How much money do you spend to pass out candy on Halloween?

None. I’m out with the kids getting candy.

I’ve done that for twenty years. My youngest is now too old for me to go with her. :(

I spent 16.00 this year and ran out too.

Greedy bastards

I didn’t even know today was Halloween, so I gave you a GA, cyber-treat?

None.
I live in a rural area.

Our town is so cool we do two nights of trick-or-treating. The night before and the night of.

This year, zero dollars. Sorry kids.

Ziltch. We don’t celebrate Halloween. Apparently, 25% of Aussies do these days. Nobody knocked on my door. Perhaps it’s more common in areas with a higher percentage of children.

Whoops!

If kids were there, I’d have candy for them.

Flock. Now I sound like the creepy uncle.

But if I had treaters, I’d have treats. For gourd’s sake, you can buy a million Tootsie Rolls for, like, $17.12.

M, $25 bucks on good candy. Mini 3 Musketeers and Butterfingers, Snickers and good stuff like that. I remember trick or treating and being SO disappointed in Tootsie Rolls and Sweetarts and Lifesavers. Well, Tootsie Rolls were OK. Hey I worked HARD for the candy!

$15.00 we only had 36 kids last year. Most were from two neighborhood parties. The parents have small flatbed trailers, they put hay bales on the trailers and have four adults one at each corner. They each had about a ten kids on the trailers with lights and music coming from the pickup trucks towing them.
We live in a suburban neighborhood.

This year I think I’m going to pass out $1 bills. My neighborhood has 8 kids and they will have plenty of candy.

Zilch.
There are no other kids in my area, so no reason to buy candy. We hie over to the rich neighborhood that gives candy to the kids and beer to the adults.

About $30 to $40 this year. We usually get a pretty good amount of trick or treaters. We decided to pass out little goodie bags this year with five pieces of candy instead of just 1 or 2 pieces each. We have Kit Kats, Snickers, Reese’s, Skittles, and Milky Way.

@dammitjanetfromvegas I so wish we did the same thing around here! I love Halloween!

Food stamps.. So nothing. Obama is the best!

When I lived in a neighborhood with lots of kids, I used to spend about $20. Usually had just enough left over so I could have some too.

I have lived in an apartment the last 9 years where no kids come by. So now I spend $0.

Zero here. We’re on a small obscure street so no kids around to speak of.

None, I don’t do Halloween.

I give out stale pet treats.
So far…no takers.

I take my daughter out so nobody’s home to give anything out, so zero.

We have staff for that.

20 bucks

0. I do not negotiate with terrorists.

About $20. I get a lot of kids. With Halloween being on a Saturday, I plan to be out until about 4 o’clock so that I am not tapped out by 3.

My annual Halloween story:

When I was a kid, we lived way out in the sticks, so we’d go to grandma’s house in town to trick or treat. Perfect neighborhood of bungalow houses, 2–3 blocks long, but with no intersecting cross streets.
At one end lived an old lady, and when she answered the door, she would ask, “Are you kids from the neighborhood?”
Year after year, we would explain that we lived in the country and our grandmother lived ½ block up.
Year after year, we’d get a stale, unwrapped marshmallow instead of a candy bar. Candy was only for the locals.
Imagine that happening today!
That the old lady’s house would remain intact and that the kids would tell the truth.
Year after year.

Opposite end of the spectrum: there was a house around the corner that every year put out a box full of full sized candy bars and a note saying they couldn’t be home, please take one.
And there was always candy in the box!

In the snow, uphill both ways!

I broke down and bought candy and chips. Little bags of Doritos and Sunchips, and others and I put a mix of candy and chips in a big bowl and I’m going to roll up dollars too and the kids can pick out a couple items each. I think I’ll wind up having spent $20, including the dollar bills, but it won’t all be eaten up for sure, so some of it’s for me.

Spent right at $25. Have a little left over. Which I need to hide so I’ll forget about it.

I spent exactly 0€. A group of youths rang my doorbell. I ignored them.

The kids took a little of everything from my Halloween bowl. A couple of the older kids (ages 7 and 8) loved the money! I’ll have to do that again.

I’m left with quite a bit of candy and chips. I’ll probably candy trade with my boss’ kids tomorrow.

I wish there was a place I could donate the candy! I’ve hidden it from myself, but I really need to get it out of the house.

@Dutchess_III Give it to a neighbor, or bring it to your next doctor’s appointment.

Well, I don’t really know my neighbors, and my doctor’s appointments are few and far between. But that gives me an idea… I’ll just drop it off at some business down town or something.

Yeah, they can put it out for customers if they don’t want to eat it.

Food pantry will take your candy, @Dutchess_III.
Or if there’s a local women’s shelter I’m sure they’d appreciate it to distract the kids.
Avenues if you have one locally.

Holiday candy is the freshest on the shelf. Made for the occasion. If you plan on baking holiday treats for Thanksgiving or Christmas, you could incorporate the candy into cookies, cakes, and other home-made sweets.

@Dutchess

There is an organized effort each year to send leftover candy to our troops serving overseas.

I’m sure it means a lot to them to get familiar brands of candy from home. And they’re certainly expending a ton of energy on our behalf so they deserve some sweet treats.

If you call an American Legion or VFW post near you, they can likely direct you for whom to contact in your area. I think Its a great idea.

I had to give my husband directions on passing out candy. I said, “You have to comment on their costume! It is just wrong for it to go unremarked.”
Like this: Knock knock. I open door. “Trick or treat!” Me, “Ah! I see dead people! ” Then, to the kid who is wearing the Grim Reaper outfit, with a black hood that let’s him see out, but you can’t see in, I say, “Ah!! I can’t see you at all!”
Like that.

^ You saw the picture of Ian’s costume, right? Not a single adult all night long recognized what he was. They were all like “Oh, that’s nice, are you a robot?”

And then they got Ian’s best 45-second rundown on the intricacies of Minecraft before their eyes glazed over and I dragged him off to the next house.

Can you post the pic again?