What are you handing out for Halloween?

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  • nuttyfamily
    nuttyfamily Posts: 3,394 Member
    Candy, candy and more candy.

    But I can tell you, my kids don't go trick or treating to get oatmeal or healthy foods. This holiday is all about the candy.

    I guess I don't understand why people just don't shut off your lights and not hand out anything. Hope you like being decorated by TP and cleaning up eggs is a nightmare. Oh, and hide the pumpkins.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    I was thinking about handing out HCG drops. :bigsmile:

    Ugh, I thought I was being original. Stop stealing my idea! :explode:

    Not doing anything at all.
    Sorry! :embarassed:
    Try handing out brussel sprouts with little notes about the cabbage soup diet tied lovingly to them.
  • XxXskinnyMiniXxX
    XxXskinnyMiniXxX Posts: 325
    Candy, candy and more candy.

    But I can tell you, my kids don't go trick or treating to get oatmeal or healthy foods. This holiday is all about the candy.

    I guess I don't understand why people just don't shut off your lights and not hand out anything. Hope you like being decorated by TP and cleaning up eggs is a nightmare. Oh, and hide the pumpkins.
    Agreed when kids don't get their candy they get mad. I remember one year when i was around 12 me and my friends were trick or treating and someone was giving out friggen apples, So I was mad and I kicked her pumpkin and it busted on her sidewalk...they were probably mad lol
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    Just tacky...
    These kids' parents are fully expecting them to go out and get candy. If their parents are OK with it, why aren't you? Why do you feel the need to impose your idea of healthy on others? It's great if you don't want to partake. But don't be one of "those" houses.
  • bregalad5
    bregalad5 Posts: 3,965 Member
    I was thinking about handing out HCG drops. :bigsmile:

    Ugh, I thought I was being original. Stop stealing my idea! :explode:

    Not doing anything at all.
    Sorry! :embarassed:
    Try handing out brussel sprouts with little notes about the cabbage soup diet tied lovingly to them.

    Brilliant idea! Or referrals to a doctor that does that 130 calorie drip thingamabob?
  • Pollywog39
    Pollywog39 Posts: 1,730 Member
    I've got a huge bowl of "get the hell out of my yard you damn kids, can't you see my porch light is off???" waiting for anyone brave enough to ring the doorbell.

    THAT made me lol.................

    just give 'em "old man candy"..........you know, those pink mints and lemon hard candy that sits in your pocket collecting fuzzballs!
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    I was thinking about handing out HCG drops. :bigsmile:

    Ugh, I thought I was being original. Stop stealing my idea! :explode:

    Not doing anything at all.
    Sorry! :embarassed:
    Try handing out brussel sprouts with little notes about the cabbage soup diet tied lovingly to them.

    Brilliant idea! Or referrals to a doctor that does that 130 calorie drip thingamabob?
    LMFAO cooked bacon and Atkins diet pamphlets.
  • kkerri
    kkerri Posts: 276 Member
    Agree Nutty!
  • createmeapage
    createmeapage Posts: 9
    what a good idea, buy something you don't like and you wont pick at it. I still don't know what I am getting. I love prunes so thats out of the question (for me and the kid). I' think of something in the morning.
  • 77bluebird
    77bluebird Posts: 22
    My village has a policy that if you haven't decorated your house, they won't knock for trick or treat. There is very little problem with houses being egged over here - its just plain vandalism, and not tolerated.
    When we were kids, trick or treaters had to bob for apples or limbo under a pole to catch a doughnut that was tied to it, or something like that, you didn't get to just knock on a door and get given things... We used to love it!
  • nowornever47
    nowornever47 Posts: 333 Member
    We got like 78 kids last year and I like handing out all the good stuff: snickers, kit kats, butterfingers, reecees cups, paydays and 100 Grand - all mini bars... And whatever is left over goes right to work the next day. It usually goes before lunch! Lol...

    Happy Halloween everyone!!!
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    candy,

    I am not those kids mothers so if they want candy once a year, i give them candy. it is up to the parents to decide their diets not me.

    I also have mini bags of candy corn flavored popcorn but chocolate is the first treat!

    It may shock everyone but I actually let my kids have their Halloween candy, OMG, one piece a day what am i thinking?

    I also tell the parents that don't allow candy that they might want to not let the kid go trick or treating, to me it seems ore cruel to let them collect candy and not eat it!

    My mother always let my brother and i pick out 3 pieces halloween night after she checked the candy and then it went up and she got us one piece a day after that, it would usually get stale before we finished it!
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    Candy, candy and more candy.

    But I can tell you, my kids don't go trick or treating to get oatmeal or healthy foods. This holiday is all about the candy.

