What are you passing out to trick or treaters this year? [Archive]

J-man

10-26-2007, 03:32 PM

Originally posted by ShawnHopkins:
Toothbrushes. Kids like those, right?

I've done it for years, but the ungrateful bastards still egg my house every time.That is due to your misunderstanding of trick or treat. You see, toothbrushes are not treats. When is the last time you were brushing your teeth and you thought "Mmm, this is really great"? If you want to hand out things that are healthy, then you should probably go with sunflower seeds, dried fruit, or something of the like.

Zeonic Freak

10-26-2007, 03:57 PM

I was thinking about filling the trunk of my car with candy and driving around my neighborhood with a megaphone yelling "IF YOU WANT FREE CANDY, TRY AND GET SOME FROM THE BACK OF MY CAR"!!! and watch the little munchkins get the most exersize they ever had in their miserable lives HAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Or better yet, make a candy bazooka or shotgun and let'em have it!!!!

Or what the most likely to happen, just play playstation like i did last year playing Final Fantasy XII...

Leaping Larry Jojo

10-26-2007, 04:34 PM

Sometimes I give out free comics, but most years I simply go out to eat to avoid answering the door.

Novapocalypse

10-26-2007, 04:50 PM

Toothbrushes. Kids like those, right?

I've done it for years, but the ungrateful bastards still egg my house every time.

Your supposed to give them stuff that rot their teeth to the core,not clean It.:D

I'm 13,and have recently decided to say "Screw-It" so I'll be playing video-games all night.

wonderfly

10-26-2007, 05:34 PM

Shawn Hopkins

10-26-2007, 05:42 PM

I'll be passing out comic books, along with some candy. The comic books seemed to be pretty successful last year. Judging which comics to hand out to which kids is the hardest part, (I fear the dreaded "soccer mom" coming back to my door a few days later, holding up an issue of Supergirl and saying "What have you given my little Billy to read?!? You can see her belly button!!!"

Yeah, that's the thing. Superhero comics today are so adult-oriented you pretty much have to avoid them, just to avoid getting arrested for giving a kid a comic with a severed head or a depiction of sodomy in it. Those Cartoon Network books DC does might be a safe bet, though.

When I give superhero comics to kids I try to stick to only stuff before 1990, and even then you need to be careful. After 1990 the boobs and blood get too extreme in most of them.

FireStarterLE

10-26-2007, 08:07 PM

a few years ago the neighborhood would be filled with people going door to door but recently it's gotten very sparse so we'll be doing what we did last year and that is buying candy for just ourselves

Antiyonder

10-26-2007, 08:25 PM

To be honest, the cards are pretty much hand me downs, which is why I won't lose sleep over giving them away, but for those who consider passing out comics, there are some good kid friendly options:

Marvel Adventures
The Amazing Spider-Girl
Spider-Man Love Mary Jane
Teen Titans Go
Justice League Unlimited
Pretty much any Disney animal comics

Zeonic Freak

10-26-2007, 09:37 PM

Yeah, that's the thing. Superhero comics today are so adult-oriented you pretty much have to avoid them, just to avoid getting arrested for giving a kid a comic with a severed head or a depiction of sodomy in it. Those Cartoon Network books DC does might be a safe bet, though.

When I give superhero comics to kids I try to stick to only stuff before 1990, and even then you need to be careful. After 1990 the boobs and blood get too extreme in most of them.

Well, the comics you give too the boys, they are going to like boobs sooner or later, so better to let them gaze at thier first super heroine crush at a young age. That lets them know if you become a comic nerd, the chances of you getting a girl as hot as Supergirl are stretching it LOL.

Shoot, if you gave a CY Girls or the newer Supergirl comics to me when i was like 12 or 13, you wont hear me complaining...:D

Mynd Hed

10-27-2007, 01:00 AM

That is due to your misunderstanding of trick or treat. You see, toothbrushes are not treats. When is the last time you were brushing your teeth and you thought "Mmm, this is really great"? If you want to hand out things that are healthy, then you should probably go with sunflower seeds, dried fruit, or something of the like.

Then maybe you should stop handing out toothbrushes.

Your supposed to give them stuff that rot their teeth to the core,not clean It.:D

Guys. Seriously. Sarcasm. Learn to recognize it.

