What is it with people this year?
Usually I count on people giving out lots of "lame" candy on Halloween, so as to minimize my temptation for raiding my kids' trick-or-treating haul. By lame, I mean like lollipops, licorice, sweetarts, starbursts, tootsie rolls, and laffy taffys (or in case you noticed a trend, lame=non-chocolate {or in the case of tootsie rolls lame=fake chocolate}).
But this year, after analyzing one of my children's stash while they were sleeping, I realized everyone else must be developing the same notion of lame as I have. For instance, take a look at Spencer's haul....
I figure he has three times as much of the good stuff as the lame stuff AND keep in mind that this photo was taken THREE whole days post Halloween. So based on the pile of wrappers I found under his bed, I figure that the original pile of good stuff was probably at least six times larger than the lame pile.
We can usually count on several houses to give us pencils or bags of popcorn or something, but this year all we got was one spider ring (which is really a bat ring)...
one set of glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth and a really creepy plastic spider that is being thrown away as we speak...
and only one lousy shower cap (seriously)...
So I was going to write a memo to our community association president about requesting that people alter their Halloween candy buying habits to accommodate my weakened self-control around Butterfingers, but then I thought of a better idea...
Candy Burning Bonfire at my house tomorrow while the kids are at school. All invited.
Andrew got mostly "good" candy too and he's decided he doesn't like chocolate much, so he kept giving me his candy. Great for my diet baby!
ReplyDeleteOk but I LOVE Tootsie Rolls. A Shower cap?? Are you serious?? Some people's neighbors.
ReplyDeleteA shower cap?!?!? Stolen from Best Western?!?! hahahahaha best idea ever!
ReplyDeleteThat shower cap is CRACKING ME UP! Makes you wonder about the story behind it. Somebody works for Best Western? Or husband travels a lot and brings home all the hotel loot? Or they ran out of candy and had to start scrounging around the house for stuff to hand out to trick-or-treaters? Or they are into the "go green" movement and are trying to help their neighbors conserve water by not washing their hair? Oh, the possibilities....:)
ReplyDeleteLast week after the ward Fall Festival, I told Jeff that I thought we should plan on having "Candy Soup" (i.e. putting all of the kids' candy in a big pot in the middle of the table and letting them have that for dinner one night) asap. It was then that he reminded me that we hadn't even had the real Halloween yet.
ReplyDeleteWe thought this past Sunday night would have been a bit soon (i.e. the day after the "real" Halloween), so now I'm counting down the days until we let them eat until they're sick, and then toss whatever is left.
Ah, let the holidays begin!
It really is sad when the kids' candy taste becomes refined to the point that they like the same candies as you, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteSo are you really burning it all? I expect video of that!
thanks for the invite! but it's only the beginning....
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving....
Christmas...
Save all the tootsie rolls for mom and I!! Yummy.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same problem. Since I can't control what everyone else buys, I make sure to buy the lame stuff so I won't by tempted to eat the leftovers. But this year when I saw what the neighbors were giving out I felt pretty lame. Cans of soda? Large candy bars? Come on, people--you're making me look bad!
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