Halloween Costume Shopping

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Where do y’all buy y’all’s halloween costumes? (for those who participate in dressing up)

I am looking for a harry potter halloween costume, and the only place I seem to find a good one is the spirit halloween stores, but i am hesitant to buy from them because they also sell demonic accessories and ouiji boards etc. Would it be sinful for me to purchase something from them?
 
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My closet and my dresser.

There’s always something in there that can be made into a costume. E.g., a pair of PJs with a few big colorful fabric dots sewed on (easy-pull out stitches) and some funny makeup and stocking hat from the box of winter itemss–and I’m a clown! Add fake blood from the Halloween store and a fake axe–and I’m a scary clown!

When our daughters were around, they did the same thing, or they would head for the Goodwill store around the block from our house. Lots of good, cheap stuff there.

I always love the situation comedies on television when they do their Halloween shows–WHERE do the people in these comedies, most of whom are not wealthy, get those GORGEOUS, elaborate, creative costumes!!! Definitely not from their closet or the Goodwill.
 
We never bought costumes either. We always made them from things we had or got at Goodwill, and maybe bought an accessory to finish it off. And we had some good ideas! Wednesday Adams, Mario brothers, scarecrow, Dog the Bounty hunter, PeeWee Herman, a pirate (pre Caribbean) to name a few. Always better than store bought.

Try it!
 
I make mine. Out of stuff I have around the house— cardboard, boxes, poster board, material, scraps, paint, pipe cleaners, whatever.

Edited to add: plus thrift stores or friends for accessories.
 
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pirate (pre Caribbean)
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One of my favorites was a guy friend of mine who made a hook hand out of cardboard, tin foil and a beer koozie.

(hook is made from foil covered cardboard and affixed through the hole in the bottom of the koozie, fist is inserted in Koozie and Koozie is covered by sleeve.) Eye patch, cardboard pirate hat— voila.
 
Growing up, I always had store bought costumes as my mother was challenged to even sew a button on a shirt! When I hit my teens, we no longer trick or treated but we had Halloween parties and I knew how to sew thanks to an aunt that was a marvelous seamstress!

My kids almost never had store bought costumes except one year when my daughter wanted a princess Lea costume she saw…otherwise, all home creativity! One year we outfitted my son in a box covered in foil with some curly air hose on his head…a robot! It was a big hit! Clowns, witches, beggars or hobos, pirates…all easy to do with a little sewing and some imagination…oh, how I wish I had Pinterest back then! 😂😂😂
 
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NO ONE should be out trick or treating or going to Halloween parties this year. Stand home and stay safe,we’re still in a global pandemic.
 
They had Underdog? I wanna be Underdog.

Although one of my friends had the cartoon version of I dream of Jeannie as a costume.

And my brother had Caspar the friendly ghost
 
I want to be “thylvester” then! You two fight it out for Underdog! 😂
 
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I enjoy scary costumes, so I usually visit the local Spirit Halloween stores when they open up seasonally. I have an awesome scarecrow mask that opens its mouth to reveal pointy teeth this time around. 💀
 
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder
Fighting all who rob or plunder
Underdog. Underdog!

Timely.
 
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