Handing out the sweet stuff this Halloween?

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  • HMToomey
    HMToomey Posts: 276
    Little bags of multi-pack pretzels or chips or gold fish. Kids love them! I give the option here, candy or chips or pretzels the older kids want the chips and pretzels over the fun size candy! :smile:
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    Don't be that person. Don't be the *kitten* who hands out carrot sticks and string cheese. Hand out candy. It's for kids. It's the one day a year they get to do it.

    Heck if you really wanna make a good impression buy a ton of full size candy bars and hand those out.

    Amen to this. I hated chips, popcorn, pretzels and goldfish. Give me sugar any day.

    OR, the better option: Hand out juice boxes for the kids and liquor for the parents (with ID)! There is a lady down the street from me that does this every year. By the time we got to her house we were so thirsty and it was actually nice to get a drink. My dad only volunteered to take us out because of this lady.

    The way I got around temptation last year, I handed out candy I hate. I dislike tootsie rolls, and toostie pops. I still ate one of them, but that was all I could stand.
  • xxloveiswarr
    xxloveiswarr Posts: 124
    Thanks guys! Lots of good ideas. Definitely not doing candy though. Money, Play-Doh, novelty stuff sounds good to me. Not worried about getting TP'd or egged. Nor am I concerned with being 'that lady', considering odds are we'll only be here another year or two.
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    we keep a bucket of rocks for the older kids...
  • MassiveDelta
    MassiveDelta Posts: 3,271 Member
    Im going to hand out Celery and Peanut butter
  • lukeevans85
    lukeevans85 Posts: 108 Member
    Don't be that person. Don't be the *kitten* who hands out carrot sticks and string cheese. Hand out candy. It's for kids. It's the one day a year they get to do it.

    Heck if you really wanna make a good impression buy a ton of full size candy bars and hand those out.

    I would totally shovel the sidewalk (once, let's not go crazy) for the person that gave out full sized candy.

    I hear tales of an area near here that gives out full sized candy and gift cards...yes gift cards. It is a super rich part of town...and I fully intend on going there this year with my children. They can have the candy...I'll take the gift cards.

    Hmmm..maybe there will be liquor.
  • skinnybitchbarbie27
    skinnybitchbarbie27 Posts: 306 Member
    We live in a sad world where we have to toss out all fruit that is handed out. There was a bit of an epidemic one year where a woman was handing out apples that feared to have made people sick. A lot of parents will not allow their children to keep much fruit from someone's house, I have seen it myself.

    My hand outs this year is going to be mini boxes of goldfish (of many flavors to choose) and capri sun. I know they aren't the best but I do not want to have that temptation of chocolate laying around :)
  • crimsoncat
    crimsoncat Posts: 457 Member
    Thanks guys! Lots of good ideas. Definitely not doing candy though. Money, Play-Doh, novelty stuff sounds good to me. Not worried about getting TP'd or egged. Nor am I concerned with being 'that lady', considering odds are we'll only be here another year or two.

    I will say, I would take a 50 cents to a dollar for halloween any day. That'd be perfect if you live near a candy store where the kids could just go buy their own.
  • SammyPacks
    SammyPacks Posts: 697 Member
    We'll have a bucket of the good stuck. Chocolate. Snicker, Hershey, Reese's ....
    And if Paranorman is on Blue ray by the 31st we'll be showing that in our driveway while the kids are trick or treating.

    I'd come to your house and stay there till it's done.
  • Prettylittlelotus
    Prettylittlelotus Posts: 239 Member
    If you put razor blades in the candy the kids will be dead long before the sugar does them any harm. Problem solved.

    I laughed out loud.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    Pick a candy you hate that others like. Almond joy and milky way bars would be mine.

    THIS is an excellent strategy!
  • Leahbcc
    Leahbcc Posts: 38 Member
    Go out to an apple orchard and pick apples and then offer then to the children. Healthy. Also there are boxes like candy with stickers in them. Have fun and enjoy
  • Tw1zzler
    Tw1zzler Posts: 583
    I give out candy...just the good stuff I wanted when I was little. Kids need to be kids and enjoy it.
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    One of my favorite houses when i was a kid didn't even pass out candy. they gave out little cute gift bags with halloween stuff like stickets, erasers, a little notebook... cute halloween stuff. Fun and not unhealthy!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Oh, FPS. Halloween candy is not the cause of childhood obesity. Either keep your porch light off or give out some candy.
  • Justa_Paperbag
    Justa_Paperbag Posts: 59 Member
    They have coupon books at Wendy's for a free frosty that I always loved getting when I trick or treated. They're not very expensive to buy, either, and no temptation because it's just paper.
  • wifealiciousness
    wifealiciousness Posts: 179 Member
    a)not being american and
    b)not feeling like I have to give in to this "clinton cards" bullsh*t

    I don't answer the doorbell at halloween. I do not encourage kids to threaten old ladies and get fat! Sorry! I love kids, I just don't do hallmark holidays.
  • tracymat
    tracymat Posts: 296 Member
    Most people have funny answers to this.... but I boycot the whole thing and I don't care who hates me. HAHAHAHA

    I don't have kids, so I really don't get into the whole "spirit" thing. I don't want the candy in my house.