...wait. You WERE being sarcastic, right? Please say yes. Otherwise I might have to egg your house myself. (-:

Anyway, I've got Skittles, Life- and Gummy Savers, and Crunch bars. Be interesting to see if we even get much in the way of Trick or Treaters-- the new apartment complex is pretty small, and there's a very upscale neighborhood just a little over a block away that might siphon away the lion's share of the kids looking for better loot.

FireStarterLE

10-27-2007, 02:04 AM

You see, toothbrushes are not treats

nor were canned goods, but years ago that was one of the things that found it's way into my halloween bag

chocolate bars, suckers, tootsie rolls .. beans? Something is out of place there

Ishtar

10-27-2007, 02:07 AM

I've also known people who've given out fruit snacks and snacks such as pretzels, Doritos, crackers, cookies, etc.

XOMiss_Samantha

10-27-2007, 04:59 PM

tons, and tons, and tons of candy. We just buy by the bulk since our neighborhood is loaded with little kids (not counting half the people who just drop their children off at the top of the street and let them collect as they walk down around and back up again). Usually mounds, snickers, etc.

I've also known people who've given out fruit snacks and snacks such as pretzels, Doritos, crackers, cookies, etc. it's easier to hide the razor blades that way. *laughs at stupid urban legends*

But really, I could never stand the people who handed that stuff out when I was younger. Kids want chocolate and chewy.

Czar Gato

10-27-2007, 09:04 PM

Used needles, rusty razor blades. Y'know, the usual.

Zeonic Freak

10-27-2007, 10:28 PM

tons, and tons, and tons of candy. We just buy by the bulk since our neighborhood is loaded with little kids (not counting half the people who just drop their children off at the top of the street and let them collect as they walk down around and back up again). Usually mounds, snickers, etc.

it's easier to hide the razor blades that way. *laughs at stupid urban legends*

But really, I could never stand the people who handed that stuff out when I was younger. Kids want chocolate and chewy.

My rule for handing out candy was, whatever can fit in the palm of my fist i put it in the kids bag, then repeat that about 5 more times till the mother says "ALRIGHT THATS ENOUGH NOW" (That happend to me last year some mother was laughing and yelling at me to stop at the same time)...

J-man

10-27-2007, 11:33 PM

Where were you when I was eight!?

Mynd Hed

10-28-2007, 11:54 AM

Y'know, I have this crazy recollection that when I was a kid, the protocol was that the person handing out candy put it all in a big bowl, then held out the big bowl to the kids so that they could pick out the kind of candy they liked best and take ONE piece.

I don't know what's happened since then, but when I tried to do this last Halloween, the greedy little bastards scooped up two big double handfuls apiece before I could snatch the bowl away. So much for that. I had to switch to selecting a candy at random and placing it in the kids' bags for them, which sucks because I'd rather give them the opportunity to select something they like, but if they can't be trusted to show the slightest modicum of restraint about it....

XOMiss_Samantha

10-28-2007, 11:56 AM

Y'know, I have this crazy recollection that when I was a kid, the protocol was that the person handing out candy put it all in a big bowl, then held out the big bowl to the kids so that they could pick out the kind of candy they liked best and take ONE piece.

I don't know what's happened since then, but when I tried to do this last Halloween, the greedy little bastards scooped up two big double handfuls apiece before I could snatch the bowl away. So much for that.

That's why I hate handing out candy, because when you say "take two" they take about 60. Then when I pull the bowl away they give me this really sad face and It's not like I can just slam the door on them.

purplehairedwonder

10-28-2007, 12:56 PM

That's why I hate handing out candy, because when you say "take two" they take about 60. Then when I pull the bowl away they give me this really sad face and It's not like I can just slam the door on them.We always give two or three pieces each at home. We also get a ton of Trick-or-Treaters at my house so we have to conserve candy to make it through the night.

Luckily, I'll be at school for Halloween so don't have to worry about it ;)

Kury Wagner

10-28-2007, 01:19 PM

What's worse is when the person just puts a bowl out on their porch and doesn't guard it. I remember going trick or treating many years back with my surrogate uncle's wife and kids, and when we came to a house like that, they all took like tons of candy. I was like, '... sign says take one or two...' I took one. Hmpf.

