Save the Date! National Costume Swap Day

Is it possible?  Halloween time again?  Save this date – October 8 – to get off on a fun, green start.

Last year, my friends Lynn and Corey over at Celebrate Green launched National Costume Swap Day as a way to draw attention to swapping costumes to save money, keep millions of pounds of fabric (and plastic) from landfills, and as a fun way to kick off their Green Halloween®!

It was a tremendous success with more than 75 swaps in 22 states, DC and Canada, thousands of people participating and great press including a segment on Good Morning America.  This year National Costume Sway Day is Saturday, October 8th and it’s easy to participate.

If you have an organization, group of neighborhood friends, or school group interested in a fun way to get together and exchange costumes, you can register a swap, find local swaps and stay up-to-date on new swaps right up until Halloween.   A costume swap is a community building activity and of course, in these challenging times, will save families money.  Just go to www.CostumeSwapDay.com to find out more information in your area or register your own swap which will help let your community know about it too.   Registration is easy and free.

Green Halloween has partnered with both KIWI Magazine, a magazine dedicated to raising families the natural and organic way, and Swap.com, the leading swap marketplace with nearly one million members to help make this event the best it can be.

“A costume swap is recycling at its most fun,” said Corey Colwell-Lipson, founder of Green Halloween. “It not only means that fewer resources are used to make new products, but also means less packaging and less waste.

Sounds like a good idea to me! Save the date…October 8!