What were some of your costumes for Halloween when you were a child?

When I was very young, probably only a year and a half old, I was a gypsy. One of the old pictures that my mom has is of me in that costume, and I must say that I make a cute little blonde haired gypsy. :) One of the ones I remember best was when my best friend and I dressed up as the California Raisins when we were in 8th grade, I think. We wore black tights and turtlenecks, and then a big black trashbag stuffed with newspaper. My mom even made us little "bibs" that looked like a tuxedo shirt and purple bow tie. My mom was really big on making our Halloween costumes. I hated it at the time, because I always wanted a store bought costume, but now I realize how much of a waste those things are. You're lucky if the store-bought ones make it through Halloween, let alone are usable the next year!

I was a mommy one year, a dalmation another year, bat girl one year, a witch, some kind of weird monster thing, a punk rocker, one of the blues brothers, I did the 1950's poodle skirt thing one year, another year I did the authentic 1940's dress, pin curls, etc.

In the last few years that I lived at my mums residence I dressed up as leatherface from the texas chainsaw massacre films and I scared some poor little kids and oh how I laughed hahahahahah!! I had a real chainsaw and it was great with fake red blood all over it!! those kids never came back for tricks and treats!! hahahahahaha!!

I remember being Casper, Mr. Spock, a clown, Ziggy Stardust (at least my mom's perception of who/what that is, lol), Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm, and a hippie. I know there was more, but those are the Halloween costumes that I can recall. ...if I remember any more, I'll come back, lol.

I didnt really ever go as something outlandish. I can remember dressing as a gypsy, a magician, cleopatra, a cat, a fairy, a witch and a mummy (BTW, toilet paper does NOT hold up to a whole night of trick-or-treating!). Pretty run of the mill stuff. My mom wouldn't usually spring for the store bought costumes, so we would use things we had at home and make the accessories ourselves.