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skinny
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Momma
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Trick-or-treating
How much candy do you buy?
I've never had to do this before!!!
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Posted 10/8/09 9:31 AM  |
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MeeshMosh
last month on leave!
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Re: Trick-or-treating
last year i bought 4 bags & i had a bag and a half left over
i think i'll be buying 3 bags this year!
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| Posted 10/8/09 9:48 AM |
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diva7531
My Peanut
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Ryan 3 boys EDD 11/6!
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Re: Trick-or-treating
I think it depends on where you live, in my last place, we got 5-7 kids a night. In my new neighborhood, there are 14 kids just on our street!!!!! So I have no idea how much to get, but I am sure it will be A LOT!
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| Posted 10/8/09 10:34 AM |
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JldDolphin
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Jen
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Re: Trick-or-treating
I'm buying more this year than last, because this year Halloween is on a Saturday. That means younger kids earlier in the day and older kids later in the day.  We had a lot of kids last year, but it really depends on your block. You could buy a little more and if you have to bring it into work if you are aloud to....that is what I do.
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| Posted 10/8/09 10:51 AM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
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Shawn
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Re: Trick-or-treating
DW usually gets the large plain Hershey bars. Most kids love chocolate, there's no nut allergy issues, and the leftover candy can be used in recipes, since it's just pure chocolate... We usually get a case of them from BJs.
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| Posted 10/8/09 12:41 PM |
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evnme
My little lamb
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Re: Trick-or-treating
in our old neighborhood, we always had leftovers from 2-3 bags of candy.
in our new neighborhood, there are tons of kids and i teach most of them, so we're expecting to have lots of kids this year so we bought 4 bags of candy.
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| Posted 10/8/09 3:40 PM |
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MrsKelly
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Krista
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Re: Trick-or-treating
i think i bought 3 or 4 bags last year but i wasn't home so i left it in a bowl on the stoop. good thinking about this year being on a saturday so have some extra on hand...
i always buy stuff dh likes and i don't like so he will eat the leftovers and i won't be tempted
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| Posted 10/8/09 3:45 PM |
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ali120206
2 Boys
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Re: Trick-or-treating
Posted by JldDolphin
I'm buying more this year than last, because this year Halloween is on a Saturday. That means younger kids earlier in the day and older kids later in the day. We had a lot of kids last year, but it really depends on your block. You could buy a little more and if you have to bring it into work if you are aloud to....that is what I do.
ITA.
It also depends on how "welcoming" your house is. The first year, we were told we'd have a lot but, we only had about 5 - we hadn't replaced the front door and teh front lights yet. The second year, we hung two pumpkins and put a big dent in our candy supply.
Unfortunately, I bought a bunch on sale last week and I've dug into it already so I'm going to have to buy more 
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| Posted 10/9/09 8:38 AM |
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rkoenke
my little piggys
Member since 3/08 4315 total posts
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rachel
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Re: Trick-or-treating
Posted by GoldenRod
DW usually gets the large plain Hershey bars. Most kids love chocolate, there's no nut allergy issues, and the leftover candy can be used in recipes, since it's just pure chocolate... We usually get a case of them from BJs.
CRUD! i am coming to your house. where do you live??
that's sweet!
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| Posted 10/9/09 8:40 AM |
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Samira0407
Love being a Mom
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Re: Trick-or-treating
I bought a big of Snickers; a bag of Baby Ruths and a Bag of Laffy Taffy/Assorted chewy candies...we had about 1/2 of all 3 bags left (i was skimping on the kids treats to keep more for myself LOL). BUT we both work late and probably missed the majority of after school/early evening trick or treaters. Being that Halloween is on a Sat this year; i'll probably get 4 bags just so i have enough left over for me 
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| Posted 10/9/09 4:05 PM |
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youngmama
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Re: Trick-or-treating
This will be our first year also!! We have 28 kids at ONE bus stop a few houses down. I think Im going to need ALOT. We are giving our crayons also.
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| Posted 10/9/09 10:43 PM |
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Salason
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Re: Trick-or-treating
We just bought 4 bags at BJs bc there are a TON of kids on my street alone. Now lets see if 4 bags actually make it another 3 weeks
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| Posted 10/10/09 1:16 PM |
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MrsFrizzle
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Kristin
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Re: Trick-or-treating
I had the same problem when I bought candy! I picked one up that has 100 pieces in it...I think that should cover it
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| Posted 10/10/09 3:14 PM |
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MommaG
Yay Spring!
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Gloria
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Re: Trick-or-treating
Last time it was on a Saturday, we had about 150 kids. I think people drive to my neighborhood just to trick or treat. But we always buy what we like so it won't go to waste if we have too much.
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| Posted 10/10/09 5:55 PM |
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strongisland
All you need is love
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Re: Trick-or-treating
so far we bought 2 big bags of candy from BJs....i have been a good girl...i haven't touched any of it!!!
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| Posted 10/11/09 11:43 AM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: Trick-or-treating
I make a minimum of 100 goody bags for trick-o-treaters and they all go!
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| Posted 10/11/09 5:52 PM |
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MrsRbk
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Michelle
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Re: Trick-or-treating
ZERO!
Our house is on the side of the street that there is no sidewalk, and all the houses are up REALLY high on a hill.
In the 4 years we've lived here, we've never had any trick or treaters.
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| Posted 10/11/09 8:07 PM |
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