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Friday and Saturday will feature Halloween costumes in the workplace and in schools and some are scrambling for ideas of what to put together at the last minute. Procrastination doesn't stop there, as last-minute recipes are also being tabbed heavily in searches. We have links to some fairly easy cookie recipes and other cool treat recipes you can whip up quickly and still have enough time to get that costume ready to go.

Jamie Lee Curtis Looks adorable at the 16th Annual Dream Halloween (Image: WENN)

Let's begin with that. C. Spencer Beggs has put together an assortment of ideas "to cover your lousy, cheapskate, procrastinating back." Ouch, but hey, it is a bit late and even insulting help is sometimes welcome. Follow along here for his ideas to help bail us out. Pittsburgh Live comes to the rescue with similar thrifty costumes for the last minute as well.


Examples are here and don't feel alone, "About 75 to 80 percent of the (Halloween costume sales) will be on Friday and Saturday, the big party days," according to a store owner cited by the paper. Here are three random selections from their list for last second choices:

Freudian Slip: Wear a slip, and paint or pin the word "Freud" on it.

Deviled Egg: Dress in all white and paint or attach a yellow circle to your stomach. Wear devil horns and carry a pitchfork.

Gold Digger: Go glam in a gold dress and sprinkle some gold glitter in your makeup. Paint a toy shovel gold and carry a bag of gold rocks.


More Halloween treats help from the folks that certainly should know:


To help trick-or-treaters map their routes this Halloween, Hershey notes in a release that they conducted a national survey to find out which houses were handing out their favorite Hershey treats. Following are some “tricks” to increase the odds of receiving desired “treats”:

* Houses with black shutters are 77 percent more likely to hand out Kit Kat Wafer Bars and trick-or-treaters have a 37 percent greater chance of scaring up a Kit Kat Wafer Bar from a ranch house².

* Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup lovers should forego ranch houses and opt instead to ring the bell of two-story houses where they’ll have a 26 percent greater chance of receiving the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter.

* Knock on brown doors if seeking Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bars. Trick-or-treaters have a 32 percent greater chance of receiving a Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar from homes with brown doors.

Lots of recipes, crafts and other ideas here from the chocolate candy company.


Want to bake some Halloween cookies? Moms Who Think have Halloween recipes here designed to wow the little ghosts and goblins!