This year I’m going as absolutley nothing. I’ll be wearing all black. Black shoes, pants, black hoodie, gloves, everything. I’m also gonna buy one of those black masks where I can see out but no one can see in. The idea popped into my head the other night, and I’ve been so excited ever since. But since it’s on a sunday this year, the weekend will be horrible. Waiting for Halloween is the worst part.
I’m sniffing about for ideas for the kids. I’ve done some really good costumes for them in the past (if I do say so myself!) Last year the boy was a car, or a man driving a car, which I made from a cardboard box which he wore suspended around his waist on straps over his shoulders. He had a blast and got a ton of compliments on it. The girl was a little old lady, which was very fun for her and simple for me. The best part was her hat, which we gussied up with big fake flowers and a perfectly ridiculous chicken.
I really enjoy the challenge of putting together costumes, and it is a challenge, since I spend next to no money and don’t sew.
This year I was trying to talk them into going as 70’s era Sonny and Cher, which I think would be hilarious and not so hard to do, but the girl won’t go for it. She wants to be a vampire. :rolleyes: I thought a vampire Sonny and Cher would be good, but she still says no, so I may have to content myself with creating a bat getup for the boy.
Depends on what my kid wears.
I usually just limp out and put on a Ren dress, but a few years ago I bought pink pajamas and went as Disney’s Cheshire Cat.
This year, if the Superman outfit fits or I don’t get his other costume finished, I’ll probably wear regular clothes.
If I get his mini Cheshire Cat outfit done, then I’ll look for a blonde wig and go as Alice. 
They you, me and the girlfriend should get together, I’m going and Animal and she’s going and Janice. All we need now is a Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzy to have a show!
My cousin said she was going to take a bunch of american flag stickers and put them all over her thighs, and put on a pair of boxing gloves…
she’s the best damn woman that you’ve ever seen, knocking you out with her American thighs.
If I can get over my nigh absolute fear of contact lenses, I’m going as Storm. If I can’t, I’ll be Storm when she’s not busy controlling the elements.
I’ve wanted to for a few years now, but have either been too lazy to put it together or unable to find all of the costume. But this year, I know where to go for everything, I’ve got everything (except the abs…I’ll be Storm, after she’s let herself go - there’s going to be a great many qualifiers here…) under control.
Thank you so much, cause you jsut gave me my idea for a costume this year! I’m gonna be Gambit!
“The ladies go all weak in the knees for the smooth, cajun-talkin’ scoundral, mon ami/”
I have a coat that will work…it’s black leather, not a brown trenchcoat thingy, but it still looks cool, cause it goes down past my knees. Now all I need is a metal stick, and…umm…whatever the Hell else it is he wears…
some kind of pink stuff with metal lining.
Ummm…maybe his constume from the ‘ultimate series’ is a little cooler…
So I guess I’ll just wear a black shirt and some jeans w/ boots, eh? As long as I have the stick and throw a bunch of playing cards around, people will know who I am. Now I just need to find a place to go to that weekend… 
I once dressed as a Punk Flamingo, an homage to a Far Side comic. Some people got it, some didn’t.
I wasn’t planning anything this year but I’ve been making a paper mache pumpkin that I was going to paint as a jack o’lantern but the bottom got moldy. I cut the bottom off and gutted it and now it can fit over my head. So I could make eyeholes and make it a mask if I were so inclined. But I will probably just make it into a lantern now.
I might be Miss Piggy this year for the office Halloween!
So what are you saying Doc? I’m not of the correct proportion to be a valkryie?
I’m not going for strict mythological accuracyy, I just want to wear a hat with horns…and a breastplate. Is that so wrong? I think not. [/drama]
The in joke is that my husband uses a form of Thor for his e-mail addy because his name is Thom and he has a really big hammer. That and the fact that I am a fat lady.
I was toying with an idea today that I rather enjoyed: Why not go as the SDMB?
Whatever you might be wearing, you could attach dangling threads all over it. Carry a new post (a freshly purchased piece of wood?). Also carry your version of a 1920’s style death ray. Repeatedly leave the room and return with pie. Say, “Hi, Opal!” Make “smiley” faces. And teem, teem, teem.
Here’s a fun and closely related thread.
I posted there what I would have posted here.
I’m going as a neon atom.
I don’t personally do the costume thing, but my sister came up with wonderful costumes for her kids last year.
The boy: She put a clear plastic bag from a cleaners over him, with slits for his head and arms to stick out, plus she sort of ‘gathered’ the bottome of the bag in tight around his thighs. Then she blew up a whole bunch of multicolored balloons and stuck them inside the bag so you basically couldn’t see him at all. Bag of jelly beans! (Note: she and her husband were with the kid the whole time, I don’t thing you should put this costume on a kid who is going to be off by himself.)
The girl: She took an old white pillow case and a bunch of fabric paint pens, and copied all the graphics and instructions and ingredients and whatall from a tube of Crest toothpaste, front and back. Again a few slits for arms & legs, plus one of those cardboard buckets they sell at paint stores spray painted red for the cap.
This won first prize at her school party.
My husband and I are going to dress as Sam Adams and the St. Pauli Girl.
Having just rewatched *The Thomas Crown Affair *remake recently, I’ve been toying with the idea of going as the “The Son Of Man.”
Bowler hat, trenchcoat, red tie… With an apple mask over my face. Pretty simple and easy… But I don’t know if anybody will get it! Maybe if I can get 50 other people to do it we can re-create the end of the movie.
EZ
We don’t do Halloween, but we dress up for our church’s thingy.
This year I’m thinking of dressing in all white, putting on a silver cap and wearing a nametag that says “HELLO My name is Lot’s Wife.”
The band is playing a gig on Halloween and we’re dressing up like Led Zeppelin.
Too bad Jonesy dressed and looked like a girl
My buddy and I were discussing last night and we thought it would be cool to go as the crew from “Reno 911.” One problem is that nobody wants to go as dangle with their b**ls hanging out.
What you guys really need is a woman with a fake moustache to be Dangle. It would work better anyway. I’ll bet you all want to be the blonde chick 
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