Having those nail-biting moments and jitters on the eve of Halloween about your costume? The perfect DIY fix is the Chilean miner costume. All those parents glued to CNN and watching the excruciating ordeal of 32 miners buried underground over 2 months and their miraculous rescue, can put their media circus experience to use now.

The fantastic survival story has spawned costumes which can give the regular Lady GaGa and Superman costumes on Today’s Halloween party a run for their money. All you need to do is grab some boot polish or good old clods of dirt to cover your face in grime, and pull on dirty jeans or overalls and a torn shirt for that back from hell look.

Some may call this gross trivialization, but guess it is ok for a night of kiddie trick or treating. If you happen to have a mining helmet, nothing like it. Alternatively, you can filch your parents’ riding helmet and fix a torch on it for that ultimate homemade costume. To go the whole hog, stap a pick axe or a shovel to your jeans, along with a few empty water bottles.

Other hassle free ideas going around on the net are posing in regular garb with a protest banner strung around your neck saying ‘Nudist on Strike!’, or put on a blonde wig spiced up with lit-up optic fibre for that Lady Gaga get up. It is time to rake in the candy treats, and woe to those who dare switch off their home lights.
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