Poll: how many bags of candy do you buy for Halloween?

[Mrs Mungo]

Question is in the title! Not buying for Halloween, but for your church's "Halloween Alternative?" Same question applies to you. :D

 

Ack! The last one is supposed to read: did I leave out an option? That is what I get for trying to do this on my phone!

Edited October 19, 2010 by Mrs Mungo

[Tutor]

We live too far out in the boonies to have anyone come to our house. The day after Halloween, however... I buy as many bags as I can carry. :D

[LarlaB]

I don't know in 'regular-sized' bags, as I buy in bulk from Amazon- last year it was roughly 14 lbs of candy, likely 11+ bags.

[HappyCrazyMama]

We live too far out in the boonies to have anyone come to our house. The day after Halloween, however... I buy as many bags as I can carry. :D

Ditto! Me too! :D

[Mom2J112903]

None. Our neighboorhood does not do door-to-door trick or treating (historical part of town, a lot of eldery neighbors) so there is no need to buy any candy. This year we are going to a Science Museum and partcipiating in their Halloween party which not only will be having a birds of prey show but also a "Chem-Mystery" show and lots of goodies and costume contest.

 

The past two years we did five bags, five large bags and ran out! We did trunk-or-treating at J's school. It was nice and even Father would come out and enjoy some candy.

 

When J was younger and we lived in W.Va we didn't buy candy either. We would always go to my Mom's house for trick-or-treating and celebrate my sister's birthday (she is a Halloween baby), my Mom didn't let us bring candy.

[OnTheBrink]

I'm not buying any this year. Last year we only had a handful of kids, and my dog freaks out when anyone is here, so it's not worth the trouble. I'm off the beaten path in my neighborhood so if I keep the lights off, no one will come down here, anyway.

[Karen in CO]

I buy mine on Halloween day when it's on sale, get as much as I can, and give generously to encourage kids to keep on trick-or-treating my house. :)

[Dolphin]

I put 3-4, but those are the huge Costco bags. People drive in to trick or treat here and I love it. We are next to a school with t cul d sacs off a long road, so kids can do about 35 houses with only crossing one street. We get so many people that where they have to cross the road we have a police car with lights flashing and an officer giving out candy. I always say it is the 1950's here on Halloween. Non stop kids, parents with flash lights walking behind. There are 2-3 houses that don't like it, but the rest of us really get into the spirit and the decorations are getting crazier and crazier each year.

 

Sorry, I am totally bragging, but I love Halloween and I love that I live in Halloween land. (with being dead end we don't get as much of the Christmas light stuff)

[CoastalGal]

We live too far out in the boonies to have anyone come to our house. The day after Halloween, however... I buy as many bags as I can carry. :D

 

:iagree:

[OLG]

We live too far out in the boonies to have anyone come to our house.

 

Likewise!

[jplain]

None. Our street is too busy (30 mph speed limit) and dark, with narrow sidewalks, so we don't get trick-or-treaters. My kids go trick-or-treating at a local shopping village and a local historical musuem, and sometimes they also go with friends in their neighborhoods. We're freeloaders. :D

[Impish]

We-ell...

 

Wolf's bought 2 bags so far. But they were Reece's PB Cups, so they weren't intended to hang around til Hallowe'en, they just came in those bags...:leaving:

[RoughCollie]

We have no trick-or-treaters. I guess the cows aren't up for that.

 

DH buys 3-4 bags of candy before Halloween. I don't object to that because we do have 4 teens who only get candy (unless they buy it for themselves, which is rare) on special occasions.

 

THEN, on day H+1, DH buys more candy. On H+2, all the way until the stores run out, he will buy more. He is proud of himself for all the money he saves.

 

That is the candy he hides at his office. I find them, put them in his sweet food drawer, and stick warning notes on the packages. DH has a deep drawer in his desk especially for his immense sweet tooth. I am going to buy a realistic looking toy mouse and put it in there, or maybe a few realistic looking roaches.

[Parrothead]

We are right in town so I buy 3-4 bags of candy. On the years dh is working and I leave the bowl with a "please help yourself, but remember others" sign I have left overs. When dh gives out candy I have only what is in dd's bag.

[Dmmetler]

I did 4 Costco sized bags for home last year, plus 2 for the trunk-or-treat at church (which is always a different night). We live across the street from an elementary school, and get a lot of kids. I also, in past years, have given out a good percentage of what came home in DD's trick or treat bag, but I don't know that she'll let me get away with that this year!

[mcconnellboys]

Wow, I get about a hundred kids here. I have to buy a lot to get through the two hours.....

[Belacqua]

I'll join the crowd of boonies-dwellers. I usually pick up a bag of candy just in case, but we haven't had a single trick-or-treater in six Halloweens. Now if only I can exercise the restraint to get a kind of candy we don't like (I suppose that would necessitate first identifying a candy we don't like...).

[justamouse]

this year is going to be amazing. I've been told to expect upwards of 400 kids. The street is all decked out. It's gonna be fun!

