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This Halloween, The Average Reveler Spent $86 On Costumes — Including For Dogs

An English Bulldog in a Halloween costume parades around Eisenhower Park during Barkfest on Oct. 26, 2019 in East Meadow, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
An English Bulldog in a Halloween costume parades around Eisenhower Park during Barkfest on Oct. 26, 2019 in East Meadow, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

People spent $86 on average for Halloween this year.

We talk to Roben Farzad (@robenfarzad), host of Public Radio’s Full Disclosure, about how Halloween became such a staple of consumer — and now Instagram — culture.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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