The numbers are frightening to some - next to Christmas, Halloween is the highest spending holiday of the year.
With costumes, decorations and candy, Winnipeggers say they plan to spend more than the national average this year.
In 2012, the average family of four spent about $300 on the holiday, which includes costumes, decorations and candy.
Pat Spence was shopping at Party Stuff on Regent Avenue Friday.
She spends an average of $150 on Halloween each year.
"I guess there is a budget, because I don't want to go way overboard, but I guess sometimes you just have to buy it anyway," said Spence.
Sandi Hrem, area manager of Party Stuff, said Halloween is their busiest time of the year,
"This represents a third of our yearly business - just one month - so you can only imagine the amount of traffic that comes in here,” said Hrem.
The average costume costs Canadians about $60. With a family of four, Halloween shopper Kelly Pabuoya said that sounds about right.
"I usually like the $40 to $60 range, but sometimes it's fun to splurge more because the nicer costumes are always around $80 to $100,” said Pabuoya.
Ed Janczyszyn spends more than that each year on his haunted house.
"Halloween props are not cheap. If you want to go and buy them, they can cost you a little, mini-fortune. We of course spend our own mini-fortune, but we also add to it and do a lot of labour ourselves to make things work."
In seven years operating his haunted house, the Riverbend Cemetery at 102 Vince Leah Drive, Janczyszyn said he’s spent thousands.
Canadians spend more than $1.5 billion a year during Halloween - $322 million of that on candy.
