Halloween is coming!!! Need honest opinions please.

[LeftyFingerPop]

Candy is so expensive these days.

So this year, I am going to buy some Dixie cups, and place a small dollop of cottage cheese in each one, and then cover them with some colorful cellophane.

I think the kids will love it!!!

What do you think?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Add a bunch of high fructose corn syrup and it'll be a real treat! n/t

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Good idea!!!! I may even pass out cigarettes too!!! n/t

[Release The Hounds]

3. You forgot to add the bran and prunes.

[flvegan]

4. Just hand each trick or treater a rock.

Every kid should have The Charlie Brown Experience.

[Jamastiene]

5. Don't forget to include homework and a list of chores too.

That oughta do it. :P

[unsavedtrash]

28. lol

you tickled me. :hi:

[Jamastiene]

31. ...

:evilgrin: :hi:

[LiberalEsto]

6. Oatmeal's cheaper than cottage cheese

and you can dye it purple or orange with food coloring. Festive!

[Freedom Knight]

39. Yet it hardens like cement in an exhaust pipe.

Ah, the memories!

[LiberalEsto]

47. It sticks to your ribs! nt

[TZ]

7. Screw that...

Just hand each kid A penny--they will LOOVE that...:rofl:

[mcctatas]

8. and then say (in your best McCain voice)...

"Now get off my lawn"...

[madinmaryland]

9. Just shut the lights off and don't answer the door.

Fuck 'em.

[TZ]

10. Nice Post Jerry Jones!

Glad I don't live in your neighborhood...:P

[madinmaryland]

16. I'm glad i don't live in your neighborhood, Snyder!

A couple wins and you guys are excited,

:rofl:

[bigwillq]

11. I won't be coming to your house.

:P

I don't think it's a good idea. But that's just me.

I wouldn't do anything if you really can't afford it. Just don't turn on the light or answer the door.

[LeftyFingerPop]

12. Do you think it would be better if I mixed a little fruit into it?...

I can probably get a few cans of fruit cocktail or something and mix it in with the cottage cheese. I think kids might like that...what do you think? :hi:

[bigwillq]

14. That would be a little better.

But I still want candy! ;) :) :hi:

[rurallib]

13. Why not give them a share of Lehman Brothers stock?

I am sure you can print some off on your printer.

[npk]

15. I give lectures on Halloween

To all the kids on how inconsiderate it is to not say thank you when some nice stranger gives you something for free. Then I yell at them to get off my lawn.

:P

[Arugula Latte]

17. Halloween is the Devil's holiday and Jesus cries when you celebrate it!

Give out Bible tracts!



:rofl:

[Freedom Knight]

36. You forgot to warn people to keep a bucket of water by the door.

Hand out bible track and one may find a flaming bag of poop at the door.

[stuntcat]

48. ..

:headbang:

[elshiva]

18. Give them some chicken feet.

:)

[Ewellian]

19. Make sure you put

your car in the garage.

[Drunken Irishman]

20. Honestly? I'd be pissed if I were a kid.

Cottage cheese, really?

They won't eat it and I doubt the parents allow them to eat it. Mine always made me throw out the homemade treats.

[WinkyDink]

37. He's SERIES!!!111

[samuraiguppy]

21. my parents used to make me

throw out anything that wasn't professionally wrapped (with no tears). too easy to tamper with the treats. It is a shame to feel that way--but I know some bad things have happened in the past.

[Jamastiene]

23. My parents only let me go to a select few houses.

They went with me and made sure we only visited people the family knew and trusted. I got lots of apples and Granola Bars and had no fun, whatsoever. My mother made my Halloween costumes. One year, she dressed me in rags and an old nightgown she wore when she was in the orphanage. On top of that, she put these huge red splotches on my cheeks, these stupid ginormous fake hoop earrings on my ears and the ugliest red sweater I had ever seen in my life. I hated it. Sometime, I should post a picture if I can find it and I'm feeling particularly masochistic.

