Halloween candy

[mechanicx]

Well trick-or-treat is about a week away and I am stocking up on candy. What price is everyone seeing for a regular size bag of candy bars? I'm seing $2.50 and if you buy the bigger bags the equivalent price is about $3. So much for a discount for bulk purchases. I guess you are paying for the convenience of only having to open one bag instead 3 to 5 smaller bags lol.

I never know how many bags to buy. As it stands I have about 6 bags plus a 3 and 1/2 lb bag of "child's play" mixed candy. I'm at over $23 and I mostly likely will need to get more. But I don't want to be one of those that just gives out cheap bubble gum and tootsie rolls. I remember when I was a kid I always wanted the chocolate candy bars. Maybe I shouldn't given out 2-3 bars per kid like I have been doing in the past lol.

 

[bullwinkle]

2-3 bars per kid?? They'd knock my front door in if I did that! Of course I am kind of in the 'hood!

 

[vssjim]

my wife goes for the killer load FULL SIZE CANDY BARS. Our area has changed to lots of young kids from an area where we were the youngest in 1990 when we moved here.

 

[Popinski]

bags of carrots, apples, celery sticks.

Kids are too dang lazy, fat, and disobedient these days.

 

[Smokescreen]

Kids around here get full sized everything, bags of chips, licorice, chocolate bars, juice boxes, candy bars...not a rich community or a big one, we pretty much know everyone.

 

[eljefino]

You can also wrap pennies in aluminum foil. Try and shape them like Werthers or some other old man candy.

 

[ahoier]

Originally Posted By: Smokescreen
Kids around here get full sized everything, bags of chips, licorice, chocolate bars, juice boxes, candy bars...not a rich community or a big one, we pretty much know everyone.
Back in high school there were a cpl neighborhoods like that....obviously "word" got around.."Oh go here, they give out full size candy bars!" etc etc...lol.

But we usually just pass out the fun size candy bars, we buy 2 or three bags of each. Our Halloween candy budget is $30....lots of Smarties, some Milk Duds, and Reeses particularly, seem to be the "community favorite" hehehe.

I particularly like Smarties.....seems to be the "nostalgic" Halloween candy.....that you only eat once a year....at Halloween time

Kinda like at V-Day, you got the candy hearts....

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
2-3 bars per kid?? They'd knock my front door in if I did that! Of course I am kind of in the 'hood!


Well at least I'm not giving out full size candy bars! I never seen that before. I guess 2-3 fun size bars is about the same thing though.

 

[mechanicx]

Originally Posted By: Popinski
bags of carrots, apples, celery sticks.

Kids are too dang lazy, fat, and disobedient these days.


When I was kid there was always someone giving out a fruit or vegetable and I always thought they were squares or wierd.

 

[HTSS_TR]

We live in the single-loaded cul-de-sac street, no kid come to any house on my street. When we first moved in 15 years ago we had several bags of candy and didn't get to give out any. Since then we have few apples, oranges to give and still no knock on the door.

 

[hr1940]

When I lived in New Mexico I sat by the front door. There was an archway and you could not see me. A lot of kids were driven in from other neighborhoods. You could hear the parents tell the kids to empty their bags into their big bags in the car. They were told that when people saw how little they had they would feel sorry for them and give them more. I cut back on the amount after I heard that. I gave more to the neighborhood kids that I recognized but when I saw car and trucks unloading kids they were given 1 candy bar each. Now I might have 3 or 4 kids because I live outside the city limits.

 

[mechanicx]

That's nice when their parents are teaching them to be little scammers

. I sometimes think the same kids come back a little later for more treats, but I'm not sure. I don't know whether to admire their initiative or what.

 

[bigmike]

It's crazy how many kids are "bussed in" to neighborhoods for this. Whatever happened to staying in your own neighborhood?

 

[Smokescreen]

Unless you live out of town, anyone who drives their kids around for candy is doing them a disservice. If they can't go out an work for it like generations had done before them, they don't deserve it.

What I find interesting is the near adult kids that still come around...I don't get that..I stopped before I was in high school, I had better things to do.

 

[kb01]

Originally Posted By: bigmike
It's crazy how many kids are "bussed in" to neighborhoods for this. Whatever happened to staying in your own neighborhood?


That's how it is where I live. I'm in a very rural state, so parents who have kids out in the sticks, will bring their kids into the city for trick or treating.

Our houses are only 8' apart, so I really don't blame them.

 

[andrewg]

Halloween has turned into a 'gimme' holiday with parents and children being equally greedy for something as idiotic as candy. I've known many parents that go to a nicer community so the kids can get better quality and a higher volume of candy. That just makes me sick. I've even had many 'kids' come to my door asking for candy (they barely ever say 'trick or treat' anymore...apparently that takes too much effort) and after seeing that they don't even bother to have a costume, I notice that they aren't kids at all. More like 14 to 17 year old thieves (my opinion). When I see them I ask them how old they are and they often lie to me. On more than a few occasions I tell them to go find a job and that the candy is for the kids. I was lucky I didn't get my house vandalized after that. Now I live in a different area and because our home sits far back on a dirt driveway behind a locked gate....well, I don't get any visitors. I like it that way.

 

[mechanicx]

Jeez you sound like the grinch that stole Halloween, j/k

. I don't blame the kid for not having a costume, maybe the parents. I sort of agree with what you're saying. Although, I had to stop trick-or-treat sometime when I was just over 13 because I shot up in height. I don't have anything against kids under 15 or 16 trick-or-treating. I know I was a chocolate fiend back when I was a teenager, but some of these kids look like old enough to go to college lol.

 

[JustinH]

We used to get some little kids, lately what has been happening is kids from the ghetto are being bused in to make candy grabs. None of them dress up, some are 17-18 years old. They just wear hoodies and carry empty pillow cases for their loot. This year I'm working nights so I won't be giving out any candy.

 

[hr1940]

I had to get Tony or our son to give out candy after a while when in NM because some teenage thugs informed me they would take what they wanted and there was nothing I could do about it. I am 5' and I was looking up at them.

My brother in law lives in Milwaukee. In their neighborhood the association made a rule that trick or treating was allowed on the Sunday prior Halloween from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.. That eliminated some of the problems. I enjoy giving to the little ones and seeing them so excited and proud of their costumes even if it is just a very simple costume their mom has put together.

 

[daves87rs]

Well, I can't give out candy (haven't bought a house yet), but I'm very geeked for my little guy's first real halloween. He's going out as a GI JOE, made by us.

He got to do a few houses last year, but he was still too little to go very far (and shy). Now he's ready to go! I figure we will do a few blocks, enjoy it, and have a good time.