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[filkertom]

This week's Sunday Sweets at Cake Wrecks is amazingly cool.

It's starting to get close to That Time. What candies are you planning to have left over on November Firs- uh, give out on Halloween Night? I'm doing a straight-up mix of Mounds and Hershey's Caramel Kisses.

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[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Dark and white chocolates. I figure the kids will be getting a ton of milk chocolate so I'll give them the two extremes to broaden their taste horizons.

[susan-the-rogue.livejournal.com]

No candy handing-out for me....gonna be at parties. Though I plan on taking some homemade goodies with me to the last party I'll be at (fried okra, cheese and mushroom pie, and chocolate chip cookies), and I may try and take some candy with me, too.

[stone-bitch.livejournal.com]

Cheese and mushroom pie? ..... Uh, I'll be with Susan! ;)

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

First, I'll be working on the last night of Halloween Horror Nights. Second, over the last twenty years I've given out maybe five things to kids coming to my door. It's not that I have a reputation as someone who kills and barbecues trick-or-treating little kids. Parents today believe that describes EVERY home.

You don't mean to tell me that people actually come to your door on Halloween? That's been dead for years. That holiday has been replaced by Slut-O-Ween adult parties...which I don't get invited to either.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

My condo's Neighborhood Watch puts on a Halloween party for the kids - homemade goodies, a few crafts, etc. This year my candy contribution will be rocky road candy - made by me, with my homemade marshmallows. (Yes, it is awesome stuff.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Yep. We've got a park-run party this week, and I usually get a couple dozen kids on the big day.

[allisona.livejournal.com]

We've gotten fewer and fewer kids at our door, too, and since we don't want the bowls of candy left over John is pushing for us to get those little cans of Play-dough they sell for Halloween. He says any leftovers can go to school with me :).

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

I wait until November 1 to buy my Halloween candy.

[jss]

I tend to get a couple of dozen kids from the area. It's a side-effect of living by the middle school out here in suburbia. I'll probably get a bag or three of stuff I won't mind eating if there's leftovers. Usually mini (not micro-mini) Milky Way and Mounds bars, sometimes the individually-wrapped Reece's cups.

[kengr]

fun size Mounds and Nestle's Crunch.

Of course, extensive quality testing is required...

[virtualvirtue.livejournal.com]

We generally get the Willy Wonka variety bag. Husband will get some chocolate. We make up "goodie bags" for our neices and nephews. Then, we usually have leftovers. (I'm allergic to chocolate, so we generally go for non-chocolate so I can take part in the post-Halloween festivities.)

Chocolate

[delazan.livejournal.com]

For me, you can never go wrong with a big bag of chocolates.
-L.

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

It's our first year in a new place, and we both have the day off. I'm going to stop by the office and quiz the office manager about what to expect... most of the kids in the complex seem to be the right age (pre-school/grade-school) but most of the families with children seem to speak little or no English. If Patty says to expect Trick-or-Treaters, I'll probably get candy appropriate for younger kids (Ring Pops and the like).

Otherwise, it's home-made cupcakes for co-workers and office staff and spiced apple wine and classic horror movies for the husband and me!

[ladycheron.livejournal.com]

The first four years at this place, we had exactly two trick or treaters - not counting my grand daughter. We're on a very busy street, which isn't safe to cross, so we don't get any kids wandering by. The last couple years, we haven't even had the lights on in the front of the house.

If we DID have, it'd be the Hershey's Miniatures, dark chocolate variety.

[banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com]

We're doing our church's Halloween party again this year. We always do a fish pond where we give away a little goodie bag (sometimes it's a goodie 5" plastic pumpkin) with some little toys and a piece of candy. The last couple of years we've paired it up with a (dry) duck pond where the kids get to take home Halloween-themed plastic ducks from Archie McPhee. It's usually the hit of the party.

[bar1scorpio.livejournal.com]

I'm working that night, so I'm thinking of bringing in a bag of candy (mini chocolate bars, like hell I'm gonna dish out some sweet tarts or $#!+ like that.) and give it to customers.

[bigbumble.livejournal.com]

I live in a newer suburban neighborhood. 400 to 800 kids each year. Bags and bags of Hershey variety packs along with Gerber Biter biscuits for the tiny ones.

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

Actually, we buy cheap little candies that we don't crave for giving out, and chocolate and Smarties - sorry, keep forgetting, they are called 'Rockets' up here in Canada - we buy as 'leftovers'...

[filkferengi]

We get anywhere from 35 to 85 door-knockers, averaging around 55 most years. With superb supernatural timing, my spouse waits until right before the heaviest avalanche of kinder [in the middle of my favorite show] to take a protracted restroom break. This is one of his very few less-than-endearing traits.