How many bags of halloween candy... [Archive]

jennysmurf

10-20-2008, 08:58 PM

I haven't "tested" any of my candy yet, but I've just moved to a new neighborhood and my new neighbor told me she had nearly 200 trick-or-treaters last year. What the heck!!!! I'm gonna have to take out a loan to afford enough candy for the hooligans!

PapaBear

10-20-2008, 09:01 PM

The past couple of years, we've bought a bunch of candy, and only had about 5-10 groups of kids come over. There are only 8 houses on my street, and we were the only one that gave candy. We're calling it quits this year. Especially since 2 of the 8 houses are now in foreclosure.

TooLowBrow

10-20-2008, 09:05 PM

if you run out of candy just start giving out canned goods. believe me the kids are expecting it

jennysmurf

10-20-2008, 09:06 PM

There was one old couple that used to give out pennies. That really ticked me off.

TooLowBrow

10-20-2008, 09:07 PM

There was one old couple that used to give out pennies. That really ticked me off.

thats for unicef

jennysmurf

10-20-2008, 09:09 PM

thats for unicef

Thaaaank you! Exactly!

weekapaugjz

10-20-2008, 09:53 PM

There was one old couple that used to give out pennies. That really ticked me off.

i always hated the old bastard who would always give us apples.

razorboy

10-20-2008, 10:55 PM

I don't really like sweets unless they're candy orange slices or sprees. Fuck your fat face jab. I give out Reese's Peanut Butter Cups two packs. The kids in my neighborhood love my candy selection.

Thebazile78

10-21-2008, 04:29 AM

There was one old couple that used to give out pennies. That really ticked me off.

I actually prefer the handfuls of change to something like Almond Joy or Mounds, although your candy bag gets really heavy really fast if you have a lot of those houses on your route. (My friend and I used to make a couple dollars each year from that loose change, so don't knock it!)

And I HATED apples as a kid. My mother would send them in my lunch ... I never ate them after I got teased.

(We haven't bought our Halloween candy yet. I want to ask the neighbors how much I should get before I go shopping.)

~Katja~

10-21-2008, 04:51 AM

haven't bought any candy yet so we are through 0 bags of it at this point. I don't buy it until the day of because otherwise my son will think it is for him and he can eat it all.

led37zep

10-21-2008, 04:54 AM

I usually give out used needles and broken glass for halloween.

did I miss something? Candy?

Thebazile78

10-21-2008, 05:01 AM

haven't bought any candy yet so we are through 0 bags of it at this point. I don't buy it until the day of because otherwise my son will think it is for him and he can eat it all.

Yeah, that's kind of my reasoning, too. Except for the son part. (We don't have kids yet.)

I go looking for snacks and the candy's right there ... so I am holding off until either this weekend or next Thursday, depending on my schedule and whether or not we have furniture.

Jennitalia

10-21-2008, 05:02 AM

i got a rock. :sad:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/Jennitalia23/igotarock.jpg

angrymissy

10-21-2008, 05:07 AM

OH the SHAME.

I'm not even going to be HOME on halloween and we've plowed through 2 bags in the past month. Not ENTIRE bags, as there is a basket in my kitchen full of the jolly ranchers and crap I that I don't eat from the large bags. I'm restraining myself from buying another bag. At least I know I am not alone.

Jujubees2

10-21-2008, 05:15 AM

I put a pumpkin with candy out on the front desk for the student-athletes every year (broke it out last week). But I had to tell myself to stay away the first year and I've been good. In the eight years I've been putting the pumpkin out, I have not taken one piece of candy from it!

Now that's will power!

KingGeno

10-21-2008, 05:18 AM

Orange Kit-Kats are my addiction. I love Kit-kats, but I also am addicted to eating anything orange, in the hope that it is orange flavored.

King Hippos Bandaid

10-21-2008, 05:23 AM

none stoopid wife buys Candy 2 days before

I do have my Sis in law take an extra bag when she is with my nephew trick or treating pretend someone is sick and get me a bag of candy

I have problems

Thebazile78

10-21-2008, 05:41 AM

none stoopid wife buys Candy 2 days before

I do have my Sis in law take an extra bag when she is with my nephew trick or treating pretend someone is sick and get me a bag of candy

I have problems

So YOU'RE one of the ones this "Dear Abby" is about:

DEAR ABBY: Please help with a question about Halloween trick-or-treating etiquette. What do you do when the parents of the children who are trick-or-treating present you with their own candy collection bag? This happened to me several times last year.

