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zin

Making and handing out doughnuts on the street corner again, fresh-fried in a vat of boiling oil.

Keeping Halloween dangerous for the little ones.

YoursTruly

that sounds GREAT.

I have not seen these newfangled reese's pb wrappers but from your description I can safely say I am AGAINST THEM. The neatly-folded was such a sweet little pleasure!

I was always that kid whose Halloween candy sat in a bag in their closet until February when their mom finally couldn't stop herself any longer and snuck in and ate it all. Then I would get so mad, even though I clearly had no intention of eating any of it, and all the chocolate was getting white in that way old crappy chocolate does.

Miss the smell of my plastic jackolantern candy carrying tub

Here's a question: how do you know if your house is going to get trick-or-treaters?? There's no kids on my block but lots of family homes, two drug addict homes, a band practice home, and us, the renters with the macho barking dog. A couple of the houses are decorated, which my dad says is an indicator that the kiddies will come. But how do you know if you should stay home and hand out bite-size snickers or not?

I ask because the only other time I've lived in a house on a residential street was in college and I was so excited for the kids to come and I bought the hugest bowl of candy and decorated the house and got all kinds of pranks and scares ready and then HOURS went by and no one came to my door until 10 p.m. when a bunch of teens not even in costume and holding half a six pack knocked and I gave them the entire bowl. And it was the saddest day of my life.

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MirandaJuly

Kids never trick or treat on our street. I think in Portland kids all go to rich people neighborhoods?

Cherry_Pie

Last year we ran out of candy! So many little crits in costumes! One Snow White went into our play house/shack in the front yard and refused to come out!

I will double my candy supply this year.
Kit Kats for all!!!

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YoursTruly

When I did Outward Bound we were like 1.5 weeks into a pretty hellacious mountain-climbing-on-very-few-calories-per-day situation (eating almost exclusively MREs and ramen) when suddenly the trippy-hippy guru running the whole affair announced that we were going to have quiet journal-writing time and that we were getting a treat for it. He pulled out a king-sized Snickers and we all GASPED with joy, I can still remember the unbelievable tremors of anticipatory pleasure that ran through me. And because we were on this philosophically-intentional super-low-calorie diet where we'd walk 15 miles and then each get half a packet of instant oatmeal and nothing else, we all assumed that all 12 of us would be SHARING this snickers, which, we were like, GREAT. But then he KEPT PULLING THEM OUT OF HIS BAG and it turned out we were EACH GETTING OUR OWN. And two of us (no need to name names, ahem), ACTUALLY CRIED.

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