Between all the scary movies, haunted houses, and creepy costumes that pop up throughout the Halloween season, it’s easy to miss the season’s real-life fright: The money levitating out of our wallets and right into our landfills. American households are likely to spend over $85 on average celebrating Halloween this year — sadly many of those dollars will go toward decorations, costumes, and candy that head straight to a landfill on November 1st.