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Does Your Halloween Candy Call to You?

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If you buy Halloween candy early when it is on sale, you might bring temptation into the house.

If you hide it in the closet near the computer where you spend time blogging, you maybe able to hear the candy call to you.

If you open the bag to have just one piece, you may create a way for your hand to go into and out of the bag easily.

If your hand goes in the bag repeatedly, the amount of candy in the bag goes down quickly.

If you try to sneak into the candy bag and don’t look to the right and the left before crossing to its hiding place, your son might be slyly watching you.

If your son sees that you now have candy in your hand, you may have to reach in and grab a piece for him.

If you son knows where the candy is hidden, he might tell your husband.

If your husband and son know where the candy is hidden, they might have a candy feast when you leave them alone to run an errand.

If your family has a candy feast, you may find that there is any empty plastic bag in the hiding place.

If all the Halloween candy in your house has been enjoyed two weeks before Halloween, you may have to go to the store and buy more.

If you have a new stash of Halloween candy, you may have to find a new hiding place for it and keep it sealed.

If you here the candy calling to you, you may need to push it further into its hiding place and avoid it like crazy.

I hope you don’t have an early candy intake issue at your house. We haven’t struggled with this at our house before.

This issue may not have come up before because, I have always kept the bags sealed and spent time away from my hiding place. The hall closet was not a good place to hide it this year.

This post is linked to Mrs. Matlock’s Alphabe Thursday!

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Comments

  3. Love this, and so can relate. This year I decided not to buy any candy early. Although I am starting to wonder when I should buy it, even a day early isn’t safe in our house.

  4. LOL. We do too and I tried to open the bag the other day for just one little bitty piece of candy and Melinda yelled at me and told me to leave it alone. Not Nice!

  6. AHHH! This is such a problem this year. I normally leave the candy sealed up and not buy too early. This year, I found a GREAT deal on candy that I couldn’t pass up. Then one day, I had the idea of letting my three year old make a graph of candy– of course we had to open ALL of the bags of candy. Now, I have to go back and buy some candy that is not on sale to replace the early buy on sale candy.

  7. Ha! This is exactly why I haven’t bought any candy yet. I suppose I’ll have to go get some this weekend, though.

  9. I try not to buy candy that I love or find too addicting so it’s not in the house, but when they come home with their baskets full – now that’s another story!

  11. I love this post! Being as I have no children we don’t really buy Halloween candy except when we have a need for a candy fix. ~Hugs, Leah

  12. What we do is buy just so-so candy so we aren’t tempted to empty the bag before Halloween actually arrives.

  15. I don’t buy it early because of early intake! If they’re left sealed, I don’t touch it. But, Hubs always ends up opening it…always. So now, I just wait until the last minute to buy it. Problem solved.

    Until the kidlets come home from trick or treating and trade their candy for a toy! ;> :> (I have a kidlet who can’t eat it due to the refined sugars, dyes, gluten, & casein….so to keep life running smoothly, they both trade their candy in for a toy on Halloween. They still get to trick or treat and they’re Halloween happy! :>)

  16. We have huge bags above the fridge. I can’t have it in site. And you made my moth water because candy canes are my favorite!

  17. That’s exactly where I hid ours this year, in the hall closet. It hasn’t called out yet, hope it stays that way!

  18. I have found that if I leave the bag closed and sealed, I won’t eat any of it. The second it’s open, I can’t stop myself. I usually wait until 5 minutes before trick or treat time to open mine now.

  22. I have been having a real problem this year. Not so much with the stuff I bought. That is still sealed. But the kids have been going to a ton of parties and getting all this candy which I am really good about rationing for them. Me not so much. I have eaten so much of their candy already. I need some self control! Vicky from http://www.messforless.net

  25. I haven’t bought my candy yet and have been kicking myself for it – THANK YOU for reminding me why it was such a good idea to wait!! I can’t even imagine what kind of disaster would have unfolded here now that I am home alone all day with absolutely NO KIND OF SUPERVISION!!!
    I’m just happy for you that no one ate themselves to the point of getting sick! I’m sorry you have to spend double the money on the candy this year – I SWEAR that’s what those pre-sales are designed for!

  28. Ha! We’ve gone through a few of those bags I bought for trick or treaters already LOL!
    So easy to sneak a few of those little treats!

  29. Yes. Yes it does. And that is why I bought the non-chocolate candy this year. Skittle don’t seem to know my name. Neither do Starbursts or chewy lifesavers. Thanksfully, I seem to have shut them up.
    But loved the post!

  30. I have been known to buy only Halloween candies that I like so that I can enjoy them, and I have been known to buy ones that I don’t like so that I won’t be tempted. …This year my husband bought them – FYI, he bought ones that he likes.

  31. I have to hide it from Rod, but I rarely eat it myself. I have sort of lost my taste for commercial candy, so I give out Mardi Gras beads to the kids at Halloween. They LOVE them!!!

  32. Too cute!
    I don’t buy candy anymore because we don’t get a single child up our drive. For years I bought candy anyway – always chocolate bars the I liked because I knew I’d be the one eating them. No more. No candy, no temptation, no fun!

  33. Oh you are so right on…I hear some of it calling me now…thankfully it’s another level away from me. This reminds me of when I used to have to hide my bag of chocolate morsels in tin foil and a brown paper sack in the back of the refrigerator so when my chocoloate fits came, I had my stash! Cool post, thanks!

  34. It called to Marc way before Halloween last year…
    so, I did not buy any this year, yet…
    THEN, my friend gave Broxton a goody bag full of candy and he and Marc devoured it all one evening… ugh……….. no candy here for now 🙂

  37. LOL! I would say buying candy for trick or treat that you don’t like is a good idea. But I can’t! I can’t give out candy I don’t like. So I haven’t bought mine yet this year.

  38. This is too funny! I love the way you wrote this post! It’s so has that “If You Gave a Mouse a Cookie” feel to it 🙂 Thankfully, Halloween is still a new event that the Japanese are slowly adopting so candy is not yet an issue. People seem more into the costume and party aspect of the holiday than anything else 🙂

  41. Well, in Germany we have nearly none Halloween candy at all (very few exceptions), so I simply don’t have that problem. Hah! 🙂

  42. This was wonderful! Just wonderful!

    We were handing out goodies last night and my husband said, “Did you buy any candy to hand out?”

    And I shook my head no.

    “None?” he said sadly.

    “None,” I replied.

    “Is there any candy in the house?”

    I busted his dreams by saying “No…well…maybe a piece of hard candy in the bottom of my purse.”

    He was not tempted.

    And neither was I because I kept it far, far away – ha!

    Thanks for a fun link for fall break!

    A+

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