Halloween Costume Chaos: Will You Find a Costume Before October 31st?

When October 1st rolls around each year, I always dread the question that inevitably pops up: “What are we being for Halloween?”

There is a clear list of requirements for a perfect Halloween costume. It needs to accommodate the number of people participating, not be cliche while also being recognizable, be presentable, and occupy a happy medium between being dressed up and casual. There are bonus points if it’s a creative DIY costume rather than a tacky Amazon one.

“Let’s just be Alvin and the Chipmunks or something—it’s easy,” I suggested to my friends.

My idea, great as it was, was met with two loud no’s and an accusation about being cliche.

As always, this was only the beginning of the yearly indecisive argument about finding a costume that met all the requirements and everyone’s stylistic expectations.

“How about the Powerpuff Girls?”

“Also cliche.”

“Rock, paper, and scissors?”

“No one wants to be a rock… unless you do?”

“What about Bella, Edward, and Jacob from Twilight?”

“How are two of us going to look like grown men?”

Twenty four days later, we settle on being Shrek, the donkey, and Lord Farquad.

I finally sat down at lunch on October 25th and looked forward to not saying the word “no” two hundred times in sixty minutes.

Then someone asked, “So… how are we going to DIY our costumes?”