When I was a kid, my parents let me horde my Halloween candy for months. One year, this resulted in an unfortunate situation involving maggots...several months after the holiday.
Other people, however, tell me that their parents set limits. Some parents let their kids eat the candy for a few weeks only, while others doled it out themselves, one to two pieces per night. Then there's the Halloween trade: offer kids money or presents in return for their candy.
What do you do? And why?
Emily Stone
10:59 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
We were given 48 hours to eat as much as we wanted, and that was it. I shudder to think what those two days were like for my parents as the three of us ran around on a crazy sugar high, but it seems like a good strategy.
IMHO
11:02 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Friends of mine know an an orthodontist in Farmington Hills, MI who runs an annual Halloween candy buy-back program. He pays $2 per pound for chewy, sticky candy that isn't good for dental work and then donates the same amount to charitable organization. Last year he bought back 536 pounds of candy (which was also given away). I love this idea. In there anything like this in or around Evanston?
Jennifer Fisher
11:24 am on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
John, I've heard of this too. Apparently there's a nationwide Halloween candy buyback program where dentists send the candy to U.S. troops stationed abroad. You can search for local dentists on the website: http://www.halloweencandybuyback.com/