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[Staccat0]

I'm not sure what to do. I want something cheap and easy.
The rudest thing anyone has ever said to me was when someone said I looked like Dwight from the Office. My friends would crack up if I dressed as him, but I don't look enough like him for anyone else to get it... plus I'm not a huge fan of the show.

I was thinking of going classic ghost simply because I've never actually seen anyone do it.
My wife is going as some greek godesss. Not sure which one. Its a work thing, they are each gonna be a different goddess.

I was thinking of trying something easy but obscure. Maybe Rick Grimes?
Its too late, but next year maybe I'll be a Radiohead bear.

Suggestions are welcome. I have access to suits (I wear them to work) and work/associate with people involved involved with entertainment on a really minor level. Going to small party to watch shitty movies, play board games and hand out candy.

So, uh... do all you guys still go trick or treating or something?

Nothing wrong with that (free candy=win no matter what), but its just weird to see so many people worried about/actually having costumes. I haven't had a costume in about 8 years (I'm 20)

Of course maybe its for halloween parties, in which case that is cool, except I've never been to one

When kids come to your door for candy, its a nice excuse.

Also, parties.

 

[Bahzing]

You could do the Big Suit :

 

[Struct09]

Get a lab coat, a cheap gray hair wig, a fake gray mustache, and paint your face green. Frank Einstein.

 

[140.85]

From Thinkgeek. My "costume" this year. Order today and you might get it in time.

Awesome. Just ordered it.

 

[Danthrax]

Buy poster board, with black and blue markers.

Cut out a square, and then copy the layout of facebook.

You can be your profile page. Leave openings on it for your "wall". Carry a sharpie with you.

no, really, should I do this, GAF? I'm concerned it's a 50-50 shot between being creative and awesome, or being super bad and worthy of mockery.

 

[toxicgonzo]

Really cheap Halloween costume ideas:

1. Put a sign and put it over your clothes. The sign says "Nudist on strike"

2. Go in a cheap white shirt and say you are an autograph book. Have people sign you.

3. Carry a small glue stick. When asked what you are, rub the glue stick on your head and say "Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead..."

4. Get tens of "Hello my name is..." stickers and put them all over your shirt, each with a different name. Say you are multiple personality man.

 

[LakeEarth]

4. Get tens of "Hello my name is..." stickers and put them all over your shirt, each with a different name. Say you are multiple personality man.

Or just go with one that says "God".

 

[Leunam]

no, really, should I do this, GAF? I'm concerned it's a 50-50 shot between being creative and awesome, or being super bad and worthy of mockery.

I told my coworker about this and she said it was a pretty cool idea.

 

[Choke on the Magic]

Then put a wig down your diaper and make sure the hair sticks out the side of it.

 

[DemiMatt]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Yoshi-Mascot-and-Baby-Mario-Costumes-for-Toddlers/

 

[Danthrax]

I told my coworker about this and she said it was a pretty cool idea.

hmm.







hmm

 

[Chinner]

1st idea: zombie

2nd idea: getting a white t-shirt and just writing "internet pirate" on it

 

[Memphis Reigns]

Speaking of last minute costumes is it weird for a guy at the age of 25 to go trick or treating? I'm also 6'4. I've been feeling really nostalgic, this might fill that void.

 

[Skittleguy]

Trial run at Jim. What do you guys think?

 

[yuna55]

Then put a wig down your diaper and make sure the hair sticks out the side of it.

:lol Good god man.

Posting for 2, btw.

 

[Shaneus]

Shaun is an easy one... that's who I'm doing this year, complete with pen ink, blood, cricket bat, nametag and flowers for Mum

 

[Arol]

These creepy horse heads are sold out!

It was my backup plan.

I don't know what I'll do now.

They actually sold creepy horse heads like this?

Ugh, if only I had known, I would of bought this mask instead.

@Skittleguy; your Jim is cool, its what I was thinking of doing but I don't think I could pull off the look.

 

[velvet_nitemare]

Might be doing a mummy. Gonna use TP.

Only problem is, I'm going to monster massive, so that shit will get ripped up pretty quickly.

 

[Alivor]

I planned it out and dyed my hair and whatnot, but you can easily do this last minute. Just make sure you can do the voice though. And don't forget the eyebrows, it really completes the costume.

 

[Mifune]

Earlier this year, I came up with an awesome costume idea. Since I'm not gonna use it this year, I'll share it:

Body suit.
Ping pong balls.

MOCAP MAN!!!

 

[DancingJesus]

Write Book across your face.

You can say you are a social networking site.

(From the Office). :lol

 

[Commodore_Perry]

I'm hairy. One year I went to a Halloween shop and bought 3 tubes of brown face paint, plus some cheap vampire fangs, blood capsules and cheap pointy ears/nose set. Cut some jeans into ridiculously short jean shorts torn at the bottom and be a werewolf:

Or you could use white sheets and a white pillow case and be a ghost. Or you could get some poster paper, make a pointy red hat and be a lawn gnome:

From Thinkgeek. My "costume" this year. Order today and you might get it in time.

FUCK. YES.

I actually watched a couple Youtube clips this afternoon thinking how great a shirt like that would be, and now there it is. I want to watch that movie before the weekend is over.

I have access to suits.....

Klaus Nomi. Do it!

 

[fallengorn]

Walk around as someone from the Fellowship of the Light (with a ring of honesty) and march around with a sign saying "God Hates Fangs."

