Halloween Treats. Alternative Ideas
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Other than falling back on quarters which I remember from a kid as being more annoying as I wanted to munch something right away.
What can I hand out to treat or treaters that isn't filled with unatural crap? Carbohydrates are fine, but not this synthetic stuff. No, I don't have the equipment to bake/create my own.
Anyone suggesting fruit will be shot on site.
I'd rather not hand out cheap cheesy plastic toys made in china.
I was thinking of scouring the comic book section of Half Price Books for issues that initially cost a 1.00. But that wont satisfy younger kids and some girls.
What can I hand out to treat or treaters that isn't filled with unatural crap? Carbohydrates are fine, but not this synthetic stuff. No, I don't have the equipment to bake/create my own.
Anyone suggesting fruit will be shot on site.
I'd rather not hand out cheap cheesy plastic toys made in china.
I was thinking of scouring the comic book section of Half Price Books for issues that initially cost a 1.00. But that wont satisfy younger kids and some girls.
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Seriously though, you dont think comic books is a step in the right direction?
Halloween just isn't the same if you don't see the look on a kids face when they bit into a caramel covered onion.
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lol omg i need to try that. As for what to give nothing beats the instant gratification of sweet sweet candy.
Give em candy,candy is natural,comes from the earth.
i vote candy.
here is a box of candy..which you are not getting
strangers handing out sweets to kids? Hmmm ... i seem to remember something they taught us in school ... what was it? ... Nope. It'll come to me.
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Do children not go "trick-or-treating" in the UK?
Turnips are a bugger to hollow out though.. ahh, the smell of burning turnip...
Back on point - it's got to be candy. Why shouldn't everyone elses kids be up 'till 2:00am pumped full of additives...
The comic thing isn't bad. I probably wouldn't have minded it if they were decent comics. It would be something to read while I'm making myself sick on candy.
Just don't give out religious material. I hate people doing that. My kids have gotten those and I don't like the messages they like to put in it. I love how they think their screwed up twist on what halloween means, is somehow their job to explain to my kids.
I love how they think their screwed up twist on what halloween means, is somehow their job to explain to my kids.
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what DOES halloween mean?
what sort of tricks are pulled if there's no treats? Or is it just a parade of blank-faced compliance (a bit like Edward G Robinson going to the clinic in Soylent green)?
"I got a rock..."
"You mean there is a real frog in here?"
"Yes, a little one."
"What sort of frog?!"
"A dead frog."
"Is it cooked?!?"
"No."
"What? A raw frog?!?!"
"Oh, we use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent, Swiss, quintuple-smooth, treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose."
"That's as maybe but its still a frog."
"I got a rock..."
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BWHAHAHAHAAAA!
I pass out name brand candy, and let them take as much as they want.
A lot of parents now days are so paranoid that they throw out the candy their kids get and replace it with stuff they bought themselves. So who really cares?
A lot of parents now days are so paranoid that they throw out the candy their kids get and replace it with stuff they bought themselves. So who really cares?
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You mean there are garbage cans full of perfectly good candy sitting around after Holloween!?! Looks like I've found what I'm doing Nov. 1.
what sort of tricks are pulled if there's no treats? Or is it just a parade of blank-faced compliance (a bit like Edward G Robinson going to the clinic in Soylent green)?
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Well, when I was a kid, we would just shrug our sholders and move on to the next house. But we were good kids and lived in a suburban area where there were thousands of houses in close proximity. Some common tricks that are pulled is to "T.P." a person's house (i.e. string the persons yard, trees, house with several rolls of toilet paper), to "egg" their house (i.e. throw raw eggs at the house), or to smash their jack-o-lanterns if they have them.
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A lot of parents now days are so paranoid that they throw out the candy their kids get and replace it with stuff they bought themselves. So who really cares?
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You mean there are garbage cans full of perfectly good candy sitting around after Holloween!?! Looks like I've found what I'm doing Nov. 1.
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haha, yeah.
sadly, I didn't think this kind of stuff happened until about 5 years ago, I went trick or treating with my ex-gf's family and their group of neighbors.
At the end of the night, all the parents replaced the candy and threw out the stuff their kids got, without the kids knowing of course. We got to rifle through the bags of candy before they went into the trash.
"are you sure that's legal?"
"of course it's legal"
"good. I wouldn't like to be accused of taking part in a rumble"
"Would you like regular or ribbed? Be safe kids!"
Im serious.
"Poopsmith, did you give me some bum candy?"
'round here kids can sing for their treats on Luther day or they can go home empty handed. I heard some kids tried "tricking" and got dragged to court for vandalism.
Thank god for co-ops.
"Bonfires are less commonly lit for Hallowe'en in Northern Ireland these days, and I fart in your general direction."
It's actually a threat. Translated, it would be "Give me goodies, or I'm going to do something destructive. Your property or person may be at risk. So hook me up."
I'm going to make sure that my kid understands this, and will arm him with some silly string.
I found some fair trade organic dark chocalate mini bars and lollipops.
Thank god for co-ops.
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Parents throw this stuff out, if its not a recognised name brand it goes in the dumper. Nice of you to think outside of the box on this one, but really might as well give out coupons for free air.
When I was in Jr High (might have been early high school) my brother and I made two scarecrows out of some old jumpsuits and halloween masks. We stuffed them with newspaper and put them our porch a week before Halloween. Then on Halloween we put on the suits and stuffed them with some more paper. We only managed to pull it off about 3 times because word got around, and well the screams turned a lot of heads on our block hahaha.
Moral of the story, if you don't want to give them something that will rot their teeth give them a memory