As for the question at hand, we never get kids around here, so we don't even bother. My parents'll buy some candy to 'start' my brother out, and for me to mow on, but that's all it's for. In the rare event some kid does come to our house, they usually aren't wearing a costume. That is instant fail and they do not receive any of my Snickers or Milky Way Midnights. Bunch of punks, I tells ya.

Zubby

10-28-2007, 01:59 PM

I always buy my candy right before Halloween, so I can't eat it myself before the trick or treaters come. I buy things I would like myself. That means none of that cheap-ass stuff like tiny pieces of hard taffy, etc. that used to piss me off when I was a kid.
Where I live we don't get too many trick or treaters, however, and 2/3 of them are older kids not even in costume.

The comments about toothbrushes, etc. above reminded me of when I was a kid. There was an old guy in our town who used to give out back issues of the magazines he subscribed to as treats. Because he was old, that meant an 8-month old copy of Modern Retirement or something along those lines. Just what a kid wants!
He did this every year, even though kids were practically standing in line to wax his windows in retaliation. Some people never learn! My sister and I always trick or treated there, we thought it was all too funny.

Dr.Pepper

10-28-2007, 02:34 PM

We always pass out old candy that we hate.

DBZNarutoWarrior

10-28-2007, 07:23 PM

Just normal candy like Reeses, Hersheys, Kit Kats, Almond Joys, etc.

That's what I'm doing too.

Zeonic Freak

10-28-2007, 08:10 PM

That's why I hate handing out candy, because when you say "take two" they take about 60. Then when I pull the bowl away they give me this really sad face and It's not like I can just slam the door on them.

Step 1:

Give the little brats a crude face that you dont take thier crap

Step 2:

Close the door on thier faces so that they can pout when leaving.

Step 3:

Repeat Steps 1 and 2 on the next bunch that dont leave you alone.

What's worse is when the person just puts a bowl out on their porch and doesn't guard it. I remember going trick or treating many years back with my surrogate uncle's wife and kids, and when we came to a house like that, they all took like tons of candy. I was like, '... sign says take one or two...' I took one. Hmpf.My mother did that when we would go out for Halloween, just leave a bowl of candy on the porch with a sign saying "Take one candy per person, leave some for the others". Of course when we would come home, that bowl is empty and the paper either stomped on or torn in areas. So either 2 things happend we either had a lot of kids, or no one cared about the sign.

I also had some halloween trash in the back of my pickup, where the teens are like "oh sweet, a trucks bed to put my trash in the back so i dont have to take it home with me, awesome". Speaking of which, ive got my truck still, so i better sell that thing before that happends again, sigh.

Speaking of Halloween pranks, my uncle (god rest his soul) would dress up as Frankinstien for Halloween and sit on the front porch in a chair, and he wouldnt move so people would think "man, this person went all out making a replica of Frankinstien", till he started moving, and scared the bejezus outta them. He had a chizzled jaw too, so his face fit the role perfectly...

J-man

10-28-2007, 09:27 PM

That reminds me of that AFV flick that gets aired every year where this guy is pretending to be hung from a noose on his front porch and when unsuspecting people walk up he suddenly throws his arms and legs up and screams at them. Oh, would I like to be that guy if I ever cared to do anything for Halloween.;)

Captain Zechs

10-28-2007, 10:19 PM

What's worse is when the person just puts a bowl out on their porch and doesn't guard it. I remember going trick or treating many years back with my surrogate uncle's wife and kids, and when we came to a house like that, they all took like tons of candy. I was like, '... sign says take one or two...' I took one. Hmpf.

Wow, this made me laugh, a lot. 1 year we had someone do this exact same thing, and I was just taking my sister around, and she decided she also was going to take more than one, well, she learned her lesson when the person busted out of the door screaming like a mad man. It was freaky, seriously.

Uhm...I'll be handing out...nothing. I have practice on Halloween!!

Ishtar

10-28-2007, 10:46 PM

What's worse is when the person just puts a bowl out on their porch and doesn't guard it. I remember going trick or treating many years back with my surrogate uncle's wife and kids, and when we came to a house like that, they all took like tons of candy. I was like, '... sign says take one or two...' I took one. Hmpf.

