive but easy, and can be made with items you either already have, or, items that are inexpensive to purchase and can usually be found at a cost cutting store, near you!

Hey there all you cost cutters. If you want make sure you save this Halloween, stop by the Check City location nearest you and get the spookiest deal in town.  If you aren't sure if Check City has a location near you, come to CheckCity.com and check out our new locations. 

If you would rather have a dinner, instead of a treat, or if your children won't eat anything but treats, consider this idea. If you love homemade pizza make sure you cook up a healthy meal for your children this Halloween, or at least yourself to actually jump start that diet you have been planning for years.

Preparation Time: About 40 minutes. (Including cook time)

Check this out, to find a homemade recipe for you and your family.

Be sure to follow the instructions carefully if you want to be sure your children are healthy this halloween. 

Yummy and easy to make treats, from a Semi-Homemade Halloween with Sandra Lee on The Food Network.

Ingredients:

• 2 (6oz) cans of frozen concentrate limeaid, (thawed)
• 3 C Lemon-Lime Soda
• 3 1/2 C Green sports drink
• Green food coloring
• Ice
• Whipped Cream (Topping if Desired)
• Candy Sticks or Sipping Straw (Optional)

In a pitcher, combine limeade, soda, and sports drink. Add 5 drops of food coloring, or until desired color green, and stir. Add ice to each glass and then pour the combination into the glass.  If so desired, add whipped cream and to the glass by putting it in a icing piping bag and adding a candy stick or a swirly straw (or other fun straw)

Boo! If that didn't scare you, come into a check city location near you for some extra scary savings, and have a happy and safe Halloween!

October is a month full of Halloween- carving pumpkins, corn mazes, haunted houses, costumes, and scary movies are all part of the fun. But we all know that the real fun begins on Halloween when children get to dress up in their costume and roam the streets giving tricks or receiving treats.

Trick'O'Treating, like Halloween, can be traced back to All Souls Day.  All the poor people would go out at night to people's homes begging and the people would give them treats called soul cakes.  After a while, times changed and the children became the beggars.  As they went to different houses, they would be given fruit, bread, and maybe money.  Now, when the custom came to America, the children would be given candy to prevent the people from being tricked.  It is the tradition that if a person did not give the child candy, the child would play a trick on them.

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If you want to be safe Trick-or-Treating this year, here are some tips, that are sure to keep your children safe.

• Only let your children Trick-Or-Treat during the daytime unless accompanied by an adult (If you don't feel comfortable with that considering recent events, make sure they have an adult you trust with them)
• Plan a safe route so parents know where their older children will be at all times. Set a time to return home, and make sure that your child is old enough and responsible enough to be out alone. 
• Let your children know not to cut through back alleys and fields. Make sure they know to stay in populated places and not to wander through an unknown area. Stay in well lighted areas, at familiar homes in your neighborhood, unless accompanied by an adult. If it is dark, make sure to only knock on door or ring doorbells that indicate they would like trick-or-treaters. 
• Small children should never be allowed to go out alone on Halloween.
  
• NEVER, let your children eat unwrapped candy unless made by you, or they have been examined by you or a trusted adult.
• Instruct your child, never to go into the home of a stranger or get into their car.
• Make sure your child, and/or teenager carries a flashlight, glowstick or has a reflector on their costume, to avoid getting hit by cars.
• If you feel safe enough to let your children go out during the day without an adult, make sure they know to stay together as a group and to be home before it starts to get dark, and to call home if anyone is missing.

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What: Halloween at the Living Planet Aquarium

Join the Living Planet Aquarium for a costume contest, creepy crafts, spooky story time, a scavenger hunt and hands on activities throughout the aquarium. Are you brave enough to walk through the haunted rainforest?

 Where: The Living Planet Aquarium

               725 E. 10600 S.
              Sandy, UT 84094

 When: October 31, 2009

What: Halloween Spooktacular

"Mayoral Pumpkin Carve-off" from 1 to 2 p.m. where Mayors Peter Corroon and Ralph Becker will face off in a pumkin carving contest, with the winner decided by Salt Lake's youngest voters-to-be — the museum guests. Along with lots of other exciting Halloween Activities.

Where: Discovery Gateway

               444 W. 100 South

               Salt Lake City, UT 84124

When: October 31, 2009

              Activities start at noon

What: Boo-nanza

Join the spooky fun at the SHAC for a haunted locker room, canoe rides and other Halloween games. At 7:00 pm, the lights are dimmed for a dive-in Halloween movie, Casper, so don’t forget your floaties and innertubes.

Where: Sand Hollow Aquatic Center, 1144 N. Lava Flow Drive

When: October 30, 2009 at 6pm

If you have a list of things to buy, you can get them with a Prepaid Debit Card from Check City. Keep your Halloween expenses and events planned this year.

Hunt Mysteries Dinner Theater at Boccias D'Italia in Harrisville, Utah, has scheduled its Halloween Musical Comedy Murder Mystery Dinner Theater throughout October.

In “Dracula’s Grand Masquerade Ball: Deadly Wedded Bliss,” guests are summoned by Count Dracula to his Annual Grand Masquerade Ball, where all the local monsters and townspeople join in the Halloween seasons festivities of illusion, mystery, and intrigue. Rumors are circulating that Dracula, in a plot to rule the world has killed Dr. Victor. Dr. Victor is thought to be the creator of Frankenstein and Frankenstein’s Bride. Entertaining his guests are Dracula’s three wickedly enchanting brides, Corruptya, Jezabel and Luna. Watch as the plot unfolds and secrets are told.

The mystery dinner performances include singing, dancing and loads of comedy, plus audience participation, including interrogating the suspect, actors, in solving the comedy murder mystery.

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What:  Count Dracula's Grand Masquerade Ball: Deadly Wedded Bliss

Where: 1045 N. Washington Blvd. Ogden, UT 84404

When: October 9-31, 2009

Cost: $40.50

For a simple, fun, and in-expensive decorating idea, follow these simple instructions:  Hatching Spiders

Materials Needed: (Give yourself at least 2-3 hours for this craft.)

• 1 Bottle of White Glue
• 2 Bowls
• Plastic Spoon
• Balloon
• Cheesecloth cut into 12- 3"x 18" strips,
• Clear Fishing Line
• Pin 
• Plastic Spiders

Instructions:                                                                                                        

1. Empty the glue bottle into a bowl. Then fill the bottle halfway with water, and shake. Then add the contents of the bottle to the bowl. Stir well.
2. Inflate the balloon and set it in the other bowl.
3. Individually dip the cheesecloth strips into the glue, gently squeeze out the excess fluid, and spread the strips flat on the balloon. Cover the balloon, leaving 3 or 4 small gaps and a 1 1/2-inch opening around the knot for tying on the spiders later. Let the glue dry, rotating the balloon occasionally to speed the drying process.
4. Pop the balloon with a pin, and remove it.
5. Tie a loop for hanging the "egg" at one end of a long piece of fishing line. Near the top of the "egg" insert the other end of the fishing line through the dried cheesecloth. Pull that line through a gap and tie a spider to it. Gently pull the line back until the spider comes to rest against the inside of the "egg", securing the line for hanging.
6. Use more fishing line to create strings of spiders.

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According to Stephen Wagner, from about.com, a paranormal investigator for over 30 years, these are the top ten scary movies of all time. (In alphabetical order only)

• The Exorcist
• The Haunting (1963 Version)
• The Innocents
• Jacob's Ladder
• The Omen
• Poltergiest
• Psycho
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Shining
• The Sixth Sense

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