I don't really dress up for Halloween anymore.
In fact, I can't remember the last time I went all out with a costume.
I remember dressing up as a cheerleader one year (go figure), trick-or-treating for all of ten minutes and then doing a face plant on someone's driveway and skinning my knee. I think I was six. Well, I hope I was six.
I'm sure I did dress up after that but I don't have any vivid memories of really enjoying it.
Apparently that's going to change this year.
When you're in school, it's really hard to avoid it. Somehow I managed to escape it all four years of undergrad, but I'm no longer being let off the hook.
And so, the costume search commences.
Here are the suggestions I've received thus far:
-Garden Ho
-Static cling
-Dino from The Flintstones
-Librarian
-Carrot
While those are all... valid suggestions, I'm respectfully declining.
So, this is your task:
I need a Halloween costume.
Here are the requirements:
-Inexpensive
-Easy to put together/make
-No bare midriffs
-No cliches (e.g. nurse, angel, dry cleaning)
*Tip - Sluttier suggestions, though not my first preference, will still be considered depending on just how darn slutty they truly be. If it's trampy yet original, it may still have a fighting chance.
Onward, costume soldiers!
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You can be who I'm being if you want. Mia from Pulp Fiction!
I just need the wig because I have a white shirt and black capris... but in your profile pick your hair looks close!
Also, another funny idea is to be a "Sugar Mama" and just glue candy and fake money to yourself! hehe
wrap yourself in foil and go as left overs!! orrr...hmmm i don't know... i'll think about it and get back to you.
i "get" to do halloween twice this year. yippeee.
one costume is gonna be kimberley vlaeminck. white t-shirt, write her name on the back and write "I uhmmm fell asleep?" on the front. oh, and i'll draw 56 blue stars on my face.
depending on how hard those stars are to clean off, that might actually be my costume both nights....
yup- i like the rain. i might say that the rain excites me... might.
btw- im in cleveland. the mistake on the lake. easy to complain about, but not bad at all if you put some effort in.
Thank you for the comment on my blog. I'm happy to have found you, as reading this post made me chuckle. :)
I'm terrible at costume ideas... Seriously. If I gave you a few ideas you'd just post them as fodder for the amusement of your readers (but there would be nothing viable about the ideas themselves). Sorry :(
-Marie
Lol... I wasn't ALLOWED to celebrate halloween as a child... the first one I celebrated in the village I went as the key and my BFF went as the lock! itwas cute....
Oooh I saw this guy there who's costume was 'myspace'
you could go as your blog!
no, not so much?
the only time i ever won a halloween costume contest was when i dressed up as something i thought everyone would love... a big bag of weed. I dressed in all green, hung a clear garbage bag around my neck and filled the bottom with fake moss and little Styrofoam "seeds". I dont know how appropriate it would be for you but who likes being appropriate anyway ?
I am so bad with this! I've never been good at getting a costume together. You could always blow up purple balloons, pin them to yourself and go as a bunch of grapes! (lame, I know)
I always have this similar dilemma! This year I decided to go as a girl from the popular show "mad men". I figured I could use the dress as a staple in my wardrobe later. Last year I went as Audrey Hepburn and it was surprisingly cost effective because I used a black dress I already had, and borrowed a lot of the accessories. Those that I did buy were bought very cheap at Forever 21. Good luck with your costume search! Here is a link of the post I wrote explaining my last year's costume in detail just in case you're intersted:
http://lovelylittlethingsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/ideas
Weeelll, for some reason I see you as Dora the Explorer. Go figure. :)
BUT I've always thought Meg Ryan's costume in "D.O.A." was really clever. She wears a slip and writes the word "Freudian" on it. Get it? :) I thought that since you are now a MFT student, you could really pull it off . . .
I live adjacent to the Halloween capitol of the world (besides Transylvania) and can't escape the festivities either. But I do think I can get away w/out dressing up.
My oldest wants to go as a robot this year. I figure we'll spraypaint some boxes silver and accessorize a bit. Cheap and not slutty (I hope, since I'm dressing my 2 y/o son that way). And my boss said he won a prize for a robot costume once. (His son also once came to our work party dressed as a washing machine, which was awesome).
Look forward to finding out what you pick. Be sure to post pics!
Back when we were allowed to wear costumes for work, a woman put on a white garbage bag and taped food wrappers all over it. She was "white trash."
I'm just going to be a 50s girl.
I think the Freudian slip idea is great!
I also want to officially suggest "slutty pumpkin" a la Courtney from Dorm Life.
And count your blessings, Sara. I don't even have plans for Halloween this year :(
Stick "Smarties" candies all over your jeans and you can be Mrs. Smarty Pants.
Orrrrr, get a nice apron and a cape and you can be SUPER MOM! (just attach a tool belt with diapers, bottles etc.)
Orrrr, be a pirate wench. Pirates are always fun!
Happy halloween costume hunting!
1) I heart that episode of 30 Rock.
2) Given the people you hung out with in undergrad, and I am quite shocked that you never dressed up.
3) I'm not much for costume advice. Last time I went out, I went as an IU ballet major, with a torn up "Jacobs Alumni" tshirt, ballet clothes, and candy cigarettes.
4) This year I will be at a music theory conference and the jokes are pretty much writing themselves as to what people would dress up as. The sad thing is, I doubt anyone will actually dress up. It's probably too "serious" for that.
Go as the 80s. :) Hit your local Goodwill and go crazy.
hi! your blog is so funny! i love it! i'm happy to follow you ;)
stopping by from sits to say hi and thank you for your visit and a funny comment!
have a great weekend!
justyna
How about a '50s housewife, paired with a milk man?? You just need to find a man to pair yourself with... ;-)
Go for the sweater set, skirt, pearls, curly hair, the whole works - so cute!
I want me and Jeff to dress up as this if we are ever invited to a costume party. Oh, and the milkman definitely needs glass bottles! HAVE FUN - miss you!
Happy Saturday Sharefest doll! I have the same dilemma...all through undergrad I slid through the cracks and never had to dress up...what is it with grad school students! They party more than freshmen :) This year the party I'm attending is a "Pimps and Hoes" theme...so original right?! But, last year the hubs and I were 1989 prom king and queen. I totally rocked a dress that I constructed from sequins and tulle! you can check it out here: http://truebeautyinsideandout.blogspot.com/search/label/Halloween%20Costumes
Happy weekend and good luck on your search!
Happy SITS Sharefest Saturday! I hate figuring out costumes...I am a 21st century stepford mom (1st time dressing up as an adult)...One apron, cool jean and stiletto boots...DONE!
Holly
I've been trying to think of something all week! (Yes, that is how lame I am!) The best I could come up with was a homeless person, but I love the leftovers idea!
Oh friend. I feel you. Except I heart halloween and have a 3 year backlog of costumes which I can't reveal.
How about kat von D? I heart her and it doesn't have to be slutty.
How about a college girl from 1999, you can wear black flared pants, a denim jacket and express shelf tank top, a tiffany heart bracelet and a kate spade bag with straaaaaaight hair.
ummm... idk how PC this is... but I think it would be funny.
Go with two Black Men on either side of you and you could be an oreo =P
too much?
Cereal Killer. Be a cereal box with fake blood all over it and hold a plastic butcher knife.
HAHA. now THAT is awesome.
One year, I went as a homicidal maniac.... (they look like everyone else)
i just dressed as myself.
Sir Nathanael,
I totally did that one year! Oh Wednesday Adams.
hahaha... what ruined my fun is no one got it.
I am so happy you got my Adams Family reference. This is why you absolutely rock... that, and your "makes my roommates look at me funny when I literally LoL at your posts" humor.
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