I still think it was a conspiracy my mother cooked up to make sure I didn't get much candy, if any. She was always shoving these waffle looking things onto the plate then spritzing it with water from her ironing water sprayer and calling it rice cakes or something. It tasted like notebook paper. No, scratch that. Notebook paper was actually quite tasty, in comparison, from what I remember. It was at least fun to make into spitballs. That crap my mother was always trying to get me to eat had no flavor and got bigger and bigger and bigger as you chewed it. Your mouth would be so dry after the first bite, you'd have to drink an entire glass of water before even thinking about attempting the second bite. If you made it through one of those things, you were stowed up for a week afterward.

They didn't trust me with knives, so my pumpkin was always an orange trash bag filled with pine straw, a stupid green bow on top to tie it up, and the face was painted on it with freaking non waterproof art pens, always black for the eyes and nose and red for the freaking lips. No teeth allowed. That represented something actually scary. What pumpkin has freaking lips and no teeth? My pumpkin always looked like it was crying black mascara and had been making out with everybody in the neighborhood by the time Halloween rolled around.

It's a miracle I don't hate Halloween. Don't even ask about Christmas. I may need another year of therapy if I let those memories comes back.

[samuraiguppy]

24. I am truly sorry. My family was pretty

crazy too---sometimes it is hard to put it all behind us.

But now--we can make life what we want it to be--we are free!

Hope your life is great!

SG

[Jamastiene]

30. Here is that horrible picture.

I had taken the sweater off while at my grandmothers house, but the other horribleness of it was still intact.



My mother dressed me funny. :rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

35. Huh. We were the family that tampered with the treats. Good times. Good times.

[ThomCat]

22. You are truly evil for even thinking of this idea

and typing it into a thread. x(

To make amends for this, vicious, evil, horrible idea you must now have awesome candy on Halloween. :9

[samuraiguppy]

25. at my local Safeway--

a bad of regular candy (snack sized candy bars) would be cheaper than buying cottage cheese, Dixie cups, and cellophane. Plus a lot less work--and kids would probably like it better...

I guess the price depends on how many kids you get--I usually only get a handful so one sack of candy (less than $3) is more than enough and I take the leftovers in to work. This year I am out of work and depressed--chocolate elevates my mood--so I will probably eat the leftovers. Still not that expensive--even for someone like me who is living on a shoestring...

[crim son]

26. Groovy!

...and... where do you live?... :eyes:

[sakabatou]

27. Well I do have a very inexpensive costume

"L" from "Death Note":

Oversized white hoodie, regular jeans. That's it.

[darkstar]

29. cheapskate...

I'm giving out *two* dollops of blood pudding...keeps the chill off...builds strong bones....

[Freedom Knight]

40. Trick or treat!

If I smile nicely, may I have a third?

[MsTryska]

32. Stuff the cottage cheese inside cherry tomatoes!

maybe top with caviar.


they'll go nuts.

[woo me with science]

33. This thread has become my new favorite example

of how some people will take ANYTHING seriously on the internet.

[Freedom Knight]

34. I prefer to buy the pinate mix instead.

It is cheaper and the children enjoy the toys. However, if you enjoy cleaning out spoiled cottage cheese out of your mailbox or off your car, your idea is great.

[WinkyDink]

38. Thanks for the tip! I WAS going with liverwurst and onion on party ryes!

[NJmaverick]

41. I think you better get yourself plenty of stuff

to clean egg off your house.

[Sequoia]

42. No; it won't wash with the parents.

They might think you spiked it with something. Give them something you can't eat, like a #2 pencil or coupons.

[littlebit]

43. Be prepared to be

washing cottage cheese off the side of your house the next day.

[Beer Snob-50]

44. I LOVE IT!!!

don't forget to hide a nice tab of LSD in the cottage cheese!!

:evilgrin:

[southpaw]

45. Mmmmmmm. Curd!

Just make sure you let it sit out for a few days. A nice penicillin colony growing on top of the cheese will make it all the more seasonally appropriate! :9

[Sanity Claws]

46. Put a prune on top of the cottage cheese

and call your little treat, "shit on snow."
Yummy and perfect for Halloween.

[sarge43]

49. How about cups of grass clippings?

The kids'll probably need some roughage after all that candy.