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midnight*sun
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Your worst halloween costumes
midnight*sun
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S/O things your parents did to scar you for life...
Growing up we didn't have that much money and my mother took it upon herself to use this as a reason to inflict public humiliation and self loathing one day out of every year...Halloween.
Here is a list of some of the "AWESOME" costumes my mom created:
1. Road kill (age 10) - she dressed me up in a grey sweat suit that had a motorcycle tire burnt across the chest, used duct tape for a tail, painted a birthday hat for my nose and had fake blood come out of my mouth.
2. Left Overs (age 7)- She wrapped me in tin foil...the end. I tried to say I was the tin man from the Wizard of Oz.
3. Poop (age 5) - She used thick old pvc tubing she found, painted it brown and spiraled it around me. She made Styrofoam flies and had taped to my head
4. Bumble bee (age 6) This may not seem so bad, but she made the costume herself and stuffed it with newspaper. By the end of the night I had the entire classified section dyed on my stomach and chest.
5. Cigarettes (age 9) - Used an old refrigerator box and painted it to look like a Marlboro box. She used pool noodles, painted them white, as the actual cigarettes.
6. Slug (age 8) - Actually made of cardboard, but used floam to coat it put gak on my "tail" so I left a trail.
Thanks Mom!
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Re: Your worst halloween costumes
HA! I love your mom. My parents always made my brother and I the best costumes. One that I hated at the time but appreciate now was a "working mother." All the other girls in my class that year were cheerleaders or punk rockers (it was 1989 or 90). I wore a gray business suit with big 80s glasses, a baby doll in a sling, a briefcase and a frying pan with bacon in it (get it? i didn't at the time. i was "bringing home the bacon")
I was so embarassed. All the parents loved it though.
My mom always would just by a solid color sweatshirt and sweat pants and get matching ears and a tail to make me some sort of animal. Example: one year I was a bunny... I had pink sweats with bunny ears and a bunny tail and she drew on my face a nose and wiskers. Another year I was a cat... Black sweats and cat ears and she drew on whiskers and a nose.
*sigh*
She wasnt the most creative but we laugh about those outfits to this day
Halloween 1982
I was 2.5 years old and apparently hated being a pink bunny. My mom titled this photo 'Mad Bunny' in my baby book. This picture reminds me of Ralphie from 'A Christmas Story'
It wasn't for Halloween, but for St. Patricks Day, YES! St. Patricks Day my mother would dress me as a leprachaun and send me to school with a "pot of gold" aka: andes candies in a plastic bucket with gold wrapping on it. My shoes had cardboard "buckles" made out of the same gold wrapping paper. Ugh! Oh and the stupid top hat. Don't get me started on the stupid top hat.
::dies::
This is pretty hilarious. St. Patricks Day costumes, bahahaha.
AAAAH! Horrible! Did you get made fun of or did the other kids like it? How old were you when she let you stop doing it? I'm fascinated by this!
Can I just say your DD is your clone!
Shiit you not, same costume, same age. Only mine was made of hot-ass fluffy stuff. In Oklahoma Halloween is either -100 or 150. That year was sweltering and my mom kept me in the damnn thing until all of our friends and family had seen/photographed/oohhhed and ahhhed me. My face is beat red and seriously pissed in 90% of the pics.
I was a bunny 3 years in a row
regular footie jammies, bunny ears and a tail
add a easter basket-easter bunny!
add a drum- energizer bunny. I do not kid.
I was an old lady one year, rollers in my hair, slippers, and a house cost./
we did not pay for halloween costumes in our house. I still dont like the holiday much. We used to go out bowling or to a movie on halloween every year.
Look at the picture of you in the bunny suit and your DD in your sig- you two have identical faces!
I know Right?!?! The majority of the other kids LOVED it. I think because they knew I was bringing them candy. haha. There were the select few that made fun of me though and I felt terrible about it. I think I was about 10 when I absolutely refused. My mother still claims that I loved it.
She always made awesome costumes for halloween ie: rainbow brite, a space girl costume, cheerleader etc. but this was an epic fail!! haha I suppose if it were actually FOR halloween the costume may have kicked a$s.
EDD 1/31/13, MC May 17. EDD 3/31/13, MC July 26. I miss you so much already my angel loves
This is hilarious!