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#27 Oct 29 2007 at 5:40 AM Rating: Good
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Admit it. You like the idea of our chocolate Smarties over that crusty sugar crap everyone else calls Smarties.
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#28 Oct 29 2007 at 5:40 AM Rating: Decent
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There was a guy in my old neighborhood that used to hand out ketchup packets.
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#29 Oct 29 2007 at 5:41 AM Rating: Decent
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Here in the states we call Smarties by their real name, M&M's Smiley: oyvey
#30 Oct 29 2007 at 5:44 AM Rating: Good
Uhh Paskil Smarties are different from M&M's

We have both over here as I imagine Canada does too.

Smarties used to be better until they did the whole "NO ARTIFISHUL FLAVOURS OR CULUHHHHSSSSSSSSSSS" thing.
#31 Oct 29 2007 at 5:45 AM Rating: Decent
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Well I was just going by appearance. I do remember the smarties vs smarties thread from a while back. Didn't that get up to five pages?
#32 Oct 29 2007 at 5:51 AM Rating: Good
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Uhh Paskil Smarties are different from M&M's

We have both over here as I imagine Canada does too.

Smarties used to be better until they did the whole "NO ARTIFISHUL FLAVOURS OR CULUHHHHSSSSSSSSSSS" thing.

Yes we do, that other crap is called rockets, because that's basically what a kid is like after they eat a few.
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#33 Oct 29 2007 at 5:51 AM Rating: Good
I don't remember...it may have done...
#34 Oct 29 2007 at 5:54 AM Rating: Decent
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Didn't we have this convo last year? Then people started posting pics of Smarties like crazy?

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 9:54am by Doug
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#35 Oct 29 2007 at 5:57 AM Rating: Good
I fucking hate Smarties.
#36 Oct 29 2007 at 8:43 AM Rating: Decent
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I ******* hate Smarties.


I knew a girl once that would smash them all up and snort them through a straw like a yeyo head. (Yeyo is spanish for the white china). Can you picture that? What a moron. Can you imagine how that would feel?

I don't give out candy because my dog only scares the living crap out of anyone that comes to the door and the parents end up looking at me like it is some crime to have a dog. You knock at my door and he WILL bark. He is 130lbs and sounds vicious, but the moment you open the door he wants to be all up in your kool-aide. He is harmless, parents need to get over the fact that he looks monstrous. I hate explaining to them that he "doesn't bite" so I don't answer the door when I am alone. The fiance opens it if we are together.

For Halloween I will be shutting off all the lights, closing the blinds, placing a "no trick or treaters" note on the door, and will commence playing WoW until it is safe to come out.

Thats my usual halloween tradition. When I was younger my mom would do the same thing. Guess that apple didn't fall far from the tree did it.
#37 Oct 29 2007 at 8:46 AM Rating: Decent
depends on if we are going to be home or not. when we are home we buy bags of random candies and hand them out about a small handful at a time.

last year we were not home so we just put the bowl on the porch and let kids take what they wanted.

Dont know if we will be home or not this year, i think we will go to sea world and check out their "kid friendly" halloween party with the kids.
#38 Oct 29 2007 at 8:50 AM Rating: Decent
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I hand out the regular size bars of candy. Me and the mrs's are in a decent sized neighborhood and she likes doing it. She wears a witch hat to the door, it's kinda funny.

When I was a kid however, I would get those little bite size milky ways, snickers, hersheys, etc.

#39 Oct 29 2007 at 9:02 AM Rating: Good
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I hand out the regular size bars of candy. Me and the mrs's are in a decent sized neighborhood and she likes doing it. She wears a witch hat to the door, it's kinda funny.


This is most likely what I'll be doing this year, since I'll be sitting at home on Halloween working anyway. I just needs me an witch's hat. Smiley: frown
#40 Oct 29 2007 at 9:10 AM Rating: Good
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Just don't give out those black and orange 'peanut butter' candies.


My wife LOVES those.
#41 Oct 29 2007 at 9:25 AM Rating: Decent
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My wife LOVES those.


What is the word...

hmmm..

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Yep thats the word.
#42 Oct 29 2007 at 10:20 AM Rating: Good
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Hubby and I used to live on a military installation so that meant at least 150 kids coming to our door. We used to buy at least 10 pounds of candy each year and usually had half a pound left at the end of the night.
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Hubby and I used to live on a military installation so that meant at least 150 kids coming to our door. We used to buy at least 10 pounds of candy each year and usually had half a pound left at the end of the night.


This is why I am glad I am in a shabby part of town living in a not-so-nice trailor park were kids look into the entrance and think of a horror movie.








That and I put a sign out at the entrance saying <<Elm Street (for some reason the kids leave our whole park alone)
#44 Oct 29 2007 at 10:28 AM Rating: Good
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I try to find a unique treat. I found small cans of pringles at costco this year for real cheap, so I'm giving those out. I remember always being excited by chips when I was a kid, so it'll probably go over well.
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#45 Oct 29 2007 at 10:30 AM Rating: Decent
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I bought like 10 bags of candy last year and was out by the first hour. I know I need to be conservative. I'd use volume as your judge.

PS. To the OOT, there is a difference between American and Canadian smarties. Canadian smarties=better than M &Ms. American smarties, colored chalk.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 2:31pm by Annabella
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#46 Oct 29 2007 at 11:17 AM Rating: Good
I usually just offered the bowl. 98% of the kids who trick-or-treated only took 1-2 pieces of candy.
#47 Oct 29 2007 at 11:55 AM Rating: Good
I'm a sucker at Halloween. This is only our second year in a house, being able to give candy out, and I love seeing the little ghouls and ghosts and carebears. I give them at least three, if not more. And I don't buy the bad candy. I get the name brand, good stuff.

One year in our apartment, we had gone about four years getting no trick-or-treaters, so we didn't bother buying candy. What do you know, but four kids show up. I gave them each fifty cents. I didn't know what else to do, and I remembered being excited by dimes and nickles I'd get as a kid. I figured with inflation, it'd be a quarter by now.

Edited, Oct 29th 2007 2:55pm by Belkira
#48 Oct 29 2007 at 12:15 PM Rating: Excellent
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I love how "Fun Size" is just a nice way of saying "Small Size".

What's "fun" about a tiny Mars Bar?


There are some candy bars that, imo, are better in their smaller form. Take the reeses pieces peanutbutter wafer stick thingies. Those things are good, but the actual ratio of peanutbutter, wafer, and chocolate is far better balanaced in the smaller form than the normal size.

I feel the same way about payday "fun size" and snickers. They're just way better in the bite-sized form.
#49 Oct 29 2007 at 12:19 PM Rating: Good
I hand out single fun sizes, but I have to. My neihborhood is full of king-size candy givers, so the little bastards appear in small mobs of 30 or so.

I buy 20 bags of candy every year and am out in about an hour.
#50 Oct 29 2007 at 12:47 PM Rating: Good
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Nobody in my area trick or treats anymore, I live in a horrible area.
#51 Oct 30 2007 at 12:19 AM Rating: Decent
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I didn't vote. I live in the middle of nowhere. People can't find my house to knock on the door and beg for candy. I like it better that way, I can keep the candy for myself. /evillaugh
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