20 and younger
As students settle into routines and gear up for midterms, many also think about Halloween. Being younger than 21 in college has its negatives, especially around the season for creating costumes, bar crawls and house parties.
However, residence halls still have much to offer for those interested in crafting and scary movies.
Junior Haylie McCracken said she likes decorating for Halloween.
In Muncie, places such as dollar stores, Hobby Lobby and Wal-mart have many of the supplies needed.
“The dollar store has great cheap seasonal items that you can use or create into something else like the plastic pumpkins, I love to paint them,” McCracken said.
The decorations can be cheap, but she said it doesn’t matter since they are going to be used once or twice.
“You can be as creative or store-bought as you want,” McCracken said. “Whether you are turning tool into a spider web across your ceiling or buying a paper pumpkin to hang on your door.”
She said she uses a Hobby Lobby app that allows shoppers to buy one regular priced item for 40 percent off.
“Just go into Hobby Lobby a few different times,” McCracken said. “Yes, you may be laughed at, but you save money and have decorations.”
Cheaper decorations help save money to spend on food and drinks. McCracken suggested a punch bowl that looks like it has a bloody hand. To do this, fill a rubber glove with water and freeze it. Then add it to red punch in a clear bowl.
21 and older
Costumes, bars and house parties consume the social lives of the 21 and older crowd. Alcohol and liquor can get expensive and the more someone drinks with the people around them, the less they may care about decorations.
“Forget the decorations and spend your saved pennies on alcohol,” said senior Kaleigh Sheahan.
Junior Grace Nelson said costumes are more important than decorations.
“I’m not really into the whole decorations; I like seeing the costumes and trying to guess what everyone is, especially when it turns into a drinking game,” Nelson said.
Nelson said she invites friends over and they guess costumes. For every wrong guess, they take a shot and guess again.
“Everyone loosens up and has a good time with a little alcohol — alcohol achieves that better than any decorations,” she said.
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