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Costumes that is – people go out and spend a fortune on them each year and with more and more events where people are dressing up either for fun or because they are required to it can seem never ending! Most people also seem to have this idea that an outfit or costume can only be worn once.

So why not find a way to recycle or return them – and by recycle I don’t mean literally, I mean like maybe creat a swap group at your work or in your group of friend – so when you are done with a costume hand it in and select a new one from the others your friends have handed in themselves.

I found a site that has loads of information on holiday costume returns at Costume-returns.com – they let you know exactly what items are returnable and what are not. Mascots for example cannot be returned.

The site also has loads of links to other related sites and I found lots of really cool costume sites from there. With halloween now over I guess it’s time to start thinking about New Years Eve as that’s the next event I would usually dress up in a costume for

When my fiance and I first started going out he wore offensive t shirts all the time, and when I say all the time I mean all the time. The first time he met my parents he was wearing a mildly offensive one and he wore them to work! Now I don’t mind a good funny/rude t shirt, I own many myself to be honest, but I think there’s a time and a place, right?

Thankfully after 6 and a half years together I have managed to talk him round a little bit, so he only wears them half the time now

I just got around to watching last weeks Project Runway, where they had to create a look based on a movie genre. Why were the all so against getting ‘Western’? It was left til last and the two that got it groaned while all the others laughed at them.

Nothing wrong with a big of Cowboy inspired fashion, personally I would have struggled more with the Sci-fi genre.

And who had the last laugh because as it turned out the two Western inspired looks were two of the best, with Christophers coming a close second overall. His outfit made me want to go out and buy Frey Boots from SterlingLeather.com and rock it like his model did down that runway

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It’s never too early to start thinking about halloween costumes , I have already begun my search for awesome boys halloween costumes for my nephew and of course one for myself. Halloween is one of the many reasons I love living in the USA, as it is not really celebrated in any other of the many countries I have lived in — not to any where near this extent at least. In the UK and Australia they do have it but it is mainly a kids holiday and not that huge of a deal.

This coming October it will be my third Halloween in the states! The first year I didn’t get that into it because I was not used to it being such a big deal, but felt totally left out after seeing every one else go mad for it. Last year I went as an alien and this year I am very excited to go costume shopping on Pinatas.com because I am a lot skinnier now and have a wider choice of costumes.

Pinatas.com sell costumes for every one and have a huge range, I love all their girls halloween costumes and they offer free shipping on orders over $50 if you enter code “pppfree”, how sweet is that?

I was flipping through some trashy magazine that my mum had passed on to me a few days ago and wondering why I was bothering — the content of these magazines really doesn’t float my boat, I don’t understand why people care what diets the celebs are on this week or who’s been seen partying where. In this particular magazine there was a big two page story titled ‘Oh No, Skinny Celebs’ where they were complaining about size zero apparently becoming popular among celebs again — the article included a picture of ‘scary skinny’ Jessica Alba and mused how small she was at a reported size 4. Jump forward about 10 pages and there is an article about how Jessica Alba ‘Beat the pregnancy pounds’, there’s an interview with her where she is being told she looks gorgeous and asking her how she did it.

What? If they can’t even make their minds up in one issue it really says a lot doesn’t it?

The only aspect of these magazines I enjoy is the fashion and style sections, but I am much better off buying actual fashion magazines for those. Sit me down with an issue of Vogue instead any day

Of course I could never afford the fashions that appear in Vogue, they had a feature on Louis Vuitton handbags that cost more than my first car a few issues ago.

But thankfully these days replicas rule the roost for us ‘normal’ folks with ‘normal’ bank balances, you can pick up fake designer name handbags for a fraction of the cost of the real thing and let’s be honest, 95% of the people who see you rocking the bag won’t even know the difference.

As long as you know what to look out for and make sure you get a good fake, I really don’t see the point in selling off a kidney to get the real deal