How Long Do You Keep Halloween Candy Around?

When our girls were younger, Halloween was an opportunity to collect candy, but most importantly  it was a chance to dress up. Costume selection went on for weeks. Now, at nine years of age, my oldest has become a competitive trick or treater. She was the grim reaper this year, not a princess or fairy or Dora. The change was apparent, she was going after the candy in a big way and carrying a plastic scythe, in case anyone got in her way. Not only that, she had a coach. Concerned that there wasn't a trick or treat bucket sold locally that would accommodate her projected haul, Mark introduced her to the old school tradition of the gluttonous pillow case. Our grim reaper carried her purple pillow case with the intention of filling it and locking herself in her bedroom for six months living off it as her only nutrition. She got a third of the way full. The next morning I was shocked that all of the Halloween candy that we had left out on the porch for trick or treaters was gone. We live on a dead end street and we don't get much action, there's always half a cauldron left of Snickers and Starbursts. I found out later in the day that our grim reaper had dumped what was left of it Halloween night when she returned-into her pillow case!

How long do I keep this pillow case of evil in my home? She doesn't even LIKE chocolate, but I do! It's on top of the refrigerator. Taunting me. Calling to me. I know families who still have last year's Halloween haul haunting their halls. I am not made of stone! This candy has gots to go!

I'm giving this candy 2 weeks, and then it's gone! How long do you keep Halloween candy in the house? Comment on our Fan Page or tweet #evilcandy

And here comes Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole. Crap.

Celeste