Worst Costumes

[ClassyLady]

For all of you who dressed up or trick or treated for Halloween, what was your absolute WORST costume????

My mother didn't believe in spending money for a costume that I was only going to wear once, so my costumes were consistently bad from year to year. To make things worse, my elementary school had a yearly Halloween Parade in the gym where all of the students would wear their costumes and show the whole school. So, everyone of my classmates saw just how bad Halloween was for me.

Here are some of the worst:

1. I wanted to be a vampire, but the entire costume was too expensive so my mother just bought the cape. I had to wear black courdoroys with a black turtleneck and a cape. Nobody knew what I was supposed to be.

2. The next year my mom decided that she wasn't buying a costume at all. She was going to dress me up as the StayPuft marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. She wrote StayPuft Marshmallows on my father's white sweatsuit and stuffed it with newspaper. The pants were way too big and I had to keep holding them up with one hand. Plus, the newspaper was scrathing me. By the time I took it off, my legs were so ashy I looked like a ghost.

I know I can't be the only one who had to suffer like this.