And back in those early days we heard a lot more from RtSO and his dining companion, Book. Robert, we miss Book!

Happy Halloween, foodies, wherever you are!

I don't do kids and I don't do Halloween.

I don't eat candy. Well, I would if it were in the house. For this reason, my sister and I both turn out our lights, and head over to Mom's to hand out the candy she bought.

Ok well in reality, she hands out the candy, while my sister and I order food and drink wine.

Except since Halloween falls on a Friday this year, my sister and I are going out. That means I'll be hiding out in the house til she gets there and we can leave.

I am handing out candy this year except my husband has opened and eaten some of it. I didn't buy it till tuesday for that reason. Next year I will buy it on halloween.

Glad you brought that up, Dahlink! I've been wondering after Book.

We stopped passing out candy just about ten years ago. Now, that being said, I do buy a bag of minature chocolate bars that are a bargain just after halloween. A large bag usually lasts us about six months. I keep most of it in the freezer for an occassional treat. Bah, Humbug on Halloween. :(

I give out Snickers. Since there are very few kids coming through my neighborhood, I bring most of them to work the next day.

I don't like to drive after dark on Halloween and I don't like to cause others to drive, either. When I was a kid, one of the dads, coming home from work, hit a neighborhood trick or treater who ran out from between parked cars.

I wasn't "languishing." Some of my best work in the last year was done over on Reality Check.

I just came up with a really great idea if you don't feel like handing out candy.

I am going to be getting ready and do not want to deal w/trick-or-treaters.

If I put a sign "no candy" on my door, I take the chance of getting vandalized later.

My porch light is a sensor, so I can't turn that out. Plus I'll be home getting ready, so the lights inside will be on.

So I figured I'll just set a bowl of candy out with a "take one" sign.

Then....an even better idea....just do the bowl and sign, don't put any candy in it, and they'll just think it's all gone already.

uuummm Snickers! The best part about Snickers and 3 Musketeers is that they are great frozen too (which keeps one from devouring the whole bag because they're so friggin small!)

My favorites are the "baby" sized Heath bars. What a good commercial candy bar that is!

My first Halloween, living on my own, I bought lots of the good candy (sensibly planning to enjoy leftovers. My parents were of the cheapest dum dums school. Leftovers got tossed into the freezer to become the starting inventory for the next year.) Imagine my surprise when I didn't have any little darlings at the door. Then it struck me: maybe living on the 16th floor of an apartment block with only efficiency and one bedrooms flats was not viewed as a destination spot for 8-year olds.

After that year, I gave up on Halloween. Living in a flat with a solid steel door I figured what the hey. Unless they bring hammers or the like I'm safe. Tossed eggs: let management wash it off. Fortunately, that has never happened.

Ummm...Carey, I think if you put that "No Candy" sign out, you may end up having a few neighbors that believe you are a registered sex offender...the empty bowl is a much better idea

I usually love Halloween (not usually a kid person, but there's something about the fun of the costumes), but this year I have a ton of papers to grade, so I plan on hiding out in my study upstairs with other lights off and doors shut and hope few enough of the ghoulies will knock at a dark house that the dogs won't drive me nuts.

That said, I usually buy the good stuff and hope for leftovers. (There are usually plenty ever since my college dorm hosted the Boys and Girls Club for T-or-Ts and a really late group came through after my friends and I had polished off the last of the candy, thinking the kids were all gone. The guilt! I really stock up now.) My recent Girl Scout cookie delivery will have to scratch the itch this year. That and all the candy my co-workers will bring in to dump at the office next week.

Bucky, when I lived out west (CA & AZ) I recall having Girl Scout cookies in the Spring. Is that when the BRS has them?

Carey, that No Candy sign will have your neighbors shunning you as a pervert.

KristinB - you got Girl Scout cookies recently?

Do Girls Scouts sell cookies at different times of the year, in different parts of the country?

I buy a bag of the fun-size Snickers. I keep forgetting whether I had many trick-or-treaters the year before, so I buy a big bag. Then, I bring the leftovers into work where they are scarfed up.

Eve wrote: In Maryland, Girl Scout cookies are a Fall Event.

Really. Humpf. In Colorado, Girl Scouts ringing your doorbell are the surest sign that you've survived another winter.

Maybe we need to work out a Thin Mint exchange network...(heads are nodding in agreement, I know.)

In Maryland, Girl Scout cookies are a Fall Event.

Well, the post about the cheeseburger-in-a-can earlier in the year drew me to the blog, and it seemed to be starting to grow then.

Actually Girl Scout cookies in Maryland are divided. Central Maryland sells now, Girl Scouts of DC (which includes some other areas of Md) sells in January.
That way, you can get fresh cookies almost year round :-)
I only know this because I volunteer at the USO at the airport and Girl Scouts are always donating cookies to give to the troops. Year round at that.

A sign of the times: at 4:30 a woman in the office stood up and said, "Well, I guess I'll take off...go home...plug in the pumpkin and get ready for trick or treaters...:

Susan WNHAJ,

Congrats on volunteering at the USO.

As for Halloween, Happy Halloween to all the visitors to The Only Blog You Need

When I got home from work, there was a blue paper stuck in my door stating that if I wanted to participate in Trick or Treating, I should hang this paper on my door. Well, no one else has the paper hanging, so I didn't either. Does that make me bad?

I have to go be a judge at a costume party later on anyway. I'm not dressing up, but I am wearing a Black Sabbath concert tee.

grrr...no I'm not submitting too many comments, am I? twice.

The day after--I am happy to report mostly polite kids and lots of home-made or home-concocted costumes. There was just one group of grabby kids who ignored the "take two" instruction. But there was something new this year--one teenaged boy came to my door and called back to the group of kids standing back at the street about what was being offered. They evidently decided it wasn't worth walking 20 additional steps for Snickers, Crunch or Baby Ruth--!

I had very few kids - most of the churches were doing the Trunk or Treat thing - but one girl maybe 4th grade size? wearing what might have been a party dress and a younger boy, 2nd-grader-sized came to the door so I gave them candy, feeling sorry that no cared enough about them to help them with costumes. 10 minutes later, they were back with 2 boys as big as I am, also not wearing costumes, to whom I refused to give my Snickers. The girl told me that I "have to". I ordered them all from my doorstep.

We had one knock all night. Hubby is happily working his way through the three bags of candy he insisted we buy.

Mr Rosebud - such concern for the little ones: three bags of candy (and only coincidentally the candies he likes.) Too kind and considerate.

RtSO, I had to show this one to the hubby. He even managed to keep a straight face while agreeing with your assessment.