Comments on: Halloween Makes Me Anxious. https://simplelifebykels.com/halloween-makes-me-anxious/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=halloween-makes-me-anxious healthy from the inside out Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Kelsey https://simplelifebykels.com/halloween-makes-me-anxious/#comment-2902 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 03:41:31 +0000 http://www.simplelifebykels.com/?p=2714#comment-2902 In reply to Robyn.

I love this robyn! I am loving the fireworks tradition, that would definitely be a hit with my kids!

]]> By: Robyn https://simplelifebykels.com/halloween-makes-me-anxious/#comment-2901 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:50:27 +0000 http://www.simplelifebykels.com/?p=2714#comment-2901 My parents did the same thing and “I think” I’m totally fine and not scarred at all. Our family tradition was to have chili for dinner. (obviously a ploy by my mom to fill us up with real food before the onslaught of candy) We went trick-or-treating, had a block party with donuts/hot chocolate and fireworks and were allowed to eat whatever we wanted that night. Honestly looking back, the fireworks are what I looked forward to the most, and Reese peanut butter cups-yum!! ? Then we had our bowl of candy, and allowed to choose one piece of candy in our school lunch for a week. Then the bowls of candy mysteriously disappeared and it was done . . . Pretty sure my mom threw it away. It was kinda like believing in Santa, you would get older and realize what was really going on, and by then be ok with it. I do roughly the same thing with my kids (they are still little 2.5/4 so they are happy to just dress up and go door to door. Any candy that’s left over from their small haul go into our 72 hour kit for emergencies, then I throw out the old stuff from last year and put in the new.

]]> By: Kelsey https://simplelifebykels.com/halloween-makes-me-anxious/#comment-2887 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 02:29:31 +0000 http://www.simplelifebykels.com/?p=2714#comment-2887 In reply to Renee.

Those are all awesome ideas! I love the special monday thing! I might have to try that.

]]> By: Renee https://simplelifebykels.com/halloween-makes-me-anxious/#comment-2884 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:56:28 +0000 http://www.simplelifebykels.com/?p=2714#comment-2884 Kelsey,

I got the idea from The Anderson Crew blog to buy my kids’ candy back from them. I think we gave a nickle a piece…it came to less than $5 per kid. They were allowed to use that money to buy something at the store – none of it had to go into their savings jar.

Because they did want to keep some candy, we allowed them 10 pieces. They were allowed to have one piece every Monday after dinner til the candy was gone. Monday was deemed “special day”!

I looked into donating the candy last year, but no one was collecting at the time that I could find. Our Sunday School teachers give out a treat to kids who memorize their verse for that week, so I gave it to them. Saved them having to buy some for a few weeks!

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