9 Halloween Items at Walmart for $5 or Less That You Can Use All Year

We’ve got good news for anyone getting a head start on their Halloween shopping. There are certain items shoppers can budget for buying now that will pay off throughout the rest of the year. Depending on how often you use the following items, there’s even potential to keep using them through the start of 2025. Best of all, every item featured costs less than $5.

From baking to beauty, GOBankingRates took a close look at nine items you can buy at Walmart and use during Halloween and the rest of the year. Here’s which Halloween items it pays to buy now.

• Price: $4.17

If your Halloween costume features spectacular eye makeup, you’ll likely grab a bottle of Equate Beauty eye makeup remover during your Walmart shopping run. 

Any leftover remover — and we expect there will be some — can be put toward removing eye makeup worn to work or out with friends ahead of the holidays.

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• Price: $3.74

Equate sensitive cleansing facial wipes can be used to clean your face and wipe off any makeup. They can even help remove waterproof mascara. With 40 inside every package, any leftover wipes after Halloween can easily be put to use keeping even the most sensitive skin clean.

• Price: $4.48

We have a sneaking suspicion that these Toll House semi-sweet chocolate baking chips will go quickly after Halloween, especially if you love to add chocolate chips to your favorite fall baked goods. At $4.48 for a 12-ounce bag, these chocolate chips can be added into recipes or melted down into baking chocolate.

• Price: $2.08

After Halloween, there will be tons of events like birthdays or holiday parties that call for Betty Crocker chocolate frosting. Keep a container stocked in your pantry. At $2.08 each, it shouldn’t make too much of a dent in your budget.

• Price: $1.92

Didn’t get around to using up Betty Crocker yellow cake mix during Halloween? All good: You can enjoy it year-round for baking cakes, cupcakes and other delicious recipes. Each generously sized 13.25-ounce box of cake mix is $1.92, a price that can easily be accommodated for in your budget.

• Price: $2.87

Mainstays unscented tealight candles make a spooktacular addition to Halloween décor, but also possess enough versatility to be used during each of the four seasons. Inside every bag are 50 tealight candles, which comes out to paying about six cents per candle.

• Price: $2.98

Great Value cranberry juice cocktail is the perfect ingredient to add to Halloween punch, holiday cocktails or to enjoy solo as a refreshing drink. At just under $3 a bottle, you might find yourself periodically shopping for this cranberry juice cocktail several times throughout the year.

• Price: $2.78

Didn’t use all the Great Value drawstring trash bags after tidying up post-Halloween? Put them to work in the kitchen, bathroom or any other space where you have a trash can handy. With 20 bags inside every box, Walmart shoppers only pay about 14 cents per trash bag for steep savings.

• Price: $1.97

Are Way to Celebrate’s black polka dot and striped paper straws too Halloween-specific to be used during any other season? Not at all. These environmentally friendly straws are chic enough to be added to drinks served up during get-togethers with family and friends year-round.