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   mroberts88 said, 26 days ago

   Yeah, if only it was as easy as it was made out to be.

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   cleokaya said, 26 days ago

   Yeah…well save it for next year kiddo.

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   OpenWings said, 26 days ago

   Alas! Space Guy is about to become Melted Boy Puddle… so created by his mothership’s finely tuned white hot laser beam of wrath and fury… stay tuned ;o)

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   SchmoozeMinkey said, 26 days ago

   Did anybody NOT see that coming?

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   ckcsmum said, 26 days ago

   It’s still better than spending two days making the costume by hand and then having him change his mind.

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   lightenup said, 26 days ago

   Exactly what I was thinking, ckcsmum. People will always change their mind. You just have to set the parameters up front (i.e. “This is it! I’m not buying/making anything else.)

   Good morning, OpenWings, mroberts88, burgandy, susan and anyone else I’ve forgotten. OpenWings, to change your name temporarily, just modify your first and/or last name in your profile (maybe Batwings? and get a bat avatar?)

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   cdward said, 26 days ago

   We’ve actually always made them – though this year is the last (they’re too old now). In all those years there was never a complaint. The only problem was when we went to a costume contest and lost – then the judge came up afterward and said their costumes would have won except prizes were only for homemade, and they assumed ours were store bought because they looked too professional. When we told him we made them, he apologized. Oh well.

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   Macushlalondra said, 25 days ago

   Sorry Michael but you don’t have the option of changing your mind. This is the one we got and this is the one you will wear, that’s it!

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   Susan001 said, 25 days ago

   I wonder how many other kids will be in Space Guy costumes.
   I also wonder if the adult Michael ever reminisces about what a butt-pain he was as a kid.

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    scottcpa said, 25 days ago

    Lawrence checking out the king costume. Now that’s a guy with ambition!

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    bald 716 said, 25 days ago

    i’m just glad my kids are old enough that they don’t go out anymore

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    howtheduck said, 25 days ago

    We don’t really get to see why it is that Michael changed his mind in the parking lot only a few minutes after having purchased his costume, since this is an Elly-only perspective. I could easily imagine it being from fear of seeing his sister turn completely black in the final panel.

    “Eek! Lizzie has a store bought costume and she turned completely black! …I’ve changed my mind!!!”

    This way, all those exclamation points make sense.

    As for Elly’s reaction, she gave into Mike on Sunday in the grocery store, and today she gave into Mike about getting the store bought costume. I predict the next thing Elly does will be to give into Mike, go back into the store and get Mike another costume, with the hope that this time he can make it to the car without changing his mind again.

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    Burgundy2 said, 25 days ago

    At least it’s easier to take the costume back to the store and exchange, than to go to all the work to make a costume and have it rejected.

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    omwae59 said, 25 days ago

    never fails - now i’ve got their sequention tape disbursement

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    omwae59 said, 25 days ago

    i konw you dont know what that means - but the guy running the scanner does.

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    omwae59 said, 25 days ago

    yeah - you were supposed to meet that sweet lovely young librarian at the post office honey - they are all military guys there - they would spot an ‘insert’ before IT even walked in the door.

    tea? no tea. milk, no. no milk. honey? - no.. honey.

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    JanCinVV said, 25 days ago

    We used to get pieces for costumes at the thrift store. We did Tom Sawyer one year and he got athlete’s foot (which he’s been fighting ever since) from the work boots we bought for the costume. That put an end to that practice.

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    johnnydoc5 said, 25 days ago

    Too late!

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    camelsamba2 said, 25 days ago

    Someone wrote: “At least it’s easier to take the costume back to the store and exchange”

    Um, depends on where you got it - those seasonal Halloween stores that pop up this time of year have firm “All Sales Final” policies.

    One of my boys loves to make his own costume, the more obscure the better (think Caulfield in Frazz). There was one year where he had to explain himself a bunch of times during the school parade, so he changed his mind and went as a ninja for ToT that night (from stuff we had at home). But except for that one year, he has always thrived on the obscurity. The younger ones are coming over to the “home made is best” mindset. And since they’re still of an age to play dress up on occasion, I don’t even mind the “changed my mind for Halloween” episodes - we still get lots of use of the costumes and accessories.

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    BlitzMcD said, 25 days ago

    Michael sure was a brat in his younger days. Time for Elly to mom up, sort him out and put him right.

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    mroberts88 said, 25 days ago

    Hello Frighenup, Elly should tell Michael thats what he’s wearing.

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    OpenWings said, 25 days ago

    Hey FrightenUp thanks so much for the tips! :o)

    You’re probably right scottcpa but I first thought that was a Where the Wild Things Are costume!! :o))

    Love your new look Boo! gundy2 cute ghost too! :o)

    Geez, Elly could just wear her panel 4 face for Halloween and not have to wear a costume - she’d scare a lot of kids!!