Our annual purchase of candy for goblins and ghosts turns into an exercise of personal restraint...how can I resist eating the leftovers? Trick or Treaters are far and few between, a smattering of kids of parents we know come by. Our kids are not of the age anymore, so we get a handful of visitors at best. When our kids were young we carted them off to
Wildwood, they had friends who lived there and the neighborhoods are crammed with kids. Better lighting and sidewalks made for a safer Halloween experience. It is party atmosphere over there.
Reminds me of our days in
Brookside. We lived on
Morningside Drive, one of the widest residential streets in KCMO, accommodating lots of traffic. It wasn't unusual to have 200+ kids grace our doorstop. Vans could be seen dropping children off at our corner. We were panic stricken our first year as we realized we had woefully under- purchased treats. No leftovers.
Anticipating another quiet Halloween here at
WL, the only noise will be my premature raid on the candy bowl.
Image by Getty Images via @daylife
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Our method avoiding the astronomical eating temptation of Halloween candy.
-Buy the candy and have a family member, who is not a glutton, hide it until Halloween.
-Don't open candy bag until first trick or treater arrives and tell yourself over and over that there won't be enough for the kids if you stuff yourself. (And they might egg your house.)
-Eat a full dinner of all the healthy stuff so that you can stroke your ego on how good you are.
-Before turning lights out, wait for one more kid(s) and dump all the candy into their bags. (They will love you forever.)
Otherwise it's kicking yourself in the pants the next few days (weeks) for eating like a pig.
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