How much do you spend on Halloween candy?
Candy corn is a classic, but what do you buy? Share in the comments section. Stock photo.
Halloween is right around the corner, can you believe it? Most Halloween merchandise and candy is already on sale, and some stores are even prepping for Christmas.
Before we get ahead of ourselves, though, I’m interested in your Halloween habits. How much candy do you buy, and what do you consider a good price?
Are you the most popular house on the block handing out full-size candy bars, or do you just pick up whatever is cheapest? Does each trick-or-treater get a handful or is it strictly one Tootsie Roll per person?
Tell me all about it in the comment section, I’d like your input for a future column.
October 2, 2012 - 2:19 PM
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We don’t get a lot of trick-or-treaters (we’re a little off the beaten path) so I help my parents give out candy. They usually have a large bucket of small Tootsie Rolls and just let kids grab a handful.
I usually buy a mixture of candy, you know, for variety! Kit kats, milky way, m&ms, snickers, twizzlers, and some type of suckers…usually a few dum dums. Let me explain why so much. I live on a hill, in fact most of the houses in my neighborhood are on hills. I feel really bad for all the little kids having to “work” for their candy walking up my driveway, so I bag a mixture of candy in baggies with a ribbon tied to it to let them feel like it was worth the trip. It’s only once a year, I figure it’s okay
I love that idea, Amy! Where I went as a kid had a similar landscape, I certainly worked for my loot.
I usually spend about $10 on Halloween candy. I try to buy what my kids like in the snack size. I generally give 2 pieces per kid or donate it to what ever function we are attending (usually at church).
We don’t give out candy because it is unhealthy and we don’t believe in it. We do give out pistachios in the shell and colourful pencils.
I typically spend around $10 in any given year but, sadly, my area hasn’t had roaming trick-or-treaters in several years. On the off-chance that we do get children, I buy the snack size and just let them dig in for a handful.
My husband & I have never lived in an area for many trick-or-treaters so I go back to my old neighborhood & help my parents give out candy. Last year, we gave out over 300 pieces & had to cut the light out with kids still coming. And that was giving 1 piece per child. Busiest Halloween we’ve seen in a long time!
I spend about $10-$15 dollars on Halloween candy. Bring what we don’t give out to work for the hungry co-workers.
Wow, I bet Alice’s house is just one of the FAVORITE places for kids to Trick Or Treat…
Come on, Alice. There’s a time to preach, and a time to minister. Halloween is a time to minister. As in C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E.
Let them breath one day a year before you smother them with lecturing ‘goodness’. You MIGHT just realize you get more ears listening than with the Carrie Nation mindset…
Our block usually gets at least 150 kids so we usually spend $20-$25. Well worth it for the entertainment.
We usually get 150 or so kids on our street and spend about $45 – $50 at least. We try to make sure they want to keep coming back to our street every year.
We will end up spending about $200 on candy.We spent $100 and it was gone in an hour.We must have 500 trick or treaters.It’s fun though I enjoy it
We get about $5 of candy, usually from the Dollar Tree, just in case we get anyone coming by…which has still yet to happen in the 4+ years we’ve owned our house. There are kids in the community, but with it being semi-rural and very hilly, with no sidewalks, most parents seem to take their kids into Radford for the trick-or-treat trail.