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Accepting Unwanted Candy and Sorting

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When I was little my sisters would sort out their candy and pull out all the Snickers for me. It wasn’t out of the goodness of their hearts or because they didn’t like Snickers. It was totally about finding a cheap birthday gift for me
My birthday is two days after Halloween and candy was a wonderful gift to give and get. I really loved Snickers back then.
Regifting candy seems to run in my family. After gathering candy with the little boy next door while trick or treating JDaniel decided to do it too.

Before JDaniel could regift some of his candy, he had to sort through it. JDaniel started digging through his Halloween bag on Tuesday morning and started sorting them into piles. The idea was all his own.

The first sorting project involved sorting out the candy he likes into a pile with the remaining candy being things he doesn’t like.
He really doesn’t like anything with peanuts in it. The Snickers, Peanut M&M’s, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups ended up in the don’t like pile. ( I tried to guide him away from candy with peanuts when he was selecting candy while trick or treating, but we still ended up with some.)
 
Who gets the candy he doesn’t like? Dad gets them. JDaniel informed my husband that he can take them to work to give to his friends that don’t get to trick or treat.
 
Once the icky candies had been placed on my husband’s work laptop, the sorting began again. This time the candy was sorted by type. JDaniel wasn’t sure what some of the candies were. We had to give him a brief explanation of what candy was behind some of the wrappers before they could be placed in the correct pile.
 

 
There was a candy bar pile, candy in bags pile, skinny candy bar pile, skinny bagged candy pile, and so on.
 
He did an amazing job of sorting and resorting the candy until he felt they were in the right place. I was invited to check his pile selections frequently. This took about half an hour. He is nothing if not thorough.
 
When he was done with the “good” candy, he started hiding it all over the kitchen. I encouraged him to keep them all in his trick or treat bag so we would know where it was. Thankfully he finally gave in and said that that would be good.

This post is linked to Alphabe-Thursday on Mrs. Matlock and Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop! It is also linked to my Halloween Traditions link up. If you haven’t had a chance to link up your recipes, crafts, costume pictures or posts on tradition and memories, please do. The link will be open until Nov. 4th.

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  5. Love it! We did some exchanging of candy with Sammy. Sammy doesn’t like chocolate. So we told him to say thank you and be kind when receiving a piece of candy. If he did that well we would trade out his chocolate candy for candy he likes at home. We then stuck the kinds we didn’t like back in the bowl and handed it out to trick or treaters 😉

  6. My boys sorted theirs out too, after I checked it over. Our piles were: chips/animal crackers, candy bars, candy, and non-candy (fake teeth, pencils, ect.) Then, the candy got put up, chips went in chip drawer, and non-candy in their rooms.

  10. I’d always sort candy out as a kid too – stuff I loved, stuff I was willing to trade, and stuff I couldn’t eat (peanut allergy) Ahhh, memories!!

    Most of your pictures aren’t working for me :o(

  16. I don’t like Snickers either but I can not pass up chocolate and peanut butter, yum!

  17. What a sweet boy to want to give away the candy he doesn’t like. My kids wanted to keep it all.

  20. I am itching to get my hands on my 2 youngest candy piles. They’re being very territorial! It DRIVES me nuts – but I have to be very capitalistic about it – lol – and teach them to invest it until Easter and then invest their Easter supply to last until Halloween! I CANNOT become the dictator! Sigh – I think I’ve taught my boys too well!

    Hope you have a fantastic week! So glad JDaniel is a sorter – wish mine were more like that!

  22. what a sweet costume!!! My kids are gonna lose their candy in a short while. I’m donating it to the troops. It has to get out of my house or I’ll eat it all. Not good for my pants!!

  25. You’re really good to your children, we were not. We told them a couple of our favorites must be “bad” LOL You have to understand, they would bring pillowcases (plural) full of candy home!! Ha ha ha.

  26. Well….I love candy with peanuts. I would have helped him out. We live out where we don’t get any Trick or Treaters. Since my kids are grown….Halloween just sort of passes us by. I am not big on Halloween anyway….but I do love the candy. Stopping by from Alphabet Thursday….after having missed for quite some time.

  28. How funny! This is one of those things you will look back on many years from now, after he’s chosen his career, and say “I’m not at all surprised. I remember the Halloween when…”

  29. There’s just something about Halloween candy that begs to be sorted, isn’t there? I remember doing that as a kid, too … And giving away all my icky Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds. =>

    Also, Happy Birthday!!

