All Hallows’ Eve approaches. Neighbors are hanging plastic skeletons on their doors, and I took my dog to a Halloween party at Red Rover tonight (gotta love East Nashville).
I’m trying to decide what to do for Halloween this year. I loved Halloween as a little kid. Being a chocoholic, it was totally my kind of holiday. I loved to dress up, too. For me, Halloween was like a mini-Hollywood, my chance to be an actress, to play at being a different person for one day. The makeup, the costumes — even today I wish I had more reasons to go around wearing silly outfits.
This year I don’t have any costumes or events planned, but one never knows…..Paul and I threw a last minute movie party last year, and I pieced together a Bollywood outfit in a few hours.
My current debate centers around the candy issue. I loooooooove sugar, but I’ve also had some blood sugar problems in the past, so I question the responsibility of giving out a bunch of candy to kids (writer’s note: that’s totally my issue and not a judgment on what anyone else decides to do. so chill.). But I don’t want to be the lame “raisin house” either. I always hated getting raisins in my trick-or-treat bag.
I’ve thought about trying to go the arcade prize route and giving out bouncy balls or stickers or something. Of course, if I do stick with candy, I could always spring for fair trade chocolate.
Knowing me, I’ll probably end up with whatever I find at Kroger right before the trick-or-treaters start knocking on my door. But just out of curiosity, what’s your vote?
Big Lots! (my favorite store!) has (had) mini-bags of animal crackers. I totally jumped on that. But bought some Nerds, too so that my house won’t get TP’d.
I gave them pretzels one year and mini-bags of microwave popcorn another. The latter were a huge hit.
I was going to put ‘hide in the basement’ but you’re too nice for that. Just give ’em candy. However, if I can find lesley’s home, I might take some of those animal crackers…
IMHO, if you want to be a part of the holiday ritual, then just give out candy. It’s not your responsibility what the rugrats ingest.
If you’re concerned about how much you will ingest, then don’t buy a whole lot and when it’s gone, turn you light off and close your door.
Personally, my kids always get a crap ton of candy and then forget it by Thanksgiving (usually earlier) and I throw it all out since Christmas is just around the corner. (Or, it sits in the back corner of my pantry for a year, forgotten, stale and…oops, it’s almost Halloween again!)
There are mini-tubs of Play-doh that I gave out last year and the bigger kids liked it, too.