Here's the breakdown of my quick & cheap (as I could get) Jillian Holtzman of Ghostbuster (as close as i can get) attire:
1. Get an overall from someone who gets it every year lol in my case, my brother-in-law worked for Petronas and he has an abundant of this overalls but only in yellow, unfortunately.
Cost: Free.
2. Dylon's dye powder.
Bought brown colour to test how much it could cover up the yellow bit before I buy more colour to mix to make the right colour I was looking for. Glad I didn't, it didn't do much as I hoped for but that's close enough.
Cost: more or less RM10
3. I did a mistake by not rumbling thru my Narnia cupboard before purchasing the silver goggles and a grey belt.
The cost for those two: RM15 (utter waste)
4. A pair of semi-glove.
Cost: RM15
5. Motorbike goggles.
Found someone selling it for cheaps on Carousell.
Had to find a hard plastic material and I was fortunate enough to keep some old assignment papers that comes with a cover. So, I Sharpie that yellow and cut it up, place it into the goggle and got what I was looking for.
Cost: RM15
(Thx ex-gf @chr.tatti for helping me to get it!)
6. Ok, this one could have been cheaper by just printing it out but I was at Big Bad Wolf and I told myself a year ago if I don't get that Ghostbusters model fun book then I would get it this year if it comes my way, and so it did. Bought n cut off the logo from the front page and plaster it to the biggest badge pin I've got.
Cost: RM15
(but technically it ought to be like RM1.50(?) for that tiny bit?)
7. Black safety boots.
Cost: RM8
8. Duct tapes (black, silver, orange, yellow)
Cost: more or less RM10
9. Basket strainers.
Ok here's the thing, I didn't have time. I bought 3 because I was tired & couldn't calculate the right size. So, to be on the safe side I bought three. One should have been sufficient if u had prepared well.
Cost: more or less RM9 (?)
Actual cost: more or less RM4
10. LED lights.
Savaged it from a Mountain Dew advert years ago in the Star papers. (I kinda wish I could have collected more of it back then)
Cost: Free
11. Portable fan + bag.
Cost: Free
12. Rest of the stuff.
Cost: FREE FROM THE DUMPSTER!
Total cost: Physical rest + RM97 (COULD HAVE GONE CHEAPER IF I HAD PLANNED PROPERLY)
Yet, still better than RM300 rental for a night!
Also, I tried to do a Screw-U pendant and that failed miserably.
Cost: RM7
And Pringles if you wanna count that as part of the costume (which I would).
Cost: less than RM5 I reckon.
If you don't have any spray cans on standby, per can would cost you about less than RM10
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