Yes....I don’t think I ever wore a purchased costume. Mom made me a hobo so often that I really enjoy heating a can of beans and eating them right out of the can.
We dressed our exchange student as a hobo with Mr. b’s overalls and flannel shirt and I had a couple of bandanas and he got a stick for his bag from the yard. Yeah, like that cost anything.
I never had a purchased costume, either. Mom made a Minnie Mouse I wore until I outgrew it. A couple other years, we’d go through a big box of costumes the school’s theater class discarded. Other years, I wore a pioneer dress my grandmother made for a county fair many years before.
Boys would dress up in their mama’s dresses with balloons for boobs. Can’t do that these days as that’s not PC.