trick or treat....what kind of candies are you passing out tonight?

[Dancing Fire]

if you have some leftover almond joys,snickers,pay day,crunch bar,twix,can you girls save me some?

i don't have to watch my figure since i'm already over weight with ex-thick girdle.

 

[perry]

Unfortunately, none.

I believe in halloween the old fashion way. Full sized candy bars, etc. - and to scare the kids.

I have had some really great years depending where I lived. $100 in candy (or more), some simple set-ups; and I was the talk of the kids in the areas (who else gave out full sized candy bars). Also, watching a kid go spat against the wall in shock was cool too.... (my best year, I sat in a black felt outfit in a dark corner of the porch. When they knocked on the door I jumped up and made various sudden noise.... Splat and screams (I should have worked for Monsters Inc and collected screams...). All was forgiven when I pulled out my pot of full sized candy bars (a lot of kids like getting scarred like that).

Anyway, I moved here. Bought my candy. Set-up. And not a single kid knocked on the door. Second year. I bought less candy. Set-up. And not a single kid knocked on the door. In fact. No trickertreaters on this steet at all. Thus. Halloween has passed me by.

Perry

 

[Lorelei]

Date: 10/31/2005 5:28:53 AM
Author:Dancing Fire
if you have some leftover almond joys,snickers,pay day,crunch bar,twix,can you girls save me some?

i don''t have to watch my figure since i''m already over weight with ex-thick girdle.

It is a never ending battle for me DF to keep mine thin to sl thick

 

[njc]

Aww... thats so sad Perry! We have just moved too and i dont know if kids will show up, although there are a few in the neighborhood. Where my parents live and i grew up hit a dry spell for a while... all the kids grew up, but now they are starting to make a come back.

I love Kit-Kats, Twix''s and Reese''s Cups but im almost afraid to hand the Reese''s out any more... God forbid a parent forgets to check their kids candy, they have a peanut allergy and I get sued!

 

[Kaleigh]

We don''t get that many. But we do live by a college and they always show up, cracks me up. I love the now and laters, M&M''s, all the fun size bars etc... Hopefully we won''t have any left over or my girdle will become slighty thick too DF!!!

 

[eks6426]

I live in a "good" neighborhood that is relatively close to a whole bunch of "bad" neighborhoods. I get kids by the bus load--literally families that pull up in pickups with 30 kids in the back bed. Normally 400 or so. I buy cheap candy so I don''t run out. I even dump my son''s uneaten Easter candy or last year''s candy canes in the bucket. Amazingly, the candy canes are always the first to go. Next year I''m going to be the Christmas house at Halloween. I intend to buy all the candy canes I can on clearance after Christmas then decorate my house for Christmas and put Christmas music on the stereo speakers mounted in the windows. I''ll don an elf costume and pass out the candy canes. Bonus--all my Christmas decorating--outside lights etc. can be done when the weather is still decent

One funny thing I''ve noticed is that the parents of the kids have a trick or treat bag too. That just bugs me. I don''t feel like I should be giving candy to some parent who is my age.

 

[VegasAngel]

We buy cheap candy & a few small size candy bars. We refuse to spend tons of money on candy. Kids all ready get more than enough candy on holloween.

 

[DonaBella]

Every year for Halloween my older kids like to decorate the outside of our home. In previous years, it wasn''t so much, but now we do the entire porch and my 16 1/2 year old "scares" the treaters by looking "dead" in his costume only to move when they go for the candy bowl...its pretty fun and not too over the top. We give out a mix of twizzlers, nid-size chocolate bars, starbursts, M&M''s, etc...and have a bit of fun in the process...but all the candy is gone by nights end...

 

[AChiOAlumna]

We''re giving out lots of lollipops and blow-pops....the 99 cent store has all sorts of good/cheap candy, so we found some of the "middle of the road" stuff. $5 worth of candy filled up our entire Halloween candy bowl!

 

[Matata]

Reeses sticks, KitKat, M&Ms, Heath Bars, Twix -- all full size. I did a quaity control sampling of everything yesterday

 

[MINE!!]

We are passing out tootsie roll pops that my dughters covered with napkins and made them into ghosts... Dum Dums, Now or Laters, Bubble gum, jaw breakers, and tootsie rolls...

 

[FireGoddess]

hehehe...whatever''s on sale on my way home from work today.

i never get many trick or treaters, so i like to buy something i hate so i won''t eat the leftovers!

 

[Daniel B]

The kiddies are gettin Reeses cups and maybe some blowpops and other funsize candy bars-- i give them the good stuff!

 

[Mara]

whatever i can find at the store!! usually those ''grab bag'' ones that are like 4 diff types of candy bars in one bag. i hope we get more kids this year...we are carving our pumpkins late...aka tonite!

i also got some yummi sugar decorated sprinkle cookies from whole foods today, SO GOOD. i''ve already had one.

oh but these are for us. hehee!

 

[MichelleCarmen]

We usually get the grab bags of chocolate bars too. I love chocolate but cannot stand the sugary candy, like lollypops, so what''s the point of buying stuff I cannot taste a bit of

?

This year, though, we''re not giving out candy because our house is on a little drive with only three other houses and none have kids. We''re going out to another neighborhood that''s a quiet place w/out any traffic and taking a bunch of little ones (along with their parents) to have some fun. It''s going to be a long night. My kids flip out when they eat sugar.

 

[diamondsrock]

I made little bags with dots, nerds, gummi lifesavers and smarties. Also handed out animal crackers in individual bags to the little ones. So far we only got 14 so I hope we get more trick or treaters!! Seems like not as many kids to trick or treating anymore!

 

[Mara]

OK I got a grab bag of mini''s ...snickers, twix, three muskateers. and then also a bag of m&m''s which i adore (the small packets). Also got our pumpkins (I know we are LATE!!)....Greg is on his way home for us to carve them, we were busy all weekend and had no opportunity!

