4 Inventive Last Minute Halloween Costumes

So, Halloween's tomorrow if you haven't noticed. You haven't? Well you have less than 24 hours to make a costume. So, for the less Halloween-inclined, here are some tips to help you do your best.

1. Make a cheap, lame costume
Materials: In the above example, a scissor and a piece of cloth. For anything else, just anything you can find around your house.

Time: 5 minutes

A fairly easy way out. Choose a costume that takes approximately five minutes to make. Surprisingly, this will often be an adored costume, such as that which is seen above. An overused costume that never fails to amuse. But choose wisely, or else you might just look like an idiot running around with a costume that took 5 minutes to make (which is true, but you don't want to admit that).

2. Don't make a costume
Materials: Your living human body, preferably clothed

Time: 0 seconds

An increasingly popular, and often times less risky method. Just don't make anything. People will get the idea that you hate Halloween and you're just being forced into the festivities, but it's better than taking your chances with a pathetic costume and looking like a fool.


3. Pretend to be in costume when you're really not
Materials: See #2, possibly a silly hat for good measure Time: Up to 30 seconds depending on the presence of a hat
A very crafty method; just lie. Unless the person you are facing is a mastermind of pop culture knowledge, they'll never know that the person you claim to be does not in fact exist. This one's a bit trickier to get right, but the results give you the respect of being in holiday spirit but also the laziness of not having a real costume. Overall, a great method that I strongly recommend.

4. Go freestyle
Materials: Extremely old Halloween costumes that you actually put effort into, whatever is left over at the party store

Time: 15-30 minutes

Here we have a true showcase of brilliance. Smash up random pieces of costume to create a brand new, strangely disturbing new costume. For example, in the example picture above, the person is a vampire Santa Claus clown-rabbit hybrid with Wolverine claws and an afro in a jersey and shorts wearing a funky tie and sunglasses. This was achieved just by using random Halloween costumes from the closet. This method may not be safe for people who don't want to look stupid, but if you don't care then go for it.

Hopefully this guide will help you out as much as it did for me. I'm opting for method 3, if you were curious.

Have a safe, merry, and jolly Halloween! Be sure to wear excessive amounts of reflecting tape!