Ran out of candy gave out cans of Pepsi...think my house is a hit on the block

[greenbriar]

time to turn out the lights...


gave out 24 cans of Pepsi

[DireStrike]

1. :O

Where do you live? I'm moving there.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Time to dip into the radishes, carrots and celery

[madmax]

19. LOL they won't be back next year

:p

[Liberal_in_LA]

27. true. lol.

[lonestarnot]

3. LOL!

That's funny! I bet they like that!

[greenbriar]

5. I'm thinking next year I might buy those half cans and just give those out

you should have seen the smiles and glee those last 24 kids showed.

[lonestarnot]

7. Fun!

I really wish I had not bought the damn candy a month ago while it was on sale. :( I ate all of it due to election anxiety thinking the sugar would help my carpal tunnel. :P :9 and nine hundred pounds later, I found that to be not correct.}(

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. We were handing out candy AND Obama stickers

Just about ran out of both

[Muttocracy]

6. Sugar AND caffeine!!! WOO HOO!!! :)

[napi21]

8. WOW! Where do you live? I used to have than when we lived in SC.

We had a lot less in TX, but when we moved to Ga. in 2000, WE DONT GET ANY! We had rhe lights on and all, but once again, nobody came.

[greenbriar]

9. Kansas

I had a lot more this year than last


better weather tonight

[Historic NY]

10. sugar high!!

[burythehatchet]

11. the parents are going to love you around 11 PM when they're bouncing off the walls

[Mind_your_head]

12. Hey, that's like $0.50/child......I'm SURE you're a hit!!!!

Those 1/2 cans are like $0.83/can.

Nice, "riche" neiborhood you live in.

Peace,
M_Y_H

[greenbriar]

13. oh no, we are in the middle

rich on one side

the "hood" on the otherside



I am a teacher

hubby is a network analyst

[zbird]

14. Our former neighbor used to have a tray with some really interesting things the kids could choose.

The husband would be out there with a tray of radishes, band-aids, bags of mashed potatoes, green beans, toothpicks, etc. The looks on the faces of the kids was priceless. Just when they would turn around to leave, the wife would come out with the bowl of candy. Loved those neighbors!

[Habibi]

31. OMG.

Funniest. Treats. Evah.

[tammywammy]

15. No trick or treaters here (the light's off)

But you know what else I think is great, the houses that give out the little microwave popcorn bags. One of my nephews is allergic to peanuts, so 60=75% of the candy he gets he can't have, but those popcorn things are great. Next year hopefully I can give out treats, and that's what I'm planning on getting.

Last year I gave out the usual Snickers, Peanut Butter Cups, etc, but each child also got Jolly Ranchers or Twizzlers too (for those kids that are allergic to peanuts).

[greenbriar]

16. oh thats a good idea too

back in my childhood, one of our neighbors made AWESOME popcorn balls

they were SO good


but I guess in this day and age, it can't be done

[RL3AO]

17. Back in the days you could give out homemade cookies and brownies and all that good stuff

but today you can't.

[Uben]

18. Yeah, popcorn balls!

My favorite! We would mark the curb in front of their house with a bar of soap, and go back for seconds later on!

[tammywammy]

20. No, no more popcorn balls

But when some of his neighbors started giving out the little microwave popcorn bags a few years ago I thought it was a really good idea. It's those single serving bags.

Plus, since he's become allergic to peanuts, you really realize how much he cannot have. I took the boys somewhere a few months ago and was going to buy them a candy treat, but everything had "processed in a plant with peanuts" on it.

[greenbriar]

22. I can so relate. Hubby is allergic to wheat and Oats this is a recent development

and we have to really look at the ingredients.

Everything has wheat, oats or nuts


I am sorry your nephew has to go through this




how serious is it? Hubby has one bite of something and he goes anaphalytic he almost died 3 years ago

thank god for epipens

[Mind_your_head]

30. Everyone loses the "fun" b/c we have to worry about your husband and his epipens/allergies!

Factoring 'in' for the least common denominator.

[rebel with a cause]

28. You can buy individually wrapped popcorn balls now.

We did this year. Of course we did not get any trick or treaters, but that is okay because we have already eaten most of them. ;)

We do have candy bars left. My blood sugar won't be going down to soon. :7

[fulllib]

21. If you have Obama signs, people must have thought you're a Socialist! nt

[Contrary1]

23. I pass out all kinds of stuff...

Tonight it was Halloween pencils, plastic spider and skull rings, tattoo kits, even a couple of children's books. I add a little bit of candy sometimes, depending on the age of the kid. They seem to like it. In fact, one of the little goblins announced that I always had the "neatest stuff".

I'll be picking up odds and ends for next year when they go on clearance.

[alfredo]

24. Here's what I do when I run out.

I keep one candy. When they come up to the door, I stick my hand into the bag and give the bag a small thump. I withdraw my hand and that now hidden piece of candy. The kid doesn't notice the deceit, and seems happy.

Anyway, it is fun tricking six year olds.

[orleans]

25. wow--who can compete with that?

i usually give out good stuff--this year it was crappy candy.

(i couldn't afford to buy fun/great stuff this year)

a little kid--2 years old--reached into his plastic pumpkin and took out a tiny container of play doh to show me what he got from someone. he was so happy about that--thought it was really wonderful that he got the play doh. it was one of those adorable moments.

another funny moment:
a little girl came up to the door with her mom. the girl was a bit nervous because my house is scary. i said it's just all pretend stuff and it's just my yard with a bunch of stuff in it. i told her she could come by in a week and it's just a regular house. blablabla. she was feeling a LOT better. then...she dropped her plastic pumpkin candy container on the cement stoop. and it set off two things on my porch that light up and groan and move. OMG! her mom quickly stepped in front of one to block the girl's view from it. the other one was up high and couldn't be blocked. so i quickly knelt down and started talking to her about all the candy she could pick from in the cauldron i was holding, just to keep her from looking up. i managed to keep her focused and it worked. she got some extra candy for being so brave. (it was really funny/cute)

[rebel with a cause]

29. When I was a kid we were only allowed to go to approved houses.

and trick or treat happened on more than one night. Anyway, one night my mother ran out of candy after about a hundred kids came a knocking. She sent one of my sisters to the store to get more and then had to think of some way to appease those coming before she returned. She sent us to get the potatoes from the the food pantry. When the children came, she explained the problem and have them each a potato telling them to come back with the potatoes and she would replace them with candy. (an old fashioned rain check) The kids all accepted the substitute and said they would come back. The is except for one neighbor boy who asked us to peel the potato so he could eat it. We happily did so and he sat and talked to us as he ate his potato. We didn't think anything strange about it because we all use to eat raw potatoes when we had no fruit and called them winter apples.

Back then, we took the trick and treating serious because pranks were pulled on people that did not give good treats. Of course we had one neighbor who always gave good treats and always had their out-house flipped. One year it was with one of them in it. There was a reason for this animosity, but I will not go into it even though it kind of goes with the goriness of Halloween. :7

[aroach]

26. I bought 60 full-size candy bars

and had zero Trick-or Treaters.

Of course, I didn't expect to have many. I take my own kids out so we usually get a few before we leave and a few more diehards after we come home. But this year, none. So now I have to eat all these candy bars.