We had a few houses in my neighborhood growing up that gave out full size chocolate bars, cans of pop and other assorted large sized goodies. We had them pre-mapped so that we could hit them early in the night, and then switch into pre prepared second costumes to hit them again later on. I thought as a child there was no way Halloween could possibly get any better than it already was. Costumes and free candy? Hell yes.
And then I realized Halloween is also the only day of the year that every girl gets to let out their inner.........., and not be judged by the rest of the female population because they are all in on it.
Tough to argue when the treats turned from full sized chocolate bars to women in lingerie.
My parents get around 5/year now, when the numbers dropped their treats became kickass! Full chocolate bar, can of pop, and usually some sort of non-edible treat (like a bottle of bubbles for the little kids).
When I was living in a house in their neighbourhood I was getting about the same, each kid got two full sized chocolate bars.
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I had the flu the last year my friends and I were going to go trick or treating. We had a plan for how to hit the highest density neighborhoods and spend the least time walking without ringing a doorbell. We had also learned years earlier to avoid the more affluent areas. The distance between houses was much greater and people often weren't even home. If they were home, they were typically cheap.
I still regret missing that last year. I've been saying for years that I should find some diabetic kid that I can pay to trick or treat for me. Give him like 5 or 10 bucks a pound of something. That way, he still gets to go out and have fun with his friends, he makes a little cash, and I get to enjoy the wide variety of candy that you just can't get if you go buy it yourself.
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My parent's neighbourhood was the cat's *** for trick-or-treating as a kid.
Direct across the street from us was two unmarried guys in a huge house that would always give out full sized chocolate bars, next to them was the Old Dutch truck driver who gave out chips. Next to him was the milk man, who always gave out individual chocolate milks.
I recall a few years when the weather was too cold to really trick-or-treat when we'd just hit up those three houses and call it a night. The milk man's family used to baby sit us occasionally, so being a cold slow night they'd just say eff it, and give us 2-3 chocolate milks and tell us to say hi to the parents.
Man, feel like I should have posted this in the nostalgia thread.
Anyways to the task at hand, this is the first year we even bought candy to give out, I'm not expecting any kids really (seldom see them in our complex) but I wanted to have something on hand. If I run out of candy I can break into the cans of pop... kids like tonic water right?
Just a reminder to kids, parents, and drivers alike out there. Be safe walking around the busy neighborhoods! It gets dark early these days and at 7:10 the playground zones are no longer in effect.
Must have been about 15 years ago now, one of my good friends was hit by a car while crossing the street on Halloween and a group of us watched it happen.
My roommates and I were totally caught off guard by Halloween. We live in a student neighbourhood and weren't expecting there to be hundreds of french kids walking the streets. But they are. So we are just sitting in our house in darkness for now.
I grew up in a town of 200 people, so even though there were fewer places to get candy we always got much sweeter stuff than my friends in the bigger towns. Pretty much everybody gave out full chocolate bars, plus other candy, and the odd person would give out bottles of pop.
I just remember being a kid, and how awesome it was to get a full sized bar. For an extra few bucks it's totally worth it.
For sure, that'd be awesome, but man that would be expensive. Isnt' a box of 40 full sized bars something like 30+ dollars? Unless you save those for the ones with good costumes, that will cost quite a bit.
I'm an Aussie, I've never had a trick or treater on my door before moving here. The last 3 Halloweens being Fri, Sat & Sun I was not home for.
A few cents of candy to avoid an egging seems like a pretty good deal.
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As for Halloween here it is pretty crazy that it's not celebrated at all in Australia, best holiday of the year and it's completely skipped.
I always loved the people who were too lazy to actually hand out the candy and just left a big box of candy by the door for a first come first serve basis. Not the most effective method, but I surely appreciated it. Too bad occasionally it was just peanuts, raisins, old Christmas candy and other crap.
Oh and avoid the houses giving out Crunchie bars. Hard to think of a more nasty piece of candy that everyone seemed to give out in my day.
I haven't had any kids in my building the two years i've been here. So I don't have any candy on hand. Should a kid show up, I can probably give them a couple bucks. Is $2 enough or am I cheaping out?
I haven't had any kids in my building the two years i've been here. So I don't have any candy on hand. Should a kid show up, I can probably give them a couple bucks. Is $2 enough or am I cheaping out?
I think that's fine. Candy won't even cost that much if you were giving it out.
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