    I guess I don't understand why people just don't shut off your lights and not hand out anything. Hope you like being decorated by TP and cleaning up eggs is a nightmare. Oh, and hide the pumpkins.

    lol
  • slieber
    slieber Posts: 765 Member
    what a good idea, buy something you don't like and you wont pick at it. I still don't know what I am getting. I love prunes so thats out of the question (for me and the kid). I' think of something in the morning.

    I got that advice years ago from the WW leader. Been my policy ever since. I tell the kids next door to come back at the end of the night for anything that I have left over. :-)
  • MFPAddict
    MFPAddict Posts: 2,069 Member
    Can't believe no one is handing out last year's leftover candy. Lol

    Ummm, we all ate it. That is why we are on this damn site!! :sad:
  • MFPAddict
    MFPAddict Posts: 2,069 Member
    We are handing out Baby Ruth, Kit Kats and the Reese Cups will be handed out last. :tongue:
  • agwilker
    agwilker Posts: 104 Member
    Snickers, Twix, Skittles, and Starburst. I don't think we'll run out, but if we do, there's plenty of lemons and cereal. They can MacGyver something out of that.
  • Katbaran
    Katbaran Posts: 605 Member
    Candy, Halloween play dough, Halloween pencils and erasers. The kids seem to like those too. I have a couple kids come around each year that have told me they can't have candy so I try to have a little something for them too. Oh, and jello shots for the adults....:bigsmile:

    I want to come trick or treat at your house. Don't mind me if I stop by more than once. ;)

    You're more than welcome to keep coming back until the jello shots run out! We have folks that come around every year just for the jello shots! Our neighborhood is fun on Halloween! The guy down the street lights a fire in his outdoor fireplace, has hot chocolate and candy for the kids and some kind of liquor for the adults--last year it was "Apple Pie" made by boiling Everclear with cinnamon and apples until it get syrupy. Another neighbor has a little bar set up on his porch and mixes drinks for the adults. We have 2 weeping mulberry trees next to our driveway. Hubby hides inside of one or the other of them, whichever has more leaves left and when kids come along, he growls and shakes the tree. Some of the kids think its alive like the tree in the Harry Potter movies! Its a fun time anyway.

    When I was a kid, whichever adult, mostly the Dads, that took the kids out went with a shot glass. Us kids would get candy and the parent got a shot!
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    I have a giant spaghetti pot filled with chocolates of all kinds. I bought three of the giant costco variety bags. Halloween is THE candy holiday, and some of ya'll can just STOP! Because Hatin' is BAD.

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    It's Halloween for crying out loud! I'm passing out the snack size KitKats, Reeses peanut butter cups, Whoppers and Hershey's candy bars. I bought the big variety bag of those. I also bought a bag of Three Musketeers and a bag of Peppermint Patties.
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    handfuls of baked beans
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    Hey, at least you can log the exercise from cleaning the TP and eggs from your house.
    This. LOL Geez I hated getting "healthy" alternatives when I used to trick or treat. It was rare, but it was annoying. It's one night and chances are the raisins or apples (shudder) won't make a difference if the kid eats junk otherwise anyway. If you prefer not having junk food in the house to give out, then like someone else mentioned, pencils, erasers, small toys would be welcomed by kids. We used to love getting those Halloween eyeballs that bounced. Burns calories to play with too! ;-)
  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
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  • LexieSweetheart
    LexieSweetheart Posts: 793 Member
    Mini water bottles
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Mini water bottles

    I hope that comes with a sermon on eating right, otherwise the kids are going to be like "I'm going back to oatmeal lady's house."
  • BloomingLily
    BloomingLily Posts: 62 Member
    I've got a huge bowl of "get the hell out of my yard you damn kids, can't you see my porch light is off???" waiting for anyone brave enough to ring the doorbell.
    ROFL
  • BloomingLily
    BloomingLily Posts: 62 Member
    Just tacky...
    These kids' parents are fully expecting them to go out and get candy. If their parents are OK with it, why aren't you? Why do you feel the need to impose your idea of healthy on others? It's great if you don't want to partake. But don't be one of "those" houses.
    Wow
  • poisongirl6485
    poisongirl6485 Posts: 1,487 Member
    It's ONE day a year, so of course we're handing out candy. Twix and Butterfingers and skittles.

    The funny thing about getting fruit on Halloween is that most parents won't let their kids eat it anyway. Kind of along the same lines as opened candy----goes in the trash!
  • Deathwithab
    Deathwithab Posts: 462 Member
    i have a box of little chocolate bars but sadly i dont think anyone comes to these apartments ToTing :/ they all go up to the rich peoples side fo town and get candy lol
  • tracy337
    tracy337 Posts: 199 Member
    I really like the idea of a mix bowl. Some candy, healthier options, pencils etc. My kids love getting candy but would go ape sh** to get a cool pencil lol but they are 6, 5 and 3
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