OT: Boneyard Annual Halloween Treat Thread

[CL82]

Dont be the person who:
leaves the basket of candy outside with a "take one" sign, turns off the lights and watches TV in their room. Stop being scared of humans. The pandemic is over.

I don't know, man. About halfway through the teaming hordes of kids that show up at our place, that sounds like a pretty tempting idea.

 

[District-Husky]

Live in DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. We currently have 1000 pieces of candy - mostly Twix, KitKat, Milky Way, butterfinger, nerds - but there’s a lot of variety. Hope it’s enough. Expecting probably 500+ “kids” since it’s on a Friday night. Some years I have to give away the candy my kids collected trick / treating.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Live in DC’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. We currently have 1000 pieces of candy - mostly Twix, KitKat, Milky Way, butterfinger, nerds - but there’s a lot of variety. Hope it’s enough. Expecting probably 500+ “kids” since it’s on a Friday night. Some years I have to give away the candy my kids collected trick / treating.

500 kids?

 

[NJHusky]

I thought I was a good dude buying snickers until our neighbor who is 9 said kids like the sour patch and affiliated candies. So added those 2

 

[Ewekon]

What did you buy to hand out?

What're your favorite candies or treats?

I was absolutely dumbfounded to see our bucket of treats filled up with cheez ballz packets. There's like three cheez ballz in each packet and I have a bucket of like 100 of them. I have no idea what Mrs. Diesel was thinking buying them, but I am certain no matter how right I am in critiquing and ridiculing her choice, that conversation will not end up to my benefit. Only good thing is the wrapper looks pretty normal so a kid just reaching in to the bucket at night won't know their disappointment right away.


Mod Note: Please don't say where you live.

Have forever stayed with the basics with no complaints, adding Nerdz.

Snickers
Reese's
Milky Way
Peanut M&Ms

SW CT shore town

 

[temery]

Now in 6 new bold flavors!!

X-lax candy corn with a real piece of corn in every candy.

 

[JakeTheDog]

Dont be the person who:
leaves the basket of candy outside with a "take one" sign, turns off the lights and watches TV in their room. Stop being scared of humans. The pandemic is over.

I will gladly be that person and I have absolutely no shame doing so. I’ll answer the door until 6ish and let the little little ones say trick or treat but after that I’m tapping out.

 

[YearoftheHusky]

Dont be the person who:
leaves the basket of candy outside with a "take one" sign, turns off the lights and watches TV in their room. Stop being scared of humans. The pandemic is over.

Or maybe it’s because you are taking your own kids out but still want to contribute to the neighbors’ kids’ experience?

 

[temery]

No. But I a few years ago I did see one of those wrapped sticky popcorn balls? Remember those?

Those things have pulled more baby teeth than a string on a door knob.

 

[prankster]

Least Favorite Category:

I'll start.

Zagnut

 

[JwittersPAC]

tons of homes over-the-top decorated for Halloween in the areas around us. Since when did Clark Griswold start doing massive displays for Halloween?

when my daughter was in high school a classmate of hers had a Halloween Party at their house where they hired actors to play Characters from Horror movies. There was Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy Krueger, and my favorite the Leprechaun.

 

[dvegas]

If you really want your neighbors to hate you, find some old school (not soft) Now and Laters to hand. They break teeth and pull out fillings!!

 

[HuskyHawk]

I wish I could share the videos. One of my old Manchester classmates lives outside Orlando. She posts videos of Halloween at her house and it's like the line at Walmart on Black Friday. Hundreds, possibly thousands of kids. There's no gap, just endless kids for two hours.

 

[Deepster]

I saw on a reel that people are putting potatos in their candy bowls and little kids actually want them over candy.

I won't be home tonight or I would 1000% try this. Can someone try it out and report back?

 

[6in25]

I saw on a reel that people are putting potatos in their candy bowls and little kids actually want them over candy.

I won't be home tonight or I would 1000% try this. Can someone try it out and report back?

