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Martha Stewart’s Halloween Special Issue has been out for 24 days. You ain’t got time to craft what she talkin about!
And you’re broke, as usual, so you can’t even buy a wig. Hallow’s Eve is a few days away and what fun is October without a costume?
What follows will spook you to death with with how DIY, creative, and cheap our costume ideas are.
Be an Alien
Materials:
-any old issues of The Austin Chronicle or other newspaper you have lying around
- flour and water (to make paper mache paste)
-a balloon
-green and black paint
Be a Taco
Materials:
- cardboard box from the trash
- black sharpie from your job
- string from something at your house
- construction paper (red, dark/brightgreen, yellow, white) from your job or room mate
Be a Bat
Materials:
- black hoodie from a thrift store
- dollar store black umbrella
- sharp scissors/wire cutters from your job
- needle & thread from your room mate
Be Cousin It
- gold cloth from the fabric store or steal your parents table cloth/curtains
- dollar store hula skirt
- black sunglasses from your car
- black hat from your ex or just the dollar store
Be Kim Davis
-a bible you got for free that’s been sitting on your shelf (maybe you got it from your granny who keeps trying to convert you-sorry granny, keep praying for my soul)
-a cheap wig from Walmart (mine was $8) or Goodwill (if getting lice doesn't bother you) or last year (can double as an alternate Cousin It)
-$1 glasses from Dollar Tree
-a blue longsleeve shirt from your closet
-a sleeveless black shirt from your closet
-an ugly long blue zig-zag skirt from Walmart (seen here half-assed with a plaid skirt)
-a self-righteous, hateful attitude
or, just be a Nug of Weed
- green sweater from your best friend’s closet
- green tights from Five Below
- 2 packages of dollar store moss (or craft store)
- green construction paper
- adhesive of your choice
So, be scary, make yer costume, and just have a great Halloween! Don’t yield to social norms as far as how you should look goes. Whether you’re half naked, super scary, or just wearing your normie clothes…doesn’t matta. BE YOU, BB.
