When the spookiest night of the year is dawning upon you, there’s always this feeling that every cool costume has been done before. Coming up with some seriously mad idea is never easy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rock an original look.

Just take a look at the ingenious people who nailed Halloween like it was a walk in the park in the list below. The magic formula (probably) doesn’t exist, but thinking outside the box, picking up fun cultural references everyone can relate to, and getting your thread and needle working may do the job.

From the assistant to the Regional Manager to the “this is fine” meme, the award for the best Halloween costume goes to…

#1 Elton John

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#2 Since Dragoncon Was Canceled This Year, I Present To You My Lara Croft Cosplay

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#3 Happy Halloween?

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#4 Both Photos Are Me, Two Years And 220 Pounds Lighter. Luigi-Time!

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#5 Our First Time Dressing Up For Halloween

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#6 I Have To Wear This Outfit Everyday For Work. Today Is Especially Fun. Already Been Asked 5 Times By Strangers “What Would You Do If I Killed Your Dog?”

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#7 Probably The Best Halloween Costume This Year

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#8 Still In The Delivery Room With These Two When I Planned This

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#9 Oh Scary

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#10 You’ve Got A Lot To Learn About This Town, Sweetie. I Channeled My Inner Phyllis For A Halloween Event Last Weekend

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#11 I’m The Only Person In My Entire Office Of 30 People Who Dressed Up Today And I’m In A Full Body Banana Suit

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#12 Happy Halloween! This Is Fine

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#13 Stupid Sexy Flanders

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#14 Blursed Halloween Costumes

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#15 There’s No Crying In Baseball

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#16 My Assistant To The Regional Manager

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#17 My Wife And I Made Our First Annual Halloween Card! “American Pandemic, 2020”

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#18 He Wins Halloween

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#19 This May Be My Sweetest Halloween Costume Yet

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#20 I Am Groot

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#21 Our Son Was Born At 25 Weeks Almost 2 Months Ago. His Nurse Made Him This Epic Costume

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#22 I Am… The Casting Couch

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#23 Felt Cute, Might Betray My Entire Character Arc And Burn Innocents Alive For No Reason Later

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#24 Heavy Metal Rock Band

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#25 My Sweet Boy Rats Helped Me Make My Halloween Costume A Bit More Realistic

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#26 For My Son’s First Halloween, We Were The Addams Family

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#27 Alien Abduction Costume

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#28 Costume Of The Year

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#29 My Niece Is Obsessed With Rbg And I Think She Nailed Her Halloween Costume

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#30 The Math Department At My Former High School Decided To Dress As Dominoes For Halloween

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#31 My Son’s Hand Made Halloween Costume. He’s Been Working On It Since April

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#32 My Mom Is 2020 For Halloween

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#33 My Son Wanted To Be The “Coffin Dance Guys” For His Halloween Costume

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#34 “What Are You Supposed To Be?” “Nun Of Your Business”

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#35 My 3year Old Nephew As A Cowboy Today! Only Did Trick Or Treat At My House But Still Dressed Up

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#36 Never Gonna Give You Up

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#37 Halloween 2020

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#38 Halloween Costume

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#39 Dressed Up As My Teacher For Halloween

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#40 This Is How Halloween Went For Me And My Identical Twin A Few Years Ago

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#41 Updated My Tinder In The Spirit Of Halloween

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#42 As A Professional Social Media Manager, I Am Required By Law To Make This My Halloween Costume

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#43 Someone Suggested I Post My Halloween Costume Here

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#44 This Year, My 10-Year-Old Finally Let Me Make His Costume

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#45 My Wife Finally Let Me Pick Out The Outfits This Year

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#46 I Grew My Hair Out For Over A Year To Be Bob Ross For Halloween. My Wife Was A Happy Little Tree

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#47 Musclebob Buffpants (Spongebob With Anchor Arms)

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#48 Matilda

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#49 I Scared Off A Number Of Trick-Or-Treaters With The Sign

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#50 Jamaica Bobsled Team Costume

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#51 My Daughter, The Bat

For the last year, my daughter has told me she wants to be a “spooky, scary, bloody bat” for Halloween. So I made a pattern, bought some fabrics, and made it happen! The blood will be added before Trick or Treating.

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#52 Our 6 Year Old As His Favorite Character Flick For Halloween. My Sister Made This Costume By Hand And The Mask Is A Modded Jurassic Park Raptor

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#53 When All Your Co-Workers Agree To Dress Up As Smurfs This Year, But You’re The Only One To Go Through With It

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#54 Ghost Busters?

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#55 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

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#56 Raising Him Right- Son’s Choice Of Costume This Year

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#57 Today Was Our Halloween Party At Work. That Was Really, Really Good Timing

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#58 Everyone Thought We Were Teletubbies But I Know Y’all Will Get It

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#59 After My Family Refused To Help Me Convince My Dad To Wear A Pickle Costume For Halloween, I Bought One And Sent It To Him Anyway. Reddit, Meet My Dad, Rick

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#60 Edna Mode And Baby Jack Jack

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#61 Steve Harvey

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#62 I Found Out My Goddaughter Was Was Going As Sonic For Halloween, But Was Sad She Couldn’t Go Anywhere. So I Made An Eggman Costume And Drove To Her House For A Mini Party

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#63 My Boy Was Freddie Mercury For Halloween

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#64 My Halloween Costume!! I’m A Gamer Grill!

