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October 2024
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30 Incredibly Lazy Last-Minute Halloween Costume Ideas
It’s crunch time. You’ve just googled the phrases “last minute costume,” “low effort costume,” and “the laziest possible Halloween costume,” and found your way to me.
I get it. You don’t have the time, energy, budget, or willpower to execute a “good” Halloween costume. But is it not good to save your effort and hard-earned money by opting for a Halloween costume that is so bad, it’s actually good?
Here are 30 Halloween “costume” ideas that are so lazy they just might be brilliant—and even if they aren’t, they can be pulled together in a matter of minutes. (Disclaimer: I can’t be held responsible for all the eye rolls these might earn you.)
30 of the best, laziest Halloween costumes for 2024
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Liam, the teen who just woke up. All you need is a blanket, some ruffled hair, and a whole lot of angst.
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Error 404: Costume not found. Write those words out on a sheet of paper to pin on your shirt, or even take a marker to a white tee for the cause. Everyone loves internet jokes!
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Iron Man: Wear sign or a name tag that reads “Fe” (the periodic symbol for iron). This is very funny.
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A conflicted sports fan: Don a bunch of competing team logos. I’m taking one friend’s Red Sox hat, and another friend’s Yankees shirt, and I’m going to try not to get beat up.
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A hip-pea: Not a tie-dye hippie. Wear all green, like a pea. Make a bunch of hip references all night, e.g. “So…this election is crazy, right?”
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Caught red-handed: Cover your palms in red paint, makeup, or marker (as long as the product says it’s safe to go on your skin). Whenever someone points it out, throw your hands up and scream, “I didn’t do it!”
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Donald Trump’s moral compass: Great option when you don’t want to show up to the party.
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A slutty mummy: Wrap yourself in toilet paper, but only partially. You can makes the exposed bits look desiccated if you want, but that seems like it would take effort.
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WFH: Wear a professional top and pajama bottoms. Really sell it by carrying around your laptop and talking about how weird your wifi has been lately.
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A frazzled plant parent: Look disheveled, carry around your houseplant like a baby, and then panic when you misplace it.
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Chip on your shoulder: Place a potato chip on your shoulder. This one works best with salt and vinegar chips, because salt and vinegar is the best chip flavor.
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Undercover ______: The key to being undercover is blending in. You could be a health inspector, a detective, or a poet, but you don’t want to look like a health inspector, a detective, or a poet. Because you’re undercover.
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Identity thief: Wear a name tag with someone else’s name.
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Spice girl: Carry around some cinnamon. Or paprika. Or, if you’re feeling really fancy, a spice blend.
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Pig in a blanket: Identify yourself as a pig (wear pink, or tie a paper snout to your face, or just say “I’m a pig!”) and wrap yourself in a blanket.
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When life gives you lemons: Wear a sign that says “life” and hand out lemons.
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Blessing in disguise: The rule of thumb with all of these ideas is that a good disguise can take any form. To put in a little effort, wear a sign that says “blessing” and then wear a fake mustache.
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A procrastinator: Done!
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A werewolf: There isn’t a full moon this Halloween, so you’re good to go.
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Any one of Jim’s costumes from The Office.
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Damian from Mean Girls: Tug that sweatshirt hood over your head and practice saying “She doesn’t even go here.”
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A cool tourist: Wear your sneakers, take some pictures, and act like a local.
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A thief: Oh, do you think a thief has to have a certain “look?” Open your eyes. If you really want to commit to the bit, snag some of your kid’s candy for show.
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Post-therapy session: Wet your eyes and carry around a box of tissues. If you’re really committed, actually schedule therapy for immediately before your party.
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An Olympic athlete: But the Olympics were decades ago and you’ve let yourself go. You can wear a medal if you have one, or just say the real honor was qualifying.
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An international pop star determined to remember what it’s like to be normal again: What if you were just some normal loser at a lame Halloween party? Sounds so carefree.
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A superhero’s alter-ego: But you’re actually dedicated to keeping your identity a secret. (Hope no supervillains crash the party.)
