Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 According to a survey from the National Confectioners Association, 60% of parents admit to pilfering from their kids’ trick-or-treating haul. Of those parents, 37% sneak the goodies after their kids have gone to bed, 32% snack while they’re in school, and 31% don’t bother with stealth at all and just take the candy right in front of their trick-or-treaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 We levied taxes on it. I was federal tax, Lisa was state tax. 2 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassnetguy50 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 2 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: We levied taxes on it. I was federal tax, Lisa was state tax. Exactly it is a teaching moment so their first paycheck won't be a slap in the face. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 The only Halloween candy of my daughter’s that I ever ate was candy that she gave me. She was sharing. When I was a kid and came home from trick or treating my Dad would take my bag and decide what he thought I should have. He would confiscate most of the good stuff. Not kidding. So, I would stash an empty bag a block from our house. On the way home my brother and I would take most of the good candy and stick it in that bag and then we would hide it to retrieve the next day. We would then go into the house and complain about how cheap people were getting. Believe it or not my Dad got angry about it. He was a real piece of work. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 14 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: The only Halloween candy of my daughter’s that I ever ate was candy that she gave me. She was sharing. When I was a kid and came home from trick or treating my Dad would take my bag and decide what he thought I should have. He would confiscate most of the good stuff. Not kidding. So, I would stash an empty bag a block from our house. On the way home my brother and I would take most of the good candy and stick it in that bag and then we would hide it to retrieve the next day. We would then go into the house and complain about how cheap people were getting. Believe it or not my Dad got angry about it. He was a real piece of work. You deserve free therapy for the rest of your life. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 When I was a kid, it was all inspected, anything questionable tossed in the trash, the rest went in the candy drawer. Same with my kids. We and they got a lot so there was plenty to go around. We were never great eaters of sweets, it was more the thrill of the hunt. Some was eventually discarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 19 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said: You deserve free therapy for the rest of your life. Thank you, but I have my therapy. It’s a motorcycle. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I got all the ones with coconut in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 My parents would act as the Halloween candy inspectors, you know...under the guise of preventing my brother and me from possible candy "tampering". Seems that my mother was always concerned about Reese's Cups and Milky Ways worried my stepfather. They never took all of the Cups or M Ways....just the 'tainted' ones. They always threw away the homemade bags of caramel popcorn, fudge, candied apples and the like. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 2 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said: They always threw away the homemade bags of caramel popcorn, fudge, candied apples and the like. I always loved Halloween. I always made cupcakes for the l'il goblins. That ^^^^ is what ruined it for me. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 21 minutes ago, MizPete said: I always loved Halloween. I always made cupcakes for the l'il goblins. That ^^^^ is what ruined it for me. Unfortunately even in the mid '50's when I was trick or Treating, there were crazies who ruined it for good folks. For a couple of years as an adult, I worked for a candy company. Bought a case of king sized bars at cost and gave each of the kids one of those, reactions were priceless! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I reckon I was nine or ten and I literally covered half of the small town I lived in on Halloween night. I came home twice during the evening to drop off a bag of stuff and head back out! The eventual haul was three pillow cases, each well over three quarters full! A lot of it was hard candies, wrapped in cellophane. The packaged candy was included in lunches for the rest of that school year. Candy bars and baked stuff was refrigerated or frozen and doled out for several months after. A lot of the hard candy was handed out the next Halloween because “it’s bad for your teeth” or it was stuff I didn’t like! When we moved to another town, more than a year later, there was still some of that haul in a bag in the cupboard!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stump Water Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Mom was a health food nut and the #1 subscriber to Prevention magazine. Any candy we didn't eat was confiscated and thrown away because, "You don't need all that sugar". One time an aunt took us to the store for treats. When mom found out I drank a whole 10 oz. bottle of Mtn. Dew she almost had a heart attack. Of course that was the era when eating butter was a death knell. It's a wonder all that margarine didn't kill us. 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 33 minutes ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I reckon I was nine or ten and I literally covered half of the small town I lived in on Halloween night. I came home twice during the evening to drop off a bag of stuff and head back out! The eventual haul was three pillow cases, each well over three quarters full! A lot of it was hard candies, wrapped in cellophane. The packaged candy was included in lunches for the rest of that school year. Candy bars and baked stuff was refrigerated or frozen and doled out for several months after. A lot of the hard candy was handed out the next Halloween because “it’s bad for your teeth” or it was stuff I didn’t like! When we moved to another town, more than a year later, there was still some of that haul in a bag in the cupboard!! My best was 2 barely carryable pillow cases!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I was too busy working to go trick or treatin' when we came to town , I found stuff to do when I got older , I was playin' music CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 Only had one kid, but he was somewhat unusual. Sassparilla loved Hallowe'en as much as me (a lot!) and enjoyed Trick or Treating. But he really didn't - and still doesn't - care much for candy. Just not into sweets. So, he might have one or two pieces Hallowe'en night, might keep a couple of pieces for later 'just because,' then tell me and his ma "it's okay if you want to take the rest to work and share it!" Um... I think it's fair to say that not all of the stuff we took made it to the office. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 My first Halloween. I am the four year old pirate. It had rained that day. We were using the paper grocery bags, and I was so small that I dragged mine along the sidewalk. Of course the wet concrete took the bottom of the sack. I get home with an empty sack. It's sad to see a pirate cry. Daddy got a pillowcase, and we went back out. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 No. We bought two huge bags of good stuff from Costco, only had 35 kids. We have 1/3 bag left in the bucket, and a full bag in the fridge. The grandson and family stopped by, so he got to help himself from our bucket. I indulged in some chocolate and wound up hitting 50 units and doing 2 miles before bedtime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 I was still high this morning, so I hit another 40 units, and another 2 miles. This cut another 150 points off my glucose level, and back to tolerable again. I am so insulin resistant now, that I have to do the miles for it to have any effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 Used to love Halloween, but it got ruined when we were still in California. I live on a narrow to lane road now, no street lights, no sidewalks, curbs nor gutters, most houses are back a ways from the streets, and not very appealing. Since moving here just over ten years ago we never had a single trick-or-treater......until last night. About 8:30 my door bell rang and I found two little girls and an older boy with Cinderella costumes, make-up (no masks). Before I could say anything the oldest girl handed me a box wrapped in Halloween paper and all three called out a hearty" Trick or Treat". I told them I thought they were doing it backwards and the youngest girl said "No we didn't. We know you live alone except for Trinket (My dog) and we asked Momma if she thought it would be okay to make you some cookies for Halloween and she helped us, so here you are and thank you for being nice to us. They have an old Lionel electric train set that I gave them some stuff for. I asked them in and Momma came in. I gave them each some candy that I had in the fridge and a root beer each and opened the package. I found snicker doodles, chocolate cookies, a horrible-looking lump of delicious divinity, a bottle of sarsaparilla, and a dozen doggie cookies made with peanut butter and dark Karo syrup rolled in crushed up Vita-Bone, dried and sliced Guess I can get back in the spirit a few more times down the road. 5 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted November 1 Share Posted November 1 That is a wonderful story Forty! Thanks for sharing, there's hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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