Need a quick, cheap, easy, not slutty Halloween costume...ideas?

Hey guys,  I don't usually dress up for Halloween but this year I know that all my friends are going to go to a party where you have to dress up, and I don't want to be the lame-o who stays home.  Does anyone have any ideas for a cheap and easy not too slutty Halloween costume that isn't a total cop out, either?  Is that asking too much??  Haha.

I've seen tattered sweat pants with baby dolls attached all over - redneck mama.

Also a robe, cream on face, hair in rollers, houseshoes.

Last year, my kids and I were pirates.  Brown pants, boots or boot-like shoes, white boys dress shirt size too big, and red kerchief on our heads.  Complete with a stuffed bird safety pinned to the shoulder.

Zombie!! You can be a zombie anything....have an old prom dress? You could be a zombie prom-goer. Just for the fun of dressing up AND being a zombie. All it takes is some plae face-paint or foundation, black eyeshadow around the eye sockets, red-rimmed eyes (I used some red lipstick applied with small brush), some blue or greenish tones mixed in or used for veins, some fake blood and gaping wounds (effects makeup is pretty cheap at the cosume stores). There's lots of zombie pics online for examples. You could even just be zombie you.

Blue t-shirt, cotton balls, pennies = cotton balls become clouds and pennies - are from heaven

Or just write "Freud" all over a slip and your good to go.

Dress in rags with charcoal on your face and monopoly money pinned to your clothes and you can go as the filthy rich...

I'm going as a devil this year. I have a black dress and heals already in the closet. I found devil horns, tail and stick thingy (sorry totally forget what it's called) at walgreens for $4. It's cute and sparkles.

I like the fithy rich idea.

Get a hold of some scrubs and a stethoscope and be a doctor.

What are your friends going as can you all do some kind of theme?

check out    marthastewart.com   she has great no-sew costumes

Original Post by merylwhite1:

Dress in rags with charcoal on your face and monopoly money pinned to your clothes and you can go as the filthy rich...

 now that's cute

Dress all in black, cut out a circle of white cloth (from an old t-shirt or something), draw an 8 on it, and it pin it to your shirt.  Write all of the responses from a magic eight ball down on little pieces of paper and put them in a pouch.  Go as a magic 8 ball!  You can even have people ask you questions all night and let them get their response from the pouch!

1) Take brown paper bag.

2)  Cut out circles for your eyes.

3)  Put paper bag on head.

Original Post by dnrothx:

1) Take brown paper bag.

2)  Cut out circles for your eyes.

3)  Put paper bag on head.

 I can totally see you doing this.

gypsy! 

Original Post by kbella24:

Dress all in black, cut out a circle of white cloth (from an old t-shirt or something), draw an 8 on it, and it pin it to your shirt.  Write all of the responses from a magic eight ball down on little pieces of paper and put them in a pouch.  Go as a magic 8 ball!  You can even have people ask you questions all night and let them get their response from the pouch!

 Love this idea!

Buy one of those packs of small size cereal boxes (you know, the ones with a variety of sugary cereals in them).  Empty (read: eat) the cereal and then attach the empty boxes to a t-shirt/sweat shirt along with plastic knives and some fakey blood and go as a "cereal killer".

Or: buy a big foam "Number 1" finger and write the word "ceiling" on a t-shirt/sweat shirt and go as a ceiling fan.

Or: buy a pack of balloons and blow them up.  Take a large, clear trash bag or dry cleaners bag and make arm and leg holes.  Fill the large clear bag with the blown up balloons and go as a bag jelly beans.

Okay, that's all I've got!  Good luck!

Last year I was deathly ill up to Halloween and so didn't even think I would be going out - but last minute I was feeling better.

I was a paper bag princess (like from the book!).

Take paper bags (the giant sized ones used for lawn cuttings/debris) and fashion it into a dress. (I just cut arm and head holes in it and turned it inside out to hide the writing but you could spend some more time making it fashionable)  Smear soot/dirt on you so you look like you've been in a fire - wear a plastic princess crown. Ta da!

This year I think I'm going as a rockstar and borrowing a 'guitar hero' game guitar and teasing my hair and adding coloured fake hair and wearing crazy clothes & makeup. Perhaps drawing on a tattoo.

Cool ideas I've seen:

• Medusa (plastic dollar store snakes woven into your hair),
• Cardboard boxes turned into Mario Karts with related characters (red suit and painted on mustache for mario) (Good 'group' costume if you're going with a friend or two)
• shower curtain attached to a hulla-hoop which you wear around you (suspenders over the shoulders) with a shower cap & back scrubber & flip flop accessories.