Question for parents with young kids...

Malibu Stacy

Do you pilfer favorites out of their Halloween candy?

If so, what do you take?

I don't have kids and I generally don't keep candy in the house, but I think I picked out half of the Snickers fun-size bars from the candy bowl before the trick-or-treaters rang my bell this evening.

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My cousin swaps her kids bag of chocolate/sweets for a trick or treat bag full of fruit and trail mixes and nuts and stuff. Poor kid

Ericaa

Well, my son is too small to do this yet, but I'm fairly certain that there'll be pilfering to be had in a few years time :pac:

AlanS181824

No what an awful thing to do!

....On second thoughts....
:pac:

Ihatecuddles

I love parma violets and they are really hard to find! Found loads in the hall earlier ready to be given out. The heartburn is so worth it

Stokolan

I brought as much of the sweets as I could into work tonight for all my work colleagues to feast on. Easiest way to rid of em bar throwing them in the bin.

The Narrator

Candy?

We're losing our Irishisms.

For shame. :cool:

Rosy Posy

My OH is a shocker for this...if you think the Halloween pilfering is bad you should see the state of him at Easter- I had to replace the eggs twice last year (ok I was complicit in one of the raids). In fairness last year my kids got so many sweets they made them last til Christmas

FameHungry

Don't you mean sweets?

ceadaoin.

This is the first Halloween we took our daughter trick or treating and apart from a few bits, it was all either pilfered or recycled and given back out. In my defence she isn't even two yet so she isn't allowed sweets but we are in the US so couldn't not take part in such a big thing. I think pilfering might be frowned upon here judging by some of the looks I got. Letting your kids eat a bag full of candy though is perfectly acceptable!

Malibu Stacy

LexieOnRale wrote: »

My cousin swaps her kids bag of chocolate/sweets for a trick or treat bag full of fruit and trail mixes and nuts and stuff. Poor kid

That's just wrong. :mad:

Malibu Stacy

FameHungry wrote: »

Don't you mean sweets?

No, I mean candy. What is this, the Daily Mail? Malibu is not in Ireland.

ash23

When my daughter gets home she sorts out the "do not touch" stuff (i.e. her faves) and everything else is fair game.

FreshKnickers

Prefer the word 'candy' meself. 'Sweets' just sounds too childlike to me. Like saying there's X amount of 'sleeps' til Christmas or wanting the gender of the baby to be 'a surprise'.

Ihatecuddles

FreshKnickers wrote: »

Prefer the word 'candy' meself. 'Sweets' just sounds too childlike to me. Like saying there's X amount of 'sleeps' til Christmas or wanting the gender of the baby to be 'a surprise'.

An Irish person saying candy makes me cringe. You can't say knickers and candy, its panties and candy or knickers and sweets!!

Sunnyisland

unfortunally not many children knocked at our door last night so fortunately I was around to eat them so they were not wasted now where,s the diet & fitness thread...

Corvo

Were there Twinkies, Tootsie Rolls and Root Beer in there too?

Malibu Stacy

realies wrote: »

unfortunally not many children knocked at our door last night so fortunately I was around to eat them so they were not wasted now where,s the diet & fitness thread...

Yes, I had the same 'problem' last night.

Pherekydes

I go through my daughter's bag to check on "date expired" stuff. It's in her best interest, you see...

vitani

There's very few perks to this parenting lark, so of course the Hallowe'en sweets are fair game. As is dressing your child up in whatever costume you get a kick out of until they're old enough to decide for themselves. And the occasional white lie, just because they're incredibly gullible and you can get away with the most outrageous stuff.

Boom_Bap

My kids went out today and left their 'candy' unattended. I put a rather large dent in the pile, I feel sick, but i'll be ready for round 2 once they go to bed.

Malibu Stacy

vitani wrote: »

There's very few perks to this parenting lark, so of course the Hallowe'en sweets are fair game. As is dressing your child up in whatever costume you get a kick out of until they're old enough to decide for themselves. And the occasional white lie, just because they're incredibly gullible and you can get away with the most outrageous stuff.

Yes, I think this is perhaps the best example of using your unsuspecting child as entertainment that I've ever seen.

shruikan2553

I remember when I used to live in America my friends mother would eat half of everything. Supposedly it's to find razor blades that people may have put into it. It is like trying out someones steak to make sure it isnt poisoned. But what happens in the blade is in the other half? Better eat that too.

FreshKnickers

mauzo! wrote: »

An Irish person saying candy makes me cringe. You can't say knickers and candy, its panties and candy or knickers and sweets!!

If I ever change me name it'll be either SweetPanties or KnickerCandy

Gran Hermano

FreshKnickers wrote: »

If I ever change me name it'll be either SweetPanties or KnickerCandy

Sounds like a couple of drag queens

LordSutch

Malibu Stacy wrote: »

Do you pilfer favorites out of their Halloween candy?

'Halloween Candy' :rolleyes:

You mention 'Candy' three time in you opening post, but who calls sweets/chocolate/treats "Candy" in Ireland?

You must be American, in which case I apologise

Malibu Stacy

The Narrator wrote: »

Candy?

We're losing our Irishisms.

For shame. :cool:

mauzo! wrote: »

An Irish person saying candy makes me cringe. You can't say knickers and candy, its panties and candy or knickers and sweets!!

Is it so inconceivable that people who post here aren't necessarily Irish?

LordSutch wrote: »

'Halloween Candy' :rolleyes:

Nobody calls sweets/chocolate/treats "CANDY" in Ireland.

You must be America, in which case I apologise

spankysue

I don't have kids myself and I forgot to get sweets in for kids calling round, so I turned off the lights and hid from them, even had to do a stealthy duck under the front door to avoid them, it was either that or give them cigarettes, and the parents weren't happy with that last year...

Crea

I take a few of the chewy sweets. I did too many goodie bags for the trick or treaters so no need to do too much pilfering this year.

Paddy Cow

Crea wrote: »

I take a few of the chewy sweets. I did too many goodie bags for the trick or treaters so no need to do too much pilfering this year.

Stolen goods tastes better though.

Ihatecuddles

FreshKnickers wrote: »

If I ever change me name it'll be either SweetPanties or KnickerCandy

You'll get some very kinky PMs :pac: