Cheapest ever- toilet paper mummy. Or a surfer dude toilet paper mummy.
Lady Godiva!
Buy a ton of purple balloons. Blow 'em up, attach them all over your clothes or to a sheet or whatever. Make a cute green cap with a stem and leaf. You are a bunch of grapes.
get some netting, sew two big squares together, stuff with dry leaves. You are a Tea bag.
A bunch of years ago, I made myself a bright yellow hood/helmet/hat thing and I attached some long white petals all around it, donned a dark green sweat suit and brown shoes. I was a daisy! Easy and comfy, and doable again if I ever get another green sweatsuit!
Dress entirely in one color (pink or light green would work well) and duct tape a shoe to your stomach. Presto! You’re used gum!
Billy Mays? Or maybe a lot of purple balloons and be a bunch of grapes?
Close, how about a chiton one can easily be made of 2 twin bedsheets, and I have been known to cheat and buy fancy buttons like the pewter flower or rope edge ones, and the heavy fancy rope for draperies from a joannes fabrics. Actually, you dont even need to use a pair of twin sheets. Fir a simple single use chiton, just buy the right length of plain cotton yard goods, cut to 2 panels and just add buttons, hemming would be nice but not everybody will either hem by hand or own a sewing machine.
Dont forget you will need a palla[shawl/veil]
Get a cheap black T-shirt and glue some mini liquor bottles to the chest. You’re a “titty bar”!
This one’s taken from The Office but if you really want to go all minimalist…
Get one of those decal stick-on name tags, the kind with the pre-printed “Hello. My name is_______” space. Write in a name other than your own and when people ask “Where’s your costume?” you point to the tag and say you’re “Dave” or “Bruce” or whatever.
Or you could just do this.
Wear a white top, white jeans, and white socks and shoes.
Pin a large yellow oval (made of felt) to your chest.
Now wear small red horns on your head. You can add a small red tail if you like.
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And what are you, aside from a white devil with a yellow oval on your chest?
From the description, sounds like “a deviled egg”.
I did this a couple of years ago (complete with a bag of rocks), except instead of cutting holes in the sheet, I cut circles out of a piece of black fabric, and attached them to the sheet. The best part is everyone knows who you’re supposed to be. Who hasn’t seen It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown?
My best bud found herself at a costume party sans costume some years back. So she went as No Fun. When people asked her what she was supposed to be, she said “I’m no fun.”
It actually worked better than expected.
I think horses cost more than ten bucks.
I’m going as the tooth fairy. ( All in white, wings from the dollar store? ) White construction paper teeth.
A girl I work with had a friend who wore a shirt that said “Go Ceiling!” and carried around a little pennant that said “Ceiling” on it. He was…
a ceiling fan
The look I’m thinking about will be a Red Sox or Celtics jersey, streamers wrapped around my arms, waist and such, a party hat and the letter T written on everything. (except the jersey, since that’ll be borrowed) I will be…
the Boston Tea Party
get a cardboard box and go as that kid in balloon on the news yesterday…
Husband dressed in ginormous fat pants and shirt from Goodwill, ordered a 6-foot sub sandwich and carried it around with him (later it was served) and was Jared.