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In reply to the discussion: A Halloween alternative to candy [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)16. In the 70s, we tried giving out cool pencils and erasers
That was during the time the razor-blades-in-apples/candy scare was floating around, so we thought we were being progressive and cool to give something non-candy. Whoa, you should've seen the looks on these kids' faces. We were lucky we didn't get soaped/egged. We gave out candy every year after that.
Now we live in a condo building and don't get trick or treaters at all. I miss them.
I'll never forget trick or treating when we were kids in the late 50s or early 60s. There was a big house a block or two away from us that always invited kids inside for hot cocoa and donuts laid out on their dining room table. Perfect strangers (we didn't know them and they didn't know us). Wish people could still do that kind of thing!
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If folks are so anti-sugar one day out of the year, sugar free candy works, too...
cynatnite
Oct 2013
#34
I think it is a great thing. My daughter always loved the little toys/comics/fun erasers/stickers on
Luminous Animal
Oct 2013
#45
There are no rules that it has to be candy. The line is Trick or Treat...
Luminous Animal
Oct 2013
#56
I give out cigarettes, toy guns, olive garden gift certs, and pit bull puppies
The Straight Story
Oct 2013
#47
Great idea! I'm rural so no kids here but if I weren't your idea us great! nt
riderinthestorm
Oct 2013
#53