At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s
Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.
Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF
Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you’re not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars
Okay, complete tangent, but…
When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said “Sure!” and gave him another, then followed up with “You can have the whole box, if you want…”
My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.
So that’s how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.
Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, ‘Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy…’
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s
Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.
Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF
Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you’re not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.
Okay, complete tangent, but…
When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said “Sure!” and gave him another, then followed up with “You can have the whole box, if you want…”
My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.
So that’s how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.
Most wholesome diabetes origin story.
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Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
Kind of a nice counter-point to ‘the early bird gets the worm’.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
*mouse
Fixed, thanks.
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A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, ‘Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy…’
TIL I’m special needs