It's crazy. And yet ironic.

Last year, my family could care less about how our house looked. All that mattered was getting candy. This year...well...

Halloween lights: $6

Costumes: $30

Scene Setters: $3

Flying Clown: $80

Face emerging from tombstone: $10

Halloween sounds CD: $4

Fake Spider Webs: $5

Real Spider Webs: ...we still owe those spiders.

Skulls: $7

Scythe: $6.59

Headless Skeleton: $60

Mummy: $30

Motion sensor Guy-ripping-his-own-head-off statue: $200

Skull Chandeleir: $20

Air Powered Grim Reaper Gate: $100

Fake Blood: 50c per ounce

Real Blood (I'm not kidding): $50

Talking Bone: $15

Comedic Skeleton who needs to go to the bathroom despite having no kidneys (or organs...and flesh): $25

Walking Werewolf Doll (that sings really...okay it just sings): $15

Ability to keep our dad cool about the mass budget: $-20

Money can't buy happiness. For everything else, there's child labor.