I’ve been nibbling on these tiny, individually-wrapped Mars-branded candy bars for the past two weeks or so. Good thing I went out and bought more H’ween candy the other day: lollipops and Whoppers (malt balls) packets.
No matter what, the neighborhood trick-or-treaters will be covered (heck, if I have to buy still more, I will), so step right up, kids!
How about you?
We always buy “test” bags.
We have to buy Halloween candy approximately 30 seconds prior to the first kid knocking on the door. In fact, we should probably have him wait while we go to get it. Otherwise we end up sitting in front of Seinfeld re-runs, surrounded by Reese’s PB Cup wrappers, while children go begging.
We don’t buy any*, and even if we did, I wouldn’t be tempted I have many vices, but love of candy isn’t one of them.
*One of the advantages of being the only house at the end of a long, steep driveway. We bought candy the first few years we lived there and never received a Halloween visitor.
I don’t buy it until the day or so before, and I don’t hand out candy at home - for the last few years I’ve brought it all to the pediatrics inpatient unit at the hospital I work for, where they give out candy to the kids stuck in the hospital on Halloween. The kids in my suburb avoid our little street since there aren’t too many houses, and this way I get no guilt from eating leftover candy, and feel good about helping kids who need some cheering up.
I don’t buy it until the day because, if I bought it any earlier, I’d still have to buy some on Halloween.
I start buying as soon as the coupons start coming in the Sunday paper. So far I think we’ve got 8 or 9 bags stored, with a giant sign on top of them reading “Do Not Open until Halloween! This means you!”
I wonder if we’ll make it until then, I figure it’s a fifty-fifty chance.
I have gotten more clever and only buy the candy that day, or one day early at best.
However, I always buy enough to present candy to approximately 3,487 kids, although we usually get about 10 knocks on the door with perhaps 2 kids at a time.
Thus, we are “stuck” with an extra 80 pounds of candy, but it does seem to disappear over time.
I bought ours yesterday, but I’m still not clear on whether I bought it for the trick-or-treaters or for me.
Don’t buy it, our town does the whole town kids party at the school, we are very rural and don’t actually have any real residential district, just a tiny town center and lots of farmland. Actually there are more cows and chickens than people in town.
I don’t buy it for kids. We’re never home on Halloween, as we take advantage of the local churches and their parties, then we go on our trick-or-treating walk after. By the time we’re home it’s too late for all but the oldest kids. If I know them I might give them some of the candy from my daughter’s pumpkin…just the kind we don’t like because we’re selfish and greedy candy hoggers. 
I do buy candy corn as soon as they start putting it out. Ain’t no candy better than peanut/candy corn mix. I generally gain about five pounds in the month of October.
We don’t buy our candy this far in advance. Halloween is on a Sunday this year, so we’ll probably put off buying any candy until we’re on the way home from church that day. It’s too dangerous to leave lying around, especially with a four- and six year old.
I’m beyond pretense - I love small, portion-controlled chocolate, so I buy as many as I want to eat before Halloween. That usually means buying some specifically for trick-or-treaters, but what the heck.
We usually wait to buy until the day of or the day before, but this year we have a very large bag sitting in the house. It’s tough. My husband was supposed to take it to work and hide it there. He forgot it and now I have to try and forget that it’s in the house.
Ditto. Just bought mine today–first Halloween since we bought our Costco membership, and I was doing my big monthly grocery trip, and said, “Hey–there’s all the candy we’ll need for Halloween, in one 150 lb. bag!” OK, maybe the bag’s not that big. But I’m hopeful it’s big enough to cover the trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood even after three weeks of us sneaking pieces …
Cheating?
It’s MINE!
Anything left over will be handed out on the 31st.
Then the really good sales happen.
:chewing noises: mwut alloween gandy?
The only place around here where I can find my favorite seasonal candy (MaryJanes) is at Walgreens. Unfortunately, TheKid and I have been battling illnesses lately, and have had to go there for meds.
Two bags down in three weeks. Dammit. TheKid has polished off a bag of Kit Kats and a bag of baby Snickers.
I figure we’ll go buy a few monster bags on the 30th. We’ve had years with pounds of leftover candy, years where my sister dropped off extra bags as we had run out. There is no logic in our neighborhood. If we end up with leftovers, TheKid takes them to school where they are gone before first bell.
I volunteer to help. Especially if you have any extra gigantic Milky Ways lying around. Aren’t those such a hassle to have to deal with? 
I live in an apartment building so I don’t have to buy for trick-or-treaters. But candy is already all over my places of employment in preparation of our neighborhood trick-or-treat event and everyone is chowing away except for me. It’s just not something I eat anymore and I don’t find it difficult, although I used to eat candy non-stop.