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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…
Two Octobers ago I told my sister I’d be “a simple Barbie” and then spent three evenings arguing with a pink blazer that refused to look pink in photos. Here’s what that taught me: Barbie Halloween costumes look easy, but the difference between “cute” and “wait, which Barbie is that?” comes down to a few…
My sophomore year, I wore a costume with a skirt so tight I couldn’t climb the stairs to the party. I spent the first hour sitting on a porch step eating someone else’s pretzels, wondering why I’d paid $48 for something I couldn’t walk in. That’s the real test for college Halloween costumes: does it…
Two years ago I spent $85 on a “complete” witch costume that arrived in a bag the size of a lunch sandwich. The hat was floppy, the dress was see-through under any light, and the whole thing smelled like a shipping container. I wore it for forty minutes, then changed into jeans and a cardigan…
Three Halloweens ago, my best friend Dana and I agreed to “just figure out something fun” the week of. By Thursday we had a group chat full of unanswered screenshots, a half-finished argument about who got to be the cooler character, and zero costumes. We ended up as two mismatched ghosts in sheets, and the…
My nephew Daniel wore his $34 store-bought dinosaur costume for exactly eleven minutes last Halloween before announcing it was “scratchy” and climbing into the back seat in his pajamas. The costume that finally worked? A green hoodie, some felt spikes, and about fifteen minutes with a hot glue gun. That’s when I stopped shopping for…

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…
