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   Gweedo Murray said, 20 days ago

   That’s my Boy ! :‒Ϸ

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   Wolfdreamer250 said, 20 days ago

   Spoken like a true older brother.

   Plus, whats Elly’s problem. Its Halloween, your supposed to let the kids eat the candy. What they don’t finish, you use for next years trick or treating. DUH.

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   cleokaya said, 20 days ago

   I used to spend hours out trick or treating and gathered at least 2 shopping bags full of candy. I never over indulged. I ate the stuff that interested me over a period of time, but the stuff that wasn’t my favorites I could care less about.

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   catlady1 said, 20 days ago

   Most candy freezes well. Sort out that and freeze it, then dole it out a bit at a time as a treat or a reward for doing something well.

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   Allan Claus said, 20 days ago

   bleeep parents not letting us eat the candy we want, when we want, and how we want. HOW DARE THEY try to make kids healthy!!! LOL

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   Jahosacat said, 19 days ago

   What’s up with wasting perfectly good food? If you aren’t going to let your kid eat safe (I didn’t say healthy) candy, why do you let them go out at all? If she wants him to have less sugar, then portion it out over several days/weeks. And when she finds out that he had her toss his sisters candy, HIS candy had better become THEIR candy!

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   Original_Baskingshark said, 19 days ago

   Elly is a control freak.

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   Oberon12 said, 19 days ago

   Getting sick on Halloween candy is an important rite of childhood passage.

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   Macushlalondra said, 19 days ago

   It was on a weekend this year so they have Sunday to recuperate after eating too much candy on Saturday night. My mother did apportion it out over the following week and we never overate on it. But throwing it out is just plain stupid.

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    Paul Jones said, 19 days ago

    I think we all know in which receptacle Elly will dispose of “Michael’s” candy: her greedy stomach. Just as idiot John ate Halloween candy in front of his child in the interests of safety, Elly will lie, gorge herself out of sheer begrudgery (I can readily see her moaning “Where’s myyyyyyy candy???”) and flap her gums about being responsible.

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    somebodyshort said, 19 days ago

    I had a good crowd last night.

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    quackingup said, 19 days ago

    I take out the candy my kids won’t eat (or I don’t want them to eat) and I send it to work with my husband. The rest is put up in a cabinet and given out during snack/dessert times, if they want it.

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    myhaircut said, 19 days ago

    Wow, what a horrible cartoon. What a horrible parenting idea. That’s like letting your kids open their presents on Christmas morning and then smashing them all with a hammer.

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    11Wilderness11 said, 19 days ago

    Jahosacat: candy is not “food”

    There is nothing wrong with throwing away candy. It is disgusting, after all.

    My kids get a week. After that, they know I will chuck whatever is left in the bags. There is no reason to have garbage like that hang around for months. I teach my kids moderation, but I also let them live a little by actually celebrating the holiday. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

    I wouldn’t take their candy away next day, but in 3-5 days no foul.

    Myhaircut: Christmas presents aren’t usually made of sugar. Bad analogy.

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    fbjsr said, 19 days ago

    11Wilderness11, good job. Your teaching them to stuff them self as soon as posible and to hide some and lie about it to you because they know after a certaing day your going to take it. Sort of like the playground bully. How about limiting the number of houses they go to and taking them to a halloween event to fill in the time instead. To a child taking something of theirs from them is taking something from them. So the Christmas present is a good analogy.

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    howtheduck said, 19 days ago

    This is a remake of the original strip Lynn Johnston reprinted on September 10, 2007 during her hybrid year, so she can’t re-reprint it. The original strip is superior to the one she redid today in almost every way.

    http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/archives/002685.php

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    Stuart Gathman said, 19 days ago

    A local dentist here has a program where he pays kids $1/lb for Halloween candy, donates $1/lb to (forget the charity), and then pays to ship the candy to the troops. I don’t know how it works in practice, but it is a neat idea.

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    lightenup said, 19 days ago

    Looks like everyone has a sugar hangover today. For most kids, except for the greedy ones, the excitement is in getting the candy. They only want to eat it all because it’s sitting there in front of their face.

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    Bill Wa said, 19 days ago

    What’s Elly talking about. You NEVER throw Halloween candy away. You can put a piece in their lunch, it won’t kill them, they can have one piece after dinner. And besides, John will take it for his office. Speaking of which, has anybody else ever wondered why Dentists offer a lollypop for a reward? Oh yeah, JOB SECURITY!

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    imrobert said, 19 days ago

    When I was a kid, I would save all the good stuff - mini Hershey bars, etc - in an empty, half gallon peanut butter jar stowed in my room. Could make it last til Spring …

21. 

    hancel said, 19 days ago

    Found a large bowl of candy hidden in a cabinet from last Halloween….not eatable

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    Sheila said, 19 days ago

    I hand out the candy a few at a time MAYBE once a week. Lasts long. I keep it in the fridge too. SO the kids get candy when deserving and I’m not wasting food, even if it is bad for you food, still food.

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    Doctor Toon said, 19 days ago

    My favorite candy was gone a week, but the rest was good for months of occasional snacking.
    My parents would never have taken our candy away, but they did do a good job of teaching moderation.

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    Dry said, 19 days ago

    Well Elly is just acting like a beyotch in this strip!

    If you have a job, do what myself and co-workers do, bring the leftover candy to work. Trust me, it gets eaten!

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    CJ said, 19 days ago

    Just what my youngest son would do to his older brother. Also worked for trading toys with friends. Never his own! When discovered he had to go trade what he wanted back for what wasn’t his. Kids! They are so predictable.

