Inexpensive Halloween Costume Ideas...

[kashi]

...for adults.

I need a costume this year to attend a couple of parties, but I don't want to spend a ton of cash. Any (cheap) ideas?

[34saving]

Evidently the 80s are happening (check out this week's Target ad -- they have a Don Johnson Miami Vice costume!) Know anybody with left-overs?

[robex]

A friend of mine went to a Halloween party as a bag of jelly beans. She blew up a variey of different coloured balloons and poured them into a big, clear garbage bag that she had cut holes out of for her arms and legs. It was cute.

My daughter's friend went out last year as a load of dirty laundry. They took an old laundry basket, cut holes out for the legs and tied it around her shoulders with two of her dad's ties. They put clothes into the basket and pinned some old socks and cloths onto her outfit for the day...my daughter is considering this as a costume for herself this year.

[mom-from-missouri]

Make a poodle skirt out of a red felt Christmas tree skirt. Cut the hold in the middle big enough for your waste, and run elastic thru it. Cut out an outline of a poddle in another color of felt (12 x 12 squares of felt are 24 cents at walmart). Put your hair in a pony tail, add a scarf and your done. If you want saddle shoes, make your own (again with black felt) cut out out and tacked on white tennis shoes with little globs of rubber cemet-they come easy when you remove them.

[PrincessPerky]

tape some smarties candies to your pants, go as 'smarty pants'

blow up a picture of a quarter, tape it to your back and go as 'quarter back'

get a friend, some scrubs and a go as 'pair of docs' (paradox)

[kashi]

I decided to be a fortune teller. Thanks for all the great ideas, I passed them on to my costumeless friends!

[locolorenzo24]

here's two....glue trash all over a white shirt..."white trash" Turn out pockets..."poor white trash....

Put some sayings, math problems, quotes, etc on your butt....."smartass"

[MisfitRoxy]

You can always try Savers/Goodwill...etc.

I have a friend who has short, red hair, and one year we searched for a red dress that was just below knee lenght and a white collared shirt to sew in underneath it (Orphan Annie). We found both on halloween day and I sewed it together for her and she put her hair in rollers to make it tight. It was perfect and under $10.

That same year, I went as Jackie O. I found a pink skirt suit and some cheap pearls at Goodwill and I bought a piece of fabric that closely matched the outfit and made a little "pill box" hat out of cardboard and covered it with fabric (it's really a lot easier than it sounds). Then I got a little bobbed wig and it all cost me less than $20.

Basically, just think of a few ideas that you might want to be and hunt!
I used to live in MN and I know that the Savers in Columbia Heights on Central Avenue has TONS of really neat stuff for costume ideas.