HEAR ME ROAR

If one must shop for anything at all, and that includes everyone at least some of the time, and if one can find what one is looking for there, then consignment stores are the way to go. Previously loved goods (furniture, dishes, apparel, lion costumes, etc.) at bargain basement prices, especially for little girls who are in the 90th percentile in height, meaning no outfit lasts very long.

A million adorable Halloween costumes evoked the now infamous parental "Awww," but only one did so with a price tag of less than 10 bucks.

Besides, the lion makes the sound that Zoe finds most fun to imitate.

A lion (for less than 10 bucks) it was!