One spent $20 on candy. Another paid $700 for a custom costume. Here's how Halloween costs stacked up this year.

Once upon a time, your mom plopped a witch’s hat on your head, handed you a plastic pail and sent you on your merry way to trick-or-treat with your friends. The expectations around Halloween have since significantly ramped up — and so have the expenses. Matching family costumes for the 'gram. Boo baskets. $299 12-foot skeleton and animatronic werewolves. Trunk or treats, king-size candy bars, pumpkin patch festivities ... add it all up, and you're looking at one seriously scary credit card bill.

But, hey, it's a holiday. As our candy comas finally wear off, we asked three women — two moms shopping for the whole family, and one shopowner splashing out on a $500 costume — to share what they spent this spooky season.

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