We’ve already heard from all the Halloween overachievers who have been working on their costumes for months. Let’s hear from those of us who are still throwing things together. What’s the plan??
@capnjb
Thanks. This will be my 4th shift in over 3 months! Planning to bake some Halloween themed cupcakes and take a bag of Snickers in (in case anybody does come trick or treating). If not we’ll eat them all!
I ordered my witch costume (from eBay, my nephew wants me to be a witch)and it was supposed to deliver on Sunday, then yesterday and now today and it’s still not here. I’ve contacted the seller and it’s a post office issue. I don’t want to spend more money bc he’s only 2 but then again I want to dress up with him. I’m just frustrated.
My best underachiever costume was when I was 13 or 14 (so many years ago I forget). At the last minute 2 of my friends and I decide to go candy gathering. I went as a jogger.
@yakkoTDI Hmmm. I don’t think much of the teens who come around expecting candy dressed in their normal clothes; I guess “jogger” is at least a tiny bit of creative thinking. I had two guys in jeans and flannel shirts and hoodies; I said something about their lame costumes; I should have said “Let me guess - Dumb and Dumber?”
@Kyeh@yakkoTDI I still give them all candy politely because who knows with some parents. They might not be allowed to be going out or may not have money to do much. Last year I even saw little kids with no costumes (parents were with them), so I doubt it was the kids choice (unless it was a sensory issue, or the weather made their planned costume not be useable. Some years it’s hot af, and other years it’s near freezing. It was always hard to guess when my kids were little. But we figured it out, not all parents give a shit.
@remo28@yakkoTDI Oh, that’s a kind attitude. My neighborhood is not a low-income one though. (I wouldn’t be able to afford it except we moved in decades ago.) It’s the teens who I’m skeptical of, and the little ones have always had costumes.
Many years ago one of our nurses brought her daughter in in a white T-shirt with a big magic marker “P” on the front and make-up under her eye to give her a shiner.
Yep… She was a black-eyed pea!
(I loved it!)
one I saw on the book of face yesterday… go to the paint store and get all the different grey swatch cards and tape them to a shirt. Fifty Shades of Grey!
@sammydog01 I have an inflatable Dino and giant squid costume. But both of them are a pain to wear. The squid is like 8 feet tall, and the Dino steams up in the mask area so you can’t see after wearing it for a few minutes. The wind has been so bad I didn’t bother with the inflatable decorations and a neighbor took theirs down yesterday because of the wind. I do have light up pumpkins from an irk I might put out, but it will depend on the weather. It’s been raining for the last 4 hours, and the yard might be a mud pit tomorrow. So we will see if I try to mess with it.
I had a friend named Candy who was trying to think of something last minute for a party where everyone knew her. I said take a bag of wrapped candy and tape or staple them to a tunic or sweater. She did!
I put some black and purple flowers on a with hat earlier tonight. It’s also got some black and purple glittery sprigs (idk what you would call them) and some sparkly spiders and bats. Then I’ll add a cloak that I got on clearance a few years ago and a witchy t-shirt that is also black with purple. Black jeans (if I can find them) and black boots. Nothing super difficult to hand out candy in.
Not dressing up for Halloween, but my GF and I went to the Ren Festival last weekend.
She dressed up,
I half-assed it…
I did get a few “Reprimands” for violating the prime directive…
One merchant, who happened to have a cloak for sale hanging on their front door yelled : “Hey Starfleet! Wanna buy a CLOAKING DEVICE?!?”
As a late grade schooler I took a black garbage bag (yard leafe size), cut a head and arm holes, covered it in strips of newspaper taped on, put a bag over my head with eye holes cut out…
@Kidsandliz We once went to a Halloween party that specified paper costumes. I took one of those paper lawn & leaf bags like the ones sold at Home Despot, cut armholes on the side and leg holes on the bottom & had my skinny husband step into it. Then I filled it with a leafy garland from Michaels in fall colors. It looked pretty funny.
I sewed myself a kimono from big sheets of handmade fibrous paper. That took a while.
Wearing a set of scrubs and going (to work) as an ER nurse…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
what can I say?
@chienfou You’re not an underachiever, you’re a superhero
@capnjb
Thanks. This will be my 4th shift in over 3 months! Planning to bake some Halloween themed cupcakes and take a bag of Snickers in (in case anybody does come trick or treating). If not we’ll eat them all!
Brown hooded robe
@ybmuG Jawa or Jedi just depends on height
@jouest or Francis of Assisi vs Friar Tuck depending on girth
@jouest I’m actually thinking, given the date, Martin Luther
@ybmuG nailing “trick or treat” to someone’s door would be a real commitment to the bit
@jouest my 95 Reese’s Pieces!
I ordered my witch costume (from eBay, my nephew wants me to be a witch)and it was supposed to deliver on Sunday, then yesterday and now today and it’s still not here. I’ve contacted the seller and it’s a post office issue. I don’t want to spend more money bc he’s only 2 but then again I want to dress up with him. I’m just frustrated.