I did this last year and none of the kids took any. This year I will try whole potatoes and not mashed.

 

[temery]

I saw on a reel that people are putting potatos in their candy bowls and little kids actually want them over candy.

I won't be home tonight or I would 1000% try this. Can someone try it out and report back?

I just saw that on the news. It's pretty stupid. Any kid who would be happy to get a potato would've been thrilled to get an apple or a box of raisins.

 

[CL82]

I did this last year and none of the kids took any. This year I will try whole potatoes and not mashed.

I've told the story on The Boneyard before, but I tried to warn a new neighbor about the masses of kids who come to our neighborhood. They literally bus people in. I said it doesn't matter how much candy you have you need more. He said I think we're fine.

About 7:30 he called me up and said "CL you have to give me a couple of bags of candy! I'm handing out cans of lima beans over here!"

 

[Chuck]

Yessir. Just discussed with my wife earlier this week. Porch light goes off at 5:30 after the little ones get their early trick-or-treating in with their parents… and we are sitting down to Shabbat dinner.

No challah and wine for the older kids? Not cool.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I've told the story on The Boneyard before, but I tried to warn a new neighbor about the masses of kids who come to our neighborhood. They literally bus people in. I said it doesn't matter how much candy you have you need more. He said I think we're fine.

About 7:30 he called me up and said "CL you have to give me a couple of bags of candy! I'm handing out cans of lima beans over here!"

That is a great way to get rid of Lima Beans. You sure don't want to eat them yourself.

 

[6in25]

I've told the story on The Boneyard before, but I tried to warn a new neighbor about the masses of kids who come to our neighborhood. They literally bus people in. I said it doesn't matter how much candy you have you need more. He said I think we're fine.

About 7:30 he called me up and said "CL you have to give me a couple of bags of candy! I'm handing out cans of lima beans over here!"

 

[CL82]

More like this:

 

[CL82]

That is a great way to get rid of Lima Beans. You sure don't want to eat them yourself.

Oh, it's about 50-50 that you're going to get them right back… through a window.

 

[Devland]

My kids range from mid 30's to mid 40's. I usually go hand out candy at my daughters house and drink from my son-in-laws bourbon collection. Then end up sleeping over there.

 

[QDOG5]

Necco wafers are not candy! They are an abomination.

 

[Deepster]

Some trick-or-treaters picking potatoes over candy

 

[karstenkibbe]

No challah and wine for the older kids? Not cool.

Brilliant idea. Off to Stop & Shop for challah rolls! And I hear Manischewitz sweet wine is making a nostalgic comeback among the cool kids.

 

[QDOG5]

We get 75-125 kids usually. We hand out big bars we buy at Costco. Trick or treat is 4-7. We get the neighborhood kids first. It will be 50ish tonight so I will bring out the patio heater we bought during Covid. Keeps us nice and warm. We set up chairs and hang out on our front walk. Usually the neighborhood parents will stick around and have cocktail. It’s a fun evening.

 

[karstenkibbe]

We get 75-125 kids usually. We hand out big bars we buy at Costco. Trick or treat is 4-7. We get the neighborhood kids first. It will be 50ish tonight so I will bring out the patio heater we bought during Covid. Keeps us nice and warm. We set up chairs and hang out on our front walk. Usually the neighborhood parents will stick around and have cocktail. It’s a fun evening.

My next door neighbor does this and gives out cans of craft beer to the neighborhood adults. As a craft beer geek, I find this act quite neighborly 🍻

 

[HCCForever]

I did this last year and none of the kids took any. This year I will try whole potatoes and not mashed.

You should have avoided the gravy.

 

[huskyjawz]

Less chocolate in the candy then there used to be. Wrappers now say "chocalate candy" instead of "milk chocolate". Not allowed to use the term. The Cocoa is too expensive and hard to come by due to drought and heat in West Africa so more sugar and more oil and less cocoa butter.