Trick or treat! What's in your candy bowl?

Lions and tigers and bears.. OH MY! Yes, Kids..it's that time again. Tomorrow is Halloween night, and all your friends and family members will be magically tranformed into scary creatures and things that go bump in the night. Then, sometime around sundown tomorrow night, the streets will be filled with miniature witches and ghosts and Hannah Montanas and Harry Potters..or whatever the hot costume is this year. Unless your neighborhood is like mine and the houses are too far apart to walk to trick or treating.. I'm not sure what they do around here for Halloween actually.. hmmmm. Do kids still even trick or treat anymore in most places? Sad...we used to walk from street to street and house to house.. dressed in real costumes, not a boxed one with a plastic mask.. freezing our butts off most of the time, cuz it tends to be chilly in Massachusetts in October.. and we'd come home with bags full of goodies and be on a sugar high for a week! Ahhhh ...the good ol' days!! We always knew which house to go to .. which ones gave out the good stuff, and which ones gave out popcorn balls, apples - which we weren't allowed to eat of course, or those little Dum Dum pops. The real good ones.. the ones that gave out full size chocolate bars or some other treasure..we'd sometimes hit twice! I love candy bars..or anything chocolate, really.. so my favorites were always the ones that gave out Snickers, 3 Muskteers, Milky Ways, KitKats, or M&Ms.. So, what are you giving out this year? Did you even buy any candy?

Comments: 11

Nan G. Oct 30, 2007, 11:15am EDT

Haven't bought any yet but I will. I love to see the children and I always try to thank the parents who go with them for being responsible.

I will probably buy Snickers because I like them.

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Diana B. Oct 30, 2007, 11:16am EDT

Yes, we have Snickers and Kit Kats sitting in a bowl, but doubt we will get a lot of trick or treaters since we live at the end of a dark dead end street LOL!

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Leslie "Missy" T. Oct 30, 2007, 11:22am EDT

I haven't bought any candy yet, but I plan on getting some tomorrow. I guess it depends on what is left by the time I get to the store as to which kind I'll get. Usually the kids don't come around my neighborhood. I live on a busy street. I'll get alittle just in case. This year our kids aren't going trick or treating. We're gonna build a fire and make smores and watch scary movies when it get dark. A break in tradition, but I think they'll like not having to rush around getting ready.

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Stacie N. Oct 30, 2007, 12:42pm EDT

So much chocolate! I hope my husband doesn't eat it all before the kids come.

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karla l. Oct 31, 2007, 3:31am EDT

Nothing this year. This will be the first year in as long as I can remember that my mom won't be giving out candy to trick or treaters. Though our neighborhood doesn't have many kids anymore so I doubt she would have gotten many calls anyway. Happy Halloween!!

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Heather W. Oct 31, 2007, 9:57am EDT

Organic lollipops and organic raisin boxes. I thought about just giving out the raisins, but kids love candy. I decided to at least give organic, because I think it is a good opportunity to make them aware of the options and to educate parents about thinking of what their kids are eating.

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