Quote: (And - now that I've freaked you out - go to the library and take out The Tightwad Gazette by Dacyzyn for inspiration on how you can stretch your dollars and use creativity to give your kids a great childhood.)
That reminded me of the Halloween costume I made when my son was 3. He still talks about it at almost 14! We didn't have much money at all back then so I had to make a costume. I took an old pair of white stirrup pants and cut them to fit him. I saved the bottoms of the legs. I cut up an old black shirt into a couple dozen little circles and glued them all over the pants and one of his white sweatshirts. I took one of legs that I'd saved and made a hat for him and covered that with circles too. I rolled up a bunch of aluminum foil like a tail, covered it with the last of those white pants, put a couple black circles on it and pinned it on his butt. Then I bought black makeup for $1 and colored a circle around one of his eyes. He was a Dalmation.
3 years ago I took a box and cut out a circle at the bottom of it just so my daughter, then 7, could step into it and pull it up around her waist. I took strings and strung them to the box so she could "wear" it around her shoulders. We then wrote "PUPPIES FOR SALE" on the front of the box and I put her hair in dog ears (pigtails) and colored a circle around one of HER eyes...threw about 2 dozen beanie baby dogs into the box with her and she was officially a box of puppies for sale that Halloween. I walked behind her that whole night picking up beanie babies that were dropping out of the hole in the bottom of the box. My sister was with us and we were cracking up all night. At every house we went to the people told her what a great costume she had.
This year is her last Halloween and I still don't have a lot of money.
I'm trying to get her to be "grapes".
I want to pin purple balloons all over her clothes.
