For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 26, 2023

To save your frustrations, why don’t you just buy the candy a few hours before dark and leave it in your car until Trick and Treat time. That’s what I do.

Who’s taking April trick-or-treating, and who’s staying home handing out candy? It would seem weird receiving candy from your dentist

Dentists love Halloween!

My mom used to steal my candy when I was a child, and claim that it’d gone bad so she’d had to throw it away. To be fair, I only played with the gummy snakes and other candy and had no interest in eating it, so it was better that somebody got to eat it at some point.

I’ll buy the candy the week before, then just put it up in my closet. Having it in the kitchen cupboards invites too much temptation.

My late mother used to do that when I was a child. LOL

It is so true. It was not the kids I worried about, it was the dad lol!

I always did two shops, one a few weeks before halloween and then the second shop was the day before/morning of halloween, when everything went on sale. That way, everyone in the house could eat some candy for a few weeks and then there was still candy for the trick or treaters.

And yes, I only handed out chocolate bars, full sized :-))

Sneaky, sneaky, Elly ! ! ! !

If the Good Lord did not want Elly sneaking sweets, He would have made gluttony a sin.

Elizabeth is a great creation. Congrats.

No trick or treaters in my rural neighborhood, but I still buy bags of candy. Evenly divide between husband and myself. His will be gone in a week and mine lasts a few months.

Just buy candy they don’t like.

Stockpiling Halloween leftover candy for next year is an adventure in futility.

In my house the trick is that the treats last until Halloween.

I bought two small boxes of full CHOCLAAAAATE bars and two large boxes of “Grandma’s Cookies.” Naturally, I did some “quality control tests,” but I am now bagging them up! (Amazon has AMAZING spooky-shaped paper clips FYI. I got some skull ones.)

The LEFT-OVERS are for afterwards. <3

We just obeyed our mother when she asked us not to touch it. That’s solved a lot of problems.

Yeah, the wife always buys ‘extra’ Reese’s Cups… LOL

Our mother had a bicycle lock she used to lock the cupboard over the refrigerator so we couldn’t get get at the chocolate chips and candy bars. It worked well.

I buy candy with coconut. I’m allergic to coconut!

April will.

Willpower everyone!

That was funny how Elly turns Japanese in the last panel.

Right there in the final panel is a great example of why I always said that hippie was short for hypocrite.