Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
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At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s
Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.
Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF
Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you’re not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.
A lot of people with, ehem, special needs, buy a shit ton of candy for Halloween so that when there are pounds of it left over they can be like, ‘Oh geeze, I guess Someone has to eat all this candy…’
TIL I’m special needs
At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars
Okay, complete tangent, but…
When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said “Sure!” and gave him another, then followed up with “You can have the whole box, if you want…”
My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.
So that’s how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.
Most wholesome diabetes origin story.
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Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:
I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.
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Kind of a nice counter-point to ‘the early bird gets the worm’.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
*mouse
Fixed, thanks.
People who have afforded to buy their neighbors candy in the past have always been awesome people.
I am not one of those people.
I always take call on Halloween so my coworkers who have kids can go out and have fun with their family… This bums me out on their behalf.
Are prices at places like Costco still decent? Or those restaurant supply type stores? Or some mythical product that isn’t candy and won’t be soul-crushing to a kid expecting candy?
“Heres a baggie with a toothbrush, a travel size toothpastea box of raisins, 50 pennies, and an apple”.
You literally just have to do 5 seconds of planning and not buy from the top manufacturer 3 weeks before Halloween. Everyone is just looking for reasons to bitch with this rage bait.
Ah the ol “blame the consumer” bit
Yes. I spent $20 last year. It’s not hard.
I mean, looking at just this picture, $20 will do you fine. So even your idea of 5 seconds of planning seems a wild exaggeration. Buuuut, we can still complain about prices going up and up and up.
MAGA nuts calling inflation a skill issue is wild
Such fanciful stories. Do you write fanfic?
Well, this year it looks like there’s one little bag on the bottom shelf that’s ~$9, the rest is $19+. Not including tax.
Found the house that gives those shitty buttercorns.
Shit is getting stupidly expensive. People are gonna bitch. You’re gonna complain about them. I’m gonna make a comment about that because i can’t help it. We’re all fucked. Let the person air their grievance about overpriced candy. Fuck’s sake 🫠
I’ve been a full size candy bar house for a while. Buying bulk candy bars spiked in 2021. Boxes usually average about $1.25 per bar, but you can find sales at Costco at $0.60 each if you aren’t picky on exact candies.
Non-candy options I sprinkle in that are hits are rice krispy treats, bags of microwave popcorn (unpopped) and the packaged 2 pack of cookies.
I’m a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.
I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it’s not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.
I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I’m considering doing that exclusively.
Where do you get roasted chestnuts?
You need to find an open fire
Well first I have to pick them. I go here https://ohiochestnuts.com/#visit
And then I plan on roasting them the day of, I’ve got an antique cast iron chestnut pan and a grill.
¡Hecho en México!
I got excited at this idea until I remembered that American cider isn’t alcoholic. Should make some proper scrumpy!
American cider isn’t alcoholic
So, it’s just apfelsaft?
I fully plan on making Adult Cider
We just call it cider here
I only got about five groups last year, maybe 15 kids total.
I noticed a couple of days ago that the Halloween candy was out at Walmart, but I didn’t check prices. If this is accurate, then, yeah, porch light off this year. It’s not even worth putting out a pumpkin. Also, I’d end up eating the leftover candy, so that’s not good either.
If homemade cookies weren’t shunned, then I’d do that, but I can’t imagine parents letting their kids eat them. The fearmongers have won.
Nothing’s spookier than fear mongering
American pricing be like.
Learn how to bake the awesomest shortbread you can, & wrap some of that edible-gold up in wax-paper for each kid.
Flour, cornstarch, oats, butter, salt, do not add-up to the extortion-prices charged by the flavored-sugar-in-plastic-wrappers companies.
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Yeah I’m not trusting random bread from people especially during Covid season.
But have you tried their sourdough? That starter is going to be the next generation’s most valued inheritance.
Lmfaoooo
That’s just paranoia tbh
I just hate being sick
hope you dont end up like the mom in freaks and geeks. that was a sad episode :(
Plus you can stick razorblades in them real easy if you bake them yourself.
Has there actually been a case where this happened?
Not on Halloween, but yes.
The sad part is this may be the first time in history that there are enough randomly psychotic and violent people on the loose in the US that this is something parents should suddenly have reasonable fear of.
I’d be less afraid of razorblades and more afraid of my kid getting shot on some hick nazi’s doorstep tbh. MAGA nuts have already gunned down kids on their front lawn for less.
OK that’s actually a fantastic idea. Cookies it is. If parents have a problem with unwrapped corpo-candy then their kids don’t have to eat them. I can spend a day banging out ten dozen cookies and not give the monthly-sugar-holiday any more money.
Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.
I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they’re still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.
We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.
Considering global coffee and chocolate prices, I’m surprised. Are sizes the same as last year?
Just go for flour/sugar based snacks instead of chocolate then. Few packs of Aldi version of hobnobs, job done.
I mean… Those look like normal Canadian prices.
However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.
Buy your candy at the end of August like I do and they are half price or even lower. This is what happens when you wait until what you would think the opportune time to buy your Halloween candy is.
“The most opportune time to buy halloween candy is when its 90% off november 1st of last year, the second best time is now” - Sun Tzu
And it’s not just the candies either.
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I think everyone should collectively decide to hold Halloween 2 days after Halloween so everyone can get in on that reduced price candy.
Takes the sting out of inflation a little bit and everyone still gets their good time in.
At that price, I think I’ll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?
when I was a kid, people would give out pennies when they ran out of candy
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I would have to assume that if you handed out single dollar bills, kids wouldn’t really know what to do with it.
Pool it together and buy bags of candies at 70% off on November 1sr
the stripper bar is only two blocks away…
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We are doing stickers and glow sticks. Bought the “rave family special” online. It was still cheaper than candy.
Worst case Ontario - we now have emergency lightning, and an activity that will take hours for the kids.
Worst case Ontario
It’s water under the fridge.
Gnomewhatimsayin?
Water you saying?
It’s not rocket appliances, Ricky.
We are doing the same. No candies. My partner will give out stickers, pencils, and some organic savoury puffs that she managed to snag somewhere in bulk.
Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.
As a kid I yearned for the mines
And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the “mine!”
The stupid shit tho is five years ago the candy would go on sale the day after and it $4 a bag. The candy is not expensive and the candy is probably somehow circulating from 5 years ago. Is all supply and demand, fucking capitalism.
Yeah that’s what’s so shocking about it, these bags would be $5 only a few years ago. And I remember how painfully impoverished large swaths of the country were then.
I cannot imagine how the average American in the Midwest is surviving at the moment.
Wife and I both work, everything is carefully calculated to have us constantly worry about bills and unexpected expenses. If one of us misses 1 day of work there is 1 bill that won’t be paid, which means multiple phone calls from bill collectors. A lot of them are super fast about sending to collections. I no longer fret about my credit score.
Have you been to a dollar tree? And everything is $3 or more
Well then the Midwest shouldn’t have voted for it lol
Wait, you don’t just throw candy down the mine holes?
But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!
Entering on wheelchairs, no doubt. Not so glorious now, our future life.
the rollerblade wheelchairs with reflector stripes for long exposure photography fancy.
We stopped giving out candy and instead do chips, juice, gummies, cracker packs, etc. The cost is roughly the same, he kids send to love it, and we don’t want to be stuck with a bunch of leftover candy.
