NationStates Jolt Archive

Well it now turns out I am going to have to dress up...but only if I can do so for under £2. Suggestions for cheap costumes? (I have no sheets.)

Well it now turns out I am going to have to dress up...but only if I can do so for under £2. Suggestions for cheap costumes? (I have no sheets.)

No shirt, socks without shoes, underwear without shorts, a paper bag with eye holes (don't forget the breathing holes!), and a utility belt full of condoms.

There ya go.

If you have a suit, you could purchase some inexpensive hair dye and go as just about any world leader.

If you have a suit, you could purchase some inexpensive hair dye and go as just about any world leader.

Interesting suggestion. I suspect it'd be a bit subtle for a student indie bash, though.

You could always go as Adam from the hit bestseller "The Bible"...

Interesting suggestion. I suspect it'd be a bit subtle for a student indie bash, though.
You could imitate the leader's mannerisms. You're in college so it could be a mockery of a leader.

box of cereal with a knife stuck in it (serial killer)

can of Surge soda with a chain/rope around it and a lock and wear it around your neck (surge protector)

pink hair and a folding chair on your head (gum under chair)

pin a bunch of stuffed animals to your clothes (noah's ark)


okay I have more but they are getting dumber by the second.............;)

You could go as the most frightening thing of all...

A college student - WITH NO MONEY!

You could cover your head with a towel, wrapping rubber bands around it so that the towel is held close to your head. Then cut a hole for your left eye and your mouth.
Then put on some boxer shorts, being sure to cut a hole in the bottom that reveals a second pair of boxer shorts under that. Wear nothing else except some paint that can cover your chest, at least 8 colors, and some sandals.
If anyone asks you what you are going as, punch them in the face and run away screaming.

Well, yeah, that would just me turning up as I am.

Smunkeeville: I like the cereal killer idea.

You could cover your head with a towel, wrapping rubber bands around it so that the towel is held close to your head. Then cut a hole for your left eye and your mouth.
Then put on some boxer shorts, being sure to cut a hole in the bottom that reveals a second pair of boxer shorts under that. Wear nothing else except some paint that can cover your chest, at least 8 colors, and some sandals.
If anyone asks you what you are going as, punch them in the face and run away screaming.

Uh...ok. Possibly won't go for painting myself.

I had a boyfriend who went one year as a nympho (didn't take much to dress up, he just bumped into a lot of girls with raunchy pick up lines to boot and btw he got booted that night, I guess I got jealous.....oops :eek: )


EDIT: I remembered a good one............ bathrobe and towel. you could be Arthur !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Smunkeeville: I like the cereal killer idea.
Thanks, although I can't actually take credit for that one, it is my husband's costume for work monday ( I guess he got tired of wearing his star trek uniform every year and didn't want to spend more that $2 on something lol)

Thanks, although I can't actually take credit for that one, it is my husband's costume for work monday ( I guess he got tired of wearing his star trek uniform every year and didn't want to spend more that $2 on something lol)

Well, I think I may go with it. I have a spare cereal box, so it really wouldn't cost me anything. Thanks.

Go in a togo and a scream mask and base-ball bat.:p

I had a boyfriend who went one year as a nympho (didn't take much to dress up, he just bumped into a lot of girls with raunchy pick up lines to boot and btw he got booted that night, I guess I got jealous.....oops :eek: )


EDIT: I remembered a good one............ bathrobe and towel. you could be Arthur !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Now that would work! All you have to do is wander around saying "What?", "I don't understand..." and "Where's the tea?" and you will be brilliant!:D

You could cover your head with a towel, wrapping rubber bands around it so that the towel is held close to your head. Then cut a hole for your left eye and your mouth.
Then put on some boxer shorts, being sure to cut a hole in the bottom that reveals a second pair of boxer shorts under that. Wear nothing else except some paint that can cover your chest, at least 8 colors, and some sandals.
If anyone asks you what you are going as, punch them in the face and run away screaming.

You bastard! You stole my idea! Give it back!!

Wear a box and draw on periforations down so that there it crosses in the middle. Cut eye and breathing holes. Make sure the box is longer than it is wide though, like a graham cracker

Voila, Graham Cracker costume

Could one not use a pumpkin to make some sort of helmet?

Could one not use a pumpkin to make some sort of helmet?

I don't wear vegetables.

Not since the [amusing vegetable] incident.

I don't wear vegetables.

Not since the [amusing vegetable] incident.
Oh? Do tell.

If you have a suit, you could purchase some inexpensive hair dye and go as just about any world leader.
This is by far the best economy idea. Leave your fly undone, roll up some brown paper like a cigar & walk about decrying "I did not have sexual relatiopns with that woman... Monica Lewinksy". Anyone born before 1990 will love that one.

It will work better if you can convince a brunette female friend to create a hand lotion stain on a blue dress.