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#65 My Daughter And Husband As Toph And The Boulder. She Filled Up Her Appa With So Much Candies From Last Night’s Trick Or Treating

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#66 Ladies And Gentlemen, The Mayor Of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot

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#67 Halloween Costume

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#68 Buddy At Work Nailed It

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#69 She Wanted To Dress As The Trunchbull So I Was Matilda

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#70 Ok Internet, We Did The Thing. Here’s My Twins As Slinky Dog

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#71 My Buddy Is An Elementary Art Teacher, This Is How He Integrated A Mask Into His Halloween Costume

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#72 My Sister And Her Husband Casually Dominating The Costume Game A Few Years Back

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#73 My Handmade Halloween Costume

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#74 I Was Ahead Of The Game On This One… My Halloween Costume 2 Years Ago

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#75 19 Years Ago Today, On Halloween, This Is How I Announced To My Students And Colleagues That I Was Pregnant

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#76 Happy Halloween

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#77 Te Fiti

I was going to do the moss wig, I’d make the heart with some green flowers. I even grabbed some green body makeup to make it really come to life. My goal was to make it happen on a budget, so I spent months hunting down all the pieces we’d need to pull it off. Here’s one of my inspo pictures above. I was excited because Emilia was so excited.

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#78 My Math Teacher’s Halloween Costume

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#79 My Mom Nailed The Mad Hatter Look This Year With Her Thrift Store Costume

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#80 Harry And Marv Walked Into A Halloween Party I Was At. Perfection

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#81 I Finished Making My Son’s Halloween Costume And I Think It Turned Out Pretty Cool

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#82 My Halloween Costume Ft. My Pug, Chuck

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#83 I Made My Three Year Old A Godzilla Costume

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#84 Handmade Artsy Style Cosplay Based On Kiki’s Delivery Service 

I made everything except for the jewelry and shoes from scratch! I wanted to go for a Kiki in college vibe for this! Sidenote: this broom is handmade by branches that fell into my yard during a land hurricane which is apparently a thing.

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#85 DIY Venom Mask

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#86 Prison Dr. Evil And Mini Me

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#87 When Your Dog Has Spots…

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#88 I Just Saw This Cute Mario Family

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#89 Kif, I Have Made A Halloween Costume, Inform The Men

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#90 My Niece As The Crocodile Hunter, Isn’t She A Beaut?!?

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#91 I Went As Rosa Diaz From Brooklyn Nine Nine This Halloween!

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#92 We Will Talk About This In The Van

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#93 Society Is Never Gonna Make Any Progress Until We All Learn To Pretend To Like Each Other

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#94 Chonky Velma

It took forever to find the matching orange shirt and socks. Everything bought from Amazon. The skirt actually has shorts under it!

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#95 Tardigrade Costume

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#96 This Is 2020

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#97 $2 Black Thrift Store Pajamas And Some White Acrylic Paint! I Think I Did A Pretty Good Job

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#98 My Friend Had An Incredible Grace Jones Costume For Halloween

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#99 I Don’t Know If You Know This, But Dolphins Ain’t Fish. They Is Like Us, They Is Mammaries

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#100 Selena Gomez

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#101 My Friends And I Dressed Up As Our ‘Gang Beasts’ Characters For Halloween

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#102 My Halloween Costume

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#103 Happy Halloween From Me And Chewie

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#104 A Little Late, But Here’s My Little Chewbacca And My Girlfriend For Halloween

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#105 Ollo Citizens Of Metrocity

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#106 My Sister (10) Wanted To Be Prison Mike For Halloween

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#107 Spaceballs The Halloween Costume

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#108 This Is My NCR Ranger Halloween Costume

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#109 I Wanted To Show Off My Halloween Costume Since I Like Validation

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#110 Any “Trailer Park Boys” Fans? This Is My Gender Bender Bubbles Cosplay. The Local Dispensary Is Doing Costume Contest Giveaway, Can I Get A “Decent”?

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#111 Halloween Costume Entry: Global Pandamic

Start with a panda onesie: I got mine off nextdoor as someone sold it off for $15 used. Go to craft store and buy a $0.99 bag of pipe cleaners, shape them into Ts or sharp end clovers and pierce the panda fabric. Pretty cheap and easily removed. Grab a globe, stuff it with same pipe cleaners and be the best pun you can be for 2020. I’m also going to go grab a world map and make a flag out of it, but I’m not sure if I want to ruin a map for this.

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#112 My Son’s Full Body Crochet Slenderman Costume

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#113 My Wife Did An Amazing Cosplay Of Edward Scissorhands Today For Halloween

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#114 My Wife’s Custome For A Quarentined Halloween

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#115 My Families Big Lebowski Halloween!