@Star2236 I hope it arrives in time
@Star2236
My best underachiever costume was when I was 13 or 14 (so many years ago I forget). At the last minute 2 of my friends and I decide to go candy gathering. I went as a jogger.
Costume: Sneakers, socks and shorts.
@yakkoTDI
Hmmm. I don’t think much of the teens who come around expecting candy dressed in their normal clothes; I guess “jogger” is at least a tiny bit of creative thinking. I had two guys in jeans and flannel shirts and hoodies; I said something about their lame costumes; I should have said “Let me guess - Dumb and Dumber?”
@Kyeh We weren’t expecting much and didn’t go to a lot of houses. Honestly we did better than expected and were quite happy about it.
@yakkoTDI If these two had had a good line of banter I’d have been more generous, but they were just lazy.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI I still give them all candy politely because who knows with some parents. They might not be allowed to be going out or may not have money to do much. Last year I even saw little kids with no costumes (parents were with them), so I doubt it was the kids choice (unless it was a sensory issue, or the weather made their planned costume not be useable. Some years it’s hot af, and other years it’s near freezing. It was always hard to guess when my kids were little. But we figured it out, not all parents give a shit.
@remo28 @yakkoTDI Oh, that’s a kind attitude. My neighborhood is not a low-income one though. (I wouldn’t be able to afford it except we moved in decades ago.) It’s the teens who I’m skeptical of, and the little ones have always had costumes.
(Also works with “Asian child” or any number of other groups.)
After high school, I kept my cap and gown and went as a “graduate” for a couple of years.
@Oldelvis We used mom’s gown and various kids in the family over the years went as a witch
Refashioned Hippie on YouTube found a listing for a truly minimalist Pikachu costume that’s hilariously NSFW.
Many years ago one of our nurses brought her daughter in in a white T-shirt with a big magic marker “P” on the front and make-up under her eye to give her a shiner.
Yep… She was a black-eyed pea!
(I loved it!)
Wear a Superman T-Shirt under your normal clothes. You’re Clark Kent. Glasses help
@EKRasmus If I weren’t too lazy to track down an appropriate Superman T-shirt, I’d love this option!
I guess I’ll keep my eyes open and maybe some years from now I’ll get to do this. It’s perfectly dad-joke-adjacent.
one I saw on the book of face yesterday… go to the paint store and get all the different grey swatch cards and tape them to a shirt. Fifty Shades of Grey!
Ba dum dum…
ok, I’ll go back to my corner now…
@ironcheftoni I love that!
I own two inflatable dinosaur costumes, one is Venom themed. I probably won’t bother.
But I did just place a giant inflatable spider from my favorite deal a day site in my yard. So points for me?
@sammydog01 I have an inflatable Dino and giant squid costume. But both of them are a pain to wear. The squid is like 8 feet tall, and the Dino steams up in the mask area so you can’t see after wearing it for a few minutes. The wind has been so bad I didn’t bother with the inflatable decorations and a neighbor took theirs down yesterday because of the wind. I do have light up pumpkins from an irk I might put out, but it will depend on the weather. It’s been raining for the last 4 hours, and the yard might be a mud pit tomorrow. So we will see if I try to mess with it.
@sammydog01
I bought one of those for my S-I-L last year and she loves it.
I had a friend named Candy who was trying to think of something last minute for a party where everyone knew her. I said take a bag of wrapped candy and tape or staple them to a tunic or sweater. She did!
@Kyeh Next year she needs to dress up as corn.
@yakkoTDI
That would be great.
I think I want to make these costumes…
https://packaged-media.redd.it/kb0ljpbmgxxd1/pb/m2-res_640p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1730340000&s=e6d45e84286c77b5d066782752d392c83c8626ae
@PhysAssist Those are brilliant!
I put some black and purple flowers on a with hat earlier tonight. It’s also got some black and purple glittery sprigs (idk what you would call them) and some sparkly spiders and bats. Then I’ll add a cloak that I got on clearance a few years ago and a witchy t-shirt that is also black with purple. Black jeans (if I can find them) and black boots. Nothing super difficult to hand out candy in.
I once cleaned up, put on a sport coat and stuck a postage stamp on my forehead and went to a Halloween party as First Class Male.
Not dressing up for Halloween, but my GF and I went to the Ren Festival last weekend.
She dressed up,
I half-assed it…
I did get a few “Reprimands” for violating the prime directive…
One merchant, who happened to have a cloak for sale hanging on their front door yelled : “Hey Starfleet! Wanna buy a CLOAKING DEVICE?!?”
As a late grade schooler I took a black garbage bag (yard leafe size), cut a head and arm holes, covered it in strips of newspaper taped on, put a bag over my head with eye holes cut out…
@Kidsandliz We once went to a Halloween party that specified paper costumes. I took one of those paper lawn & leaf bags like the ones sold at Home Despot, cut armholes on the side and leg holes on the bottom & had my skinny husband step into it. Then I filled it with a leafy garland from Michaels in fall colors. It looked pretty funny.
I sewed myself a kimono from big sheets of handmade fibrous paper. That took a while.