[Mrs Mungo]

We get a LOT of kids. I have 11 bags of candy, 2 bags of Teddy Grahams for the littles along with eyeball and spider rings, pumpkin erasers, etc. I also keep vampire teeth on hand for anyone who shows up without a costume. :D

[sassenach]

What sized bags are we talking about? We have an uber Halloween neighborhood. Last year I bought $80 of Costco candy. Something like 1500 pieces.

[ChristusG]

We go camping at Disney's campground since we are there each year. There are TONS of trick or treaters that to through there. I have heard people saying they go through 30-50 pounds of candy. :001_huh: We don't buy any though because no one stays at the camper to hand it out. Both DH and I want to see our girls trick or treat.

[Mrs Mungo]

What sized bags are we talking about? We have an uber Halloween neighborhood. Last year I bought $80 of Costco candy. Something like 1500 pieces.

 

Let's talk about what kind of candy we buy! Maybe that will make it easier? :)

 

I have:

Junior Mints, 16 mini boxes

Caramel Apple Pops, 20 pops

Dots, 36 mini boxes

Candy Corn, 80 treat packs

Mini Tootsie Pops, 285 pops

4 mixed bags of mini chocolate bars, I'm not sure how many are in these? They are 10.5 oz.

Resse's cups 18.5 oz

a bag of mixed gummies (Swedish Fish, etc), 25 treat packages

fun sized bags of m-n-ms, 36 bags

Teddy Grahams, 36 bags

Oh! And Mini Oreos, 18 bags

[athena1277]

Other. I used to buy 2 when we lived in base housing and had lots of kids come by. Now we don't get many, so I don't buy any and take my kids to trick-or-treat in a different neighborhood.

[Jenny in Atl]

We live in a sad subdivision, populated with grumpy seniors, who shut their lights off and want nothing to do with children, except their own grand-kids.

 

So, we go elsewhere, leaving dad at home, with a bag or two, just in case some new family, clueless, goes out in search of that one home that gives out candy. And we get the good stuff (chocolate)... No Smarties or Tootsie Rolls. :lol:

 

All is not lost, since I take the candy my kids can't eat (stupid Celiac :tongue_smilie:) and trade it for the good stuff. So, I basically just by it for my kids.

[JFSinIL]

I picked 7 - 8 since we do gets lots of trick or treaters, also I try to have an extra bag or two of pure chocolate for Silly Autism Boy to trade his various candy for (at 19 he still dresses up and goes trick or treating - everyone here knows him and is ok with it. He is really a large 1st grader!) as he only eats the Hershey bars. I get a bag of Almond Joy and most of that goes to hubby. Then, I have a kid still in braces who needs to trade her hard or gummy treats for softer fare.

 

I did have a bag of mini Peanut Butter Cups but they somehow vanished within 24 hours :D

 

So I get Hershey bars and Almond Joy and probably Three Musketeers/Peanut Butter Cups. Most of this is for us.

 

To hand out:

gummy body parts (candy should be gross on Halloween!)

skull-shaped suckers.

candy sticks (not candy cigarettes...well, they are, they just are not called that anymore).

any gum, etc. the kids bring home from their first trip out.

Smarties and/or Dum-dums.

Tiny boxes of red hots and lemon drops and Mike n. Ikes.

 

I would get wax lips or tiny wax bottles of colored sugar water but i don't see them anymore. I used to love getting that odd stuff when I was a kid! Little Snickers bars, etc. are so BORING!!!!

Edited October 20, 2010 by JFSinIL

[vettechmomof2]

we buy 1 bag

[Mrs Mungo]

I picked 7 - 8 since we do gets lots of trick or treaters, also I try to have an extra bag or two of pure chocolate for Silly Autism Boy to trade his various candy for (at 19 he still dresses up and goes trick or treating - everyone here knows him and is ok with it. He is really a large 1st grader!) as he only eats the Hershey bars. I get a bag of Almond Joy and most of that goes to hubby. Then, I have a kid still in braces who needs to trade her hard or gummy treats for softer fare.

 

I did have a bag of mini Peanut Butter Cups but they somehow vanished within 24 hours :D

 

So I get Hershey bars and Almond Joy and probably Three Musketeers/Peanut Butter Cups. Moat of this is for us.

 

To hand out:

gummy body parts (candy should be gross on Halloween!)

skull-shaped suckers.

candy sticks (not candy cigarettes...well, they are, they just are not called that anymore).

any gum, etc. the kids bring home from their first trip out.

Smarties and/or Dum-dums.

Tiny boxes of red hots and lemon drops and Mike n. Ikes.

 

I would get wax lips or tiny wax bottles of colored sugar water but i don't see them anymore. I used to love getting that odd stuff when I was a kid! Little Snickers bars, etc. are so BORING!!!!

