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Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 6:31:01 PM   
Aileen1968


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Status: offline 		Soooo I've moved into a townhouse development with about 130 units within a half mile span of road.
I used to live on four secluded acres set way back from the road and only got one trick or treater in 14 years while there (he got the motherload, btw).
I have no clue what to expect so I bought a ton of Halloween candy to give out. The good stuff too.
Snickers. M&M's. Twix. Smarties. Skittles. Etc. Etc. Etc.
None of that Dots crap at my house. Plus I'm the only townhouse in the development that has decorated and has lights.

Do you like giving out Halloween candy and what kind do you give out? Or do you turn out the lights and pretend that you're not home?
Plus...do you buy your favorite or do you buy what you don't like so that you're not tempted to eat it yourself?



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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 6:49:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just grab a few bags of whatever is handy at the store. I try to avoid candy that I like to limit the temptation to eat it myself and I dump it on the last few trick or treaters to get rid of what I have left. The lights are only off if I am not home. I would never stiff trick or treaters by pretending to not be home.

I love those damned Dots.




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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 6:51:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		LOL at "he got the motherload"

This is the first time that I'll decorate for Halloween, but we've always had plenty of candy on hand for any kids that showed up. I usually just get several bags of the mini candy bars, maybe a bag or two of bubble gum.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 6:59:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		The kids have smartened up in our area.  Nobody trick-or-treats at apartments, townhomes, condos, etc.  They go to neighborhoods with nice houses and nice cars so they get the good candy.  That's the thinking, anyway.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 7:05:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		it's always hit or miss around here.  one year we could get overrun, the next year we could be giving out handfuls to each kid.  I err on the side of less candy now, just so I'm not stuck with bunches. 

nearby to me is the city of Toluca Lake, home to many celebrities...and they tend to give out full-size candy bars.  maybe once that secret got out the hoards started going there instead!


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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 7:09:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dress up as Beldar Conehead and hand out 6-packs of beer and cartons of cigarettes.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 7:09:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I dress up as Beldar Conehead and hand out 6-packs of beer and cartons of cigarettes.

I'm trick or treating at your house.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 7:51:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		I live a quarter mile off the road. Never had a trick or treater. I would take the kids into town to a townhouse development.  I picked the one just down the block from Night of 100 Pumpkins and only two blocks from where the big town parade ends up at the firehouse. When you make it to the fire house you get a full size Hershey bar and an apple. After enough candy, the kids were grateful for an apple to clear their throats.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 7:55:32 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nah, I don't get any trick or treaters, but I do stock up on Halloween candy when it's on sale (moreso right after Halloween), just to have a candy bowl around all the time for me (and anyone I have over)

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:24:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

Soooo I've moved into a townhouse development with about 130 units within a half mile span of road.
I used to live on four secluded acres set way back from the road

Off topic but can I ask WHY you left four secluded acres to move into the middle of a 130-unit townhouse development????? When I moved to Master's house, it's in town and I would give most anything for us to live on four secluded acres like I did in WV (38 acres actually). OK, hijack over

luci

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:26:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Divorce. It was important to us that the house we built ourselves wasn't sold. It was too large for me to maintain so he stayed in it and bought me a townhouse ten minutes away that I could maintain.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:27:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh, ok. Not trying to pry, just curious. That makes perfect sense

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:28:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		I live on 35 acres and would kill to live in a 3 bedroom townhouse where somebody else shovels snow and mows the grass. I'm getting too old for this.

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:29:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, I know what you mean. I just crave the privacy and seclusion I grew up with in WV. Nosy neighbors make it worse. 35 acres of isolation sounds heavenly but, shoveling snow...no thanks

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:31:31 PM   
Aileen1968


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Status: offline 		It's funny because I thought I'd have privacy issues here. Turns out that all of my neighbors are antisocial.
I'm the only one that ever uses my back deck. It's kind of strange...

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 8:34:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		We always decorated for Halloween.  Had cobwebs in the bushes, witches everywhere, and a spider we could drop down on the kids to scare them.  We'd give out the big full sized candy bars to the kids. 

I now live in an over 55 RV park during Halloween.  We have nothing up but some ligthts we got a Spencer's Gifts that look like mini cauldrons with fire.  Last year we got a couple trick or treaters but it didn't seem right as their parent's car stopped in front of the place, the kids came to the door, then went back to the car.  At this time of the year there are only units being occupied so it's not worth it for the kids to walk.  We got a bag of candy, just in case we get more this year.  I think we're going to go across the street to the gay bar to see the guys dressed up in drag.  

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 10:48:30 PM   
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I'll be sooooo ringing your bell cause I want to bob for panties under sparkling lights on your deck.

Then we can do the pumpkin dance all night long despite your antisocial neighbors.

I'll show them strange.................pumpkin heads on..................and a one and a two and a three,

"We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance"

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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 11:04:21 PM   
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In the 15 years i have lived here there has not been one trick-or-treater (unless you count the half-tanked tractor driver that somehow got his belt loop hooked onto the seat and drove up and down the road screaming "Heeeeelp!!!! The JohnDeere is eating my ass!!!!!!")


and no...i am not kidding.


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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 11:11:11 PM   
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It's funny because I thought I'd have privacy issues here. Turns out that all of my neighbors are antisocial.
I'm the only one that ever uses my back deck. It's kind of strange...

Quick hijack and then I'll get to the candy

Due to my divorce I left a house on just 1/2 an acre up in the foothills and live in an apartment.  Um...well...my cat locked me out - I was on the patio enjoying a glass of wine with a girlfriend and the little guy pawed at the door enough so that he flicked the latch down into the locked position.  We climbed out of the patio and after several calls for help (property manager, sister who had - but apparently lost - the spare key, etc.) I crashed through my bedroom window with a shovel.  Not ONE person noticed or said anything if they did.  In broad daylight.  Talk about hermits, lol.

As for candy, I don't get trick-or-treaters here. But a couple of years ago I was house-sitting for my aunt & uncle and OMG I lost count after about 200 kids.  It was CRAZY and hilarious and fun.  And yeah, I bought the good stuff - all my favorite things.  Pounds and pounds of it.  And I didn't give kids just one - I gave them handfuls.  It was awesome.


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RE: Halloween Candy - 10/21/2009 11:24:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		i can honestly say that i've never done it in all the years i've lived on my own. our neighborhood has become more residential over the time, but it is first and foremost a climate for business. the children that reside here patronize these places and come home bearing lots of treats. the door to door knocking doesn't take place.

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