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LuckyStar
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Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
What kind of bowls are you guys leaving out? I use a bowl I got from the dollar store. They can do what they please with it!
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by LuckyStar
What kind of bowls are you guys leaving out? I use a bowl I got from the dollar store. They can do what they please with it!
I use a cheap dollar store bowl also. I have it to hold the candy not to be taken, that is called stealing (value of the bowl is irrelevant).
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| Posted 10/24/18 3:27 PM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
While I don't want left over candy in the house and I am more than glad to give out handfuls at the end of the night to get rid of it, I think it just bothers me that some punk asses think it's ok to take it ALL.
It's more the principal than anything else.
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| Posted 10/24/18 3:29 PM |
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LuckyStar
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by loveus
Posted by LuckyStar
What kind of bowls are you guys leaving out? I use a bowl I got from the dollar store. They can do what they please with it!
I use a cheap dollar store bowl also. I have it to hold the candy not to be taken, that is called stealing (value of the bowl is irrelevant).
Of course it’s stealing but I kind of expect that if I leave the bowl out. Do I just have a very low opinion of humans to blame myself if I leave something unattended and it’s stolen?
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| Posted 10/24/18 3:32 PM |
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loveus
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
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What kind of bowls are you guys leaving out? I use a bowl I got from the dollar store. They can do what they please with it!
I use a cheap dollar store bowl also. I have it to hold the candy not to be taken, that is called stealing (value of the bowl is irrelevant).
Of course it’s stealing but I kind of expect that if I leave the bowl out. Do I just have a very low opinion of humans to blame myself if I leave something unattended and it’s stolen?
Don’t forget to add kids are stupid and we were young once.
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WannaBeAMom11
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Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
We just moved to a new neighborhood. We have been tot here for years though because my cousin lives right down the block. I’ll leave the bowl out and see what happens.
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
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Peainapod
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by NervousNell
While I don't want left over candy in the house and I am more than glad to give out handfuls at the end of the night to get rid of it, I think it just bothers me that some punk asses think it's ok to take it ALL.
It's more the principal than anything else.
EXACTLY.
I have dollar store bowls. I dont give a shit about the bowl. but halloween candy adds up when buying bags and bags of it. (we get a lot of TOT'ers) and thats just rude to take the whole bowl
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| Posted 10/24/18 8:35 PM |
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
If anyone wants to donate candy
I collect for Girl Scouts and we donate to the troops!
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Mrs213
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Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
We have done it but in the past years the kids were hogs. We hung out in the neighbors driveway with a chiminea last year and saw the little jerks on our steps dumping the whole bowl in their stash. My dh even ran over to yell at them lol. Wont be doing that again...
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
OMG, my son is 15 and he's still trick to treating! I think you have a few years left.
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| Posted 10/25/18 8:12 AM |
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mrsrainbow
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
We leave out a bowl and it's barely touched
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| Posted 10/25/18 10:01 AM |
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BargainMama
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
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| Posted 10/25/18 10:42 AM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah 10 is young.
I feel like people want to rush their kids to grow up lately and I don't understand it. I want to keep my daughter a baby! LOL
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
we only leave it out when we are out trick-or-treating.
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jlm2008
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
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NervousNell
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
I don't give a crap if they are 40. I will open the door because I want to get rid of the 20 lbs of candy I have! Take it! 
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by NervousNell
While I don't want left over candy in the house and I am more than glad to give out handfuls at the end of the night to get rid of it, I think it just bothers me that some punk asses think it's ok to take it ALL.
It's more the principal than anything else.
Exactly. Its really not that I care about the bowl (no ones ever stolen ours) or the candy, it's just crappy behavior because then the other kids come and get nothing.
We do it when we take the kids out. We're not usually gone that long. Though the older they get, the more they want to stay out.
One year we came back to candy in the bowl - but it was old, crappy candy (think jolly ranchers and tootsie rolls past their prime) that the kids I guess decided to "trade" for our chocolate.
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| Posted 10/26/18 10:39 AM |
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klingklang77
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
I don't give a crap if they are 40. I will open the door because I want to get rid of the 20 lbs of candy I have! Take it!
