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I get about 50 kids in average every year.

So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I'll spend a couple hundred on candies. I'm not wealthy but I can afford it once a year .... I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.

Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I've made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they're getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don't care of the kids age ... they could be two or twenty (as long as they're polite and non aggressive) they're getting candy.

I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses .... I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.

But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!

Is this USD or?

My wife bought rice krispie treats for super cheap, dumdums, some lesser known candy, little Halloween toys and stickers, and made goodie bags.

If you avoid the mainstream big name candy, it's not so bad.

I just bought 40 lbs (big neighborhood) at US$4.44 a lb for snack-size name-brand 'chocolate' at Costco

Nominal price for the past four years has been $5 a lb here. Given that's kirkland's packaging with mars/hersheys candy in it.

Looks like my local grocer is $24.99 for the 3.4lb bag which is over US$7 a lb so ... yikes.

I only got about five groups last year, maybe 15 kids total.

I noticed a couple of days ago that the Halloween candy was out at Walmart, but I didn't check prices. If this is accurate, then, yeah, porch light off this year. It's not even worth putting out a pumpkin. Also, I'd end up eating the leftover candy, so that's not good either.

If homemade cookies weren't shunned, then I'd do that, but I can't imagine parents letting their kids eat them. The fearmongers have won.

Trick or Candy mortgage!

Oh, so that’s what it looks like inside a murican supermarket. That’s a metric shit ton of plastics from an UE pov.

I’ve never seen bags like that, some seems dumb with the numbers, 195 or 310 but why not plain and round 200?

People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.

I am not one of those people.

should be plenty of clearance Nov 1st at least