Ugh, that's happened to us at least once. Thing was, we usually used to go trick or treating with my friend like 45 mins away, so most of the time then we had no choice but to leave a bowl of candy outside on the driveway with a sign saying "take two". However, one year, someone took the whole damn bowl and dumped all the candy into their bag, because the bowl was tipped over and empty when we got home. I don't know what is worse, that or the people who vandalize on Halloween with stuff like silly string, toilet paper, etc. ><

wonderfly

10-29-2007, 12:20 AM

Yeah, that's the thing. Superhero comics today are so adult-oriented you pretty much have to avoid them, just to avoid getting arrested for giving a kid a comic with a severed head or a depiction of sodomy in it. Those Cartoon Network books DC does might be a safe bet, though.

When I give superhero comics to kids I try to stick to only stuff before 1990, and even then you need to be careful. After 1990 the boobs and blood get too extreme in most of them.

Thankfully, I have some of those Cartoon Network books for the younger kids. I get all of my "Halloween" comics from a magazine distribution factory, (they get returns from comic books that didn't sell, and before some of them hit the shredder, I always manage to snatch up a box full)...

I got a small stack of Teen Titans comics, (the mainstream DC universe title) and some of them feature a character that looks like the devil...how the hell am I supposed to pass that out without some parent come knocking on my door?!? Yeah, it looks like I'd better stick with handing out back issues of Scooby Doo...:sad: How the hell am I supposed to get the younger generation hooked on Spider-Man comics in times like these?!? :(

Harvey Two Face

10-29-2007, 01:04 AM

Candy with razor blades and dynamite.

Shawn Hopkins

10-29-2007, 12:28 PM

Thankfully, I have some of those Cartoon Network books for the younger kids. I get all of my "Halloween" comics from a magazine distribution factory, (they get returns from comic books that didn't sell, and before some of them hit the shredder, I always manage to snatch up a box full)...

I got a small stack of Teen Titans comics, (the mainstream DC universe title) and some of them feature a character that looks like the devil...how the hell am I supposed to pass that out without some parent come knocking on my door?!? Yeah, it looks like I'd better stick with handing out back issues of Scooby Doo...:sad: How the hell am I supposed to get the younger generation hooked on Spider-Man comics in times like these?!? :(

If you look closely, you may also have the Infinite Crisis tie-in issue of Titans where Pantha gets decapitated, Risk gets his arm ripped off and a bunch of other people die in unspeakable ways. Good clean fun for the kiddies!

J-man

10-29-2007, 06:36 PM

It's not like kids are never going to get exposed to violence and are always going to be oh so perfectly protected. I just wish their parents would realize this and let their kids have a freakin' life. GEEZ!

If any cartoon said this better, it'd have to be Futurama, when they thought up Fathers Against Rude Television in one of their episodes (I forget which one).

Kury Wagner

10-29-2007, 06:44 PM

Guys... getting a little off-topic. If anyone would like to start a thread like this on the CBC board (http://forums.toonzone.net/forumdisplay.php?f=69), that'd be nifty.

Vermunium

10-29-2007, 09:01 PM

Same thing I give kids every year. Atomic Fireballs. They don't know what they're getting themselves into.

Captain Highwind

10-29-2007, 11:33 PM

I handed out nothing.

For I am the Pumpkin Scrooge.

Antiyonder

10-29-2007, 11:53 PM

Thankfully, I have some of those Cartoon Network books for the younger kids. I get all of my "Halloween" comics from a magazine distribution factory, (they get returns from comic books that didn't sell, and before some of them hit the shredder, I always manage to snatch up a box full)...

I got a small stack of Teen Titans comics, (the mainstream DC universe title) and some of them feature a character that looks like the devil...how the hell am I supposed to pass that out without some parent come knocking on my door?!? Yeah, it looks like I'd better stick with handing out back issues of Scooby Doo...:sad: How the hell am I supposed to get the younger generation hooked on Spider-Man comics in times like these?!? :(

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane and Spider-Girl would be good choices for the potential Spider-Man fan.

James Bester

10-31-2007, 10:54 PM

Haha, I've been kind of paranoid since my Forensics teacher told my class these stories about older trick-or-treaters coming and robbing people by simply knocking at the door and holding up a gun to the man opening it. Eh, I still gave out candy, but I heard some pretty interesting stories.

Anyway, we ended up passing out a bunch of Snicker's this time. Thought about passing out the Hershey's, but I love the stuff too dang much.