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Halloween candy
What and how much do you buy? I went to Walgreens last night and got 8 bags for $13.50. Score! Nevermind that last year we got a total of like 18 kids at our house. Lucky for me my H did not look at me funny for coming home with so much candy. He knows it won't go to waste 
I bought 4 bags of Reese cups, 2 bags of Milky Ways and 2 bags of Twix. I wanted to get some Kit Kats too but the sales and coupons did not work out that way for me. Oh well.
Re: Halloween candy
Reeses are my favorite. Reeses pumpkins. Love it.
We don't buy any, we have never had a single trick or treater.
Last year we got more kids than I thought we would. At first we told each kid to take two pieces, then were getting low so we had to switch to just one. I think we had a little left over and probably could have let them all take 2. The problem is, I don't remember how much we got! So I guess we'll have to get a butt load. I can always bring leftovers here to work.
I love Kit Kats and Snickers. I want to try the Reese's pumpkins...because they are shaped like pumpkins. We usually get these kinds and Nerds, which DH likes.
Mine too, but we call them "pumpkin butts." Because, well, they look like butts.
This is our first year in this neighborhood, so we don't know what to expect. We got two massive bags of mixed candy at Target (Reeses, M&Ms, and Kit Kats, I think). At our old place, we didn't get anyone because we were in an apartment building. Didn't stop me from buying a bag of Reese's, though "just in case the neighbor kids downstairs come by."
My mom gets hundreds of kids, though. She lives in one of the last nice areas of Springfield, so people bus their kids over from the shadier parts of the city. She doesn't mind the little kids, but when the teenagers who aren't even wearing costumes show up later, she shuts the light off.
I buy candy that we'll eat because we don't get a lot of kids (last year I think we got 15). I usually buy 3 or 4 bags "just in case".
I get some combo of Reese's, m&ms, and a couple non-chocolate options
I haven't bought any yet and not sure we will. Too much going on to even think about Halloween right now, though usually I love handing candy out to the kids and seeing their costumes.
Last year I had a nasty cold and DH was out helping some friends with a photo booth in their neighborhood (they're pro photographers) so I didn't turn our light on. Wouldn't you know it, our doorbell still rang like two or three times, even when I hid out upstairs so I wouldn't have any lights on downstairs. C'mon, people, you know the rules!
The same thing happens here (the kids from other neighborhoods). We had a bunch of teenagers a few years ago come in their normal clothes and tried to say they were "rappers." DH laughed at them and closed the door. Its a miracle that our house was not egged the following year.
DH loves Reese pumpkins too. I think the peanut butter to chocolate ratio is off with them personally.
I think we get the perfect amount of trick or treaters. Just enough to justify buying candy, but not so many that we are spending the whole night at the door and dropping $$$ on candy.
I think Reese pumpkins/eggs/whatever other holiday varieties they come up with are perfect. I always eat the chocolate off the edge of the regular ones first anyway, so this saves me that trouble.