Halloween handouts
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- October
- 27
For the first time in I can’t remember when, none of my offspring are going out Trick-or-Treating on Halloween.
I thought I’d be done with costumes and cold, rainy nights under umbrellas long ago, but my youngest went out last year with her other high school sophomore friends and we get students from the nearby college at our door still, so I had pretty much expected to be manning my door alone on Oct. 31 handing out treats.
This year, however, I was surprised to hear my youngest was staying home and handing out, instead of collecting, goodies. So the big debate was on: what do you hand out on Halloween and how much?
In general, we do the non-healthy thing and hand out small candy bars. Depending on how heavy or light the traffic, one small bar per small person, two per big person.
I’ve handed out shrink-wrapped mini-popcorn bags, pennies and (way long ago) home-make cookies and popcorn fresh from the pan, but we’ve settled on junk food for the long haul. For one thing, anything left over goes in the lunch boxes or in my candy drawer at work. And for another, anything even remotely home-made just gets tossed in these amazingly paranoid times.
The only thing home made we do these days is carve our pumpkin. Then we throw the leavings outside into the garden for the squirrels and hope they’ll miss one and we’ll have a pumpkin vine growing up for next year!
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on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm by Randi Weiner.
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