We never get trick-or-treaters. Still, one must be prepared. Inevitably we wind up with Halloween candy that didn’t get handed out. So it better be something we like – but not like too much.
We usually have some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and some Mike & Ikes. I finished off the Mike & Ikes a month or so ago.
I vary between getting things I don’t like so I don’t eat them, which doesn’t work, or getting things I do like so I can enjoy the leftovers.
Our Knights of Columbus has their Tootsie Roll fundraiser for special ed on the first weekend in October. Any Tootsie Rolls not sold can be purchased $5 for a brick of them), so I buy a brick r two, and then snac size bars of Milky Way and Snickers.
Sometimes we get a lot of kids, sometimes not as many. I am much more relaxed now that I no longer teach.
We usually only get about 20 kids max. If we’re going to be around that day I buy dollar store crap but I give out handfulls of it. I find kids would rather have a handful of generic bubble gums than 1 fun size snicker.
And the last kid gets whatevers left. The entire big bowl dumped into his bag. I love watching their face when I do that! 
Whatever is half price on November 1. Unless it’s from Palmer.
That shit is just nasty.
The “Whizzo Quality Assortment.”
Hi, This thread is timely in celebration of our Halloween this month. I remembered those times that we did participate with the trick or treat event here in our place. I bought different kind of candies. It is actually an assorted one. Anyway, kids just love and happy for whatever they get. Its even fan and cool to see them smiling with what they received.
Haha wut?
Anyway, being a gated apartment dweller, no trick-or-treaters here. However, there’s arranged treatin’ among the businesses in the neighborhood where I work. Sad that city kids end up relying on a local business alliance to be able to trick-or-treat.
So I just steal candy from work. Whoever’s in charge of buying the work handout candy tends to get weird stuff, so last year I ate a bunch of Dum Dums and those fruit flavored taffy roll thingies. Kind of awful, but ate 'em anyway. Wondering what will end up in the bowl this year, there was some discussion about what candies were vegan. I walked away when that conversation started.
Beer. And then I drink it myself, seeing as I live in a 3rd-floor walk-up with a security door, so no trick-or-treaters here.
However, 'tis the season, ho ho ho and all that, if I did live somewhere where I got trick-or-treaters, it’d be mixed bags of fun-sized chocolate bars: Baby Ruth, Milky Way, Almond Joy, Hershey bars, that kind of thing. I used to live two blocks down from a fire station that gave out full-sized candy bars, and it’s kinda hard to steal their thunder. And the next day, it all goes to work and stays there, because good lord do I not need a couple pounds of candy sitting around the house.
Thank you for giving me my first smile of the morning:)
I too do not get trick-or-treaters. Yesterday I did my Halloween candy shopping. I was delighted to learn Cadbury makes the Screme Egg; green yolk in place of the usual yellow. I also purchased candy corn and Butterfingers. This is the only time of year I purchase those.
We don’t get ant trick or treaters (last home on a private gravel drive). Last year I made brownies.
I really miss the boxes of Halloween candy that we used to buy. Jelly beans, candy corn, red hots, lollipops, SweeTarts mini rolls all in individual cellophane wrapping. I thought it made Halloween special because this wasn’t our everyday boring candy.
<shrug> these days its bags of mini Snickers and Three Musketeers. Nothing special.
I get the “good stuff”. The kind of candy i would have wanted when I was a trick or treater.
Individual (but not mini) Reeses PBC, Kit kat, Crunch bars, Hersheys. No Smarties, no Circus peanuts, no non-chocolate based products at all.
And when no one shows up because all the 21st century parents (who watch you like a hawk from the street while you give out candy) decide that this year they’d rather go to the safe family alternative trunk or treat (in daylight, no less!), or that Halloween is just too satanic for their prescioussses, or it falls on a Sunday (It’s a Mesa thing, like no fireworks on the 4th if it’s a Sunday) then I get the leftovers!
When it’s up to me, I get mini-sized assorted chocolate bars: Usually the assorted Mars brands, plus possibly Kit Kats. I make up for them being small by giving out handfuls. I get the small ones because of the possibility for leftovers: I find that I usually crave something sweet after lunch, but a single mini-size is usually enough to satisfy that craving.
I haven’t been home the last few Halloweens so I didn’t buy candy. Last year I was home so bought a bag o’ small Kit Kats and a bag o’ small caramel Milky Ways. Had a handful of kids, so I ate the rest of the candy in a stupor (my brother died that afternoon). This year I’m having surgery on the 28th so figure I better buy candy to hand out, if I can get up from the couch. I will once again buy stuff I like so I can eat it.
100 Grand bars, if I can find them in bags - I rarely get trick-or-treaters, so it has to be something that I will eat. (And, like my father before me, I always go paranoid, think, “This is the year kids will show up”, and buy far too many bags.)
I also have a surprise for the parents/older kids that accompany them - toothbrushes that I have saved up from dental checkups.
I’m with justaskingquestions on this, I buy what I would have loved to get as a kid. And I only like good chocolate. I always make sure to buy one bag of the chocolates the hubby favours, of course.
We’re lucky to get 20 callers, but indeed, one must be prepared! 
Bleh. I’d rather have popcorn balls with my beer.
Hmm…
