Trick or Treat

[metta]

I get hundreds of children coming to my home each year on Halloween. Some of my neighbors feel that giving the little candies is not good enough. I usually give kids a handful of a variety of the candies. But some of my neighbors buy those huge candy bars or large movie packs of candy and give them out to each child. I have even seen some neighbors giving out gift certificates in small amounts (like $1). No wonder we get so many kids.

If I had a child, I would not want my kid to get that much candy from each home.

If you give treats for Halloween to the kids, what do you give and what do you feel is appropriate?

 

[JakeBequette]

i haven't given candy ever but when i was a kid we lived in a "rich" neighborhood sort of, and people would give us the huge packs or gift certificates, this one old couple used to hand out soda but then they switched to tooth brushes. Damn them. My mom gives out the cheap candy lol

 

[metta]

Trust me, it's not the kids that are eating it...​

i haven't given candy ever but when i was a kid we lived in a "rich" neighborhood sort of, and people would give us the huge packs or gift certificates, this one old couple used to hand out soda but then they switched to tooth brushes. Damn them. My mom gives out the cheap candy lol

ok...your avatars and signatures are too funny..lol..wow....it's like your twins.

 

[screwnutty]

It's one night (wish it would last forever...where are you Samhain??? )

I just give out bags of small chips or just grab a handful of mis-mas candy. It's only one night and it's for kids! It my favourite night of the year too.

as to kids and too much candy...well it's up to parents to set guidelines...besides I use to get enough candy to last until christmas!

Did I mention it's my favourite day of the year!!

where the hell is samhain when you need him!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_Kmss-BaE

 

[JakeBequette]

What????

Here you go

 

[screwnutty]

What????

Here you go

Thanks! didn't know how to embedded it into my post properly!

Thanks again!

 

[JakeBequette]

youre welcome

Thanks! didn't know how to embedded it into my post properly!

Thanks again!

 

[screwnutty]

course now showing this cartoon....really shows my age! oh well. My name is Screwnutty and I use to watch "the Real Ghostbusters on ABC saturday morning Cartoons!"

there...step one done with!

 

[BrandonSBCA]

My Aunt lives in Laguna Beach and she gives those huge king size candy bars. Sadly I'll be in school during Halloween.

 

[CuriousMonkey]

we live in the country where houses are widely spaced and quite far from the road. up until two yeas ago, we never saw a trick-or-treater. since then a neighbor has organized a hay ride for kids in the neighborhood, and we get about 20 kids at the arranged time. becuse there are so few of them and we know when to expect them, we're able to give them each a brown paper lunch bag pretty much full of treats & little dollar store toys.

 

[ahotjock71]

We always give out a medium sized baggie of variety candy.

 

[belamy]

A better option:

or..?

 

[BoSoxFanVa]

Whenever I go to a fast food joint, I always get the kid's meal and I save the toy/gift. I save these over the year and give them out with candy at Halloween to the younger kids. They love it.

 

[_AJ_]

living in australia we have had a grand total of about 4 kids come to our house so nothing here

 

[ahotjock71]

Whenever I go to a fast food joint, I always get the kid's meal and I save the toy/gift. I save these over the year and give them out with candy at Halloween to the younger kids. They love it.

That's a really good idea! Bravo on your creativity!

 

[Swellegant]

We don't get all that many kids anymore... and certainly not neighborhood kids: they're all overprotected and do their trick-or-treating at pre-arranged addresses in supervised formations (thank God I'm not a kid these days... poor little buggers). But since we've a reputation as a "rich" neighborhood, lots of families drive up here from the flatlands to do their trick-or-treating.

Since we can't gauge how many kids we might get, Grandmother and I just get big bags of fun-sized candy bars that we like, in case we're left with a surplus... Snickers, Mounds, Hershey's Miniatures, Butterfinger, Kit-Kat, etc. I give handfuls to each kid, like three or four bars; if we get more kids than usual, I start rationing it more stringently, two bars max.

When I was a kid, my stepmother would ration out our Halloween candy (we got one piece a day, and only if we finished the tasteless glop she referred to as "dinner"), and a good haul would last us until Christmas. Unless of course Mom fell off her diet, or if my stepsister Heidi found a way to get at the jar without Mom seeing her... then it would disappear at a mysteriously accelerated pace.

I like the idea of little toys instead of candy, though... that's pretty cool! A toy would be something you could play with and not have to share or ration, and it wouldn't make the kid crawl the walls in a sugarbombed frenzy. I'll float that past the Grandmother and see what she thinks.