Please don't eat the Play-Do

I mentioned in passing something that warrents more Blog-time. A while back, when I myself was trick-or-treating, a lady had made address labels, and stuck them to the miniature candy bars that she was giving out. That way, should there be a problem, she could be contacted. (OF course, anyone can make false labels for poinsoned candy - it's not foolproof, but seemed like a grand idea). When we bought of home, I decided to do the same. But didnt have stickers, but had bunches of business card for my Kids Party Entertainment company. So, for the last 5 years, we've handed out sealed sandwich bags containing a hard cany, a chocolate candy, a trinket and a business card. Never got any business off the cards, but people can always link the bag back to me, and hopefully have more confidence that the candy is safe.

We were at Costco last month, and saw a huge bag of playdo (very small containers). The bag held 80 individual containers, and was $20. I thought "THAT'S IT!" No more worrying about what candy to get, should be get more cheap candy and have kids think we were cheap, shoudl we only get candy that we ourselves like (in the event of a post holiday surpluss)? No more worrying about all that shit. A piece of hard candy for the "older" kids, and PlayDo for all the little ones.

And whatever is left on November 1st goes to our kids. (Well, most will - the house always gets it's cut ).