Holy smokes that's expensive!

Ahhlee

Ahhlee

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Yesterday I decided to stock up on some odds and ends I needed around the house and figured I'd also buy some Halloween candy while I was there and thinking about it. I'm pretty proud of myself because usually I forget about it and have to make a mad dash at the last second to buy some!

I remember what it's like to be a kid, so I picked out the GOOD candy. For whatever reason, I can recall that the last time I picked up a bag of candy that size it cost roughly $3.25. Yesterday the same bag cost $4.85! It's not like I can't afford it or anything, it's just that I can't believe what a giant hike in price that is. ****.

All I know is the little buggers that come knocking on my door better appreciate that I splurged for the good stuff. If I find a single egg, roll of toilet paper or flaming bag of **** in my general vicinity, there's going to be **** to pay.

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What kind of Halloween candy do you buy?

Do you remember trick-or-treating and hitting houses that always had the "good" candy?

 
Ahhlee

Ahhlee

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We had a sweet older lady in town who used to make popcorn ***** on Halloween for us kids! OMG, we'd line up just to get one and they were always so yummy.

A couple of other people made homemade treats, but the popcorn ***** really stand out for me.

Does anyone remember that whole "razor blades in the candy" scare in the 70's? Well my parents made us bring home our candy so they could check it out (which is kind of funny considering where I live, but oh well...they were just being cautious) and we'd always eat the popcorn ball before we got home because we didn't want it to get thrown out for being "suspicious"...lol. :)

 
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mercury

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I usually buy the good stuff, too... or I let the kids pick it out, and we end up with the **** candy, which I count as skittles, starburst, or anything that's not chocolate. :) I buy it when they do the buy one get one free deals at the grocery store, so it's not so pricey.

I buy the good stuff for selfish reasons though... so I can eat the left overs! Up until last year, I never lived in a place that had an abundance of kids show up. Last year we ran out of candy and kids were still ringing the door bell at 10:00!

Trick or Treating as a kid was an adventure. Living in the boonies, it required a lot of organization and effort. I usually went with a friend and her dad because my dad absolutely hated the idea of "begging", so cooperation from him for organizing the event was unthinkable. It was a big enough hassle getting him to agree to let me go at all.

Mr. Regan would drive us around the boonies in his Bronco, hanging out the tailgate so we could jump and run when he dropped us off at the end of each long, long, long driveway or private road. We never got a whole lot of candy, but we got a lot of exercise and had a great time.

I remember one house where they gave out cans of soda (quite welcome after all that walking!), and another where we got full size Hershey bars. We also had the popcorn ball house. I was allowed to eat it because we knew the family that handed them out... they also owned the local Christmas tree farm.

My parents always gave out change... but we only got about 8 trick or treaters on our busiest year and my mom was constantly dieting, so she didn't like having extra junk laying around tempting her.

 
timesjoke

timesjoke

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Where I live there are not too many kids or even people who live close enough to go door to door. We still put out some decorations at the road and I have a thing I built that shelters a big bowl of candy but only about half of the candy gets taken.

So, we do the fall festival celebration through our church where there are games and candy and food so we can bring the kids together for fun. Then one of my circle will do a halloween party for the evening and we all gather there for more fun with the kids all wired from the sugar bouncing around like a ball in a pinball maching, lol.

Great fun :)

 
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emkay64

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This time of year is my absolute favorite, with Halloween being high on the list. We have a lot of grown up toddlers on our street and they have great fun in the decorations department, hiding under leaves, and a huge haunted house every year.

We buy chocolate bars, double bubble, and tootsie pops usually, but occasionally there are these eyeball chocolates with peanut butter crispies in the middle....YUMMO!

When we were kids, my Dad bought the Halloween candy...and he bought what he liked. Wagon wheels (disgusting chocolate, cookie and marshmallow sweets), sunflower seeds, and candy kisses (looked olive green and could remove your freaking teeth).

We had one house on our block and every year would put out a box saying "No Treats this Year"...it got egged and TP'ed every fricken year. Cheap Bastards.

P.S. Granola bars, toothbrushes and raisins are NOT suitable for Halloween. If you are going to do that...just shut off your light and don't bother...that **** ends up on the **** road anyways.

 
RoyalOrleans

RoyalOrleans

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There's no such thing as a "free lunch" and I don't pretend to accept Halloween as a day for the kids. If you have kids, are around kids, and/or have young cousins, nieces, and nephews you know **** well "everyday is kid's day." All Halloween does is instill a sense of how to get something for free and punish those who don't give something. In youth it's goblins, ghosts, and Power Rangers and in adulthood it's ski masks and welfare checks.

I am usually at my friend's Halloween costume party anyways. Last year I dressed up like a Power Ranger.

A wet blanket? Maybe, but I'm not a hypocrite.

 
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emkay64

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There's no such thing as a "free lunch" and I don't pretend to accept Halloween as a day for the kids. All it does is instill a sense of how to get something for free and punish those who don't give something. In youth it's goblins, ghosts, and Power Rangers and in adulthood it's ski masks and welfare checks.
I am usually at my friend's Halloween costume party anyways. Last year I dressed up like a Power Ranger.
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Oh boodily hoo! Don't be such a grumpy ol' curmudgeon!

 
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