HA!!
you got raisins//

It was new to NZ ..we had seen n heard all about this celebration in America.
We all got a whopped for accepting sweets of strangers.

:rolleyes:

Yep! There's always those assholes. I've always promised myself that if I ever have kids, and take them out for Halloween because that's going to be part of my Samhain tradition, no sense in getting all hoity-toity... if those jack-asses hand them a pamphlets I'm going to go from zero to bitch in two seconds without using swear words.

@stubborn... That was funny... I'm sorry you got whopped, bless you. Has it caught on, yet? Has our candy-begging, satan worshipping madness invaded NZ or what?

Oh, the joys of growing up in the midwest during Reaganomics:rolleyes: I remember one year they went as far as to have a police officer come in and talk to us about Satanic cults. Whatever happened to passing around some grapes or cooked spaghetti noodles and telling me it was part of an old witch who died (no offense to present company ;) )

We always hand out chocolate...We figure we can't go wrong that way...

A couple of years we handed out toys, just to change it up a little (because EVERYONE here gives out chocolate in one form or another)...No one complained :)

I've always wanted to ask, you, Rayne: What would you do, if someone were to put little extremist Christian pamphlets in your kids' pumpkins/bags? Ignore? "Politely" return them to the house? Just curious. WWBRD (What Would Bloodrayne Do)

Meh...If it ever DID happen...I'd just put them in the pile with the root beer barrels, peppermints, jelly beans, most hard candies and black licorice...Then throw out the pile


We always make a 'keep' and 'don't keep' pile...


It wouldn't really bother me...I guess it just takes a LOT to 'get to me'...We choose our battles...For the most part, I choose NOT to battle, unless it's REALLY important (which translates to: affects the well-being of my kids)


Hmm...This makes me curious....What do you guys put in YOUR 'don't keep' pile?...Besides raisins and fruit of course :)

WOT?! THROW AWAY BLACK LICORICE?!

BLASPHEMER! ROUSTABOUT! RACIST!

Okay, maybe not the racist part:p but man, black licorice & peppermints are two of my favorites! I know, I'm a weird guy who eats kraut by itself & drinks the juice. So sue me.

I'm not a big chocolate fan, but I always kept it because someone else always wanted it. I like stuff like gummi bears, jelly beans, red vines & sour patch kids. The only thing that ever got consistantly thrown away is candy corn, which if you listen to Louis Black, he'll explain the whole thing to you:D

OH...I can't believe that I forgot that one...Yup, that goes out, too...

And, I like peppermint IF it's coated in chocolate :)

Hell, Rayne, you eat chocolate covered cherries. :D

I had a chocolate cherry once.

That year Olivia got the fruits: Y'see, that was a whole bunch of parents getting together and "deciding" to do something "for the good."

It is to that impulse to do what's "good and right" that this SunMaid Raisins ad catered: