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CTyankee

(63,912 posts) Sat Oct 31, 2015, 08:11 PM Oct 2015

all right, who ate the good chocolate before the trick or treaters came? CONFESS!

I did. I ate 3 little Tootsie Rolls which the devil made me eat.

What did YOU eat and take away from those poor little kids?

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all right, who ate the good chocolate before the trick or treaters came? CONFESS! (Original Post) CTyankee Oct 2015 OP

I've been eating the Almond Joys. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2015 #1

I got down to the last bag of them and said to my husband "do you want me to save them CTyankee Oct 2015 #2

Same here LiberalEsto Nov 2015 #7

buy the candy you enjoy olddots Oct 2015 #3

Mix of good stuff and decent stuff. haele Oct 2015 #4

I WILL KICK CHOCO-STEALING CTYANKEE ASS Skittles Nov 2015 #5

I ate 4 Almond-Joy Big bars before the Mob came. The Kiddies got 3 boxes of milky ways.. BlueJazz Nov 2015 #6

The Reese's Peanut Butter cups, of course... First Speaker Nov 2015 #8

Technically, nothing. Chan790 Nov 2015 #9

I don't hand out chocolate or anything else hobbit709 Nov 2015 #10

We presorted the good stuff out for later consumption. In_The_Wind Nov 2015 #11

we had fewer teens and more of the very little ones with their parents... CTyankee Nov 2015 #12

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,761 posts)

1. I've been eating the Almond Joys.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 08:16 PM

Oct 2015

I've always hated Tootsie Rolls and you are welcome to them.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

2. I got down to the last bag of them and said to my husband "do you want me to save them

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 08:19 PM

Oct 2015

or turn away the little kids?" He backed down fast...he had asked me to give them the other stuff and save some of chocolate for him...I thought that was a bit crazy.

Really.

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

7. Same here

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 08:31 PM

Nov 2015

olddots

(10,237 posts)

3. buy the candy you enjoy

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 08:29 PM

Oct 2015

put up no decorations , turn off all lighting in and out of house , lock and don't answer the door .

Eat all the candy yourself and enjoy a very happy Halloween .

haele

(12,661 posts)

4. Mix of good stuff and decent stuff.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sat Oct 31, 2015, 10:34 PM

Oct 2015

The adults get the multi- flavored tootsie rolls and dum-dum suckers, and if they're not too obnoxious (or being good escorts to the little ones) their choice of Hello Kitty gummies, peanut butter M&Ms, Butterfingers, Skittles, or Baby Ruth's.
Kids under 12 get a handful from the Cauldron of Candy (after a quick stir to mix up the goodies).
I get the "half-size" candies, basically the recommend single serving size - none of that bite-size garbage.
Out of the fourteen bags\cartons I got for tonight, I'm down to 1/4 left. With another half-hour of "official" trick or treating left.

I think I've seen around 12 Elsas, 20 or so zombies or serial killers (who can tell the difference?) , and any number of toddlers and babies dressed as stuffed animals. Current number is around 60 trick or treater's, and the weather is great.

Haele.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

5. I WILL KICK CHOCO-STEALING CTYANKEE ASS

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 12:51 AM

Nov 2015

YES INDEED

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

6. I ate 4 Almond-Joy Big bars before the Mob came. The Kiddies got 3 boxes of milky ways..

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 02:03 AM

Nov 2015

...and about 18 Almond joys.
The people know I hand out full size stuff so I'm popular.

on Edit: I'm not popular..the candy is popular

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)

8. The Reese's Peanut Butter cups, of course...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2015, 08:42 PM

Nov 2015

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

9. Technically, nothing.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:23 AM

Nov 2015

I had no kids. I never have kids...but the year I don't buy candy, I'll get swamped.

Soooo...I bought Snickers and ate the Snickers while watching TV. When I ran out of candy, I shut off the porch light. It was 8:30pm--late enough.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

10. I don't hand out chocolate or anything else

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 08:29 AM

Nov 2015

And GOOD chocolate doesn't come in those trick or treat bags.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

11. We presorted the good stuff out for later consumption.

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 10:21 AM

Nov 2015

The good stuff is the last thing we give out. This year we had half of the candy leftover. About 8:30 a local police car drove through our community of senior citizens. Maybe they decided to enforce a new curfew. Last year the Trick or Treat fun went on till after 9:30.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)

12. we had fewer teens and more of the very little ones with their parents...

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #11)

Tue Nov 3, 2015, 10:25 AM

Nov 2015

I like that. It means our neighborhood is experiencing some new growth.

Not that I don't like teens but some of them are BIG...at some point don't the kids have parties in their homes and at school? My grandkids do...two are teens and wouldn't be caught dead trick or treating...not cool...

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