Have you ever wondered what happened to last years Halloween costume? Where it goes when you are no longer in need of it, once the Tela tubbies are no longer the in thing to dress up as. It comes to Madagascar, that is where it goes. But like most of the rest of the world Madagascar dose not celebrate Halloween, so your Halloween costume becomes someone's clothing.

I've seen a pair of pants that I am pretty sure come from a Monsters Inc. costume being sported as a little boy's Sunday best. I thought the fur was a bit much but he was very proud of his new bright blue pants. I have also seen what I am positive was part of one of those skimpy devils costume turned into a shirt for a two-year-old boy. A very cute shirt mind you.

Many of the things that we discard in the developed world end up here in the developing world. I have seen some ingenious uses for those discards. Pretty much everyone in Madagascar that lives in the countryside owns a very large knife used for hacking down the jungle, it serves the same purpose as a machete but looks quite different - the handle is much longer and the knife looks kind of like a large kitchen knife from the states. They are extremely sharp knives so the blades are usually wrapped in something, mostly banana leaves or possibly an old piece of shirt, but I once saw a good friend of mine use a discarded mitten to protect his knife. A mitten would have no purpose in Madagascar if you used it as a mitten, but it makes a fantastic knife sheaf.

So that is the answer to what becomes of your old Halloween costume and the glove that lost it's partner, now we just need to discover what happens to all those socks that disappear. It is very possible that they end up here in Madagascar as well, I've seen a lot of mismatched socks here. When they wear socks that is.