Dos and Don’ts of Halloween handouts:

Dos and Don’ts of Halloween handouts:

Do:
• Give good candy out
• Popular candy includes:
o Snickers bars
o Reese’s Peanut Butter cups
o M & M’s
o Twix
o Kit Kat
o Hershey Bars
• If you give out full sized candy bars (or bags of M &M’s) you will be a rock star. The only problem is making sure kids don’t double back on you.

Don’ts:

• No toothbrushes or toothpaste. Most realize that candy can decay teeth, but Halloween is not the night to preach. You may also have your house egged.
• No fresh fruit like apples, pomegranates, oranges, pears, etc. While fruit is much healthier than candy, it isn’t appropriate on this night. See above, of what may happen to your house if you give out fruit.
• No popcorn balls or baked sugar cookies. While you may have done a lot of work to make these, they are not appreciated as much as candy. Your house will probably be okay if you give these out.
• No hard candy, including suckers, candy canes, etc.
• No money unless it is a dollar or more.
• Do not leave candy (especially good candy) in a bowl or sack with the instructions to please take one piece. That sucker will be gone in the first half hour.
• Be careful of claiming someone is too old to be trick or treating and deny giving them candy. See the episode of Curb your Enthusiasm.



Please feel free to add to the list.

Do:
- If you forgot to buy treats by the big night, insert hand fully into trick-or-treat bag, thump side of bag with thumb or forefinger. They'll never know the difference once they get home and plow into their loot.
- Plan B if you forgot, or if you generally feel grumpy about the whole thing: discretely drop two or three ice cubes in the trick-or-treat bag. The downside to this is that you usually do not get to witness the full effect of this action. If bag is paper, bag soon falls apart and treats spill out onto the lawn, sidewalk, etc. If bag is plastic, treats will be wet when the little rug rat gets home.
- DO give out popcorn balls, but only if you are my mother (re-incarnation will be necessary) who spent all day making the best popcorn balls on the planet, each wrapped separately in saran wrap. These were wildly popular and appreciated. One year she'd had surgery and wasn't up to the task, so the kids got candy bars instead. Most frequently heard comment at the door, "Hey, where are the popcorn balls?"

Don't:
- Don't worry about what you give out. They don't care, they want anything and everything, as long as it is candy.
- Don't feel badly if they look disappointedly at the little boxes of raisins. At least they'll move on faster.
- Don't give out anything with razor blades hidden inside. It's been done.
- Ditto the suggestion to avoid leaving a bowl of treats outside if you have to be gone. We did this...silly us...and no telling how quickly my big plastic pumpkin full of Snicker Bars, Almond Joy's, etc. disappeared. Maybe because we didn't leave a note?

TRICK-OR-TREAT, and Happy Halloween!!!!! LOL.

We had trick-or-treat last night as our village will not allow it to be on a weekend night. They are trying to avoid mischief associated with the event. Gave out minis: snickers, butterfingers, reese's cup & pieces, hersheys bars and whoppers. Gave them two whoppers as they were just a little 3-piece sleeve. I think they were appreciative because I saw some of them twice, heading one way on our street and then on the way back. Probably about 150 kids altogether, seems down from last year, but we still had candy left.

Dont be one of those cheap asses that wont hand out candy to kids over a certain age. I've already had about 10 facebook friends complain about this. Really? That ten cent candy bar is going to set you back? At my house anyone that makes the effort to get dressed up gets candy...I dont care if they are 10 years old or 90. Its good politics too - The older kids are also the ones most likely to perform "tricks" so its best not to piss them off.

Trick-or-treating in my town is highly regulated and children are usually accompanied by parents or other adults. So I feel safe to avoid the whole thing by keeping my porch light off, as well as all my indoor lights. And I have learned that taking a walk around the neighborhood the next day can yield dropped candy from the night before.

When I was a kid I got a whole bag of goodies on Halloween night. My stepfather heard of a couple of reports dealing with razor blades (by the way that is a whole different subject) and threw all of my candy in the trash the next day. While I was upset, I could not be mad at him.

In the hope that we will actually have some visitors, my wife buys the giant Hersheys bars to give out (its a long walk up our driveway). We always have plenty of chocolate to eat for the next month!
Tonight its in the high 30's and the wind is blowing...maybe why we havn't had any visitors (its after 8:00)...almost time to turn off the lights. She only bought 25 of the bars this year!

And that was even before the term "urban legend" was used.

My Trick or Treat (True) Story:
A long time ago 2 brothers, some friends, and I went out trick or treating going door to door gathering candy and treats. This is when at many houses you received full size candy bars, not this fun size stuff and arrived at a home, knocked and waited for the person(s) to arrive so we could do our in unison "trick or treat" with a follow up of holding out our bags to gather the loot. I know, pretty standard.

The lady of the house had a huge bowl of jelly beans and grabbed a big handful going to the first bag and started to give them out and put 1 jelly bean in and went to the next bag giving out just 1 again and so on. Sheesh! We were stunned, but hey a handout is a handout so we just stood there in disbelief waiting for her to finish. However, when she got to my bag she mistakenly dropped 2 jelly beans into my bag and noticed what she had done and quickly said "oh, I gave you 2" while reaching down into my bag to retrieve the errant bean. Talk about a bean counter! We quietly left laughing our experience off. My brothers, friends and I still remember it fondly. However,.....

....to this day I still think that cheap bitch palmed a Snickers bar when she was inside my bag.

I suppose that was a typical Forkie shot. Thank you for showing your actual class, or would your lack of class be a better description. Of course a loner, unsocial nerd such as yourself would not be able to give any fun stories about Halloween. I'm sure for you that it was as painful of a holiday as all of the others.