cheap halloween costumes

[codeyeti]

I hate spending more than a few dollars on a halloween costume since you can only use it once. I usually buy a bunch of posterboard and build something out of it. Last year I was the washington monument . I have a friend who wrapped himself in tin foil and said he was a baked potato. What costumes have you made for cheap?

[Ms. Ferret]

Cardboard, duct tape, and spray paint are great cheap costume materials. I won an elementary school costume contest by dressing as a chocolate chip cookie -- two large cardboard rounds taped together to make a kind of turtle shell + twenty or so Hershey's Kisses affixed with glue.

A few years ago I made myself a cockroach costume -- cut and duct-taped cardboard spray-painted brown and black. The end product actually fitted pretty well and looked good -- add some headband antennae and you're set. It was plenty good to spill beer on in any case.

[trustno1]

Ok, Halloween is over and I have made my annual contribution to the candy industry, lol.

And now I have moved into Stage 2...what to do with all that leftover candy ??? I spent about $25 stocking up for the little guys in the neighborhood. This years visitor total = 9 kids! (and 5 of them came together as a group!!

Guess I should have reviewed my demographic data before I bought candy, eh?...hehehe

So, what does everyone due with all of that left-over candy??? I try to give it to my ex, but she won't take it...lol

It is like trying to get rid of a used mattress...nobody wants it...