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#116 My Halloween Michael Myers Costume From Last Year

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#117 Homemade Oogie Boogie Costume

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#118 Last Year I Dressed Up As A Bottle Of Purell For Halloween. Who Knew How Ahead Of The Times I Would Be

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#119 I Made This Barn Owl Costume For Halloween

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#120 Hand Sanitizer

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#121 My 2018 Halloween Costume Was An Omen For 2020

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#122 Nighttime Costumes In The Hansa Park Germany

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#123 Dwight Pumpkin Costume (Yes I Carved Out A Real Pumpkin) What Do You Guys Think?

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#124 My Twin Daughter’s Halloween Costumes Paying Homage To The 90s Classic “Clueless”

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#125 Work From Home Barbie Costume I Threw Together For A Costume Competition At Work

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#126 My Wife & I Dressed As Refugee Tea Shop Workers

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#127 Halloween Costume

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#128 Thought You Guys Might Like My Boyfriend And Mines Halloween Costumes We Made

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#129 This Year’s Duo Costume With My Dog Was Inspired By The Great Tp Shortage Of 2020

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#130 She Wanted To Be Forky. We Went With It

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#131 Oh, Yeah!

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#132 My Halloween Costume From A Couple Years Ago. Don’t Know How I’ll Top This

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#133 Had Hip Surgery On Wednesday So Great Timing For A Nancy Kerrigan Costume

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#134 I’m Pretty Happy With Our Couple Costume This Year

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#135 Tusken Raider

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#136 Do You Have Your Car Insured? We Have You Covered

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#137 My Daughter Nailed Her Minister Of Silly Walks Costume

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#138 My Dad’s Halloween Costume Of ‘78

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#139 My Cousins At Their Halloween Party

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#140 Just A Genie In A Bottle, Baby

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#141 Halloween 1998 When I Thought Dressing As A Giant Milkbone Would Make Dogs Like Me

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#142 Figured This Sub Might Appreciate My Halloween Costume From Last Year

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#143 Trying Out Halloween Looks

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#144 Miss Trunchbull From Matilda

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#145 A Medic From TF2 Costume My Dad Made For Me Back In 5th Grade

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#146 My Friends DIY Costume

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#147 Quarantined With A 3D Printer And Needed A Mask For Halloween… Only One Solution… Predator!

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#148 Full Body Crocheted Five Nights At Freddy’s Costume For My Son! He’s So Happy! Pit Bonnie

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#149 My Girlfriend’s Wendigo Costume She Made, With A Working Jaw In The Mask When She Talks

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#150 I Saw A Magazine Cover From 1895 And I Was Obsessed With The Witch Costume On The Front, So I Decided To Make It

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#151 My Wifey Killed It With Her Costume

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#152 Fiancé And I Made Our Own Costumes

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#153 My 6-Month-Old’s Halloween Costume

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#154 I’m 24 And Have Never Missed A Night Of Trick Or Treating, This Is This Year’s Costume (Everything But The Mask Was Hand Made By Me)

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#155 My Husband Finished Our Kids’ Halloween Costumes This Week. A Swat Officer & An Alien Abduction

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#156 Steampunk Plague Doctor

Halloween costume is complete! There’s still some stuff I’d like to add, but due to time constraints, are going to have to wait for another time. Overall, very happy with the result.

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#157 Halloween Costumes Last Year. Husband And Me. No One Wanted To Talk To Me

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#158 Last Year I Was Roasted. The Brunt Of The Insults Inspired My Will Byers Halloween Costume

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#159 Me And My Friends For The School Halloween Competition! We Won Best Group

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#160 Finished My Swedish Chef Costume Today. Bork!

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#161 My Lemongrab Costume From Halloween Last Year

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#162 We Named Our Newborn Lincoln For The Very Purpose Of Using Link As A Nickname. So Of Course His First Halloween Costume Was A No Brainer

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#163 “I’m Here To Scare You Straight!” Prison Mike And Dementor Costume

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#164 Was On A Budget For My Halloween Costume So I Decided To Be The Legend Himself

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#165 Trying Out A New Halloween Makeup Idea

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#166 We Finally Got My Father-In-Law To Play Along With Us For Halloween

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#167 I’m A School Bus Driver. I Had To Do It

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#168 “More Like Chel Dorado”

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#169 My Father Made This Halloween Costume For Me When I Was Younger And I Wanted To Share

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#170 My Son’s Handmade Skull Kid Costume

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#171 My Son Wanted To Be Old Gregg So I Assembled This Costume And Made The Wig From Fake Seaweed And A Wig Cap

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#172 Kuzco And Yzma!

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#173 I’m Old Greeeeeegg

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#174 We Are… The People’s Champ

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#175 I’m Your Number One Fan

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#176 I Dressed Up As Craig Jones From Friday For My Halloween Costume

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#177 Our City Councillor And His Daughter Dressed As Him

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#178 For Your Costume Consideration… Handsome Squidward

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#179 I Had To Share My Costume

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#180 My Son Went As Pennywise This Year

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