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Emma Rose Shapiro on how HalloweenHelpers.com is helping to hand out spare costumes to kids in need
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Hey everybody I'm Julie -- after watching fox highlight thank you so much for joining us today and we get a lot of kids seemed to different segments for you this half hour and the next one of course.
Just in time for Halloween Halloween costumes are really big hit.
In a lot of people's homes and you like to get those kids and those costumes as early as possible baby costumes and horribly cute toddler -- -- costumes.
But it is a lot of money and nowadays parents have enough to worry about with.
With with supplying their kids with with educational tools and all the supplies they need for schools we talked about just moments ago -- music whether it be guitars in the classroom like we just talked about.
So at the very bottom of that totem pole -- Halloween costumes for those with a tight budget and Halloween helpers is giving needy kids costumes for the holidays.
And I'm -- now by Emma rose Shapiro she's the founder of Halloween helpers.
And she's and one would Pennsylvania joining us via Skype thank you so much for our.
Talking to US and first or -- you -- first come up with the idea for Halloween helpers.
Well I came up the idea that eventually turn in the Halloween how players when I let me back -- -- any.
I was looking through my closet and I noticed that I had a lot of Halloween costumes and -- I -- costumes and I would never Wear again and I had no idea to doing that -- And I don't really encouraged need to -- but I ain't that I commanded.
Do some things that these cost him realize that I was extent -- about to get any book are.
Here are solidly.
And other and it Byron -- -- I added to find a way -- -- my taxes as well as my friend -- my being very tight games and other children.
So what was your goal in founding Halloween helpers anyone it's obviously get these costumes and and and a bunch of costumes in the homes of kids that can't.
Necessarily -- -- you know afford them so hot how did it start -- I mean you had your own collection but how did you appeal to.
Other kids like yourself to an extra -- costumes to donate.
Content.
-- are very leery of like being kind and he had thought being -- only gonna collapse that happened maybe less but we ended up collecting rookie -- well.
And in effect here helping out safely collected over -- -- and you can't give them detergent can't very very Philadelphia anything.
Well that's amazing by the way everybody its -- Halloween helpers dot com so if you have.
Spare costumes and I know everybody watching has got to have at least one in their closet that the kid will never Wear again because as we know kids grow too fast.
And then these costumes end up just kind of collecting dust so.
It's a great great idea what type of response have you reached from.
The community and from families that have did recipients of that year of your generous donations.
Congress I'm trapped between 88 and -- Unthinkable like you see anything they think is cool it can't be and it counted -- -- -- in less than.
And I think that we think back -- and I can't believe.
I think people have been affecting anything happy from all over the country and a lot of them -- brand new and its parent you know -- Well that's great Fiat brand new customs are hard to come by -- because even when you go on eBay you'll end up spending a lot of money on them.
All right we're gonna have to cut this short -- unfortunately your Skype connection is sort of fizzling out on us in the audio isn't so clear.
But at -- -- a web -- up there again you're also on Twitter someone to make sure we promote this as best we can.
Again it's the Halloween helpers dot com and you can also go on Twitter at Halloween helper.
And this is an awesome thing for a lot of parents who I'm sure would be.
Thrilled to not have to pay the high money that that they're charging these days for Halloween costumes.
Thank you so much for talking to summarize Shapiro founder of Halloween helpers.