  30. When we were kids, the candy we hauled in was a fairly good amount. We had a big chest freezer and my mom would freeze our chocolate so that it would last for a long time.

  31. I understand the cheap birthday gift, mine’s the day after! And how funny that JDaniel sorts his candy like that! Good thing Halloween is only once a year:) Oh BTW, Happy Birthday To You!

  34. Love all your ideas for the children! Happy Days shared!
    Thanks for stopping by!
    Big Hugs for a great A Day!
    Coralie

  38. Such fun! Our favorite part used to be trading our candies. We’d dump them out all over the floor and go at it like fish wives.

    =)

    PS. Funny. We never re-gifted the “bad” candy. I wonder what we did with it?? (Maybe my mom ate it???) 😉

  39. great post My niece sorts her candy too and I remember doing that as a kid… Do they still pass out those yucky peanut candies that are in the orange or black wrappers? They were kind of chewy? Those always got thrown out along with the candy corn Who eats that crap?

  41. The candy sorting part of Halloween was always my favorite! PLus you could always pocket a few pieces when the kids weren’t looking – ha!

  45. I’m glad he agreed to keep it in the bag. You could have been uncovering candy in hidden locations until next Easter!

  46. It cracks me up to think of how seriously he was sorting the candy. My daughter used to want to hide her goodies, too. Her favorite spot was under her play oven.

  47. My daughter bypasses the whole thing (since she grew up in Holland where the candy eating day is in Dec. on St. Nicolas day Dec.6) with her 4 kids, by saying they can eat the candy for a few days, and after that everything goes in the trash bin.

  48. I missed the entire trick-or-treat experience, complete with the sorting this year cause I was sick. Such a bummer. I love the way Halloween candy smells all together.
    Visiting from Jenilee’s Blog hop!

  49. My birthday is two days BEFORE Halloween. I didn’t mind sharing the holiday, my birthday parties were costume parties and we always played The Monster Mash!

    One of my son’s homework assignments was to sort his Halloween candy!

  51. I love the candy sorting of it all. My boys are still too young to start doing that but I can just imagine how fun it will be having them trade for their favorite candy.

  53. He’s adorable. My youngest is totally confused by the fact that the candy inside the wrapper is not the same color as the wrapper. He loves orange so keeps opening the reese’s and is disappointed to find chocolate inside. I’m sure this will change in a year or two.

  54. So cute. I love how thoughtful he was in making his piles and selections. My boys just stuffed it all in their faces 🙂

  55. That’s so cute. What a smart little boy! My dog one time hid all the candy under pillows, in the bed, under couches…anywhere so she could eat it later. We didn’t realize it until later when we found candy in our bed LOL!

  56. I have never celebrated Halloween, and my son neither, because it just didn’t exist. Since a few years it start in Belgium too.

  59. Aw! Sorting is always fun! Our kids loved to sort all kinds of things! :o)
    (Oh, I love Snickers!…and kitkats…and Lindor truffles…and peanut M&Ms and…)

    Sorry that I have been absent lately (thankful and blessed to have been busy with art orders…it’s that time of year), and it is also soooo good to be back in “class”!

    Blessings & Aloha!
    Thank you so much for your visit and congratulations :o)

  62. Helo.
    Your boy sounds so adorable.
    I’m a complete chocoholic, so there was never any “bad” chocolate for me (lol).

    Thanks for sharing & visiting.

    Autumn

  63. Oh drats, by being late in doing my blogging rounds, I’m also late in wishing you a most HaPpY hApPy HaPpY bIrThDay! The only candy that would be on my pile is dark chocolate… but I doubt JDaniel4 got any of that! An Adorable A post!

  64. I found it amusing how JDaniel sorts his candy at such a young age 🙂 I remember when I use to get candy, we just ate whatever we pulled out. There were a lot of hits and misses but we never bothered to sort them out. Thinking back, I probably should have since it would have saved me a lot of grief with the candy I didn’t like 🙂

    It’s really great that he does all that sorting too because it might be that he’s going to be quite organized when he all grown up 🙂

  65. I love all candy! Downfall of being me! Hee Hee! But anything peanut butter or Twix is the best of candy world!
    Happy Birthday JDaniels mom!
    I am born in December so I get all the red and green tributes! Ha Ha!

  66. I love the after Halloween candy sorting! I hope you got the card I sent you! After I mailed it I was worried I forgot to put the zip code on there. Yeah. I’m forgetful like that – ha!

    This was really a cute post!

    I love all things JDaniel!

    A+

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