Eighteen vampires 🧛♀️🧛♂️ in a ⚰️ coffin on a have a nice day card and eighteen mini bags of M&M’s.
I like handmade cards. They cheer me up. The Halloween ones are cute and make me smile. Although the mini bags of M&M’s made me smile even more. I had no idea he got that much candy. Goes to show you what I don’t notice in the refrigerator at times. Also I now know why he did not let me pick up the bag of Halloween candy the other day when we were at Walmart. His reasoning was that it was too much candy and probably go to waste. It was a big bag of 144 pieces of mini candy and bite size bars. Well sure a few will enjoy my sharing M&M’s as I won’t be consuming all eighteen bags (no matter how smaller they are). Of course the price of the 144 pieces was nothing to sneeze at.
Thinking about such a large bag now makes me wonder. Why such a large bag? Do people expect that many trick-or-treaters at their house? I know I won’t be having any visitors due to the street where I reside. Then I thought perhaps the large quantity would be perfect for a community party or a trunk-or-treat event. Walmart had such a large display of candy like all the other stores.
I remember my days of going door to door for treats. I recall getting apples and sometimes a homemade treat from people. One place I did go into was the corner bar. The bartender gave out bags of chips or pretzels; patrons gave money. Usually a quarter or dime (which bought lots of penny candy down the road). Generally after a good trek I’d end up with two or three dollars which back in the late fifties and early sixties was not too bad.
When I still worked at a large company in Pennsylvania co-workers would bring in their children. I would always have something for them. One year it was packs of cookies such as Oreos and Nutterbutters; as well as packages of peanut butter crackers. Another year I had snack bags of chips, pretzels and cheese curls. I’d end up giving out to at least twenty to thirty kids. What I thought interesting was that all the parents had to do was bring their child to their place of employment as over sixty percent of the employees would have something to give out. I remember a co-worker who brought her two children in and they carried out a sack of goodies. In fact she said she did not need to take them out door to door that evening.
Candy is a fine treat but I was happy with getting change as a kid. Lots of times I’d end up throwing away a third of the candy as it was something I did not like.
If you are expecting visitors on Halloween hope you don’t go broke buying treats. Wow on the cost of that 144 bags of candy I saw the other day. Of course you do get what you pay for as the saying goes.
Until tomorrow....I hear a bag of M&M’s calling my name; well two actually.
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