I ran out of Halloween candy the other day and remembered to get some today. It was easy to remember because the Halloween displays have been up since before Labor Day.

I grabbed a bag of Musketeers and threw them in my cart. There the bag sat on the counter until just now and I thought one would be good.

I swear they made them smaller.

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The anticipation is almost unbearable...starting in late July I go to Wal-Mart every night searching for candy corn. Feeling depressed and unloved every night they have not put it out yet.

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We have to wait until the last minute to buy our Halloween candy or there won't be any left for the trick-or-treaters. The boss-lady doesn't have much will power when it comes to those little chocolates.

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

You must have bought "bite size" instead of "fun size." Bite size is smaller than fun size-though not by much.

I don't buy candy,haven't had any kids come by in 2 yrs!

I'm making broccoli Jello to pass out this year.

Whoo "needs" any kids to come by? to buy candy.

You and my sister would get along just fine. She hands out toothbrushes.

Nope, Fun size.

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A bag or, I guess two now will last me most of the year.

I'd still have some left if that mover kid didn't make pig of himself.

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That really is sad news.

Not with me. I buy a bag-3 pieces is usually the recommended seving. If it has enough for say-10 servings? it MIGHT last me about a week. I buy the largest bag possible so's I dont run out as quickly.

My favorite is the guy who takes the gold foil chocolate wrappers and puts them around Brussels Sprouts.

Saw those bags of candy corn at the store the other day. Is it wrong to lust for candy?

Saw some Peeps at Publix yesterday.

I think they were candycorn flavored.

It scared me.

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Even you wouldn't eat that.

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Don

Buy M&M's. One bag takes care of a lot of trick or treaters, unless of course you get crazy and start giving out more than one at a time.

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

I have read that in England you can buy deep fried Mars bars.

(Just sayin'.)

Halloween brings back many pleasant memories from my inner ten year old! Now pushing 63 I still get a kick out of the kids enjoying themselves. For one reason or other we do not get near the kids anymore so my sweet tooth gets rewarded especially since I always buy the candy I like.

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There was an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" where the old man was handing out candy while Ray and his wife and kids were out trick or treating. He ran out of candy and found a bag of foil wrapped condoms and thought they were candy, so he handed those out. Complaints ensued!

Snubbyfan put up a video of Halloween last year in Paw Paw West Virginia.

It really made me smile. Nothing like small town America.

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I wear no costume to answer the door. Still scare the kids.

Just pretend this is witty.

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Just pretend this is witty.

Since when is a circus peanut not a costume?

I used to hide in the shrubs beside the car in the drive way and jump out as the kids walked buy wearing a black hood.

Had to stop as one little girl took off screaming.
Still to this day don't know if she ever stopped or they found her.

All the other kids and parents got a kick out of it and their game was to figure out where I would be hiding (did this routine for years so it and I were well known in the neighborhood.

PS.....we did find the little girl...I gave her a whole basket of candy.......

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One year I did this for an adult party while dressed like a werewolf. One guy picked up his little bitty girlfriend & stuck her between him and me while he turned & hauled butt. She was furious that he'd sacrifice her, didn't do much for his reputation at work either....

My kids and the kids in my neighborhood have no idea why anyone would actually walk around looking for candy when there is so much sitting at Wall Mart. We have almost no Trick or Treaters now and sometimes just do not bother. Churches in the area have "safe" Halloween parties on their lawns and give out handfuls after handful of candy to everyone there. Most people who do anything go there. Halloween as I knew as a kid is dead here.

Kids don't come around here for Halloween any more. My yard is pretty scary. Not Halloween scary, genuinely scary.

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A few years ago, I was at the grocery store a few nights before Halloween and had picked up the traditional bags of treats/bribes and was waiting in the checkout line. The people in front of me were a couple probably close to my age (early 60's) and the husband was fairly well toasted. He was somewhat loudly complaining to his wife/girlfriend how Halloween had declined in quality since he had been a kid, the costumes, the tricks, the expectations. He said, "What are we giving the little *******s this year?" and grabbed a couple of the bags of candy from their cart and held them up to examine them. They were indeed the miniature candy bars being discussed in this thread. Out loud, he reads, "Fun size. FUN SIZE!?!?" He drops one bag back into the cart and tears open the other, and then extracts a tiny "fun size" Almond Joy. "What the hell is so FUN about a candy bar shrunk down to barely feed one tiny diabetic rat? HOW FUN IS THAT!?!? When WE were kids, if some cheapskate gave us one of these FUN SIZE pieces of ****, he'd be scrubbing eggs off his car and house for a week!"

As drunks often are, he didn't realize other people could hear what he was saying, and he was only directing his minor rant to his female companion, but the cute teenage checker girl, myself and several others within earshot were cracking up discreetly.

The woman said, curtly, "Shut up, Harold, and eat the dammm candy bar."

He complained, "I can't eat this! It's an Almond Joy! It has NUTS! Almond Joy has NUTS!"

She was visibly irritated at this point, and I expected her to just yell at him to shut up or something. But to my surprise, with just a hint of malice in her voice, she said, "Harold! Almond Joy has nuts! Mounds don't! Eat a Mounds, you drunken idiot, shut up, let me pay for the groceries and we're late for the party."

She paid, the checker rang them up and bagged them and the couple pushed the cart towards the big doors.. The rest of us were smiling and as the couple got out of earshot, the cute checker girl picked up a bag of mine, held it up high and sang, just like the jingle, "BECAUSE..."

