This year my halloween costume was very reminiscent of my costumes back when I was a kid - inexpensive. I spent $8 buying some face make-up and dressed as the Joker

I already had the suit and the hat was bought a few years ago for a different halloween costume.  I think the smile came out pretty well but I needed to do a better job around my eyes.  As the night wore on the makeup actually got better and more authentic looking.  It was kind of neat.

When my older brother and I were kids our mom was pretty thrifty - but handy - when it came to crafting our costumes.  She rarely bought a costume - they were basically just bags for your body and a plastic mask on an elastic strap back then - so she had to be creative to make do with stuff we had around the house.  There was one year where she did buy us costumes.  We probably harassed her to no end so that we could be this awesome.



It looks like the costumes even came with matching bags.  I doubt they held up as well as the pillowcase we usually each took.

Typically, mom made our costumes.  She would buy a few smaller things to help finish out the deal; such as my fangs in the following photo.  I don't remember what year this was, but I'm pretty sure I was at least six or seven when she turned me into a huge-disembodied-head Dracula and my brother into Frankenstein.

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