Some of the adults said they were collecting for a child who wasn't there or for infants and toddlers in strollers. Others didn't even offer a reason, even after I asked them what their "costume" was supposed to be. Thanks for your input, Abby. -- KATHLEEN B., SPRINGFIELD, MASS.

DEAR KATHLEEN: While Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for children, many teens and adults enjoy the idea of free candy and trick-or-treating, too. In years past my doorbell has been rung by revelers who looked so old I was tempted to offer them a martini.

As I see it, you have two choices: Buy enough candy to go around, or turn off all the lights and hide. In my experience, it's better to do the former.

People like you make me sick.

midwestjeff

10-21-2008, 08:37 AM

Orange Kit-Kats are my addiction. I love Kit-kats, but I also am addicted to eating anything orange, in the hope that it is orange flavored.

I would do anything for an orange flavored Kit-Kat. Anything.

Anything.

Aneurysm

10-21-2008, 08:43 AM

I would do anything for an orange flavored Kit-Kat. Anything.

Anything.

They are fucking gross. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups always win

Friday

10-21-2008, 08:44 AM

I usually give out used needles and broken glass for halloween.

did I miss something? Candy?

nooooo
you are supposed to insert the glass and needles INTO the candy, silly!!
get it right!

my mom used to buy her candy a month in advance and then have to take a second trip for more after she at it all. chocolate was NOT safe near that woman!

me? I am not big on sweets so I usually buy them the day before and i tend to be out on the holiday so i leave a tray on my front porch.
most times the candy AND the tray are gone when i return home. theiving little fockers.

topless_mike

10-21-2008, 08:46 AM

no candy for me !!!!!!!!!!
not part of my lifestyle.

but last halloween, pooky figured out the whole trick-or-treating concept.

this year, he'll be unstoppable, and we will have loads of candy that neither me or the pia can eat. i'll probably reluctantly keep some for him, and donate the rest.

Furtherman

10-21-2008, 08:49 AM

I'm not much of a candy eater. But I do love candy corn, and I think I'm alone on this!

King Hippos Bandaid

10-21-2008, 09:04 AM

well people who read Dear Abby make me sick, guess we are even

Patient zer0

10-21-2008, 09:11 AM

Do you stuff down your fat face BEFORE halloween comes around ?

We are on bag 4 already...

gotta get that shit away from me. those liitle choclate bars taste better than the big ones. mmmmm kit kat and coffee crisp mmmmm

KatPw

10-21-2008, 10:44 AM

KatPw

10-21-2008, 10:46 AM

I'm not much of a candy eater. But I do love candy corn, and I think I'm alone on this!

I enjoy candy corn, and the candy pumpkins. I thought I was the only freak.

red_red_red

10-21-2008, 11:03 AM

KatPw

10-21-2008, 11:08 AM

red_red_red

10-21-2008, 11:11 AM

Could be the weather. These kids need to toughen up :lol:
it's the parents, a kid would have to be soft in the head to notice the weather when there's free candy involved

Jughead

10-21-2008, 11:14 AM

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Thebazile78

10-21-2008, 11:25 AM

We never get kids trick or treating in my area anymore it seems. I don't know if it is due to overprotective parents or religious/ethnic reasons. I'm torn between not bothering with buying candy at all, or picking up a bag on the off-chance someone around here will let their kid have some fun.

I would always buy candy at Halloween when I lived in the midst of college students in New Brunswick, never got a single trick-or-treater ... except for the one year that I either forgot or was cash-poor and I got 3 at once. I felt awful because I didn't even have pennies to give them.

I'm gonna talk to the neighbors this weekend about how much candy to get for Halloween. We have a lot of little kids on our street, ranging from newborns (I am not joking; 3 houses had those wooden storks outside announcing their new arrivals) to the grammar school set. Since a lot of houses are decorated for Halloween, I am going to assume we do get a few little goblins, but I don't want to overbuy and then overeat the candy. Which I will do, without fail, seeing as how Halloween falls on a Friday this year.

midwestjeff

10-21-2008, 11:28 AM

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I love ya, but you might as well give out apples Juggy. Those things suck.

