Cheap Halloween costumes?

I attend an annual Halloween bash and am coming up short this year for good, inexpensive ideas. What do you plan to wear or have any good ideas. Pop culture references welcome. Current events and the like.

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How about a good ol fashioned ghost. Find white sheet, cut holes, party. It's funny because it is so iconic, yet nobody actually does it.

Go as naked guy, cheap and cheerful as it gets.

How about a horse mask?

They still make me laugh.

This was me SEVERAL years ago.

There was a coat hook on one side. I don't remember what the labels said.

Stonehenge.

Go as Johnny from "The Room" if you have never seen Rifftrax (Formerly MST3K) It was the worse movie ever made and they riff'ed it. My Wife and I dressed up as the main characters and only a few people understood. It was the price of two wigs and I had a football laying around. "You are tearing me apart!"

Sonic wrote: How about a good ol fashioned ghost. Find white sheet, cut holes, party. It's funny because it is so iconic, yet nobody actually does it.

Do the charlie brown ghost, with all the extra holes.

One year, I went to a Halloween party as Billy Gibbons and it was a total pain in the ass. It was impossible to drink beer through the fake beard, the guitar got heavy after a while and when I put it down, a bunch of idiots kept calling me "Rabbi". Never again will I choose a costume that impedes my ability to drink beer.

If you want to go cheap:

If you want to be ultra hip:

Dressing in drag can be stupid cheap if you know women who are your size/larger and willing to help out.
Hell, I know women who would leap at the chance to see me in drag.

In reply to Woody:

Anything that restricts movement is a bad idea. In the 7th grade I went as a refrigerator. I cut some holes in a dryer box I found, painted it up nice and screwed a handle to the front. On the way home from school some high school kids grabbed my handle, whipped me to the ground and filled my box with eggs, shaving cream, and paint balls. I had no choice but to try and right my costume and wait until they got tired of throwing things.

You should have gone turtle.

I went as an airplane once in grade school, and a tank another. My dad was super-cool about that stuff. I still have the alligator costume my mom hand made for me when I was 4(she didn't make the mask, it was a Ben Cooper alligator mask...though she did stitch it into the costume).

In adulthood, I went as the ghost of Jimi Hendrix one year.

SnowMongoose wrote: Dressing in drag can be stupid cheap if you know women who are your size/larger and willing to help out. Hell, I know women who would leap at the chance to see me in drag.

did that once.. the shoes were painful, but the rest of the night was fun

trigun7469 wrote: Go as Johnny from "The Room" if you have never seen Rifftrax (Formerly MST3K) It was the worse movie ever made and they riff'ed it. My Wife and I dressed up as the main characters and only a few people understood. It was the price of two wigs and I had a football laying around. "You are tearing me apart!"

What the hell was the point of that movie? I was utterly bewildered by its existence.

I worked with a guy who did an amazing job of Dr Frankenfurter.

The leather banana hammock and high heels takes a bit of getting used to.

Pseudonym wrote:

trigun7469 wrote: Go as Johnny from "The Room" if you have never seen Rifftrax (Formerly MST3K) It was the worse movie ever made and they riff'ed it. My Wife and I dressed up as the main characters and only a few people understood. It was the price of two wigs and I had a football laying around. "You are tearing me apart!"

What the hell was the point of that movie? I was utterly bewildered by its existence.

Someone had to make the worst movie

in the late 1960's I went as a "hobo" - ripped jeans, old shirt, coffee grounds on my face, and a stick and bandana for my stuff.

in our PC world I imagine some group would be offended - residential challenged person?

Last year a coworker of mine got a fake Mike Tyson tattoo and a couple of other props (don't remember what) and went as the guy from The Hangover.

Bib overalls and a red or green shirt and hat. Mario or Luigi depending on your build.

Datsun310Guy wrote: in the late 1960's I went as a "hobo" - ripped jeans, old shirt, coffee grounds on my face, and a stick and bandana for my stuff. in our PC world I imagine some group would be offended - residential challenged person?

Urban camper.

Would totally dress up as the rock 'em sock 'em robots again. Would need help on the costumes. Possibly the most fun I've ever had on Halloween.