
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…

My partner and I showed up to a party a few years back as salt and pepper shakers, made from two round hat boxes spray-painted and a handful of hot glued dots, and it remains the cheapest, easiest costume we’ve ever done together — and also the one that got the most compliments, more than…