The Morning After

While most people treat the day after Thanksgiving as the biggest shopping day of the year, for me that's always been the day after Halloween. All those temporary costume stores that pop up for the month before the holiday try to unload all their merchandise at 50% off on November 1. And you can never have too much glitter hair spray or bad wigs.

Here's another tip I learned from the SF Chronicle's Culture Blog: Go scavenge for discarded costume parts after the end of the big street party. (In this case, Halloween night in the Castro.) Maybe you'll find enough devil horns or angel wings to make a pair.