Costume Discounters Review

I was given the opportunity to choose a costume for Halloween and write a review. I was like a kid in a candy store at Costume Discounters. It took me TWO days and several emails between my daughter Selena, my Mom and myself …. “Do you like this one??” “what about this one?”  “Ohhhhh this one is even BETTER!”  “Wait, wait, wait, go look at this one!”  Yes, a kid in a candy store!!
Costume Discounters has pages and pages of KIDS costumes, Little Red Riding Hood to Batman & Robin, infants to children. The adult section has everything you can imagine! Alice in Wonderland to Star Wars! Sexy costumes, Patriotic costumes, plus size, wigs, and hats too! All at prices that won’t break the bank!!

I finally chose the Kids S.W.A.T. Team Costume I couldn’t be more PLEASED!!! First super fast shipping.  Second, the quality of the costume is amazing!

The Kids S.W.A.T. Team Costume includes several pieces, starting with a full one piece, long sleeve, polyester bodysuit. The bodysuit is well constructed, with a 12 inch opening in the back that makes the costume easy to get on and off. The material is stretchy enough to fit a size 4 to a size 6. And if your trick-or treating on a colder evening there’s enough stretch to the body suit you can put it over a warm outfit. This is a costume you will WANT to show off!! Trust me!!  Anyway, there is plenty of stretch to it.
The next piece of the costume is the vest. This is not a thin vinyl piece that will tear the first time it’s worn. This vest is a heavy duty foam with strong binding sewn all the way around. The front of the vest sports bright green S.W.A.T lettering. There is a wide strip of velcro across the top and another along the bottom of the vest with 2″ wide side tabs used to close the vest making it adjustable for any size child. I wish I could get a better picture of the vest material. It’s so well constructed!!

Updating My SEO Because Even the Internet Needs a Good Declutter

If you’ve been poking around peanutbutterandwhine.com lately and thought, “Huh, something feels different,” congratulations. Your instincts are sharp and possibly paranormal.

I’m deep in the process of updating my SEO. Not the glamorous kind of update where confetti falls and Google personally thanks me, but the gritty, behind-the-scenes kind where old posts get dusted off, links get refreshed, and keywords are gently coaxed into behaving better. Think less makeover montage, more haunted house cleanup.

While revisiting early posts, I discovered something unsettling. Many of the original photos and videos have completely vanished. Not broken links. Not corrupted files. Gone. Poof. Into the digital ether. This can only confirm one thing: peanutbutterandwhine.com is haunted.

There is no other explanation. Sure, it could be old hosting changes, platform migrations, or me being wildly optimistic about my organizational skills a decade ago. But let’s be honest. It’s ghosts. Internet ghosts. Possibly annoyed by my early font choices.

So here I am, updating old posts with new images, clearer formatting, better internal linking, and SEO-friendly structure so Google can finally understand what I’ve been yelling into the void all these years. I’m also making sure posts connect to each other logically, like linking back to my ongoing fun stuff such as the Monthly $50 Your Way Giveaway right here:
👉 https://peanutbutterandwhine.com

Internal links help readers stick around, help search engines crawl the site, and possibly appease the spirits living in my archives.

I’m also adding relevant external links to trustworthy sources, because Google appreciates good neighbors. For example, SEO best practices straight from the pros over at Moz:
👉 https://moz.com/learn/seo

The goal isn’t to rewrite history. It’s to make sure my content is still useful, readable, and visible in a world where the internet changes faster than my craft room fills up.

If you stumble across a refreshed post, missing photos, or suspiciously improved clarity, just know it’s intentional. And if something disappears again overnight… I’ll be lighting a sage bundle and updating my alt text.

Stay tuned. The ghosts are watching. 👻