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    reese828 said, 19 days ago

    I’m transitioning from Ann Arbor to Columbus, OH. I had no kids come around in Columbus (trick-or-treat in my city was done on Oct. 29 for some insane reason) yet we had the usual 100+ up in Michigan where we were for the weekend and the beggars got to come around on Halloween.
    
    I remember the first year my daughter went trick-or-treating. She wasn’t sure going out in the dark was such a great idea even though her dad and I were with her. However, after the first house and the drop of candy in her plastic pumpkin she became a very enthusiastic participant! It also converted her to a lover of the night, and she likes nothing better than to go out and smell the night air while on a walk or car ride.

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    11Wilderness11 said, 19 days ago

    fbjsr.

    My kids have nothing to hide. They were raised without candy in the house and they mostly live without it except for on holidays. They don’t feel deprived or resentful and they don’t cry when I chuck their candy. These are not kids that beg for Hershey bars every time we go to the store. Truth told, half the Halloween candy they get they chuck ON THEIR OWN because they find candy gross for the most part. (One taste of something excessively sweet and then they are off to spit it in the garbage.) My kids when given the choice between fruit and candy will choose the fruit about 7 times out of 10 because they haven’t fried their tastebuds like so many of their sodapop-guzzling attention deficit classmates. Last night I was watching my daughter sort her loot (the most fun part for her, even over eating it) and every time she found a piece of gum she was shouting “ew!” and throwing it into a garbage bag without a second of remorse.

    The number of houses they go to is already limited and we even attend Halloween events that have nothing to do with candy. This doesn’t mean I don’t let them participate in trick or treating, it just means that Halloween is over and candy must go within a week. This doesn’t mean they binge, it means they prioritize. This is just the reality they live.

    Believe it or not, it isn’t child abuse.

    I am amazed at how many people are harshing on poor Elly for doing the right thing here–granted, she could wait for more than a day, but there is no good reason not to chuck candy.

    Then again, I have also never met an addict who wouldn’t defend his addiction.

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    JanCinVV said, 19 days ago

    I had 8 kids at my door last night, up from 4 the year before and 0 the first year in this house. I gave out small bags of pretzels so I wouldn’t have leftover candy in the house. Of course, it helps that my husband hates pretzels, so they’re MINE, BwaaaHaaaHaaaHaaa!

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    Ji2m said, 19 days ago

    Michael has a future in politics. Take things from one group to gain favor with another…

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    Maizing said, 19 days ago

    I don’t give out candy to trick or treaters. I give out little non-edible things. This year, I found some stickers and fake tattoos to hand out. It’s better for the kids and I don’t have a bunch of left over candy that I would end up eating myself.

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    Burgundy2 said, 19 days ago

    It seems to me that it’s pretty cruel to make a kid throw out his halloween candy so soon after halloween.

    I, too, grew up mostly without candy -except for holidays, and halloween was considered a holiday. I don’t know what power my mother had over us, but we kept our candy in our rooms, but only had some at appropriate intervals - a few pieces after school, that sort of thing. After about a month, there’d be nothing left but those awful halloween toffees that are always stale. Those, we would throw out.

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    dericson1 said, 19 days ago

    wolfdreamer and fsbjr: it’s a cartoon! Seems to me you would be better off using your free time to study your grammar and spelling, rather than reading and criticizing comic strips.

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    mroberts88 said, 19 days ago

    Smart kid….until his sister finds out.

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    Wildmustang1262 said, 19 days ago

    Michael, you should not lie to your own mother about your own bag of candies. Thou shall not lie Tsk! Tsk!

    By the way, I hate eating those candies because of sugars too much. bleech!

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    bald 716 said, 19 days ago

    but does elly actually throw it all out ?

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    fbjsr said, 19 days ago

    Hey dericson1, you spelled my name wrong. I guess you can’t spell any better than me. I was not criticizing the cartoon. So I guess I can say you can’t comprehend what you read any better than you spell. I was responding to a person who was lecturing two other people for trying to make humerous remarks about the cartoon.

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    ireg said, 19 days ago

    My kids and now grand kids trick or treat. They get to eat some in the evening. (took about 2 hours to get the 3 year old to fall asleep last night.)
    The rest is put up and they will be able to earn it with good reports, well done school work and extra chores. They love this. They do not feel deprived.
    My son had diet restrictions and when he was little friends would give him special dried fruit instead of candy.

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    CeeC said, 19 days ago

    It is actually healthier for them to let them indulge over the next couple of days and then get rid of it instead of dolling it out over the next couple of months.

    We go through it, and sort what they are allowed to eat vs what is just too scary looking and then depending on what is left let them have it the next few days…then it is gone.

    Mine are still little and all the houses give them extra for being so cute. Nice in sentiment, irritating in results so we thank them graciously and move on.
    
    Got to say, my kids are some of the few who actually said happy halloween and thank you, most are so involved in the candy they just rush away. Maybe 2 families who stoped at our house said thank you and we had good stuff.
    We let them trick or treat because it is the fun of trick or treating not eating the candy that is best, candy is just a fun extra but doesn’t give the lasting memories of the event.

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    diggit03 said, 19 days ago

    i agree with jahosacat

40. 

    TomCall said, 19 days ago

    This always leads to a life of crime.

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    Jelly Breads said, 19 days ago

    that’s pretty smart…i’d probably have pulled something like that on my brother.

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    Guilden_NL said, 19 days ago

    Only two kids this year. Maybe my shotgun by the door scared them off, I’m just waiting for those Javelinas……