Just For Fun: Share Your Worst / Best Halloween Costume

WaltD4Me

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I'm so excited to go trick or treating with my niece and nephew this year, I usually work on Halloween night, so I haven't done one in about 8 years.

Thought it might be fun to share Halloween costume stories.

Best: My favorite Halloween costume was the year I was Minnie Mouse at a Halloween party...this actually wasn't all that long ago, but it was a really fun and really comfy costume and I looked pretty cute, mostly because I was alot thinner at the time, so that's the main reason I remember it fondly! :laughing:

Worst: When I was in the 5th Grade my mom made me be Mother Nature. This was at the time those butter commercials were out "You Can't Fool Mother Nature!" She put in a white flowy dress and a wig with a ring of daisies on top and she made me carry a tub of Parkay or whatever butter it was. I hated it and nobody in my class really knew who I was, but my teacher thought it was hysterical. I still hold it over her head sometimes.
 
I remember those commercials! It was a very clever costume, you must admit! :)

My boys should probably be writing this because I probably traumatized them the same way you were.

I didn't want to spend much money on costumes just for one night and they were not in to dress up. I always hated those cheap costumes with a plastic mask of the character and then a picture of the character on the outfit. Characters don't go around wearing their own picture! :rotfl:

Anyway, my when my boys were little one year they were bags of groceries. They wore a paper bag around them and I made groceries stick up out of the top including celery. (You know how every tv show and movie with grocery bags always has celery and french bread sticking out of the top! )

Another year they were bags of Jelly Bellys. They wore see through plastic garbage bags that I filled with colored balloon to be the Jelly Bellys. Since we live near the Jelly Belly factory and had taken the tour recently, we had the Jelly Belly hats that they give you to wear on the tour so they wore those.

Then they put their collective foot down and said no more silly costumes! :lmao: That year they were Jedi Knights. Oh and other year one was a king and one was a knight.

As for me growing up I was usually a bug of some sort because I liked insects. Still do. ;)
 
I once dressed in roller skates and twigs - I was Skate Bush - I remember my mum thinking it was very clever ... :confused3
 
Mom did good this year
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But this was the year before - my poor brother. (Mom borrowed a costume from the neighbors and he ended up being Little Miss Muffet - she even put the pink cardigan on him. :rotfl: I think this is grounds for child abuse these days.)
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Let's see.... Last year I was a pregnant Nun. ;)
 
I once dressed in roller skates and twigs - I was Skate Bush - I remember my mum thinking it was very clever ... :confused3

What is a skate bush? :confused3

Tonya- that Miss Muffet costume- that's the type I was talking about. A plastic mask with the character on the front of the shirt. :rotfl: How sad for your brother! When I was little I remember ones many Casper the Ghosts like that.
 
I am a bit puzzled about it too - but I think it was a clever play on the singer's name Kate Bush. I know, I know...
 
One year I went to a party as a pumpkin with a big chunk missing out of my butt.

My DH dressed in overalls, white t-shirt and orange make-up smeared all over his face and the front of his shirt. We also glued pumpkin seeds around his mouth and shirt.

Everyone at the party knew what I was, but everyone had to ask what he was. He simply responded with....."I'm Peter.";)
 
I was Scar when I was in the eight grade....it was an ecellent idea except that the costume did not look like Scar :(
 
You know as a parent your influence leaves at about age 4. At that point you just have to let go and allow them to make the decisions and hope that you can subtely influence them not to make a choice that will embarass them.
 
In kindergarten my mother dressed me up as Darth Vader. :sad2::sad2::sad2: I still haven't forgiven her. :mad:
 
In kindergarten my mother dressed me up as Darth Vader. :sad2::sad2::sad2: I still haven't forgiven her. :mad:

This is TOO funny...I was Darth Vader in Kindergarten, too, but I DEMANDED it!! :laughing:

My poor parents came home with every single Star Wars costume for me that year...Princess Leia, C3PO, Chewy, you name it. But each time, I sent them back! Sorry, Mom & Dad, your little girl loves the bad guy!! I was OBSESSED!!

I still remember our little parade around the 6th grade classrooms that year, all the boys kept saying 'cooooool!! Darth Vader'!! Something tells me they had no idea there was a GIRL in that costume!!

Vader's STILL my idol!! :darth::lovestruc:darth:
 
But this was the year before - my poor brother. (Mom borrowed a costume from the neighbors and he ended up being Little Miss Muffet - she even put the pink cardigan on him. :rotfl: I think this is grounds for child abuse these days.)
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Ok, I literally have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard at this picture.

One year I went to a party as a pumpkin with a big chunk missing out of my butt.

My DH dressed in overalls, white t-shirt and orange make-up smeared all over his face and the front of his shirt. We also glued pumpkin seeds around his mouth and shirt.

Everyone at the party knew what I was, but everyone had to ask what he was. He simply responded with....."I'm Peter.";)

This is hysterical. So clever. These are the kind of costumes I like!

My brother and I dressed as an outhouse one year. We set up early at a party in a refrigerator box so no one knew there was anyone in the box. It had a door that opened with a picture of a toilet inside with a page from a Sears catalog wadded up on it. We had a hole with a sign that said "Don't peek" and whenever someone would peek, we'd squirt them with a watergun!
 
Ok, I literally have tears in my eyes from laughing so hard at this picture.

My Mom and I laugh about it every time we see the picture. Not sure my brother has seen the picture in a long time so he probably doesn't realize I have posted it on the DIS and facebook. ;) (That's what he gets for being mean to me.) :rolleyes1 But he should cut my mom a little slack though - he was lucky he got a costume at all - when Halloween 1967 happened I was only 2 1/2 months only and not sure if my mom realized it at the time but she was pregnant with my younger sister AND my dad was in medical school - so she had her hands a little full at the time. :rolleyes:
 
My mom actually did pretty well with my brother and I. One year I was Minnie Mouse and I was sick as a dog. I went to my neighbors house and that was it! The next year my brother was old enough to trick or treat but still couldn't talk (speech delay) so I was Snow White and he was Dopey :). The next year we were Alladin and Jasmine. I need to get these scanned in and post them. Awesome and all hand sown
 











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