Author Topic: What to give out for Halloween (Read 11760 times)

MillCreek · « **on:** October 15, 2012, 09:26:30 AM »

I usually get around 75 kids here every Halloween. I have long been a traditionalist and given out the snack-size chocolate candy bars. Based on polling of my kids and the neighbor children when they were little, I give out the Kit Kat bars and the urchins who come to the door seem to like them. So my wife, the elementary school teacher, and I were in Target yesterday. She pointed out that Frito-Lay (or somebody like that) is now putting out an assortment pack of snackbag-sized chips (Fritos, Doritos, Sun Chips, etc.) to be given out as Halloween treats. She told me that these are really popular with the kids.

So what says APS? Continue with Kit Kats or try the chips route? Cost is not an object. I am particularly interested to hear from those who still have young kids at home or who give out Halloween treats. Rants on it being a Statist occult Democratic holiday not supported by any right-thinking Rugged Individualist would be good too: 'Back in my day, the kids had to pick a row of cotton before I gave them one candy corn, I'll tell you what!'

Tallpine · « **Reply #1 on:** October 15, 2012, 09:29:50 AM »

Do the healthy thing and give out raw vegetable snack treats

Fitz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 15, 2012, 09:36:34 AM »

Chips on halloween? And the kids like this?

What is wrong with our youth.

Screw the chips, screw the healthy crap. Chocolate, and lots of it. You don't wanna be the guy who gives out BS on halloween.

I received a paperbag full of rocks once. What a jerk

mtnbkr · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2012, 09:53:11 AM »

"Fun-size" chocolates. Get plain chocolate bars, Snickers, and a few others so the kids with braces will have options (my oldest has braces, so this is now a visible issue to me).

Chris

HankB · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2012, 10:01:25 AM »

Quote from: Tallpine on October 15, 2012, 09:29:50 AM

Do the healthy thing and give out raw vegetable snack treats

And lay in a supply of detergent to clean the eggs off your car and house windows the next morning.

Quote from: Fitz on October 15, 2012, 09:36:34 AM

I received a paperbag full of rocks once. What a jerk

Is your real name Charlie Brown?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tIhwITwhSg

I trust you returned the rocks . . . creatively?

MrsSmith · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2012, 10:05:17 AM »

Chocolate. And lots of it.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2012, 10:48:19 AM »

Little airline bottles of booze since parents like to raid the kids' haul too. :D

Chris

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2012, 10:53:51 AM »

Nothing. Why support the next generation of the 47% with a bunch more handouts?

grislyatoms · « **Reply #8 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:11:03 AM »

Kinda flies in the face of tradition, but sounds good to me.

Remember those horrid strips of paper that had the red candy dots in rows? Or the tooth busting Mary Janes?

One of our neighbors gave out fresh figs from her tree. Those were really good. Another neighbor, a physician, gave out comic books.

Anyway.

vaskidmark · « **Reply #9 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:25:13 AM »

I will continue my Halloween tradition.

Just after dark screw a bulb in the socket by the back door (it's at the end of the driveway). Set up my small table and lawn chair. Put the big stainless steel bowl on the table, and fill it with the same Hershey's chocolate bar I have been using for the last (mumble) years.

Sit in my lawn chair, under the light, next to the table with the big stainless steel bowl full of chocolate, cleaning my shotgun.

A few years ago I had a cop pull up the driveway with his takedown light on. I offered him a (the?) candy bar. He said he was on duty.

I'm on a corner lot, at the end of a street with a large apartment complex taking up the last two thirds of the other side of the street. Folks are walking from the apartments to the three convenience stores two blocks away at all times of the day and night. Folks, for some reason, do not cut across my lawn. They walk all the way around the corner - often sticking close to the opposite curb. I do not get a lot of trash thrown on my lawn or in the ditch around my place - but it does seem to show up across the street and down the block.

I love Halloween. You get to see all the folks in the neighborhood.

stay safe.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #10 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:49:25 AM »

Ice cream. You can go traditional with little wrapped ice cream sandwiches, but I like to just put a big scoop of vanilla in their bag or plastic pumpkin.

Another thing that goes over really well is goto the sheriff's office and get a gross of D.A.R.E. pencils. Maybe mix it up a little with some free toothbrushes from the dentist, and some Chick tracts. Kids love that stuff.

French G. · « **Reply #11 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:54:13 AM »

Can we get chocolates that look like loaded en bloc clips?

TechMan · « **Reply #12 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:59:43 AM »

Too much effort, except for some close friends - caramel covered onions instead of apples.

Actually just the mixed bag of little candies.

41magsnub · « **Reply #13 on:** October 15, 2012, 12:01:36 PM »

Erotic novelty chocolates from your local porn shop.

HankB · « **Reply #14 on:** October 15, 2012, 12:12:43 PM »

City kids probably can't tell the difference between chocolate covered raisins and deer poop . . .

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #15 on:** October 15, 2012, 02:31:12 PM »

I can't believe I'm the first to suggest this, but what about bacon?

Or firecrackers.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #16 on:** October 15, 2012, 02:37:00 PM »

Matchbooks.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #17 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:02:14 PM »

Chocolete.

Chips would have been a downer. So were apples, suger free gum and nasty toffee candy that was cheap and half melted.

I also vote for dark chocolete. Everyone does milk chocolete and that kinda sucks when you like dark.

Stetson · « **Reply #18 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:29:01 PM »

My wife works at Edible Arrangements, guess what the suggestion around here was..... I nixed that right quick, choc covered strawberries melt too fast.

3 big bags of assorted fun sized candy bars. 2 to give out, one for us. Once the candy is gone, the lights go out and we go to bed.

Daughter will be going to a "trick or trunk" thing at a local church. Folks decorate the trunks of their vehicles and pass out candy. Cops, firefighters and EMTs all over the place and with the recent Jessica Ridgeway thing up here it's the safest option. I could open carry but I'd rather she just go to one place and get it all done.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #19 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:39:13 PM »

Quote from: mtnbkr on October 15, 2012, 10:48:19 AM

Little airline bottles of booze since parents like to raid the kids' haul too. :D

Chris

Back in the day in base housing, before we had kids, me and some of the guys were sitting around drinking on halloween handing out candy to the kids and fresh cold beers to the adults. We saw a few repeat visitors.

Last year we had about 12 adults and 14-16 kids mobbing around the neighborhood as a group. It was a *expletive deleted*it load of fun.

cassandra and sara's daddy · « **Reply #20 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:50:22 PM »

the marine up the street does the candy and beer thing

lee n. field · « **Reply #21 on:** October 15, 2012, 04:23:59 PM »

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Continue with Kit Kats or try the chips route?

Eat healthy -- I vote Kit Kats.

Don't forget to include a tract. (Points off it it's the Chick parody Cthulhu tract.) (Intesting. Firefox spellcheck thinks "Cthulhu" is correct.)

Strings · « **Reply #22 on:** October 15, 2012, 05:29:50 PM »

The last time I actually handed out candy, it was snack-sized bars. And I had a 2 1/2 foot red-tailed boa around my neck. Kids thought it rocked, parents... not so much

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #23 on:** October 15, 2012, 06:02:11 PM »

Ammo.

charby · « **Reply #24 on:** October 15, 2012, 06:44:29 PM »

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Author Topic: What to give out for Halloween (Read 11760 times)