So what have you or someone you know been given for Halloween trick-or-treating that is unusual?
My old uncle used to give out rock candy, he would always put a large piece of rock salt, for that one greedy kid. I know, its a family shame we all have to live with.
Blow Job.
Actually, maybe not all that unusual.
When I was a kid back in the 80s, during the height of the “razor blades in candy bars” scare, some woman gave us all handfuls of mixed nuts. Still in the shells. Because what every kid wants is a bunch of unshelled walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts and other assorted things. Made me wish she was a house giving out toothbrushes or pennies.
My kid got a jack (fake, but just as Jesusy) “Jack Chick” tract from a neighbor who was banging the married gal down the road.
They ended up hauling him off a while later.
My meighbor this year is threatening to give out MRE’s leftover from Hurricane Irma.
A ladle full of hot gravy into my trick-or-treat bag.
Did you make that up?
ive said this years ago but my cousins with whom I was going round and we stopped by a place we knew and they turned around while getting treats to talk to friends and didn’t see what they got we went to a few more houses
all of a sudden the bag moved …they started looking and found 3 of them had Kittens …
apparently they had 12 kittens and were down to the last 3 or 4 and I didn’t get one because I already had cats and mom knew where they came from , but I ended up with 2 of them anyways
Back when I was a kid in the early 50s, we were the first family in the neighborhood to have a TV. To most people it was still a novelty. So when kids came around, my parents invited them in to watch TV for a while, and were given hand-made popcorn balls.
One lady used to give 2x2 envelopes with old coins in them; Buffalo Nickles, Mercury Dimes and the like through half dollars. Some were seriously old Liberty Seated series and I still have quite a few.
Another family did standard money from 10 cents to multi-dollars in standard sealed envelopes. You reached in and picked blind.
A third family did small toys and jewelry; larger bubble-gum machine type stuff.
I’m 60 so back then stuff was pretty affordable and our second home was upper-middle-class mill workers back when that was upper-middle class. Where we moved to when we left Edwardsville there were a ton of kids all within say 10 years of my age and people went to some extremes to be unusual. From cartons of cider to candied apples you could fill a couple pillow cases easy.
Remember how there was always one really cool person who gave full-sized candy bars?
For the second consecutive year I have put several snack size candy bars in a paper brown lunch sack.
In one bag, instead of candy, I have put a red onion and $10. I staple the bags closed and put them on
a tray. When the children ring my doorbell I tell them that all but one bag contains candy. The other
bag has a bad surprise in it, so choose wisely.
Last year no one chose the onion bag. I am hoping for a different result this year.
Neighbor lady down the street used to give out home-made fudge in little Hallowe’en-decorated paper bags. It was gritty, but, hey, fudge is fudge.
Back in my day they all did (because that’s all there were.)
A few years ago, my sister gave out silly-band bracelets. You know, those rubber band things that are various shapes when lying flat. The kids seemed excited to get them.
My grandma and great aunt lived in our neighborhood. One year we stopped at the aunt’s house and she gave each of us (3 kids) a new board game! There was my poor mom trying to herd around a 6 and a 4-year-old, carrying a 2-year-old, candy bags and now 3 board games!! And because we lived in Minnesota it was probably cold that night so we all had bulky winter jackets and boots on! My mom still talks about that.
Back in the '60’s and '70s Halloween and trick or treating was a huge thing. There would be over 100 kids coming to the doors in our neighborhood. One Halloween my grandma ran out of candy so she was handing out individual candies from a Fanny Farmer box! I’m sure those went over great…not!
When we (her grandkids) trick or treated at my grandma’s house she’d give each of us one of those giant block Hershey bars…every year.
We had a lot of those but this was back in the 60s and options were limited. 
Up until about 6 years ago we were the really cool people around us. A friend had a summer resort/canoe service and every year we would buy the remainders in terms of candy and chips from his “gift shop” at “buy one get two free”. This allowed us to give the full sized stuff as well as some great novelty things like plastic noses full of bubble-gum labeled as “Boogers”. It took me back to the carefree days of my youth when one Halloween I got several “Hippy-Sippy” hypodermic-needle-shaped containers of candy with these pin-back buttons attached. Still have some of those buttons as well.
It wasn’t expense or even “imports” that caused us to stop and switch to more normal chips (1 ounce bags) – it was all the neighbor kids growing up and not as many surrounding kids canvasing our street due to fewer houses passing things out. Three years in a row we had a lot of leftovers neither of us had any desire to eat. If it ever picks up again we’ll go back to being cool but until then we’ll have to stick to average.
My neighbor used to give our home made popcorn balls. I think they kept doing it even after the razor-blade-in-candy scare. Everyone knew them.
A few years back, we gave away PC/Mac download codes for Plants Vs Zombies. I mean, I also gave them candy but the kids were pretty into the idea of a free video game.