Holloween Parties and Costumes

It’s Halloween week, a week for ghost and goblins, if you believe in that stuff that is. With Halloween comes parties, both on a social level and work level often times, from dress up to dress down to bring on your best Halloween costume you can come up with. If you are faced this week of scrambling to come up with the perfect Halloween costume, but you are on a strict budget due to the recession, allow the recession to be your inspiration!

The recession doesn’t have to stop you from partaking into everything, and that goes for Halloween parties too. As far as Halloween costumes go, the great thing about them is you can go as cheap or as expensive as you want to. Playing off the recession theme you could dress up as a repo man, job seeker, or the Bear Market, all pretty scary!

There are not too many that are not far away from being just a paycheck away from not being able to afford their car payment now days, so the repo man may be just as scary as running into Freddy Kruger face to face! Although this costume, as well as the rest may be in bad taste to some, they are definitely a reality and if you can’t find some way to make for one day, you may just drive yourself insane! The look is easy to capture and cheap too. A casual pair of jeans, tee shirt and a ball cap wore backwards can cover it. Carry a clip board with repo man written across it with a black Sharpie, throw a wrench in your back pocket and you got it covered. You can add some humor to your costume by borrowing a child’s toy tow truck and carrying it along with you.

For the unemployed, hunting for work and tireless interviews is no laughing matter, so if you are unemployed, why not at least get a little fun out of it, and really play up the part on Halloween. Pull out your interview best attire, grab a brief case, and fill it with resumes. You never know when you just might run into a perspective employer!

Playing the part of the Bear Market might just get you a few hateful jabs, but again, an opportunity maybe to get back at the Bear by using a bear costume you can rent from any party supply store and then thro a fake arrow that you wear on the head appearing that it is going through the skull. To make sure nobody mistakes you as just a bear, make a red arrow out of cardboard and affix it to the costume in the front pointing down, and everyone will quickly figure out that you are a walking dead Bear Market.

I am sure many of you can come up with many clever ideas to have a chance to poke fun at the recession this Halloween, but just remember, the recession doesn’t have to hold you back! You can achieve anything you want if you want it bad enough. To learn more about how you can be all you can be visit the Turning Point.