It’s October 1st, which means you officially have 30 days to figure out your Halloween costume.
Thirty days sounds like plenty of time. In Michigan, however, we know better.
You’ll blink twice, somebody will put Christmas decorations out at Meijer, and suddenly it’ll be Halloween night and you’ll be standing in the kitchen wearing a flannel shirt wondering if you can just tell everyone you’re a lumberjack.
If you want to stay on top of pop culture, there are plenty of costume ideas making the rounds this year.
Some of the big ideas include:
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Freaky Nikki from "Obsession"
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The bushes from Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show
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Athena and Odysseus from "The Odyssey"
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Taylor Swift and her friends in their coordinated Knicks-game shirts
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The hazmat-suit operatives from "Backrooms"
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Ilya and Shane from "Heated Rivalry"
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Doctors from "The Pitt"
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Dolly Parton
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Olivia Rodrigo from the "You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love" cover
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Harry Styles from the "Dance No More" video
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HUNTR/X from "KPop Demon Hunters"
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Patricia from "Widow’s Bay"
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Charli XCX
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Pitbull
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Sabrina Carpenter
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Ryland Grace from "Project Hail Mary"
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Spider-Man
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Michael Jackson
But here’s where Michigan enters the costume conversation.
You could skip pop culture altogether and go pure Michigan.
Dress up as a Michigan pothole. Just stand in the driveway and refuse to move.
Go as road construction. Throw on an orange vest, grab a traffic cone and spend the entire evening telling people, “Sorry, you can’t get through here.”
Want something really terrifying?
Go as a Michigan driver trying to merge onto I-75 during construction.
Or dress as a cider mill employee and walk around handing everyone donuts while complaining that the line is too long.
You could even go as Michigan weather.
Start the night in shorts. Add a hoodie at 7 p.m. Put on a winter coat at 9. By midnight, nobody knows what season you're supposed to be.
And if you live in Mid-Michigan, there’s always the classic:
"Guy Who Said He Wasn't Dressing Up."
Just wear jeans, a hoodie and a baseball cap.
Congratulations. You’re every guy at the Halloween party.
So you've got 30 days.
Don't wait until October 30th.
Because nothing says Halloween spirit like walking into a party wearing a sheet and telling everyone you're a ghost because Spirit Halloween was sold out of everything else.
