While it’s becoming harder and harder to come up with a standout Halloween costume every year (I mean, Heidi Klum just dressed as a giant worm!), some people take a more down-to-earth approach.
In fact, there’s a whole trend known as “Mundane Halloween,” where people dress up as super ordinary things and embody very day-to-day situations. The tradition was started in 2014 by a group at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes,” and became particularly popular in Japan.
The idea is simple – instead of putting up a flashy and flamboyant costume that may earn everyone’s hearts but make you feel awkward and out of place, you don’t need anything special, really. The more mundane your look is, the better it is!
So scroll down for this year’s best Mundane Halloween costumes, and be sure to check out the best ones from previous years here, here, and here.
#1 Person Whose Face Is Blurred Out On Google Street View
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#2 Person Who Accidentally Shook Their Carbonated Beverage Before Opening It
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#3 Facial Landmark Detection
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#4 A Person Who Has To Leave At The Same Time As Their Neighbor And Tries To Avoid Them
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#5 A Person Who Was Planning To Buy Only Bread On The Way Home From Work
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#6 Soy Sauce
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#7 Basic Game Avatars That Haven’t Made Any In-App Purchases But Managed To Pull One Rare Item From The Gacha
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#8 Twitter Engineer Just Fired By Elon Musk
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#9 TV Newscaster Reporting On A Typhoon
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#10 The Only Person At The Event Whose Name-Tag String Is Super Long For Some Reason
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#11 A Person Whose Bicycle Was Stolen
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#12 A Person Who Sits On The Floor After Having His Chair Stolen By His Cat
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#13 A Person Who Helps A Spot-Billed Duck And Ducklings Cross The Road
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#14 Next In Line To Offer Incense At The Funeral But Unsure Of The Custom So Trying To Peek At The Person In Front
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#15 An Elementary Schooler On The Last Day Of School
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#16 A Person Who Tried To Cut Their Own Bangs, Failed, And Now Claims It’s The Latest Fashion
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#17 Family Tree In A Beginner’s English Language Textbook
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#18 Uncle Watching Baseball At The Kawasaki Stadium
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#19 Random Character Who Appears In The Early Stages Of The TV Series In Order To Show That If You Get Bitten, You Become A Zombie
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#20 Shop Attendant Trying Really Hard To Look Away As You Enter Your Pin Number
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#21 Didn’t Really Want Anything From IKEA But My Friend Insisted On Driving Us There
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#22 People Who Are Interested In The Events Held On The First Floor Of The Shopping Mall
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#23 Woman With A Filter That Looks Like Scales
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#24 Foreign Tourist Who Can’t Find Any Public Garbage Cans In Japan
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#25 The Person Who Bothers You At The Museum
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#26 Person Laid Off From Their Job In The Opening Scene Of A Film
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#27 A Scene Between Women In A Korean Drama
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#28 People Who Go Back To Pick Up Their Smartphones After Putting On Their Shoes
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#29 Program Staff Who Bring Food For Morning Variety Shows
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#30 A Person In A Remote Meeting
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#31 Two People Who Wore The Exact Same Outfit And Now It’s Super Awkward
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#32 Person Who Wants To Use Up Every Bit Of Toothpaste In The Tube
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#33 A Spiller
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#34 Person In Line At A Convenience Store
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#35 Left The Apartment Right At The Same Time As The Next Door Neighbor And Ran Back Inside To Wait Until They Leave
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