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Favorite Halloween Candy: When you were a kid

Favorite Halloween Candy

  • Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups

    Votes: 3 25.0%

  • Skittles

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • M & M’s

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Starburst

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Snickers

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Mars

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Kit Kat

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Sour Patch Kids

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Coffee Crisp

    Votes: 2 16.7%

  • Hershey’s Kisses

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
LBV said:
I used to have mid-70's as I'd keep count to know how much to buy next year
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Where I lived in Mississauga, older part of town (old Cooksville) mostly pensioners, not many kids, BUT you never knew how many kids would come around.
One year three kids show up, as a group. That's it. I had bought $100 worth of candy.
The next year, it was a steady stream for a couple of hours. I had bought $35 worth of candy.
Next year, one kid, the neighbour's grandson, that the neighbour was baby sitting. I gave him a wrench (inside joke, the neighbour's grandson had Downs Syndrome and he seemed to be REALLY interested in motorcycles. If I was working on a bike outside, he'd be there. I tried to involve him whenever I could. He was a cool kid).
Now I just turn off the lights and act like the grouchy old man that I am.
 
LBV said:
After having about 8 kids LY and 11 TY, I'm not bothering for next year.

Someone I worked with years ago had a home invasion happen and my elderly parents had someone visually scoping out the inside of the house while they were doling out so they gave it up after that.

I honestly can see this tradition dying out in years to come.
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Oddly, I thought about that this year.

Open door and masked people burst in, do a smash and grab, out in a minute and police looking for Batman.
 
GreyGhost said:
We put out bowls as we are normally with the kids. A few hundred things were taken but was that one greedy kid or 100 kids?
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Mark Rober (the Porch Pirate Glitter Bomb Guy) to the rescue.

 
Rockets for me, but I like all candy, including the candy apples we used to get.

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I grew up on Mississauaga Rd near Holy Name of Mary. People there were stupid rich, but we weren't. Some houses would give out the candy apples. Some houses were giving out the fullsize boxes of smarties or big bags of m&m's - it was nuts! We had neighbours give out 50pack bags of chicklets to every kid, another house had a massive bowl full of quarters and would give a handful to each kid that came by. Then the last couple years I went out, they moved to loonies. I heard from old neighbours that when toonies came out they started giving those out by the handful to each kid.

We also used to use pillow cases and would always fill up 3x each year. Growing up middle class in an upper middle class neighbourood was amazing and having a paper route or even snowblowing people's driveways as a kid made serious spending money.
 
I would like to rescind my original vote.
This was my house this year.

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Scuba Steve said:
It is more often than not the person who found the nail. Done to get some spotlight time I would assume.

Sent from the future
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I agree. If done with malicious intent, a brad or pin gun could do an entire box in a few minutes. Since two single bars were found in the GTA, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the people that turned them in.
 
Happy to report I have yet to find any nails / foreign objects in the kids' candy.

I'll keep checking just in case though...for their safety.
 
GreyGhost said:
I agree. If done with malicious intent, a brad or pin gun could do an entire box in a few minutes. Since two single bars were found in the GTA, I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the people that turned them in.
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People don’t give out apples anymore because of razor scare BS. We had apple pies for weeks from the take.
 
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