Thebazile78

10-21-2008, 11:28 AM

maybe it's the weather? parents would rather go to the mall where it's not freezing/raining/snowing? i usually get 3 bags of candy, and those big sacks of individual packs of chips, i have had many thanks from parents of toddlers who are dreading the sugar highs..lazy fuckers

F-the weather.

My best friend and I went out trick-or-treating one year in a downpour ... I think it was 4th or 5th grade. We had flashlights and an umbrella. By the time we decided to call it a night, my greasepaint was freakishly streaked and my witch's hat was droopy. But we had a LOT of fun!

KingGeno

10-21-2008, 11:29 AM

I would do anything for an orange flavored Kit-Kat. Anything.

Anything.

FUCKERS in other countries get em and nanners..................
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/33829084_fe08e78488.jpg?v=0

WHORES!

midwestjeff

10-21-2008, 11:32 AM

Fuck bananas.

Do orange flavored really Kit-Kats exist?

Like orange and kit-kat all mixed together?
I NEED to know.

Jughead

10-21-2008, 11:33 AM

I love ya, but you might as well give out apples Juggy. Those things suck.

I hate children...:tongue:

~Katja~

10-21-2008, 11:34 AM

Fuck bananas.

Do orange flavored really Kit-Kats exist?

Like orange and kit-kat all mixed together?
I NEED to know.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/33/44696954_907febc424_o.jpg

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:35 AM

Candy apples with razor blades. FTW

~Katja~

10-21-2008, 11:38 AM

Candy apples with razor blades. FTW

an apple a day keeps the dentist away... and the razors can come in handy as tongue scrapers

midwestjeff

10-21-2008, 11:39 AM

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Add me to the list of men you have made cum.
Not saying you have a list, just saying.

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:39 AM

I actually HATE Halloween candy. I spend the entire month of November fixing all the broken braces and appliances from all that candy.

King Hippos Bandaid

10-21-2008, 11:41 AM

I actually HATE Halloween candy. I spend the entire month of November fixing all the broken braces and appliances from all that candy.

Halloween pays for your Yankee Season Tickets

you must hand it out to every kid

Misteriosa

10-21-2008, 11:42 AM

yeah. .things really do kick up after halloween... lots of pulled out fillings and broken composites...

~Katja~

10-21-2008, 11:42 AM

I actually HATE Halloween candy. I spend the entire month of November fixing all the broken braces and appliances from all that candy.

I am curious to see if my method from last year will work this year again, now that my kid is a bit older he may get onto me...
I let him have as much as he wanted the day off and then hid his candy away... untill he forgot about it. Then I tossed it :D

epo

10-21-2008, 11:42 AM

I actually HATE Halloween candy. I spend the entire month of November fixing all the broken braces and appliances from all that candy.

Then it must be a wonderful cash cow!

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:52 AM

Halloween pays for your Yankee Season Tickets

you must hand it out to every kid

SHHHHHH. What do you think college tuition pays for itself?

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:54 AM

Then it must be a wonderful cash cow!

Its a double edge sword. Extra cash. Extra aggrevation.

Cash more then aggrevation.

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:57 AM

I am curious to see if my method from last year will work this year again, now that my kid is a bit older he may get onto me...
I let him have as much as he wanted the day off and then hid his candy away... untill he forgot about it. Then I tossed it :D

My method was to go in the kids candy bag and grab a couple of pieces each day and toss them out. By toss them out I mean eat them my self. I doubt they missed it.

razorboy

10-21-2008, 11:57 AM

SHHHHHH. What do you think college tuition pays for itself?

Hand out Sugar Daddys and Jolly Ranchers. Those fuckers are the JB Weld and Devcon of the candy world.

drjoek

10-21-2008, 11:59 AM

yeah. .things really do kick up after halloween... lots of pulled out fillings and broken composites...

Qft.
Misti are you a dentist or hygienist? I think Katpaw is one of us too.

drjoek

10-21-2008, 12:00 PM

Hand out Sugar Daddys and Jolly Ranchers. Those fuckers are the JB Weld and Devcon of the candy world.

Are you my next patient posting from my waiting room ?

Misteriosa

10-21-2008, 12:01 PM

Qft.
Misti are you a dentist or hygienist? I think Katpaw is one of us too.

im even lower on the totem pole.. im a dental assistant here at work. kat is a hygenist. if i get laid off here, then im going to hygenist school.