 

[Commodore_Perry]

I almost forgot...

Go naked with a cored pear on your dick = You're Fucking despair (dis-pear).

Go naked with your dick resting in a bowl of pudding = You're Fucking Disgusted (dis-custard).

 

[ProfessorLobo]

I almost forgot...

Go naked with a cored pear on your dick = You're Fucking despair (dis-pear).

Go naked with your dick resting in a bowl of pudding = You're Fucking Disgusted (dis-custard).

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Trial run at Jim. What do you guys think?

-iron your shirt
-tie tour tie correctly
-black belt

 

[Skittleguy]

-iron your shirt
-tie tour tie correctly
-black belt

It's a trial run, but yeah, I'll have to do those things before tomorrow.

 

[ProfessorLobo]

Trial run at Jim. What do you guys think?

That's actually a really good Jim.

 

[way more]

I planned it out and dyed my hair and whatnot, but you can easily do this last minute. Just make sure you can do the voice though. And don't forget the eyebrows, it really completes the costume.

I guess this is like when Heath Ledger died and everyone dressed up as him? That must be why we see so many Patrick Swayze and Dom DeLuise costumes.

 

[speculawyer]

My daughter wants me to be a Stars Wars Character with a Light Sabre. How do I do that?


She is a pirate and wants to sword fight against a Star Wars character. How cools is that?

 

[Garcia]

A walking potato chip.

 

[DevelopmentArrested]

 

[Kozak]

My daughter wants me to be a Stars Wars Character with a Light Sabre. How do I do that?


She is a pirate and wants to sword fight against a Star Wars character. How cools is that?

don't even bother without one of these:

badass.

 

[etiolate]

attempting david bowie version Tesla with steampunk goggles

attempt turned into david bowie tesla meets silent film villain meets 1920s car car driver

 

[Inflammable Slinky]

-buy rope
-make noose
-put fake blood or bruising around your neck
-go as hanged man (for extra laughs, say you're the well hung man)

 

[agrajag]

Wear your normal clothes, say your costume is a werewolf.

 

[Outtrigger888]

Im just going as the heath ledger version of the joker. I havnt gotten a haircut in months knowing I was gonna be the joker. Cant wait im taking my daughter trick or treating for the first time.

 

[peppermints]

I'm going as Jack from LOST.

Just going to wear a tighter than usual t-shirt, make it look sweaty/dirty, enhance my stubble and carry a backpack. Thinking of making a torch or bringing a 'pill bottle'. Maybe not the pill bottle since visually I'm island-Jack.

 

[AlphaSnake]

I'm going to slap on a piece of paper that says A.M.. People will obviously ask what it stands for and my reply will be:

I'M AWESOME MAN!

 

[layzie1989]

I'm going as Jack from LOST.

Just going to wear a tighter than usual t-shirt, make it look sweaty/dirty, enhance my stubble and carry a backpack. Thinking of making a torch or bringing a 'pill bottle'. Maybe not the pill bottle since visually I'm island-Jack.

you shoulda stepped your game up and been crazy beard jack

WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!

 

[whytemyke]

This sux. I didn't buy beard makeup in time and only have a goatee. I was gonna go as Zach Galifinakis' character from The Hangover (baby and all) buuut stupid me and procrastination.

So now I'm stuck buying a bunch of Chicago Bears shit that I don't really want, and shaving the goatee down to a moustache so I can go as one of Bill Swerkski's superfans from that SNL sketch. It's gonna be around a bunch of psych students so I plan on asking a ton of questions like "Who is da better psychologist, Sigmund Freud or da coach Mike Ditka?"

 

[Ken Masters]

Trial run at Jim. What do you guys think?

looks like you forgot to dress up and thought to just dress up instead. Going as Jim won't work

 

[Danthrax]

Buy poster board, with black and blue markers.

Cut out a square, and then copy the layout of facebook.

You can be your profile page. Leave openings on it for your "wall". Carry a sharpie with you.

no, really, should I do this, GAF? I'm concerned it's a 50-50 shot between being creative and awesome, or being super bad and worthy of mockery.

Okay, so I went for it, and here's how it turned out:

I cut slits in the middle of "the wall" and ran a bathrobe belt through them, then tied the belt around the small of my back to keep the whole thing on me.


And here's what my "wall" looked like by the end of the night:

People loved it, so I guess it was a good choice. :lol For a little backstory on the things on the wall...

My buddy Dave partyfouled by dropping a beer he was attempting to put into a minifridge. It shattered, and beer and glass went everywhere.

Stephanie said she can't take this kind of pressure because she didn't know what to write on my wall after I suggested she do so.

I put a glow-in-the-dark rubber rat down Dave's hoodie, which pissed him off supremely, to which I replied "I could have gotten a real spider; I saw one in the house on my way to the bathroom." Sue apparently liked that quote.

The Jesus dude actually came to the party dressed up as Luke Skywalker, but later traded wigs with his girlfriend, who was dressed up as Princess Leia. He undid the buns so the hair just flowed freely and he kinda looked like Jesus.

Sue is an atheist; don't know if you noticed. I'm not; don't know if you noticed.

Kelly said I wasn't done yet because, after the party moved to Singstar (they have the 80s, 90s and Pop discs), I put down the microphone before the end of one of the songs.

Even though the wall posts end at 1 a.m., the party didn't actually come to a close until around 4 a.m. (3 a.m. after the time change). I just kinda ran out of room on my wall :lol