28 Stupid-Easy Costume Ideas to Make With What You Already Own

8. Cruella de Vil
With a furry collared coat, light jeans DIYed with splotches of black paint, red lipstick, a sassy expression, and a long, DIY cigarette holder (how to make your own cigarette holder), you're instantly transformed.

9. Protestor
An ex-boyfriend was this one year. He just wore his regular clothes and got a piece of poster board from the grocery store and wrote "Me Against This Halloween" on it.

10. Linus from Peanuts
Put on a red t-shirt, carry around a blanket with you, and then let it drag on the ground.

11. Writer
This one is beyond easy. Grab a little notepad and a pen and carry it around with you. Done.

12. Skipper from Gilligan's Island
Sailor hat, short-sleeved blue collared polo, and tan pants. Don't have a sailor hat? No problem, you can be . . .

13. A Best Buy Employee
Blue polo and tan pants. Only have a red polo? Then you can be . . .

14. A Target Employee
Red polo, tan pants.

15. Wednesday Addams
Center-parted hair into pigtails, long-sleeved short black dress, black shoes, red lips, vacant stare.

16. A Tourist
Just add a fanny pack to any outfit. If you want to really go for it, then add a camera around your neck, bermuda shorts, sunglasses, and a plastic bag full of "souvenirs."

17. Classic Ghost
Old (or thrifted) white bed sheet with cutout eye holes.

18. Waldo
Red-and-white-striped shirt, red beanie, black rimmed glasses (bonus points if they are circle shaped), jeans.

19. Superhero
Tear up an old (or again, thrifted) bed sheet and make a cape out of it. Wear black under it and use construction paper to make yourself a chest emblem.

20. Mime
Black-and-white-striped shirt, white gloves (can find them for a buck at any dollar store this time of year), white face paint, black beanie.

21. A "Nerd"
Wear a short-sleeved collared shirt buttoned up to the very top and khakis. Then, wrap a piece of tape around the center of a pair of glasses.

22. The Dancing Emoji Lady
Red dress, red heels, and stiff dancing pose.

23. Pumpkin Head
This is my husband, Aaron's, go-to "costume." I always give him a hard time about it because it's so silly and easy, but hey, it's also very cheap and simple so I gotta give him that. Get a pumpkin with a nice-looking stem that is roughly the size of the top of your head. Cut the top of the pumpkin off, then put some aluminum foil on the inside of it (because it can get a little itchy), and set it on your head. Then wear your regular clothes. If you want to get ambitious (or if the pumpkin won't stay put) poke holes into either side of the pumpkin by your ears and loop a piece of string through it to secure it to your head.

24. Bag of Jelly Beans
Wear all black, and then cut arm holes and a head hole into one large, clear plastic trash bag, fill the bag with two packages of round multicolored party balloons (about 30 balloons total), then tape the bag closed at the top and bottom.

25. A Bouncer
Wear all black, put on a blazer and some dark sunglasses, and slick back your hair.

26. Couch Potato
Wear your grimiest lounge pants, a baggy t-shirt, a messy ponytail; wrap yourself up in a cozy blanket; and then carry around a bag of chips and a remote with you.

27. Walter White
This Walter White costume is less obvious than the one most people would probably think of being (Heisenberg), and it's actually very similar to the Tom Cruise Risky Business costume if you think about it (collared shirt, undies) So, pull out a long-sleeved green collared shirt. Tuck one side of the shirt into a pair of white tighty-whities, then put on tan, plaid, or black socks and tan shoes.

28. And if all else fails, borrow a friend's costume from last year. ;)