We had a lady in our neighborhood that always gave out nickels, which was the cost of a candy bar back then. It just didn't add much weight or bulk to our bags and we were always disappointed.
I remember trick or treating as a kid and their was always someone giving out bad or cheap candy has this happened to u?
I always hated it when some health food nut would give out little boxes of raisins. Really? It's Halloween for goodness sakes!
There were a lot of penny candies given out in our neighborhood, but we thought it was all great. Tennessee Ernie Ford lived on the street behind us before he migrated to more glamorous digs ... He and his wife always served hot chocolate and donuts. Their kids were about our age, and we loved stopping there.
I've never been trick or treating.
I don't think there was anything worse, for me, then to get the Circus Peanuts . . . Usually not even fresh ones at that.
Stale dum dum suckers.....yuck!
Ha ha Otis,
Where I grew up nobody had much money, although I didn't realize it then... as a consequence of that, everybody always went all out on Hallowe'en and gave the kids wonderful expensive candy, and often homemade things too!
I can remember running all over the countryside, for hours and hours, ending up with a huge stash that lasted for months...and nothing EVER was small or cheap or disappointing.
In my day, all that was EVER given out was 'cheap' candy .. And as kids, we were thankful. Very seldom did you ever get an actual chocolate bar, because in those days, people didn't have a lot to spend on candy .. If you were REALLY lucky you got a can of soda pop. As much as we enjoy the pop .. It was freek'n heavy to carry! .. If you REALLY hit the jack pot you may be lucky enough to get a candied apple ... But, nonetheless .. We were thankful!
The only things i really recall is that one house at the top of the hill handed out donuts, still warm from the making.