Fall is tough on parents. It's the season when we instinctually throw candy at children, cheering them on in a delirious sugar binge in the hopes that they'll fatten up and tire themselves out enough to sleep straight through the winter. Sadly, it never quite works that way. (Somehow those idiot bears figured it out but we still can't get the formula right.) Still, moms and dads keep trying every October, enduring the self-entitled tantrums over costumes and curfews, optimistic that this will finally be the year the Kit Kat/Skittle ratio will push their children into a lasting coma, at least through November.

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"Don't touch her just ... just leave her there until Christmas."

But that doesn't mean parents only have to patiently absorb the Halloween torture -- they can also dole a little out on their children as well. And if the Internet is to be trusted, homemade costumes seem to be their weapon of choice. There are thousands and thousands of How-To guides online, teaching parents to ignore the pleas from their kids for packaged Spider-Man costumes, opting instead to construct knock-off versions at home made of electrical tape and old sweatshirts. That's not to say that homemade costumes are all bad, some of the DIY jobs are truly spectacular -- but I assume those are for the good kids. Far more look like they were stitched out of resentment and glued together by scorn.