I sneak a few pieces out to put in their Christmas stockings. My husband eats some. The kids eat the rest. I usually allow about three pieces a day. I might allow more but one of them gets sick to the stomach if he overdoes it on sugar.

Anonymous wrote:Let them have as many pieces as they are years old and then drop it off at the office.

Why are we all buying candy for your coworkers? For goodness sake if you are only going to let your kid eat six pieces of candy, only let them go to six houses.

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Anonymous wrote:Let them eat it. One kid got a ridiculous amount this year though, probably 25 lbs. a lot will go to TFT.

https://soldiersangels.org/volunteer/special-campaigns/treats-for-troops/treats-for-troops-dropoff-locations/

But is this really what soldiers want?

I always wondered about that plus the expense of shipping candy over seas

25 this is a truly insane amount of candy to trick or treat

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Anonymous wrote:We have them sort it and trade with each other - and also get rid of anything smashed, open, items they don’t like. We take a parent tax of 3-4 pieces.

We let them have it 1-2 pieces a day as their treat or dessert option until they get bored of it.

Parent tax ?

This is also a joke in our family. If my kids get a treat sometimes they have to pay the parent tax. Or we joked that mommy has to take a bite to make sure it's not poison it's a JOKE

Anonymous wrote:What do you do with all of you kid's candy?

We eat it. On Halloween my kids got cart blanche to eat a bunch of candy and then My kids have one or two pieces after dinner and I grab a piece too.

I wish people would unclench about candy.

I generally let my kids (11 and 6) eat it but I’ve had to put some limits on my 6 year old. My 11 year old is really passionate about her sport and feels like she can’t play it as well if she binges and has been eating a piece or two most days. Yesterday I told my 6 year old she could pick 4 pieces and then I saw her sneak two more so moved it out of her reach.

When I got their pumpkins out I realized both had candy from who knows when - I kind of dump easter and bday party candy into their plastic pumpkins too. We keep the pumpkins on a pantry shelf.

woof, some f'ed up parenting and food relationships all around here. not surprised though...

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Anonymous wrote:My first bowl of candy we left on our stoop while trick or treating was my kids candy from last Halloween. Based on my ring camera one kid took at least 100 pieces of it, happy I don’t have to feel too bad

That’s so stingy and gross. You give random strangers stale candy and then pat yourself on the back?

Genius. That kid is a 🐷

Anonymous wrote:My first bowl of candy we left on our stoop while trick or treating was my kids candy from last Halloween. Based on my ring camera one kid took at least 100 pieces of it, happy I don’t have to feel too bad

That’s so stingy and gross. You give random strangers stale candy and then pat yourself on the back?

My first bowl of candy we left on our stoop while trick or treating was my kids candy from last Halloween. Based on my ring camera one kid took at least 100 pieces of it, happy I don’t have to feel too bad

Two pieces a day until it’s gone or stale. This replaces all other dessert /cookies whatever so it’s really a wash in the end except the first few days.

They go crazy with it for the first few days, then the novelty wears off when they’re left with the “average” candy - the regular lollipops, random bags of pretzels and Goldfish, hard candies etc. Then they will pick at it until sometime around Christmas when I’ll throw away whatever dregs are left.

Anonymous wrote:We have them sort it and trade with each other - and also get rid of anything smashed, open, items they don’t like. We take a parent tax of 3-4 pieces.

We let them have it 1-2 pieces a day as their treat or dessert option until they get bored of it.

Parent tax ?

We have them sort it and trade with each other - and also get rid of anything smashed, open, items they don’t like. We take a parent tax of 3-4 pieces.

We let them have it 1-2 pieces a day as their treat or dessert option until they get bored of it.

My kids have sorted and done the accounting on every piece. Only one was generous enough to share one milky way.