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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.

If you want a treat, come into Check City where you can get cash immediately for your unwanted scrap gold. This Halloween and always, Check City is treating you.

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

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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Halloween is this Saturday!  So over the next week, as you check back with us, you will be receiving Tricks and Treats on how to throw a great Halloween Party.  If money is an issue, don’t worry.  Go to checkcity.com today to see how you can cash your latest payday check, or even get a cash advance.

Monday- Overview and Top 10 Scary Movies of All Time

Tuesday – Decorations

Friday- Safe Trick-or-Treating, Treats and Tricks

Saturday (Before 10 am MST)-The Main Course, Costumes

This Halloween season you may get scared out of your wits!

Edgar Allan Poe’s reply to this statement, “True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?” This is the way Edgar Allan Poe begins his most famous short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, a short play that will keep you questioning your own sanity. This event features not only a theatrical performance of The Tell-Tale Heart but also showcases Lost Boys.

Lost Boys, was written by Utah Valley's most famous fantasy writer, Orson Scott Card. It is a powerful tale of loss and redemption. The story is shaped around an ordinary American family's bittersweet triumph over dark forces.

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What: Lost Boys and the Tell-Tale Heart

Where: Covey Center for the Arts
             425 W Center St, Provo

When:    Monday, October 26, 2009:   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
             Thursday, October 29, 2009:   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
             Friday, October 30, 2009:   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
             Saturday, October 31, 2009:   7:30 pm - 9:30 pm