For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 27, 2009

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    mroberts88  about 15 years ago

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

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    cleokaya  about 15 years ago

    Yeah…well save it for next year kiddo.

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    OpenWings  about 15 years 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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    ckcsmum Premium Member about 15 years 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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    gobblingup Premium Member about 15 years 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  about 15 years 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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    alondra  about 15 years 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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    scottcpa  about 15 years ago

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

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    bald  about 15 years ago

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

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    omwae59  about 15 years ago

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

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    omwae59  about 15 years ago

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

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    omwae59  about 15 years 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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    JanLC  about 15 years 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  about 15 years ago

    Too late!

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    camelsamba2  about 15 years 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  about 15 years 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  about 15 years ago

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

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    OpenWings  about 15 years 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!!

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    jadelovesjelly  over 13 years ago

    This is why i start trying to decide in early September.

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