Trick or Treat

We celebrated Halloween here last night instead of today. (Only in Utah....) One of my housemates had work and the other has a girlfriend, so I was home alone for Trick or Treat duty. I wanted to give out something a little unusual, so instead of chocolate bars or hard candy, I gave away packs of Extra sugar-free gum. And erasers. I found a couple of packages of neon-colored pencil-top erasers, so I gave those away with the gum. A lot of the kids seemed happy just to get the erasers, and I had to tell the to wait while I got out the gum. Go figure.

If resources were plentiful, here are some things I think might be fun to give away as Halloween 'treats':

• Sample-size tubes of toothpaste / toothbrushes
  
• 12-ounce bottles of Gatorade
  
• Markers
  
• Baseball cards
  
• Golf balls
  
• Canadian quarters
  
• Dice of various colors (and sides – d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20)
  
• Poker chips
  
• Carpet swatches
  
• Bottled water
  
• Vitamins
  
• Cloves of garlic (You can never be to careful with all those undead-ites running around!)
  
• Duct tape
  
• Tea bags
  
• Bus tokens
  
• Christmas cards
  
• Plastic screw anchors
  
• Blank cassette tapes
  
• Rutabagas
  
• Those Valentine's Day candy hearts that taste like Tums.
  

Actually, this is what I think I'd like to do for next Halloween: at Easter, I'll save the orange Paas dye tablet while I'm coloring the eggs. Then, when October rolls around, I'll decorate a lot of boiled eggs with black and green (and maybe yellow) crayons, then dye them orange to make them look like little Jack-o-lanterns. That's what I'll give to the kids. Bwahahahahah!