I’m Poochie and my sister is Garfield.

I looooved Poochie!

What were we thinking? A plastic mask and smock with the character printed on the front of the smock? Look, I'm Garfield, and in case you didn't get that, here's a picture of Garfield. It was fun.

Man those plastic trick or treat bags always ripped like halfway through the night and it was such a pain in the ass. They looked cool though lol

I’m so glad I looked at your post history. It made my day a little brighter. Thanks friend.

did you sister die on her way back to her home planet?

I think this was one of my first introductions to things being advertised as being much cooler than they actually were. I remember picking out costumes like that only to realized the day of halloween that the masks would break if you sat on them and the clothing was just more plastic.

Good times though!

I can smell those costumes

This is the weirdest thing about it, the costumes had a picture of who you were supposed to be on the front. You could have taped a picture from a coloring book after you colored it onto a plastic bag and it would be nearly the same thing.

I grew up in this era and my mom and I saw these costumes at the store but my mom would not let me have them because the masks were unsafe (she was right too!) so we ended up making a costume every year, or using a costume that did not involve plastic masks. I was a very lucky kid with the home made costume, everyone envied the kids with the home made costumes.

Or the little rubber band that held it in your face would snap after 10 minutes so you'd have to either hold it on your face, or go sans mask for the rest of the night.

Back when 75% of the Halloween candy was homemade.