We let them pick a few pieces a day for a week or so and then send everything to school. They use leftover halloween candy for their christmas fair where they have a big gingerbread house building area. They use all donated halloween candy as decorations for the gingerbread houses.
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Married to Ian since 4-28-04
When I was a kid, my cousins had to dump everything in a community bowl and then my aunt gave out a piece after dinner every night until it was gone. For some reason, I though that was really unfair and it sticks out in my mind. So, I let my kids have it.
They each ate quite a few pieces on Sunday. The thrill of it must have died down already as they only ate a piece or two yesterday and neither packed any in their lunches today.
well i have ultra picky kids :P so it makes it a lot easier-- they actually dont like most of it LOL. But they get a small baggie of stuff they like, and then i keep a baggie of suckers for the cabinet. Dh took most of the rest to work, leaving he and i couple of pieces we like that they dont
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Mine are allowed one piece after dinner each night. It's a "don't offer" kind of thing so if they don't ask for it, they don't get it because I'm not reminding them of it. I hold it in an upper cabinet for them so eventually it gets forgotten about. When it's time to buy Easter candy, I toss the Halloween stuff and when it's time for Halloween stuff, I ditch the Easter candy. No kidding - I just tossed out a bunch of chocolate rabbit feet. LOL As an aside, why do we always eat Easter bunnies from the ears down??
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SAHM to 4 beautiful children Lauren ('90), Nicole ('92), Robert ('00) and Joanna ('02) and wife to Bob for 23 years.
I didn't read replies yet, but here's what we do--
Some will be eaten of course, by me! My kids get 2-3 pieces a day for a few days.
Some I'm using to make candy leis to give as awards for my church youth group. (We are doing leis by color to represent values, so that will depend on the colors of candy I have how much I can use.)
Some is going to be doled out to neighbor children who always raid my fridge for snacks. (Horrible? I'm tired of them eating all my apples, cheese, yogurt, & other expensive healthy foods.)
Hard candies, suckers, etc will go in the 72-hour kits, in the car, in my purse, and other places where an emergency stash might come in handy.
I put the chocolate bars in the freezer and the rest is going to Dh's work by weeks end. They are allowed one chocolate bar and one candy( non chocolate) after dinner until it is gone.
We also let them eat as much as they want over the weekend, then we go to the system above. Our neighbors down the street let their kids choose 2 pieces and they get a quarter per chocolate bar,.10 per sucker and a penny for all other pieces, but they have 2 kids and they can appriciate a dollar.
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Mama to Bailee(9),Makenna(7),Sully(4),Sebastian(2)
This year they were done all the candy within 24 hours. A lot of the houses we went to decided not to give out candy because of H1N1. So, we had very little candy.
What we have done in the past is. Everyone pools their candy together and we all will share. Anything we can't eat David will bring to work. This year with having six kids(only 5 get candy) we had all together a shopping bag of chips and a small bag of candies.
Mine are allowed one piece after dinner each night. It's a "don't offer" kind of thing so if they don't ask for it, they don't get it because I'm not reminding them of it. I hold it in an upper cabinet for them so eventually it gets forgotten about. When it's time to buy Easter candy, I toss the Halloween stuff and when it's time for Halloween stuff, I ditch the Easter candy. No kidding - I just tossed out a bunch of chocolate rabbit feet. LOL As an aside, why do we always eat Easter bunnies from the ears down??
Same here. Our candy lasts from Halloween to Christmas to Easter to fourth of July parade.
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mommy to Morgan Phillip 5/24/02
and Elisha Nicole 5/10/05
and Bethany Alyssa 1/5/08
Our kids got to eat all they wanted on Halloween, then we sorted out what they liked the most. The rest went to the Candy Buy-back event at our Pediatric Dentist. They received $1/lb plus a raffle ticket for a drawing for 1 of 2 iPod Nanos. The Dentist will be sending the candy to the Troops. Each of my kids made about $2 and chose to keep about 20 pieces of candy.
I do pick out stuff I don't want them to have (things that would stick to their teeth really bad and cause problems)
We do basically the same thing. A couple of minor differences in that I pick out the stuff I like tootsie rolls and I throw out at least half the gum and hard candy. We all just pig out on it til its gone other than that. Halloween and Easter are the two days a year they can do that so we live it up.
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Change of plans: The candy they gave up is in a box and going to a friend and her buddies in Iraq. They can either enjoy the candy themselves or share with the local kids there. The kids liked that Idea a lot.
We aren't big candy eaters here so I don't need to make a big deal of it. After a couple of weeks I see they have still have full bags and dump it into a community bowl and put it away. Then whenever someone "needs" a piece of candy I allow them a piece or two. It's usually once a month or so. Like others have said I usually have to dump it out to make room for the next holiday's candy.
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So, we decided to send the candy to Iraq (but they kept 9 pcs out and willg et a candy in exchange).
A dentist about 30 miles from here does this, he buys back candy from the kids. He gives them $1 a lbs and then mails it to the troops.
So I told the kids instead of me driving there, I will give them each a small toy. They agreed. We put it all together and wow, it was 12 lbs (about 1.5 lbs was leftover from the bucket of candy we gave out, the rest was theirs from TOT).
Thanks for sharing all you do with the candy and how you deal with it. It always is nice to get new ideas.
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