Comments on: Judging net worth by candy bar size

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:05:42 +0000

I think I’ll come trick or treat at your house next year……yum!

By: Joy Weese Moll

Joy Weese Moll — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:03:18 +0000

We get very few trick-or-treaters. I give out Ghirardelli dark chocolate. Now that I think of it, it’s probably a bit ostentatious. But my reason is different. For me, having cheap candy in the house is about the same as a recovering addict cooking meth with the intention of selling it.

I can handle good dark chocolate like a sane person. Sanity is worth the expense.

By: Jane D

Jane D — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:07:37 +0000

We live 3/4 of the way up a steep hill so we only got 5 kids coming to our house. My kids are still talking about the house where they gave out Twinkies. They sat and ate those on the stairs into her yard. We did not talk about rich, we talked about generous. The families with dogs are more generous in my neighborhood.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:47:03 +0000

In reply to Nother Barb.

@Nother Barb – ah, always the quality vs. quantity dilemma. I’ve been talking with various folks about the whole candy bar phenomenon, and apparently it is memorable and rare enough that people can recount specific houses from childhood where they handed out such things (e.g. “the man who owned the department store.”) Who knew it was so easy to make an impression?

By: ARC

ARC — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:43:24 +0000

Fascinating 🙂 We bought 2 bags of Reese’s PB cups (individual size) and got NO trick or treaters. Again. At this rate we could hand out the giant 1lb Hershey bars 😉

I think our daughter was the only TorT’er at many of our neighbors’ houses. The ones who bothered to turn their lights on, anyway 🙂

By: Nother Barb

Nother Barb — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:14:38 +0000

This year WE were the house with full-size bars. The reason? We have a Costco now!

We are in an upscale neighborhood, next to a lower-economic-scale neighborhood. Just like my friends when we were kids, they figure they’ll get better candy trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. My kids have a different tack: they go to the neighborhoods where the houses are closer together, so they can “hit up more houses for more loot!”