Hi, friends! Every year I buy too much Halloween candy relative to the number of trick or treaters we get. But it’s fine, I buy the good stuff. And by good stuff, I mean candy I like so any leftovers aren’t a bad thing.
This year though? Wow the candy has seemed expensive. I went to the googles and apparently while overall inflation (based on the Consumer Price Index) since 2020 is up 24%, Halloween candy is up 78% since then!
I just chose to get a few bags of the Halloween gummy bears instead of getting a bigger mix of chocolate and gummy candies and Nerds.
I suspect a lot of households might do a similar thing this year, especially since most people seem to get so few trick or treaters that their household just ends up eating most of the candy.
Are you a candy household? A stickers household? One year I had a ton of those little makeup bags from ipsy and when you get free gifts with makeup purchase, etc. Kids wanted those more than the Kit Kats, which sort of surprised me.
Candy (for some reason the kids all seem to be from Halloween=Satan households) so I usually end up eating most of them.
When we first moved into this brand spanking new building owners trickled in during the fall (we moved in over Labor Day.) None of us really knew each other, and we had absolutely no ties to this community, so we thought it would be fun for participating apartments to put signs on their doors welcoming trick-or-treaters. The scandal. The uproar. I had a wonderful time, but I like kids and I’m not afraid of Black people, having been coupled off with one for just shy of 40 years.
But such was the outrage that we never did that again. Now, what we do is ask for candy donations, which are distributed at the front desk. Apparently the door staff fight over taking this very desirable shift.
Since I can’t have the trick-or-treaters come to me I used to take the dog down to the lobby to see the costumed kiddos. We’d stay away because I know some people are scared of dogs but a lot of kids would run right up to us. Then I’d pull out my Dad joke:
“How come your dog isn’t wearing a costume?”
“Oh, but he/she (depending on dog) is. This is a cat.”
PS: Our donation is two big bags of Reese’s Peanut Butter mini-cups, the ones that look like very small votive candles. They are the first to go. Apparently peanut allergies are unknown around here. Some units cheap out and contribute Tootsie Rolls (gross) and different kinds of lollipops but, ewww.
Candy. I send the leftovers with Ms. Meme to her office.
I put on my funny clown costume and hand out wax lips.
i has a bag of celebrations to hand out…..or so the missus thinks anyways
thats actually my acceptable losses bag
….. the full sized lion bars and tony chocolonely selection is currently stashed in my work fridge….
what with how spendy shit is nowadays i tend to build my collection early as and when i find things on offer….but keeping chocolate at home for any amount of time never works out…..i has chocolate fiends…
GAME 7!
DO OR DIE… Woo?
Not a big baseball guy but our city needs this. I will be surprised if we can win a game 7 in Toronto but our fans have suffered more than almost any other baseball fans.