Did you ever receive a non candy item in your bag for Halloween? I remember getting dimes and nickels. how about you?

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[johnnyfins]

1. pennies

[debm55]

2. Thank you very much, johnnyfins.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Definitely

There was a wealthy family that lived in a huge house (their yard was the whole city block).
It was about 3 blocks from my best friend's house.
We ha Halloween 2 days then, so I'd go to his house one day, and he'd come to mine the next day.
Among their businesses was a 7Up bottling plant.
So, they'd give 2 full size candy bars, a bottle of 7Up, and a roll of pennies (50 cents) to every kid. Had to cost them hundreds of dollars each year.
The year of my Mr. Peanut costume, the lady manning the door liked it so much she tossed another roll of pennies in my sack!

[debm55]

4. WOW, ProfessorGAC, you were sure lucky.

[pandr32]

5. I remember a toothbrush.

I was not very impressed! As a grownup now, though--pretty sweet treat!

[debm55]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, thank you pandr32.

[hannah]

7. Apples

We put them aside when we got home. Then we would marvel at all our candy!

[debm55]

10. Thank you, hannah, I got apples too, They were never nice apples ----always the rotten kind.

[electric_blue68]

33. Omg! 😄 How Disappointing!

[surrealAmerican]

8. pennies, and those pamphlets ...

... that tried to convince kids to convert to Christianity.


My kids used to get little spider-shaped rings.

[debm55]

11. Thank you, surrealAmerican. Like the spider rings, I don't understand the pamphlets.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Yes, money, but also apples and oranges.

[debm55]

12. Thank you.sinkingfeeling. Apples or oranges are fine sound great, if not mushy or rotted

[electric_blue68]

34. What? NO! Halloween is All About The CANDY!

😉

[LoisB]

13. Yes. Apples and oranges.

[debm55]

14. Thank you, LoisB

[boonecreek]

15. Apples, pennies

and the occasional donut, usually powdered sugar. Would eat those on the fly.
Nobody ever gave me a cup of coffee though.

[debm55]

16. HAHAHAHAHAH. Thank you very much, boonecreek

[Aristus]

17. In the South, you get Chick Tracts.

Crazed Bible-thumpers who hate and fear Halloween as "Satanic" (apparently blissfully unaware that Halloween, or All Hallows Eve, is a Christian holiday), put them into our candy bags when all we want is some October fun. Not a histrionic lecture on salvation.

[debm55]

18. Agree, I never got one when I was a kid. Yes, a southern thing.

[catbyte]

19. I got a popcorn ball that was inedible.

Does that count?

[debm55]

20. Yes, it counts ,catbyte. I dislike popcorn balls too.

[appleannie1]

21. It used to be safe to get homemade cookies or homemade popcorn balls. Bubble gum was another thing we got.

Then there were the candy apples and caramel apples. And none of them ever had razor blades or needles in them. If people did not want to be bothered, they would not turn their porch light on.

[JoseBalow]

22. Had a neighbor who gave out popsicles

No saving that for later!

[debm55]

25. Was it warm where you lived? Thank you JoseBalow

[JoseBalow]

29. No, not warm at all. Halloween in the midwest wasn't below freezing temperatures

but it was still too cold to be eating popsicles... which we ate anyways!

[debm55]

31. When my son went Trick or Treating at the age of two. It snowed here in Pittsburgh. He would have eaten the popsicle too

[Emile]

23. Back when I was a kid you could get a full size candy bar

for 5 cents. I do remember one house ran out of candy bars and they gave each kid a nickle.

[debm55]

24. Same here, Emile, same here

[wcmagumba]

26. Seems like one neighbor dropped a quarter or 2 in our bags...I liked the candy better...

[debm55]

28. Wow, two quarters???? That could be two comic books. Thank you wcmagumba.

[wcmagumba]

32. We considered them to be well off, my parents rented our little house from them...

[Polly Hennessey]

27. Nope. The only non-candy item was a homemade popcorn ball.

[debm55]

30. Thank you very much, Polly Hennessey.

[electric_blue68]

35. Definitely pennies.

[Laffy Kat]

36. I used to give away loose change.

I would wash the coins put them in little bundles of sheer black mesh tied with satin orange ribbons. I don't do that anymore because it's too much work. The last few Halloweens, I've included toy disassembled gliders with the candy. Everyone LOVES those and they seem to be more popular than the candy. Unfortunately, this year I'll be working, so I won't do anything, which makes me sad.

[madamesilverspurs]

37. One year when it was really cold,

snow on the ground and all, one lady gave each of us a cookie and a cup of hot cocoa. Made it worth the struggle to get our costumes on over our snow suits!

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