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A year ago: 5 simple, last-minute Halloween costume ideas

Have a brain cramp when it comes to picking a costume? Just don’t care about Halloween enough to put a lot of effort into it? Here are five simple, last-minute costume ideas:

Sick and Tired
Put on some PJs, slippers and a robe. Mess up your hair. Have a box of cold medicine and tissues sticking out of your pockets. This can also be a couple’s costume: one can be sick, the other tired. (Thanks to the Hawks for the idea.)

Dirty Laundry
Cut out the bottom of a cheap plastic laundry basket. Step into it and pull it up around your waist. Partially fill it with clothes (preferably dirty) and safety pin some random items (socks, whitey-tighties) to your shirt. Good for trick-or-treating as you can carry your candy in the basket instead of a separate bag.

“Pi-rate”
A punny couples costume, but probably the simplest of all. Print out a pi symbol on one piece of paper and “4.61%” on another. Tape to your shirts, respectively. Now you’re “pi-rates.”

Envy
Green clothes. Green face paint (readily accessible at your local grocery store). Test the face paint before you apply it everywhere. I could tell you a really funny story about our IT guy at work…

Zombie
A Halloween classic. Buy a cheap make-up kit at your local grocery store, or use your wife’s/mom’s makeup. Give yourself dark rings around your eyes, dark lips and maybe some of that fake blood oozing out of the corners of your mouth. Spike/mess up your hair. Tear up an old dress shirt and get some dirt on it. If you feel so inclined, you can buy some rubber zombie hands too, but at the very least you should make your nails look dirty with some of the make-up.

BONUS: Baby Pirate
My wife pulled this one off an hour before a Halloween party using things she found lying around the house.

Cut a white onesie down the front in the shape of a “V” and shear/tatter the sleeves. Tear a red cloth for a bandanna (we used an old t-shirt) and fasten with a rubber band or hair tie. You can use the same fabric for the cummerbund as well.

This next part takes a little time, but sew the end of one of the pant legs inside a toilet paper tube to make a peg-leg.

We got a lot of compliments about this costume!

I hope this helps. Have a great Halloween, be safe, and if you’re allergic to peanutbutter you can send me any Reese’s Peanutbutter Cups that would otherwise go to waste.

Any other ideas for simple Halloween costumes? Leave word in the comments and/or send in a picture.

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