    How long is trick or treating? Go shopping or to the gym or something during that time instead of just holeing up in your house like a scrooge! LOL
  • fattypattybinger
    fattypattybinger Posts: 337
    Kids like the spider rings, skeleton rings. you can pick them up at a dollar store 100 for a buck. In my neighborhood all the neighbors sit outside. I usually give my candy to the neighbor. Some people actually give out pennies, you can always give out pencils as well. The cheapest I would think are the rings. I know when I was a kid I loved the pennies. Not might be great for kids. When I don't want to eat something I put a big no on the bag, box etc. Works well. I never did appreciate when people gave out the crappy candy. We would always call them cheap cheap like we hated mary jane's. Is there something you hate, licorice, smarites, jaw breakers. Don''t stress over this.you can get thru it. Besides I love seeing all the kids and babies dressed up.
  • Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt
    Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt Posts: 226 Member
    We compromise a little. It used to be all candy (and plenty of it - our neighborhood is crazy-full of kids), but we found that it's just as cheap to go by Target and pick up tubes of glow-stick bracelets (15 for $1). I bought $20 worth of glowsticks, then a couple bags of candy (which I asked my much-taller husband to hide someplace high until the night of, so we're not breaking into it and blowing diets). So the kids that REALLY want the sweets, can have them. Although it seems like last year we ran out of the glow sticks a lot faster than we did candy - they were super popular.

    Note: do NOT use pencils - even shiny halloween-themed ones with black cat erasers. I got eyebrows the year before, and comments from my kids like "School supplies? REALLY, Mom? Why don't you just give out toothpaste, and kill all chances of us having friends here?"
  • khall83
    khall83 Posts: 16 Member
    This year - in order to keep myself from eating the candy I am going to buy something that I dont like - but a lot of other kids will like. Another option (and this is VERY popular in my neighborhood) I live in a nice cul-de-sac and I have three boys that I take out trick or treating and every year they come home with at leat 5-10 bags of mini-popcorn..Which is kind of awesome b/c popcorn isnt that terrible, and you can use the m&m's you get at other people's houses to put in it! lol

    Honestly though, its once a year and the kids really enjoy it..If someone gave me an apple as a kid I would have taken to be polite but then thrown it away later..For one, I wouldnt eat fresh fruit from someone I dont know that well (snow white) and for two..well its halloween and its an apple :)

    So if you are just worried about yourself (like I am) then buy something you don't like or go out and buy candy the DAY OF halloween so you dont have it sitting there tempting you for weeks before...Another thing we have started doing is after a night of trick or treating we have a TON of candy between my three boys...I let them pick out their favorites - probably enough to last for a couple of weeks and then we donate the rest to the program that takes the candy overseas..I can't remember what its called, but our dentist office sponsored it last year :) just a thought..Happy Halloween!
  • rubyautumn4
    rubyautumn4 Posts: 818 Member
    I always hand out candy! It's Halloween! I buy Skittles/jelly beans/gummy bears etc that I don't care for and load them up! It's not my job to police what other people's kids eat, I just get in the spirit of Halloween! Also all that walking to and from the door and squats down to put the candy in their bags keeps me moving too! :)
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
    a)not being american and
    b)not feeling like I have to give in to this "clinton cards" bullsh*t

    I don't answer the doorbell at halloween. I do not encourage kids to threaten old ladies and get fat! Sorry! I love kids, I just don't do hallmark holidays.
    Halloween is not a "Hallmark holiday" by a long shot. - it goes back to the 16th Century

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

    I'm SO glad I live in the country though...no dealing with all that hassle...
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    So basically what you're asking is...

    "Do I want the kids that are going to TP my house to use Charmin or some other off brand? And how do I remove eggs from my car?"

    Kids want candy. Period. You'll be forever known as that house with the lady that gave out apples. It's one holiday. It's up to their parents to police their candy consumption, not you. And if it's really that big of a deal to you, don't give out candy. Fun sized candy calories though are not that bad. And they fit conveniently in your purse.

    You are my hero...
  • MRSCHAZZY
    MRSCHAZZY Posts: 42 Member
    omg why are folks in the past years over thinking halloween??? the devil, the sugar! for real?? geez get real! its FUN!! you did it as a child im sure. its an indulgence for one day. a stinking day? what next? i, as a adult, should second guess getting dressed up and going out and getting smashed? lighten up.
  • 1Kristine1
    1Kristine1 Posts: 697 Member
    yeah i think change is a great idea! $2 bills are always fun- you can get those at the bank, but could get expensive quick if you're expecting a lot of kids. or what about small bags of kettle corn? it's still fun and kids like it, but not as bad as candy.

    or stickers, kids love stickers.
    Kettle corn what a great idea. If you can find it prepackaged tho, might be tough.
  • loserbaby84
    loserbaby84 Posts: 241 Member
    So basically what you're asking is...

    "Do I want the kids that are going to TP my house to use Charmin or some other off brand? And how do I remove eggs from my car?"

    Kids want candy. Period. You'll be forever known as that house with the lady that gave out apples. It's one holiday. It's up to their parents to police their candy consumption, not you. And if it's really that big of a deal to you, don't give out candy. Fun sized candy calories though are not that bad. And they fit conveniently in your purse.

    AGREED!!! Let the parents worry about their children's candy intake and let them have a little fun :)

    I never wanna be "the lady in that house" - UGH!

    Cheers!
  • lukeevans85
    lukeevans85 Posts: 108 Member
    a)not being american and
    b)not feeling like I have to give in to this "clinton cards" bullsh*t

    I don't answer the doorbell at halloween. I do not encourage kids to threaten old ladies and get fat! Sorry! I love kids, I just don't do hallmark holidays.

    Ummm...yeah...halloween isn't exactly a "hallmark holiday".
  • sweetiepaia
    sweetiepaia Posts: 68 Member
    i buy the chocolate and hand out a BUTT load to get rid of them fast so i dont eat all of them.....my house became very popular ....kids leaving my house would yell "hey come here hurry this house is not cheap"......so all my candy left fast and had no left overs hehe
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    Juice boxes. Seriously, I knew every house as a kid that handed out sodas or juice because they were my favorites. After walking around for hours and hours, you get thirsty.

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