Diane Matich of Designs by Diane in downtown Jackson said her Halloween home décor business has been growing each year. Rhonda Hendricks of Main Street Designs said not only are sales up, but she had customers requesting Halloween decorations back in August. A K-Mart spokesperson reported increased business as well, especially in decorations and candy. She said lawn decorations are very popular and shoppers were leaning more toward spooky merchandise – the scarier the better. Costumes are still a big business as well. But children and adults are not the only ones dressing up this year.

According to the survey, 7.4 million households, plan to don their family pets in some sort of costume. The top five costumes for pets are expected to be Devils, Pumpkins, Witches, Princesses and Angels according to the retailers association survey. Pam Gonzalez of Paws and Claws in Jackson said that most of their sales occur the week of Halloween --  we’ll have to wait until the big night to see what trendy pets in Amador County will be wearing.