Americans and Halloween

An average American spends about 70 dollars on his or her costume and candy and that is not including their children or their family. Even though it is not the most celebrated holiday in the year, it is still one of the biggest ones. I think that spending that much time and money on a costume that you will probably wear for one night is ridiculous and pointless but i guess with the marketing ads going around it is almost impossible to not spend money during any holiday. It is predicted that Americans will spend 2.3 billion dollars on Halloween candy this year pushing it to a new record. That is just a ridiculous number just for candy if you ask me. Overall, even though people like to spend money on pointless things, it helps out the economy since making purchases are supposed to help the American economy that is in a bad condition right now.