Me and the 40-ish couple behind me, strangers to each other all, sang out, "SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT, SOMETIMES YOU DON'T!!"

Some common threads of modern American culture are strong, indeed.

Maybe with some cheese sauce?

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I live out a ways in the boonies, we have a 1/4 mile long hilly curvy driveway. The nearest kid lives at least 4 miles from my house. Lived her 14 years never had a trick or treater yet, doubt this year will be different! We buy no candy as then I would end up eating it and I'm fluffy enough now!


Now when I lived in the large suburban area for over 25 years we had kids by the dozens. One year we had over a 100, yes we kept track. It got to the point that the town declared 9 PM was a cut off point as it was not usual to have older kids showing up at 11 or later. (and there were other problems at those hours also)

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"Not much fun anymore".............

I must protest....Halloween is a blast...Been in any stores lately....Halloween decorating has grown to a point as large or larger than Christmas and Halloween costumes are selling like a Milt Sparks leather rig at $19.95..........

Around these parts I see some houses with over $1000.00 of Halloween do-dads all over the house and yard..One guy puts up about 8 of those fan blown air thingys and they are large..tombstones all in the yard..orange lights everywere..scary holloween sounds through a speaker in the bushes outside....straw bales and pumpkins all over, skeletons, and ghost hanging from trees.....the full 9 yards.....

So...go get you and Elvira Costume complete with long black wig, and answer the doorbell with a smile and have some fun.....

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The Fun is the size of the shrinking candy.

I don't need a wig, Some implants maybe.

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The way our dollar has been loosing value, they have to make it smaller, so we can afford to buy it!!

Even I would try one of those.

No, canned hormel tamales.

No matter how big the bag of M&Ms is, the servings per bag is one.

Now that would be an expensive holiday - I'm sure cheaper alternatives exist.

If you turn into one of the Walking Dead? here ya go-you get the best of both world: Candy Corn & Meat.

Fun size in my opinion would be about 8 to 12 inches long and about as big around of the end of a base ball bat.

Oh Man, I can't make a claim like that.

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I saw today that a country wide distributor is having salmonella recalls on their chocolates.

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We only have like 20 kids come by most years, but it's still fun to see them. Stupid thing is my small town has it's trick-or-treat on the sat closest to Halloween. Just seems stupid that we seldom have it on the 31st.

I've already been through one bag of candy corn... need more.

See post 38 for a refill.

The little former Phelps-Dodge smelter town of Clarkdale Arizona does it right. The town starts accepting donations of candy in late summer for those residents who can't afford to buy their own. Everyone goes hogwild decorating their houses. Lots of grownups go to extreme lengths with elaborate costumes. The fire dept barricades the town center streets against car traffic and the police are out in force making sure that the whole affair is little-kid centric. Rowdy adolescents are encouraged to go home and help hand out candy or otherwise make themselves scarce. As we are a very rural area, carloads of kids are brought in from all around. It's a grand time.

Maybe not a Mars bar, but you can get a deep fried Snickers bar at almost any county fair or carnival.

On the fried Mars bars in England, how many can one obtain for a British Pound?

My wife loves Halloween. She decorates, gets her wicked witch of the East garb on and waits for the door to rattle. This is fine, the last 2 years we lived in the STL area she sat across the street with our neighbors sipping beer. I had plans for the evening, big ones. Then I'm handed door duties. I was busy talking to you guys. Jeesh.

Hi little tyke, what a re you supposed to say? Twik ur tweet. Close enough have a snickers.

Knock, knock, hold on, Hi little goblin, I'm not a goblin I'm a ballerina, scuse me, have a Snickers.

Knock, knock. Hello little fun size treater in the baby buggy, you about 4 months old, right? You don't get any candy till you say, trick or treat. Excuse me sir, he can't talk yet. Can't talk, no teeth no candy. We are bringing him for the experience. Are you his parents, yes, my, my what big teeth you have grandma, all the better to eat Jr's candy. Hold on I have something for you, hey this is a pampers, yep, one of our grandkids, you can put it on Jr or chew on it.

Next.

And yes I'm hard on parents who bring newborns. I don't care if the parents are 12 or 13, they need to get a job if they want candy.

Halloween was fun when I was a kid, I try to make it fun for kids.

I had fun escorting my kids who were old enough to say trick or treat.

My best Halloween was when I was 11. Normally it's pretty cold the 31st. That year it was unseasonably warm. I was in a T-Shirt. I took my Little Brother with me and circled the neighborhood. That was the era of paper grocery bags. We had pretty much a half a bag. I went home and it was still early. took a bag and went over a neighbor hood and filled it over half. I took another bag and went to a neighbor hood on the other side of town. I was not paying attention to time, no watch. I knocked on a door and a lady answered in her robe and slippers. I said trick or treat. She said do you know what time it is? I said no, not expecting a test. She said after 10 PM. Go home.

I had at least 3/4 a big grocery bag full. I walked home chewing on a brown cow thinking I was rich. Mom made me share all the extras with my Brother and little Sister.

Dad bought a farm and that was my last year trick or treating. Bulls, skunks and Copperheads all were into the trick part for folks knocking on borrough doors yelling trick or treat.

Candy corn. Second only to Cheetos when it come to taste and adictiveness.

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Cheetos cause zoo breath.