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I worked from my kitchen table for two years before I finally admitted the problem wasn’t my laptop or my chair — it was that I didn’t have a real workspace. Just a table that turned into a office at 9am and a dinner spot at 6pm, with my charger cords and a stray stapler…

I lived in a 9×10 bedroom for three years before I figured out that “small” and “sad” don’t have to go together. For a long time my room looked like a dorm room that never graduated — a mattress on a frame, a lamp from Target, string lights I never took down after 2019. It…

Last year my husband and I decided on our couples Halloween costumes at 4:45 p.m. on October 31st, standing in a Target aisle that had been picked clean down to one sad inflatable dinosaur. We left with face paint, a pack of safety pins, and a lot of regret. That night taught me something: the…

Last October my niece Maya, who is fifteen and has a very strong opinion about everything, rejected four costumes in one afternoon. Too childish, too basic, too much like what the girl in her math class was wearing. We ended up at a thrift store with a $20 budget, and she walked out with a…

Two Octobers ago I agreed to a “super easy” duo costume with my roommate, and by 9 p.m. on October 30th we were standing in a craft store aisle arguing over felt colors, with a hot glue gun that had already burned me twice. The costume looked fine in the end. The process did not.…

Two Octobers ago, my sister Hannah spent $140 on a full Incredibles set for her family of four. Her five-year-old wore the mask for eleven minutes, the baby chewed through the cape, and her husband’s foam muscle suit made him sweat so badly he changed in the car before we even hit the second house.…

Two Octobers ago I bought a “sexy witch” costume online for $34, and it showed up as a polyester bag with a hat that looked like it had lost a fight. The skirt was see-through in a way the photos definitely did not mention. I ended up wearing a black slip dress, my own boots,…

My two roommates and I spent three Halloweens in a row doing solo costumes before one of us finally said out loud what we’d all been thinking — that watching couples and duos coordinate their looks every year while the three of us scrambled separately felt like we were missing something obvious. The next year…