~Katja~

10-21-2008, 12:03 PM

My method was to go in the kids candy bag and grab a couple of pieces each day and toss them out. By toss them out I mean eat them my self. I doubt they missed it.

see, I will not eat candy from a stranger... and I hope I can get this unhealthy fear passed down to my son.

I need a good pediatric dentist by the way, any suggestions in PA? lol

drjoek

10-21-2008, 12:03 PM

im even lower on the totem pole.. im a dental assistant here at work. kat is a hygenist. if i get laid off here, then im going to hygenist school.

Good idea sometimes it feels like the hygenist is making more an hour then I am

KingGeno

10-21-2008, 12:04 PM

Green Tea Kit-kats
http://www.japannewbie.com/images/journal/kitkat/kitkat2.jpg

Green Tea with Red bean paste Kit-kats
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/47/184357275_0c852befb7.jpg?v=0

http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_pictures/kitkat_banana_choco_package.jpg
http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_pictures/kitkat_yubari_melon_package.jpg
http://candyaddict.com/blog/candy_pictures/kitkat_blood_orange_package.jpg
http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/kit-kat-cookie-dough.jpg

Ok, I'm done.

razorboy

10-21-2008, 12:06 PM

Are you my next patient posting from my waiting room ?

Luckily enough, my mouth is dental work free. Again though, I haven't really eaten sweets since I was a kid.

KatPw

10-21-2008, 12:07 PM

I would always buy candy at Halloween when I lived in the midst of college students in New Brunswick, never got a single trick-or-treater ... except for the one year that I either forgot or was cash-poor and I got 3 at once. I felt awful because I didn't even have pennies to give them.

I'm gonna talk to the neighbors this weekend about how much candy to get for Halloween. We have a lot of little kids on our street, ranging from newborns (I am not joking; 3 houses had those wooden storks outside announcing their new arrivals) to the grammar school set. Since a lot of houses are decorated for Halloween, I am going to assume we do get a few little goblins, but I don't want to overbuy and then overeat the candy. Which I will do, without fail, seeing as how Halloween falls on a Friday this year.

Good idea to talk to your neighbors. Nothing worse than having to make an emergency run, and if the store is out you are really screwed.

KatPw

10-21-2008, 12:09 PM

an apple a day keeps the dentist away... and the razors can come in handy as tongue scrapers

Halloween is a dental holiday. I'm working the next day, can't wait for all the emergency patients looking to have their crowns recemented and their lost fillings replaced!

red_red_red

10-22-2008, 04:50 AM

F-the weather.

My best friend and I went out trick-or-treating one year in a downpour ... I think it was 4th or 5th grade. We had flashlights and an umbrella. By the time we decided to call it a night, my greasepaint was freakishly streaked and my witch's hat was droopy. But we had a LOT of fun!
oh i agree, i grew up in WI where it usually was snowing when we went, when my kids were little, we always went door to door, but down here, they hand out a lot of religious pamphlets instead of candy. true story, pretty sad, eh?

Thebazile78

10-22-2008, 06:24 AM

oh i agree, i grew up in WI where it usually was snowing when we went, when my kids were little, we always went door to door, but down here, they hand out a lot of religious pamphlets instead of candy. true story, pretty sad, eh?

That best friend I mentioned in my earlier post now lives in NC. (I hadn't noted your location earlier and now that I see it's GA, I COMPLETELY understand.)

She tried to take her son trick-or-treating for his first Halloween ... and realized that Southern Baptists don't celebrate Halloween. Her initial reaction was to get pissy. My secondary reaction would be to dress the kid up as anything that could be remotely construed as "Satanic" for subsequent years ... Harry Potter, Hillary Clinton, etc. (Of course her husband is Black, and she is White, so they're already sticking out like sore thumbs.)

At least all we have up here are Jehovah's Witnesses, and they were few and far between in my hometown ... here, I'm not so sure.

