How did we ever get to the point where as a nation we all thought is was a good idea to give away tons of free candy and to teach our kids that getting a huge bag of snickers (or you favorite candy) was the goal of the holiday. I think that we have collectively lost our minds.
The pagan holiday was to honor the dead and somehow it became all about snickers. I remember as a child eating tons of candy on Halloween and be amazed at how soon it was all gone. Probably within a week I was down to the hard candy or anything with out chocolate. We all hated the houses that gave out apples or popcorn balls.
I live way out in the country now. When your driveway is 1/3 a mile long you don't get any trick or treaters so I don't buy lots of candy except for my daily snickers of course. The best part of Halloween for me is getting my fun size snickers on sale. My daughter is spending the night at a friends and they are going to a church trunk or treat and we are going to another friend's house for dinner. I am wearing my Halloween shirt (size 2x that just hangs off me) and that is the extent of my celebration. I will try to avoid my daughter's bag of goodies when she comes home tomorrow. Hopefully she'll eat all the good things tonight so I don't even have to be tempted.
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Thought about giving out Popcorn balls (100 calories each and wrapped commercially) but couldn't bring myself to it. Our neighborhood is Halloween Heaven, with folks dropping off their kids here from other places as our houses are so close together. We left, for the first time ever, at 7:30 to head to our dance club in Durham for a costume party (I won "most original" and a prize for a costume that cost me NOTHING!!) and my daughter won second place for a costume that cost her next to nothing. We got the neighbor-in-law next door to hand out candy for the rest of the night at our house and, God love him, he handed it all out so for the first even I did not have to make a trip to the IFC Kitchen the next day with my left over temptables. Great Halloween with a reduced focus on the food and the sugar.
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