We are that house on the block. The house is lit up .. like a Christmas tree. It’s absurd, truth be told. My wife goes bonkers, but nothing really scary. She likes the more cartoony stuff. Nothing that scares the little ones.
We give out the usual fare. We have a few big bags of assorted candy from Costco. If memory serves, we got around a hundred T-o-Ters last year. We live across the street from an elementary school and there are tons of kids in the neighborhood … they all see our crib daily and they all want to come by on Halloween,
This year, my wife had a plan for us (me) to put out decorations slowly. We started on October 1 with one thing, and added 1-2 per day. The kids caught on and would come by daily to see what we added. We put up the last decoration yesterday.
Tell your wife she’s a genius. My younger kid and I do a neighbourhood drive every day after dropping his brother off. We LOVE to see what’s new/different. (and we are always on the search for dogs out walking)
While my favorites are Reese’s and Milky Way Dark, I usually get the rejects from my kids which are Butter Fingers, Almond Joys and Whoppers. I am okay with that. I know some kids like butter Fingers and Whoppers, but I don’t think I have ever met anyone under 20 who like Almond Joys.
The candy industry is using cocoa prices as way to raise prices for profit when most candies don’t use real chocolate anymore, but artificial things such as hydrogen bombed motor oils and ppgr
I’m an Aussie so we don’t have much in the way of Halloween. Trick or treating isn’t really a thing, at least not in my sketchy neighbourhood, but there are usually a few parties about.
I do miss North American Halloween though, and all the fall stuff. We don’t get halfway as excited about seasons here, mostly because ours are just “beach weather” and "not beach weather "
I’m more of a gummy candy person, preferably the sour variety. I also like mint aeros and smarties, which are conveniently the ones everyone else leaves behind.
We’re expecting between 400 and 600 kids stopping by. Just having a party in the driveway. A little bit of everything, probably 5 big (200+) bags of what ever we found at BJ’s
Inside the fence is a graveyard and a grave digger
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