Misteriosa

10-22-2008, 06:46 AM

Thebazile78

10-22-2008, 06:54 AM

bought my halloween candy last nite. lots of mini snickers, mini twix, and mini reeces cups.

when the kids wipe me out of that, i'll be shutting off all the lights and hiding from the ringing doorbell in my room

That reminds me ... we need to get our window coverings up before Halloween or else they'll see me inside even after I've run out of candy.

red_red_red

10-22-2008, 10:11 AM

That best friend I mentioned in my earlier post now lives in NC. (I hadn't noted your location earlier and now that I see it's GA, I COMPLETELY understand.)

She tried to take her son trick-or-treating for his first Halloween ... and realized that Southern Baptists don't celebrate Halloween. Her initial reaction was to get pissy. My secondary reaction would be to dress the kid up as anything that could be remotely construed as "Satanic" for subsequent years ... Harry Potter, Hillary Clinton, etc. (Of course her husband is Black, and she is White, so they're already sticking out like sore thumbs.)

At least all we have up here are Jehovah's Witnesses, and they were few and far between in my hometown ... here, I'm not so sure.
oh we're all "satanic yankees" according to the locals, but we're good with that, it keeps the bible humpers off of my doorstep. and you are so right about the baptists and halloween, what slays me is they have a "fall festival" at their crappy little churches on halloween night. fall festival my ass! :laugh:

red_red_red

10-22-2008, 10:15 AM

bought my halloween candy last nite. lots of mini snickers, mini twix, and mini reeces cups.

when the kids wipe me out of that, i'll be shutting off all the lights and hiding from the ringing doorbell in my room
i ran out of candy one year and had to hide like that too, i felt creepy and cheap, i don't know why tho, cuz i'm neither :laugh: i just lied.
now i overbuy, i don't have a problem eating the leftovers, and i have 2 other chocolate fiends here to help me.

~Katja~

10-22-2008, 11:04 AM

they hand out a lot of religious pamphlets instead of candy. true story, pretty sad, eh?

I just figured out what to do with all the junk mail that's been piling up between the real mail...
more junk for the kids this year, yay :D

Thebazile78

10-22-2008, 11:11 AM

I just figured out what to do with all the junk mail that's been piling up between the real mail...
more junk for the kids this year, yay :D

I have far too much fun playing with our shredder to give away any of my junk mail.

Sigh. It's the little things that amuse me.

~Katja~

10-22-2008, 11:19 AM

I have far too much fun playing with our shredder to give away any of my junk mail.

Sigh. It's the little things that amuse me.

maybe there will be a cheap shredder on woot , I bet my kid would get a kick out of that... then again he may shred important stuff.

Thebazile78

10-22-2008, 11:25 AM

maybe there will be a cheap shredder on woot , I bet my kid would get a kick out of that... then again he may shred important stuff.

Like your drapes? (Matty did that to the ones I made for the bedroom at our apartment. Not that he did this on purpose, but it sure felt like it at the time.)

While it makes it less convenient to have it put away and only brought out when you really need it, until the child can determine what's important and what's junk mail, you may be better off hiding it in a closet.

(Also, there are decent shredders for not a lot of money at Target.)

~Katja~

10-22-2008, 11:31 AM

Like your drapes? (Matty did that to the ones I made for the bedroom at our apartment. Not that he did this on purpose, but it sure felt like it at the time.)

While it makes it less convenient to have it put away and only brought out when you really need it, until the child can determine what's important and what's junk mail, you may be better off hiding it in a closet.

(Also, there are decent shredders for not a lot of money at Target.)

but I hide my kid in the closet when I don't need him... only get him out when I need him to look adorable :D

my curtains are panel curtains with a metal bar at the bottom (for weight) so he probably wouldn't get that into a shredder. I have been thinking of getting one before, just put it off... but I think most have a secure child lock on it these days. (I hope)

mikeyboy

10-22-2008, 11:33 AM

I'm just going to put outside an empty basket with a sign that says "take one".

razorboy

10-22-2008, 11:37 AM

I'm just going to put outside an empty basket with a sign that says "take one".

When I was a kid that would have read to my friends and I as "spray paint my door".

topless_mike

10-22-2008, 11:39 AM

I'm just going to put outside an empty basket with a sign that says "take one".

:thumbdown:
you suck. srsly

ahhdurr

10-22-2008, 12:10 PM

I'm just going to put outside an empty basket with a sign that says "take one".

I was srsly just thinking... how can I ignore the entire neighborhood of shitty kids I see around here without getting the house egged.

M-boy to the rescue.