25 Hilarious Examples of Parents Saving $
October 12, 2009 · Print This Article
As kids I’m sure you can remember that Halloween was one of the best holidays ever. Unfortunately, a lot of us had parents who didn’t feel it was necessary to have an awesome store bought costume like the rest of the kids. Long story short; we’d end up looking an aisle at Ross’s and an aisle at Toys R’ Us got smashed together and somehow shit us out. Here’s a montage dedicated to parents, their creative costume ideas, and the kids who have to wear them.
If there are any moms reading this listen up: We know you mean well, and we love you for that, but let your kid get the store bought costume he’s been talking about.
25 Hilarious Examples of Parents Saving A Buck On Halloween Costumes
This is too cute! Looks like most of them enjoyed their homemade costumes though! We had homemade ones and had a blast! The store bought ones are cute too, though. Love the pics!
Most of the kids looked pretty happy, but Patches (the clown with the Ewok and Darth Vader), looks absolutely miserable.
Hahaha, I love the lobster and the costume with the red cape.
I think some of them are very creative, not cheap at all
Since when is a home grown costume a bad thing. Some of them are pretty cute.
I have had a few Halloweens where I spent $500+ on making my own foam latex prosthetics.
English translation: “Your bitch of a mother”
Many of those are pretty cool. Most store bought costumes are crap, though they do let you look “like” popular licensed characters. My mom is a great seamstress, and we almost always had awesome homemade costumes. Best were the fully detailed, stretch-fabric and puff-paint Spider-Man and Venom costumes my brother and I had when were 5 and 8 years old.
Ditto. There’s no way these are cheaper than store bought costumes.
Money may not have been used in abundance on many of these costumes but two greater currencies were, 1. Love and 2. Time
Most adorable !!!!
Agree again. Some of those costumes don’t even come close to “saving a buck”.
Older kids that walk around late to grab the last of the halloween candy and do nothing except slap a kerchief over their face – THAT’S saving a buck. Some of the posted pics above are far from inexpensive either in materials or in effort compared to a lot of the crap they sell in stores.
I think they are precious. Nothing wrong with home made they don’t look that inexpensive either, a few do look like the parent coulda spent a lil more time on em though.
Absolutely nothing wrong with any of these costumes, at least they looked like they were fun to make and the kids enjoyed themselves! Better than some two-bit Captain America costume bought from the stor
Some of those are actually pretty cool… Love the first robot one.
is that Ron Jeremy in a red cape
is that Ron Jeremy in a red cape?
When I grew up, most kids had homemade costumes, and they were usually the best ones. Kids with flimsy store bought costumes were looked down upon as having parents that didn’t care enough or have enough time to make an awesome custom costume.
My homemade costume won best costume at school one year. I was Minnie Mouse. I am a boy.
aw… I think they all look so cute!
Each of these costumes is far more exciting and satisfying to wear than a generic store-bought costume. Why show up in an identical spiderman costume to your class-mates when you can be that funky kid with the giant giraffe neck coming out of you? You know the other kids are gonna marvel at that.
Kids should and do appreciate creative things that aren’t stamped out by factories. I loved my home-made robot and pirate costumes when I was a kid!
these kids suck. why didn’t they go to walmart and buy a real costume like real americans? what a bunch of retards. hahahha
i always laughed at kids that had to wear store-bought costumes. typically the store costumes were just advertisements for the latest cartoon or movie. boring! and why spend money for a cheap costume you’ll have grown out of by next year? this article itself seems an advertisement for a halloween store… oh wait.. the banner at the top IS for a costume supplier. make your own costume and show your friends that you can think better than they can. how clever is it to spend money? be creative, go make your own costume.
Cheerio costume is the best!
These are awesome! They’ve gone to a lot of trouble, and some are so clever -like the Pool Shark.
I want that tree costume!!!
Nachoooooooooooooo…………..
So hilarious! I love the lobster costume and the cheerios box! So cute! Oven and ACDC costumes are so adorable!<3 the snails!!!
Personally, I thought the Flowering Ent costume was fantastic and that kid looked like he knew it.
is that Ron Jeremy in a red cape?
the red cape one is nacho libre
You say homemade? I say custom! I made all of my kids Halloween costumes. Not to be cheap but because we could be creative and make something just for them. I even made my own and best one yet? A great black velvet cape to wear with a Professor Mcgonagall witch hat; had so many people want one it was hilarious. The best part, it’s just a black cape, not a costume so I get to use it for more than just one night!
Cheerios FTW!
I remember “store bought” costumes. A vinyl envelope with arm and head holes, with Mr. T’s body printed on it, accompanied by a cheap brown skull cap and a printed-on mohawk.
These are awesome–I love the tree one! AC/DC and the peanut are adorable too. I’ve always thought store bought were lame. Everyone I’ve ever known has preferred homemade. Store bought are cheap and lack creativity.
This is a hilarious post. I love the one with the three home made Star Wars costumes…the Ewok one is friggin hilarious!
Hands down the best Halloween post I’ve seen coming from Digg! That Scooby Doo costume almost made me pee my pants!
Hello there, Hey! How are you? Happy late Halowen!
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The more I read it, the more it impresses me. I don’t know how I ever worked without hilarious and funny things in our life, Life would be so much easier especially when there’s a jokes here and there. Being funny is nice because a lot of serious people are lacking with this kind of behavior that is why they are much look older. I would like to thank you for your outstanding blog post. Keep it up! Awesome!