Halloween Candy thread

[Pixilated]

My apartment building opens the lobby and provides hot chocolate (or coffee/tea; seems to depend on who's in charge) plus homemade goodies and some "bought" candies ... and that's just for the residents who want to sit there and watch the parade!

One person is always the Halloween coordinator and tenants can donate treats or cash. I donated some goodies and then had a small bowlful of my own to give. That turned out to be not necessary and I won't be doing it again; it's SOP here that only one person gives out treats on behalf of the whole building. They had large quantities of chips and candy and Cheezies and goodie bags and who-knows-what-else. However, by the time I came upstairs, at around 7 p.m., we'd already passed the 100-kid mark, so it was probably a pretty good evening (apparently last year we had 200 trick-or-treaters!)

Costumes ranged from store-bought to homemade but elaborate to obviously just-thrown-together, but pretty much everybody who came in wanting treats had made at least some effort.

[bhskittykatt]

I'm not at home right now, but I left out a dish full of cheap chocolates on the front step.

At work, we're handing out Dum-Dum lollipops, and peppermints (that I'm sure are from Christmas of last year!).

[ralerin]

My town canceled trick or treating because of the snow. It's November 6.

We don't get any trick or treaters at my house, anyway.

[fireheart]

We got ONE lot this year. Trick-or-treating isn't that popular in australia anyway.

But in previous years we've had up to four or five.

We don't usually hand out things to the kidlets anyway.

[Kogarashi]

I don't know how the kid count was this year, since I was on escort duty for our girls while Hubby had candy duty, but we bought two bags of candy mix for handing out and didn't even go through one (we don't usually get more than that, since we're in an apartment complex). We got a Twizzler/Jolly Rancher mix and a Smarties/Nerds/Laffy Taffy mix for handing out, plus a Twix/Snickers/M&M's mix for snacking on at home.

I don't mind having leftovers, though. Since I don't get my own bucket-ful when trick-or-treating anymore, and shouldn't really be mooching off of my girls' loot (), the leftovers stand in as my Halloween loot. Hubby barely makes a dent in it before I finish it off.

I can't wait until we live in a proper house with a proper porch that we can decorate and a proper porch light that we can turn on to let the kids know we have candy.

[Dasota]

this is the 3rd Halloween at my current place, and we got our first group of trick or treaters! 10 kids.... 3 of which had costumes.... Only 3 kids got candy. And boy was the Mom/adult with them PISSED. Sorry, make an effort. The only reason why I had *any* candy to give out is because it was left over from the party we had on Saturday.

[thansal]

I find it really odd that I don't get kids where I live now (2nd year here). I mean, I'm in an apartment building with a decent number of kids in it. When I was growing up all the kids I knew who lived in apartments would hit up the entire building, not sure why we don't get any here.

So I have no candy leftovers. Instead I will take advantage of the stores emptying out their excess this week :P