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  "headline": "Adults now drive $13.5 billion Halloween spend; home decor and food outpace costumes.",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ PAPER · Category shift—adult spending dominance · Adultoween consumers\n\nAdults now drive $13.5 billion Halloween spend; home decor and food outpace costumes.\n\nThe report is noting a real shift: Halloween is no longer a weekend. It's a season, and adults are the spenders. The bundles that work are the ones that mix seasonal theater with functional goods. A pumpkin spice coffee bundle is not new, but bundling it with a house-imprinted mug that consumers keep year-round is. The adult buyer wants something that pays off after October 31. Do the category math this week: what's your core, non-seasonal product? What seasonal item makes sense with it? Bundle and test before Labor Day next year.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ PAPER · Category shift—adult spending dominance · Adultoween consumers\n\nAdults now drive $13.5 billion Halloween spend; home decor and food outpace costumes.\n\nThe report is noting a real shift: Halloween is no longer a weekend. It's a season, and adults are the spenders. The bundles that work are the ones that mix seasonal theater with functional goods. A pumpkin spice coffee bundle is not new, but bundling it with a house-imprinted mug that consumers keep year-round is. The adult buyer wants something that pays off after October 31. Do the category math this week: what's your core, non-seasonal product? What seasonal item makes sense with it? Bundle and test before Labor Day next year.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Bundling Play}\n◆ PAPER · Category shift—adult spending dominance · Adultoween consumers\n\nAdults now drive $13.5 billion Halloween spend; home decor and food outpace costumes.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/adultoween-consumers-2026-10-27t00-7",
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      "title": "Adults now drive $13.5 billion Halloween spend; home decor and food outpace costumes.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nPer Modern Retail, adults are fueling $13.5 billion in Halloween spending through Adultoween growth, with home decor, food, and beverage moving faster than traditional costume categories, reshaping seasonal category mix.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you make food, beverage, home goods, or party supplies, run a Halloween bundle test in September targeting adults 28-45 with household income $75K+. Bundle a seasonal item with a non-seasonal core product (e.g., premium hot chocolate mix + ceramic mug, or craft spirits + party glass). Price at 20% margin over sum of parts. Market to 'Adultoween' specifically—paint the bundle as a host gift or self-treat. Test a 500-unit batch; track sell-through and repeat. If repeat climbs, it's a seasonal revenue multiplier.\nWhat that means for you: The report is noting a real shift: Halloween is no longer a weekend. It's a season, and adults are the spenders. The bundles that work are the ones that mix seasonal theater with functional goods. A pumpkin spice coffee bundle is not new, but bundling it with a house-imprinted mug that consumers keep year-round is. The adult buyer wants something that pays off after October 31. Do the category math this week: what's your core, non-seasonal product? What seasonal item makes sense with it? Bundle and test before Labor Day next year.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Modern Retail: https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/the-rise-of-adultoween-and-how-adults-are-driving-halloween-spending/?utm_campaign=modernretaildis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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