 

I used to buy the eyeball gum with red goo inside, but I have not found them this year! :(

[silliness7]

We are right in town so I buy 3-4 bags of candy. On the years dh is working and I leave the bowl with a "please help yourself, but remember others" sign I have left overs. When dh gives out candy I have only what is in dd's bag.

 

The one year I left my candy unattended with a sign not only did I not have any candy left, I had no bowl. It was a cute Halloween bowl too.:glare:

[HRAAB]

I voted we buy 1-2 bags, but honestly they're for us. We don't have any trick or treaters anymore. :crying: Makes me sad because I love handing out candy.

[Melissa in Australia]

Don't buy any. it isn't really something celebrated in Australia, though big brand shops have been trying over the last few years to introduce it.

[FaithManor]

We had many disturbing things occur in our neighborhood several years ago and so we do not hand out candy and we only buy a small amount just to share inside with out kids. So, we don't celebrate Halloween and we do have to spend most of the evening being a presence on our lawn (until well after midnight) to protect the property. Sigh.

 

So, I guess I will vote zero since we don't buy any candy to dispense to others.

 

Faith

[Jen in PA]

I answered 3-4. We live in a small, rural village, so we don't get many trick-or-treaters, but I like to give the ones who do show up big handfuls of candy.

[OrganicAnn]

I voted 1 to 2. We have 0 trick or treaters since we live on a funny road with few houses with kids. But I usually buy some candy.... for me.

[NanceXToo]

3-4. LOL at "I don't buy any but I like answering polls."

[Remudamom]

We don't get trick or treaters. I used to buy ONE candy bar for a little girl down the road, but she grew up.

[lisabelle]

I buy two big Costco bags...even though we have maybe 10 kids every year. We bought early and have pretty well eaten our way through one.

[SweetMissMagnolia]

this is the first year in a long time we won't be giving out candy....our neighborhood's gotten too bad to be opening the door after dark....usually I would fix up about 30 treat bags with wrapped candy or buy single serve pretzel/cookies in the little halloween serve bags.....this year we will just buy for ourselves so I put 1-2....in previous years I'd say about 3-4

[Strengthen My Hands]

We don't celebrate... but after talking to the kids their only disappointment is the lack of candy when everybody else gets it. So, the older three (the only ones who know that Halloween exists) all get to go to Costco and pick out a big bag/box of something that they actually like. It works for us.

[Krista in LA]

I usually buy about 6. We live in a neighborhood with lots of trick or treaters so when I run out of those bags, I start recycling the candy that the kids got trick or treating. Except for the chocolate of course.

[KidsHappen]

I don't buy any because we go to the historic downtown area to trick or treat.

[hsmamainva]

We live too far out in the boonies to have anyone come to our house. The day after Halloween, however... I buy as many bags as I can carry. :D

 

Ditto!! :lol:

 

We've had 1 trick or treater venture to our house during the last 6 years! I gave him a full-sized Hershey's candy bar. :D

[mazakaal]

We always bought one bag of candy just in case anyone came to our door, but in the past 9 years, I don't remember anyone who actually did. I didn't mind, though, because we don't take our kids trick-or-treating, and they're happy to eat the candy that we don't give out. We live seriously in the boonies now, but I'm sure we'll still buy a bag so my kids can eat it. :001_smile:

[littlebug42]

I picked 5-6 but those are pretty big bags. We live in a nicer neighborhood of an inner city so many kids are driven in from the unsafe neighborhoods. We usually get around 200-300 kids in a 2 hour period. We love trick or treat in our neighborhood.

[Tap]

5 bags for the kiddos (not including our personal consumption) or about 100 pieces. We are gone most of the night, otherwise I would need 10 bags.

[Ellyndria]

Usually two bags.. I don't know why, we only get a couple of trick or treaters, if any, and then end up eating the candy ourselves. :tongue_smilie:

[Luckymama]

I didn't vote because I truly don't know how many bags I usually buy. We get about 100 kids each year. I buy a mix of decent-sized chocolate/candy bars, some lollies, non-sweet things (like small bags of chips or pretzels, labeled as peanut-free), and funky candy. I let the kids choose one big or two little :)

[Mejane]

We give out bags of chips instead of candy. (The kids love it.) We buy 100 bags and they come in boxes of twenty, so five boxes.

[MaMa2005]

I don't buy candy. I buy the gift certificates from Wendy's for free Frostys. It's a great deal - 10 certificates for $1. I usually buy 5 books (50 certificates). We keep a few of the leftovers and DH takes the other extras to school to give out to his students when they do something 'over the top' (which unfortunately isn't that often).

[Sparkle]

The one year I left my candy unattended with a sign not only did I not have any candy left, I had no bowl. It was a cute Halloween bowl too.:glare:

 

Yeah, that happened to us too, along with destroyed jack o'lanterns.

 

We don't hand out candy any more, since we are usually never home - we go trick or treating with my SIL in her neighborhood.

 

I buy candy for our 4-H's Trunk or Treat - 3 bags.