Some cheap "punny" costume ideas for that clever personality of yours.

"I need a costume for a Halloween party but I don't have enough money for one!!"

The "Darth Knight."

Sometimes in your college career, you don't always have time to think about the perfect Halloween costume for any parties you might get invited to. Halloween costumes bought from the store can get really expensive, and you're only going to wear it a few times out of the year.

You can turn heads at the next party you go to with these "punny" costume ideas that will literally cost you under $10 or less! 

And you can even find the items you need for these costumes right in your dorm/apartment/house!

"Cat burglar" 

• Dress in all black with a beanie/ski mask on your face.
• Carry a loot bag full of stuffed animal cats.
• Act suspicious at parties and if people ask you what you are, look them in the eyes and say "I'm a cat burglar."

"Quarterback"

• Scan a quarter, or blow up an image of a quarter and print it out on paper or a board.
• Attach it to your back, you may dress normally if you'd like.
• Carry a football with you and pretend to throw it at people.

"Snake pit"

• Attach 3-5 rubber snakes under one of your armpits.
• You may dress normally if you'd like, or you can wear green or whatever snakes are colored...
• Add a "weird factor" to your costume by hissing at passerby party-goers. 

"Babysitter"

• Attach a baby doll to your butt. Sit.

Jim Halpert from "The Office" inspired costumes:

"Three-hole punched version of yourself"

"Facebook or 'Bookface'"

"Reverse Psychology"

• Wear a sign that reads "YGOLOHCYSP"
• Use it against people.

"One Night Stand"

• Wear a lampshade on your head.
• Cut a cardboard box to look like a table that you can rest on your shoulders around your head.
• Attach "desk items" on top of the "table" such as papers, pens, a cup, box of tissue.
• Stand in corners of the party.

"Web Surfer"

• Cover your entire body in fake spider webs, (you can use real spider webs if you're a badass.)
• Carry a surf board.
• More power to you if you wear a body surf suit before covering yourself in webs.

"A Wizard badly dressed as a Muggle" for all you Harry Potter fans out there.

• Dress terribly, call everyone at the party a Muggle in your perfect English accent.
• Brandish your wand whenever you'd like.

"When Life Gives You Lemons Guy"

• Dress as best as you can and wear a name tag that says "My name is 'Life'"
• Carry a basket of lemons with you (if you happen to have an abundance of lemons)
• When people ask you what you are, hand them a lemon and smile.

"Cereal Killer"

• Dress as menacing as you can, and put on your best "mean look."
• Carry a cereal box around with a fake knife stuck through it.
• If people stare at you, stare at them back as you thrust the knife through the cereal box with gusto.

"Sim" From the popular game "The Sims"

• You'll need two green square paper sheets, headband that closely matches your hair color, and about 25 pipe-cleaners (those bendy wire things that are covered in felt.
• How to fold it into the Sims diamond "plumbob"
• More power to you if you learn how to speak "Simlish" and learn "Sim mannerisms!"

"Mozilla Firefox"

• Dress in all orange, wear fox ears, fox tail, and a blue rubber ball.
• You can get fox ears and a fox tail for cheap, or make them yourself if you can!
• When people ask who you are, curl your body around the blue rubber ball and say you're "Firefox"

"Snobby Butler"

• Dress in a nice black suit if you have one.
• Draw with a black marker a thin curly mustache on your face, and carry around an empty tray topped with empty cups/glasses as if you're a server.
• Walk around weaving in between crowds with a smug look on your face. 

"Waist of Time"

• Attach a bunch of watches and clocks to a belt, and wear the belt.

"Annoying Tourist"

• Find a tacky Hawaiian Shirt from the thrift store, and wear some khaki cargo shorts and sandals.
• Keep a state map in one hand and a camera in the other hand.
• Take pictures of everything, and ask people to take your picture as you pose with a peace sign. 

"Running Fridge"

• Find a white cardboard box that is able to fit over your upper body.
• Decorate it to make it look like a refrigerator, with magnets and A+ papers and what not...
• Do some running in place when people ask you what exactly you are.

"Boxer"

• Fit a small box that is big enough to fit over each of your fists.
• Ask people at the party if they want to "box" with you.

"Newsflash"

• Wear a bathrobe and slippers.
• Under the bathrobe, wear regular clothes but attach a bunch of newspaper articles to them.
• "Flash" people with news!

"Wear your own face" If you really just want to go as yourself, but still maintain a creepy and scary vibe about you.

• Print out a picture of your face, and wear it as a mask.
• Act how you normally would at a party as if nothing is different.

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Got some leftover chicken? Make some delicious chicken salad with it, NOW.

Do you want to turn ordinary leftover chicken into a scrumptious feast fit for royalty?

Tired of eating chicken by itself like some kind of boring, ordinary chicken-eater? Make chicken exciting again by using the most basic of cooking techniques.

MIXING STUFF TOGETHER TO MAKE OTHER STUFF.

Make a chicken salad, you'll be egg-cited to know that most of the ingredients can be found in your kitchen already. No fowl play here, just follow the recipe carefully to keep yourself a-breast of how truly easy it is.


Here's what you need:

• Chicken, either bought from the deli, store, canned, restaurant, leftover, safely found, or killed by your merciless hands and cooked to your personal preference. Debone it and put it in a bowl.

• Celery, 1 or 2 stalks chopped into smaller pieces of celery. Yes, use a knife or ask a friend to help you with the knife. Put them in the bowl with the chicken.

• Mayonnaise, use as much as you desire depending on how much chicken you have. But obviously don't drown the chicken in mayonnaise. Would you like more chicken with your mayo?

• Add dried cranberries, or if you don't fancy cranberries you can also use grapes.

• Garlic powder, paprika (if you want some extra Zazz), also some salt and pepper (you know what those look like). Use as desired, but not too much.

"I'm good on a lot of things."

• This is optional for an extra kick, Sriracha sauce.

Here's what you do:

MIX EVERYTHING IN THE BOWL. CHILL IT FOR LATER OR EAT IT RIGHT AWAY.

Enjoy it in a sandwich, on toast, by itself, or...in pita pockets?

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"My room smells, my car smells, my roommate's shoes smells, EVERYTHING SMELLS!!"

Is everything around you starting to smell? Has your busy school and/or work schedule made it difficult to maintain a clean living environment? Maybe it's your roommate(s) that need to clean things up.

To effectively reduce the amount of bad odors around your dorm/apartment, the number 1 way is to clean up.

However once everything is put back in their rightful place, the smelly odor may still linger.


Here's what you need:

• Fabric Softener Sheets (dryer sheets, which you'll probably have a bunch of if you do laundry)

Here's how you can use them:

• Has your "new-car" smell turned into an "old-musty-car" smell? Tuck dryer sheets under car seats to counteract odors and even cigarette smells.
• Smelly drawers? There are scented drawer liners, but those are expensive. Simply tuck dryer sheets under existing drawer liners or tape them to the back of your drawers.
• You can use recently used dryer sheets in piles of laundry that have yet to be done, and also use them in trash baskets to counteract odors
• Smelly shoes and gym bag? Drop a dryer sheet into each of your shoes and leave them overnight to help get rid of odors. Shove some dryer sheets into your gym bag to control odor.
• Throw some sheets in your closet to keep your clothes smelling fresh.

Why does this work?
Fabric softener sheets just smell nice.

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