Americans expected to spend record $13.5B on Halloween, many on credit

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAmericans are expected to spend a record thirteen point five billion dollars on Halloween this year, up from thirteen point one billion last year, according to the National Retail Federation.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFortune reports that one in four revelers will borrow to pay for it, and Gen Zers are the most likely, at forty-three percent.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty-three percent of my generation is financing a bedsheet with eyeholes. Costumes are four point four billion dollars, so somebody is paying real money to be a sexy toaster.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorParents with children under eighteen expect to spend two hundred sixty-nine dollars on average, according to LendingTree.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentTwo sixty-nine.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd the per-person average rose sixty-nine cents, to one hundred fifteen dollars and fourteen cents.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSixty-nine cents. The record is basically one fun-size bar, and a quarter of us put it on a credit card.