I went TOT when I was 22 (I was taking my niece and nephew out). I dressed up as a soccer player. I thought hey why not. I grabbed my pillowcase and got some extra candy for the kids. I looked about 16 (I’m one of the lucky ones to look young). I got a few strange looks and comments, but you’d be surprised how many people gave me candy, lol.
I went again when I was 30 (with niece and nephews— I’m not some old freak who just goes out TOTing), but I didn’t have a pillowcase for candy and thought I was a bit too old for this. People will still give you candy when you are with the kids, even if you don’t say Trick or Treat.
They don’t really do Halloween here (there are some that do and I have seen TOTers, but I haven’t gotten any. Instead they do a big thing before Lent. They have a parade, everyone dresses up, and they throw candy to everyone from the parade. That’s their Halloween I guess.
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| Posted 10/26/18 10:48 AM |
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klingklang77
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
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What kind of bowls are you guys leaving out? I use a bowl I got from the dollar store. They can do what they please with it!
I use a cheap dollar store bowl also. I have it to hold the candy not to be taken, that is called stealing (value of the bowl is irrelevant).
Of course it’s stealing but I kind of expect that if I leave the bowl out. Do I just have a very low opinion of humans to blame myself if I leave something unattended and it’s stolen?
Don’t forget to add kids are stupid and we were young once.
This. I remember when I was young I didn’t take the whole bowl, but I would take one extra if they had the good stuff. 
And then remember shaving cream (and trying to get the perfect noozle for it) and eggs and toilet papering houses? For the noozle I would either get it from hairspray or stick a pin in the original and burn it. Hello? Fire with an aerosol can? That was really dumb. I guess it’s just a right of passage.
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
My DS is 10 and is going trick or treating. I went tricking or treating till I was 16. I can't believe you won't open the door for a 13 yr old?? That is still middle school. The middle school kids dress up still in DS school.
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NervousNell
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by Sash
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
My DS is 10 and is going trick or treating. I went tricking or treating till I was 16. I can't believe you won't open the door for a 13 yr old?? That is still middle school. The middle school kids dress up still in DS school.
And really....how do you even know how old they are? There are some 10 year olds who look 13 and vice versa.
Halloween is supposed to be about having fun- let them have fun. As long as they aren't being aholes or destroying property, who cares?
I'd prefer to let kids stay kids as long as possible.
Everyone grows up wayyyy too fast these days.
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| Posted 10/26/18 11:29 AM |
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LuckyStar
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
I used to think the same but when you think about it, isn’t better for a 13 to be out collecting candy and not vandalizing the neighborhood? Also, kids mature at different rates. I just feel like what’s the harm? Let them have their candy.
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Sash
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Sash
Posted by jlm2008
Posted by BargainMama
Posted by Peainapod
I USUALLY take DS and DH will stay and hand out, and then sometimes we take shifts and switch. DS just turned 9 and DH thinks this will be the last year DS wants to trick or treat (Not sure why b/c DS LOOOVES to do this)... SO we are all going together.
I said we should just leave a bowl out and he laughed hysterically at me..lol.
Oh well...we'll go together and hand out candy when we get home.
Really? 10 year olds go trick or treating. Teenagers go Trick or Treating. I can't imagine telling my 10 year olds no more! That's nuts!
Yeah, 10 is still young. Now at 13 I won't open the door for you anymore, but 10 is definitely still trick or treating age!
My DS is 10 and is going trick or treating. I went tricking or treating till I was 16. I can't believe you won't open the door for a 13 yr old?? That is still middle school. The middle school kids dress up still in DS school.
And really....how do you even know how old they are? There are some 10 year olds who look 13 and vice versa.
Halloween is supposed to be about having fun- let them have fun. As long as they aren't being aholes or destroying property, who cares?
I'd prefer to let kids stay kids as long as possible.
Everyone grows up wayyyy too fast these days.
Omg so true, the 6th graders in my sons school are tall as heck. They look like 8th grade and HS kids.
Exactly, I used to take my little cousins 14+ and trick or treat with them, but it was the one day when I was wasn’t doing some stupid sh!t when I was a teen. Lol
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Re: Trick or Treating - Do you leave out candy?
Posted by nraboni
For the past few years we have left the bowl out with a note. We have always come back to candy still left in the bowl. But that may be an anomaly because not too many kids come down our block.
same for us.
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