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A puppet who has been given a chance to be a real, normal human being and is not going to risk messing it up for anything: You don’t want that blue fairy to go back on your wish.
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Jolene, from the song, “Jolene”: If you don’t have red hair, you can say that you’re hiding from a vengeful Dolly Parton.
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Your ex-: Wear a trash bag and attach assorted pieces of garbage. Because your ex- is trash, am I right?
This story was updated on October 30, 2024 with additional costumes.
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Apple Found One of Chrome’s ‘Critical’ Security Flaws
On Tuesday, Google released a new update for Chrome, upgrading it to version 130.0.6723.91/.92 for Windows and Mac, and 130.0.6723.91 for Linux. When you install the update and refresh your browser, you won’t be greeted with a new UI or a handful of new features or changes. Instead, you’ll be running a browser that patches two security vulnerabilities found in older versions.
One of those security vulnerabilities is labeled as “High” severity. Tracked as CVE-2024-10488, this is a use after free vulnerability in WebRTC, a real-time communication protocol for web browsers. In use after free flaws, a program fails to clear the pointer to a memory location after freeing that memory location, which enables bad actors to exploit the flaw and attack the program.
The other flaw, however, is a bit more interesting to me. CVE-2024-10487 is labeled as “Critical” severity, and is an out of bounds write in Dawn, the open-source implementation of WebGPU in Chrome. An out of bounds write flaw occurs when a program writes outside of its allocated memory. An attacker can take advantage of this situation to crash the program and run their own code.
But what makes CVE-2024-10487 interesting isn’t that it’s an out of bounds write flaw, nor that it’s Critical: It’s that Apple discovered it. Google credits SEAR, Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team, with identifying the vulnerability on Oct. 23.
While it’s funny to note that Apple, a clear competitor of Google’s, discovered a flaw on the company’s world-famous browser, it’s not the first time this type of situation has happened. In fact, just last week, I wrote about how Microsoft discovered a major security flaw with Safari. Apple bundled that security patch as part of the wider macOS Sequoia release, unlike Google, which released this tiny Chrome update specifically to issue these two security patches to users.
The truth of the matter is, while Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all competitors, big tech companies have many shared interests—especially when it comes to privacy and security. As much as Apple would love for everyone to use Safari, many Mac users browse the web with Chrome instead, and having those many users running a compromised browser on their Macs would be bad.
As tech headlines frequently highlight the places where companies compete and fight—iPhone and Android, ChatGPT (and Copilot) and Gemini, macOS and Windows, etc.—it’s refreshing to see that there are still times these companies work together in the name of bettering tech for everyone.
This Hidden Safari Feature Makes Browsing a Lot Faster
Using a computer is a lot faster if you become a keyboard shortcut ninja instead of doing everything with your mouse or trackpad. The problem: browsing the web is extremely mouse oriented. A hidden Safari option can help.
Open Safari’s Settings, head to the Advanced tab, and check the Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage. Now you can use the tab key on your keyboard to highlight the top link on the current page—you’ll see a blue box around the link. Keep pressing tab to cycle between links, then press Enter to open the current link. It’s fast, provided there isn’t an overwhelming number of links on the page. You can also press CMD+Enter to open the current link in a new tab in the background.
Credit: Justin Pot
I like using this while reading the news. I’ll open the homepage of a publication, use Tab to cycle between the articles, and open the ones that look interesting in a new background tab. Then I can use the keyboard shortcut CMD+W to that tab and jump to the next one. In this way I can read every article I’m interested on a site all without touching my mouse.
Now, there are dedicated apps for doing this including Shortcat, which offers more features for controlling the web (and other applications) using only keyboard shortcuts. That app is particularly good if you want to jump to a particular link right away, instead of having to press tab repeatedly to get to them. It’s worth looking into but you might not need it: Safari’s feature works well enough for me and doesn’t require me to install anything, which is nice.
Give the feature a try if you’re looking for ways to use your mouse less often—it’s already making me feel like a faster internet user.
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