A Video For You To DIY Spooky Costumes

On a budget? Forgot what month it is and now it's slim pickings in the costume aisles? Perhaps this goes against Halloween principles, but have no fear. HuffPost has compiled a list of 25 easy, DIY spooky costumes that you can throw together this year.

According to The Daily Green, Halloween can be a wasteful time in the U.S. as millions of Americans purchase costumes that are used once and inevitably end up in landfills. With some creative DIY skills, you will be able to save money and go green this Halloween -- reduce your purchases of new items, and reuse what you've got lying around.

The Today Show had some interesting ideas recently, and Fox News offered rules for this year's festivities: Don't over think it, and ditch the sarcasm and abstract ideas.

Perhaps we didn't fully follow their rules with our list below, but it's solid advice, nonetheless. October is flying by, Halloween is almost here and it’s time to start thinking about costume ideas! If you’re still trying to figure out what you want to go as for Halloween this year, there’s no better place to look for inspiration than the Internet. From popular YouTube video characters to popular memes, Facebook, Twitter and more, we’ve put together a list of 15 topical Halloween costumes for 2011, inspired by memes and social media.

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Check out the last minute Halloween costume ideas listed below:

Remember Ted Williams, the homeless man with the golden voice that went viral and had his life changed back in January? He would make a pretty simple Halloween costume. Grab a camouflage jacket and a messy wig and, as a final touch, grab a piece of cardboard and write out Ted’s signature sign: “I have a God given gift of voice. I’m an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times. Please! Any help will be greatly appreciated.” Of course, it doesn’t hurt if you’ve got a great radio voice as well.

Netflix has been going through some tough times lately, what with hiking their prices, splitting off their DVD-by-mail service into a separate service called Qwikster and then changing their mind about Qwikster. A lot of users have or are threatening to cancel their service and Netflix has taken quite a beating. So why not go as Netflix for Halloween? Wear all red or make a giant Netflix envelope out of poster board or paper and use makeup to give yourself a black eye.

Twitter lovers, this one’s for you! Go as a hashtag costume critic. Make a giant hashtag on your shirt and then bring along a collection of words that could be used to describe Halloween costumes (FAIL, Sexy, Cute, Funny, Scary, etc.) and stand next to people, displaying the appropriate word next to your hashtag. You’ll be the life of the party as everyone waits to see which hashtag you’ll tag them with, and it’s a great excuse for approaching people you might like to talk to.

Speaking of great excuses to approach people—why not go as Facebook notifications? This one requires a bit of creativity on your part, but has big potential. Create a red notification bubble with the number 1 on it. Then, walk up to people to let them know they’ve got a notification. They can find out what the notification is by flipping the bubble around and reading what’s on the other side. You can prepare a variety of messages from “YOUR NAME Wants to be friends” to “YOUR NAME has poked you,” “YOUR NAME likes your costume” and more.