When does dressing up become depressing for parents of primary school age children?

[davidbrentslovechild]

So my DS and my DSD go to the same primary school. They are one year apart.

Since September they have had three fancy dress days. There is another one next Friday and another two planned for March and April.

The themes are the 1960's 70s, 80s, 90s 00s, and a futuristic day, which I am shitting myself over.

In addition they also do Children in Need etc, so there will be additional costumes required for those days too.

This is costing me a FUCKING FORTUNE!!! I am shit at making stuff and therefore these costumes have to be bought online or from a fancy dress shop.

I wouldn't mind a couple of dressing up days but this is getting ridiculous.

Am I unreasonable to be getting a bit pissed off?

YANBU. Oh God, it is stuff like this that makes me dread my DC starting school. My nieces' school were well into it as as my sis appeared to be the only working mum amongst them (v rural area) her wails fell on deaf ears. She ended up put together a dressing up box which covered most eventualities with a bit of creativity.

I think the one that had me roaring with laughter was when she was asked to send all 4 DCs to school as a character from a historic period, by the time she got to the youngest she ended up dressing her in a sack tied with rope around the middle and arguing that she was a medieval serf....

DC's school has a fancy dress day with a fucking 'Fairtrade' theme coming soon. WTF am I supposed to send them in? A banana suit? A jar of coffee costume? Dressed as a bar of chocolate? a platinum blonde rent boy ? I'm sorely tempted to send them dressed as 'stereotypical' farmers to make a point about the appalling treatment of farmers in the U.K. but I think it would go over the heads of most...

How about the man from Del monte? I'm not sure how fair trade they are but it could highlight monopolies in the banana business. :)