Tips on Getting Rid of Halloween Candy

Imagine that it's the day after Halloween. Your children's bounty from the night before's trick-or-treating is strewn all over your diningroom table. It's early morning, you are groggy and need to wake the kids up for school. As you walk through your house you step on something sticky in the carpet. Yes, it's even more candy. You finally make it to your children's bedrooms, wake them and ask them what they would like for breakfast. You suddenly hear the word "CANDY!" being shouted out in unity. At this moment you suddenly realize that this will be a reoccurring even unless you do something about the enormous amounts of Halloween candy currently spread across your diningroom table. So, from one mom to another, here are some tips on getting rid of the Halloween candy, as much as you possibly can anyway.

First off, you can eliminate a lot of the unwanted candy by just going through all of the Halloween candy as soon as humanly possible. To do this, simply take each child's load of Halloween candy and dump it out onto the kitchen table. Then you and your child can go through all of the candy together and set aside all of the items that no one likes or that they just will not eat. Then replace only the "good" candy back into your child's trick-or-treat bucket. Once you have done this with each of your children you will probably have at least half of the Halloween candy in the discard pile. You could also do this by emptying everyone's Halloween candy stash into one giant pile and then going through it all at one time.

Once the separating is finished it comes time to get rid of the discard pile of Halloween candy. There are several options for you to consider here. First off you could just throw all of the Halloween candy into the trash right then and there. But I, being a person who despises wastefulness, could never do that. So I have come up with a few ways to get that unwanted Halloween candy out of my house.

You can make sure to offer candy to any and all guests and visitors who may grace your doorstep. Many people do enjoy a good piece of candy or two so you may get rid of a good amount of the Halloween candy by doing this. If you have done this and no one is a taker or you just have a huge amount of candy left over then it's time to move on to the next step.

If you and/or your spouse work outside the home then take the Halloween candy to work with you or send it with your spouse. Set a big bowl of the Halloween candy in the breakroom and/or hand it out to all of your coworkers that you come in contact with that day. If you, or your spouse, work in a customer service type job, where you see people all day long, then set a bowl of Halloween candy out on your desk and offer it to every person you will talk with that day. They will appreciate the offer and you will get rid of the unwanted Halloween candy.

You could also pawn any unwanted Halloween candy off on all friends and family members. Fix up a basket of goodies and toss in the Halloween candy and give it to your mom or sister or anyone. If you are unfortunate enough to still have Halloween candy left over when Thanksgiving rolls around then the holiday is a perfect opportunity to get rid of the rest of the Halloween candy. Especially if you will have a houseful of family and friends who will be bringing their children. Set out a huge bowl of the candy and I bet it will be gone by the end of Thanksgiving Day. If there is any candy left make sure to give it to your guests before they walk out the door.

If you are even more unfortunate and have Halloween candy left over when Christmas arrives then you can throw it in with any gifts that you may be mailing out to friends and family far away. If that won't work then I suggest that you go ahead and throw that stuff into the trash can. You don't want to be cleaning out your pantry next October only to realize that you still have a bag of year old Halloween candy shoved in there. (Don't worry, I've done that before. Well, before I started getting rid of the unwanted Halloween candy.)

While this may seem funny to most, many people out there will read this and either understand completely what I'm talking about or they will quickly realize that they too have found year old Halloween candy in their pantry and that they should probably do something to prevent that from happening again in the years to come. Good luck and happy candy disposing!!