Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)
Exactly why I haven’t done it in a couple of years. I hate it, cause I love this holiday. But get fucked with these prices. Maybe this is all the winning.
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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".
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.
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Oh, so that’s what it looks like inside a murican supermarket. That’s a metric shit ton of plastics from an UE pov.
I’ve never seen bags like that, some seems dumb with the numbers, 195 or 310 but why not plain and round 200?
Definitely a US grocery store.
195 or 310 is piece count. The bags are usually sold by rounded weight (3 or 5lbs).
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TBF, it's a gum-candy display.
There's some 3 times more plastic than an equivalent display here in Brazil, but I don't think you can extrapolate anything from what gum-candy looks like. It's supposed to be shitty.
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I get about 50 kids in average every year.
So no matter the price (unless it gets any higher), I'll spend a couple hundred on candies. I'm not wealthy but I can afford it once a year .... I actually prefer spending more on this holiday than for Christmas.
Plus I loved this holiday when I was a kid. What other time or place do you have an opportunity to see a strangers house and get candy in a safe and public holiday? So I've made it a rule in my life that on Halloween when a kid comes to my door, they're getting a few handfuls of candy. I also don't care of the kids age ... they could be two or twenty (as long as they're polite and non aggressive) they're getting candy.
I once had a group of college kids who were Indian nationality who were just out having fun with some face paint and daring each other to visit houses .... I gave them a bunch of candy, told them which houses to go to and made them laugh.
A couple hundred on candies 😳 The US are crazy
I'm not American .... I'm in Canada in northern Ontario ... we don't have kids so I have a bit of extra cash, plus I grew up poor so I know what this holiday means to many kids, especially in my area where families don't have a lot, especially these days.
Am american and I have never ever heard of someone spending “hundreds” of dollars on halloween candy. 99.9% of americans are not doing that.
Come to my neighborhood.
The average resident makes double what the average household income is in the region. It's essentially the wealthiest neighborhood in the region without gates to keep the poors out. The houses are not too far apart for kids to walk either. So most of the community brings their kids to walk around this neighborhood. I get 400-500 trick or treaters on average.
As my wife and I both grew up well below the poverty line we are very generous with the candy.
Spending money on stuff is the essence of American existence. When you stop doing it, America will die.
How nice. Better get to it then
How do you manage to exist without spending money? How are you online? Do you live at a library or something?
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My wife bought rice krispie treats for super cheap, dumdums, some lesser known candy, little Halloween toys and stickers, and made goodie bags.
If you avoid the mainstream big name candy, it's not so bad.
What are you, some kind of socialist? But seriously, people always complain about how things are so expensive but keep buying the same overpriced trash.
That overprized trash gets flung into everyone's faces with ads constantly and is placed at eye level in optimal shelf locations so you see it first and can grab it the easiest. It's placed at the counters when you have to wait (in overpriced small / singular packages), and if the advertising machine detects you might be perceptible to being convinced into buying it (e.g. through analysis of your previous purchases collected by the payback program or store itself together with your social media posts showing you're sad or depressed) you'll receive tailored ads at the right moment via Smartphone, websites, Music streaming service and (soon) car infotainment + "smart" camera-enabled digital ad screens in public.
Don't blame people for being manipulated by the manipulation machine, none of us is safe against it. Our resources for full awareness are sucked dry and monetized until we're tired and defenseless; and at that point you can't blame anyone who just wants to buy something that makes them a littlr bit more happy and less tired. Of course everyone ultimately has free will, but in the dystopia we live in that free will requires phenomenal energy to truly act on.
Smash the system, not everyone else's desire to feel happy. 🙂
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Dumdums, sure, but where did you find rice krispie treats that are cheaper than this candy? Just spitballing, but 140 pieces for $20 works out to something like 8 cents per piece, while just a quick search shows prices for rice krispies to be way higher, up to 50 cents per, with a few options scattered that bring the prices close (I think I saw a 100 pack for $21, and a 45 pack for $9).
I'm putting out a bag of potatoes this year instead.
New Halloween: kids will trick or treat for fresh produce.
That would scare some of them for real
At least we don't have to worry about getting our houses egged anymore.
should be plenty of clearance Nov 1st at least
Leave a note on Your porch saying "come back tomorrow".
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laughs in danish
To clarify; danish candy prices are fucking ridonkoulus.
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