Halloween Spending Confirms Holiday's Popularity

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Some hocus-pocus as I try to ignore who Jennifer Anniston is kissing at the grocery checkout rack -- and as the neighbors down the block plop Styrofoam tombstones in their yard while stringing purple lights, polyester cobwebs and giant spiders. Can an inflatable ghost and vampire soundtrack be next?

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a boo humbug. Just the other day I deliberately stepped on a cackle doormat at Walgreens and nearly bought some candy corn lights.

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Halloween Spending Confirms Holiday's Popularity

I've dressed as everything from a red devil (first grade, second prize) to a monk (bar costume, no prize). And years before CNN, I went one Hallow...

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