Second Best Thing About Halloween
You should see my street the day after Halloween. Candy wrappers everywhere. You’d think a parade had gone through my neighborhood! I can’t blame them, though. What kid in their right mind would wait until they got home to start eating their plunder?
ah, candy wrappers, do you remember putting the tootsie roll pops together and trying to make them match. that and trying to find the indian shooting a star arrow.
I know about the Tootsie Roll pop matches, but I’m not sure about the indian shooting a star arrow? What is that exactly?
Here is a snopes explaining it. http://www.snopes.com/business/redeem/tootsie.asp
Cool, thanks for sending that. Honestly that’s the first I’ve ever heard of it. It’s like an urban legend.
Haha! All that work… for a moment of bliss.
Sounds like my love life, Will, lol. Difference being the bliss is optional.
IS DAT SUM REESES CUPS
You know it! Nothing says Halloween trash like an empty Reese’s PB cup! Thanks for stopping in and commenting, James! Can’t wait for The Egg and I.
munch munch mun-gulp….you were supposed to take them off the candy? O__O
In my Halloween frenzy, I probably ate more wrapper than I care to admit.
Artificial leaves. cool! 🙂
Might as well do something with all those wrappers!
There’s a hierarchy of Halloween goodies. At the low end of the scale are monkey nuts and fruit, working up through fun-sized candy to actual candy-sized candy and finally, at the top of the scale: cash! I love Halloween!
Who could argue with free candy and cash?
My son, being as he is deathly allergic to peanuts, will never experience this joy:(
Oh man. Sorry to hear that, poor guy. Still there’s so much to choose from. And fortunately there’s still nougat!
I wonder what you can make using candy wrappers..?
Candy wrapper fort, maybe? Cardboard box camouflaged with wrappers.
Here in Canada, we use them as the base to make our igloos 😉
And here I was thinking they were just garbage! You clever Canadians! Lol. Turning trash into sustainable dwellings!
Some enterprising entrepreneur will read this and invent and market a “Boo Bucket” with a litter catcher attachment. Green and Orange work well together. In the mean time, let’s all go jump in a pile of sticky wrappers.
The adult in me says “yuck, sticky, used candy wrappers” but the kid in me says “Cool!”
Those wrappers might still have some chocolate on them!
Savor the flavor!
Isn’t that why a lot of webcartoonists have beards?
Michelle won’t let me have a beard. It has made me undernourished…
Lol, Tony!
And you can’t even compost them if they are foil or plastic. All wrappers should be 100% biodegradable for us veggie gardening composting fanatics
They should manufacture a candy with a completely digestable wrapper. No need to waste time unwrapping it!
Very fun and clever.
I really meant that about the wrappers on my street post Halloween. (As of today they’re still there). That’s what gave me the idea.
All my candy wrappers still have candy in them… well, the ones I have yet to eat!
Its very weird to not have had Halloween yet! o.O …they dont cancel christmas when it snows!
I remember you mentioning something about downed power lines? Maybe that don’t want Trick or Treater flambe this year, Jynksie. And if you do have any candy left over I know a great non-profit group that you can send it to. They happen to have my home address, too, FYI.
I remember digging through a bag full of wrappers looking for those last few pieces of candy! Ahhhh, memories.
It’s a sad moment when you get to the end of your Halloween candy stash….
And they’re way more vibrant, softer, and colorful than standard leaves. 😀
It’s getting chocolate in your hair that puts them one step above plain ole leaves.
I didn’t eat candy until I got home. That way my mom could check for the elusive needle in the candy bar.
Did you ever find a razor blade or pin in any of your candy for real? Did you ever know anyone who ever did? I wonder if that’s an urban legend?
A town in NJ I used to live in cancelled trick-or-treating one year in the early 80s – I think there was some sort of poison or razor scare. The police cars went around with loudspeakers announcing “There will be no trick-or-treating this year.” (But of course there was anyway!)
Wow! You’re the first person I’ve ever known who experienced a real Halloween candy scare! Thanks for coming by and leaving a comment, Tom.
I’m not sure if there was really anything TO the scare, but I guess they thought it was safer to try to cancel Halloween anyway!
Enjoying reading through the strip here. 🙂
Halloween candy comes in wrappers? We usually just eat it whole. (I think the wrappers probably have most of the fiber.)
Well that’s one way of looking at it Binky!
Wow, that actually looks like fun. I remember diving into the pile of leaves as a kid.
Nothing like the feeling and smell of diving into a big pile of leaves!
Yippee! Next year I’ll go trick or treating just for the candy wrappers!
You probably won’t have to eat all that candy, there’ll be plenty of Halloween wrappers all over the street the day after!
Pretty awesome concept. Really funny.
Thanks, Josh. Really loved your Halloween strips, too!
Very cool! Maybe a glue stick candy wrapper collage would be a fun new tradition. Uh… maybe not.
Some people find treasure in trash, so go for it, MC!
He ought to take that rake to the candy store! where it’s 75% off candy!
Forget the rake. He could just jump into the dumpster behind the candy store!