I also bought all this halloween decor stuff last year which I forgot about until TODAY and now I can''t find any of it...dunno where the better half ''stored'' it.

 

[Kaleigh]

Mara please take pics of the pumpkins once they are carved, I bet they will be great. Oh and those small fun size bags of M&M''s are my fav. We''ve only had about 10 trick or treaters, oh well. More candy for me, and my expanding girdle, Lol. DF there may be some for you yet!!!

 

[jaysonsmom]

We have an 2 assorted bags of chocolate including Hershey''s minis, whoppers, snickers, butterfingers, kitkats, reeses peanut butter cups, some other stuff, but all are chocolate. The reason is simple....none of us eat non-chocolate type candy, and in case we have left-overs, someone''s gotta eat it!

 

[MissGotRocks]

I always give out the good stuff because I remember how disappointing it was to come home with bad or cheap candy that no one wanted to eat! Tonight we have M&M''s, Mounds, Nutrageous, Snickers, Kit Kat and Hershey''s. I always enjoyed Halloween and I know my kids did too - they trick or treated until they were old enough to be ashamed! As long as they wore costumes and were respectful, no one in my neighborhood cared how old any kid was.

I can''t believe that IslandDreams has carloads of kids and that the ADULTS carry bags too! That pushes the envelope too far!!!!

 

[Mara]

Pumpkins are done and I put out my haunted house and my spider wrought iron candles from PB and my metal cutout iron witch...so far no kids...

It just turned 6 here so it just got dark fully, so hopefully we''ll have at least a few!!

 

[butterfly 17]

I actually give out bags of chips, usually the variety packs from LAYS brand that you can buy at Costco. I think there are 24 in a box, so I buy 3 boxes and just give them out. IF there is any left over, I use them as snacks for the family.

I actually am not home usually because I am out trick or treating with my daughter, so I put out the boxes and asign- "Happy Holloween- please take only one, thanks!"

I came home tonight and there was nothing left and four more kids came by, so I gave them candy from the bag I had collected for my daughter Kara. She''s only two months, so she won''t miss it!

 

[E B]

We have Skittles, Butterfingers, Nutrageous, and Snickers. The good stuff.

 

[portoar]

I live in a great neighborhood for Halloween. We do it scary -- bats flying around our walkway and porch, scary effects CD, we put eerie green lights on in the house, I have creepy things taped to the windows, we do the fog, we have little ones who refuse to come to the door bcause they''re too scared. Next year we''re going to hang a body or a skeleton -- hubby wants to rig up a coffin with motion sensor that bangs and rattles when someone walks by . . .

but if you can make it to our front door, we''re giving out gummy vampire fangs, chocolate Hershey bars, 3 Musketeers, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat, and Junior Mints (I like chocolate).

 

[movie zombie]

zero, zilch, nada.....we live so far off the beaten track that nary a soul ventures to our door............i don''t even buy anything as its not even possible to conceive that anyone would come trick or treating here.

peace, movie zombie

 

[Mara]

ok so we had trick or treaters!!! YAY!! we actually were very happy with the turnout this year. and portia''s angel wings were a big hit!

 

[diamondlil]

We had a good turnout last night -- about 150. We only have 30 houses spaced on 1+ acre lots in our neighborhood, so with every passing year (been here 6 years), we get more and more outsiders carpooling kids here to trick-or-treat. They park up at the entrance and let the kids go.

We do have a lot of good decorations and loud, scarey music through the neighborhood. One neighbor has college-age sons who dressed up as *Michael Myers* and *Jason* and gave us mommies a good scare when they would stroll out of the dark and walk up beside us without a sound. Talk about freaky. Then they would just wander back into the woods. The kids were clinging to us so tight.

My husband dressed up as a Hillbilly and poked fun at all the kids. I took a few pics which I''ll try to post. My memory card is showing an error so I don''t know what happened.

 

[hearts set]

This is funny...

The neighbor accross the street last night was terrifying the kids with a chainsaw...you could hear them screaming and see them running down the street.

Fi and I were carving a jack o'' lantern when we see the cops and firetrucks pull up!! They soon left, so obviously no harm done but I had to giggle...a little too much Halloween fun!!

We had reece''s and kitkats...for what we call fi''s "baby soul"

Oh, a tip. In case youdon''t know already. Sprinkly a little cinnamon,(nutmeg, allspice, will do) on the lid of your jack o'' lantern. As the candles warm the pumpkin it smells like pie!! YUM

 

[diamondlil]

Date: 11/1/2005 8:42:37 AM
Author: hearts set
This is funny...

The neighbor accross the street last night was terrifying the kids with a chainsaw...you could hear them screaming and see them running down the street.

Fi and I were carving a jack o'' lantern when we see the cops and firetrucks pull up!! They soon left, so obviously no harm done but I had to giggle...a little too much Halloween fun!!

We had reece''s and kitkats...for what we call fi''s ''baby soul''

Oh, a tip. In case youdon''t know already. Sprinkly a little cinnamon,(nutmeg, allspice, will do) on the lid of your jack o'' lantern. As the candles warm the pumpkin it smells like pie!! YUM

A chainsaw? That''s a little too much for little kids.

Thanks for the spice tip. I''ll make a note to myself for next year. What a great idea!

 

[portoar]

A few years ago we went to a house where the family set up the garage like a creepy operating theatre, and there was a "doctor" with a chainsaw getting ready to amputate a leg off of a victim on the operating table (pleading for help) . . . someone would come out of the garage and invite the kids in, in a sinister way . . . my kids were scared witless and actually started crying. It was a little TOO scary, they toned it down the next year.

Most of our candy is gone . . . we had A LOT of kids!