A flaw in my Covid Candy Distribution Plan.

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Try this. My 87 year-old mother devised it, specifically to address the squirrel issue.

 
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We have put out a truckload...but it's a self-serve kinda Halloween this year...
 
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You need a better plan...
or just hide in the house and forget Halloween and the candy all together. It is the safest way to go during a pandemic...
 
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We have put out a truckload...but it's a self-serve kinda Halloween this year...

And an hour in it’s all gone!
 
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Ok haul for my son, although not nearly as good as last year. Tables all had 'take one' signs, and he honored that request. Normally people keep dumping handfuls of candy into his bag because there aren't a lot of kids trick-or-treating. For reference, he is still finishing his candy from last Halloween, and he has 1-2 pieces/ day.
 
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We don’t do Halloween.

We have a curry leaf plant on the front verge that gives all year round.

Enjoy watching the diversity from sneak up like a thief to brazen park level and jump out with scissors.
 
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Most boring Halloween ever down my way. Nobody allowed to do it.

Thanks Dan! (and I mean it this time).

In years past I had a lawn sprinkler (the tika tika tika tika tika type) set up next to our path and the water supply via an irrigation valve hooked to a remote controlled power point. I could sit in the lounge with the remote and spray the little gremlins as they came by.
 
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Most boring Halloween ever down my way. Nobody allowed to do it.

Thanks Dan! (and I mean it this time).

In years past I had a lawn sprinkler (the tika tika tika tika tika type) set up next to our path and the water supply via an irrigation valve hooked to a remote controlled power point. I could sit in the lounge with the remote and spray the little gremlins as they came by.

Do kids these days still soap windows? That was "the thing" when I was a kid (along with rotten eggs) and I always carried a bar of soap with me on my Halloween nights out. If someone didn't give out anything, they got it good...you would have been soaped to death for this sort of thing when I was a kid...plus a lot more I suspect.
 
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I protected myself and my family by eating all the chocolate
 
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Do kids these days still soap windows? That was "the thing" when I was a kid (along with rotten eggs) and I always carried a bar of soap with me on my Halloween nights out. If someone didn't give out anything, they got it good...you would have been soaped to death for this sort of thing when I was a kid...plus a lot more I suspect.

I haven't heard of soaping. But Teepee'ing is a thing. I've heard of throwing rotten eggs, but I don't think I've ever seen it.
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When we were kids and we and didn't get anything, we would light a bag of poop on fire and ring a bell. Thanky you Adam Sandler for inspiration 😎
 
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Really odd year in our neighborhood. In past years, we would burn through 8-10 huge bags of candy as the kids from surrounding neighborhoods were brought in by the van load! As neighbors depleted their candy stock, we would gather in a front yard and enjoy friendly banter and adult beverages (to fend off the TP'ing or soaping!).

This year, not a soul...nor a ghost to be seen!
 
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Things were much quieter than usual in my Brooklyn neighborhood (which is usually a nexus of kids and candy, with trick-or-treaters coming from other neighborhoods), but not quiet at all: a lot of kids and people giving out candy: some with a bowl or table down at the sidewalk in self-serve mode; others using a long tube or trough as a "candy chute" to dispense from a distance.
 
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I haven't heard of soaping. But Teepee'ing. I've heard of throwing rotten eggs, but I don't think I ever seen it.
What @Archer is referring to was also ‘popular’ in my neck of the woods back when I was a young miscreant. Perhaps it’s a Canadian (or northern states?) thing as chilly late-October nights means a bitch of a time cleaning that sh*t off windows.
 
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When we were kids and we and didn't get anything, we would light a bag of poop on fire and ring a bell. Thanky you Adam Sandler for inspiration 😎
Crap, I think I was in my late 20s when Adam Sandler started to 'inspire' people. 🙁

In my youth offending houses had their trees decorated to the hilt with various makes of teepee...
 
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Do kids these days still soap windows? That was "the thing" when I was a kid (along with rotten eggs) and I always carried a bar of soap with me on my Halloween nights out. If someone didn't give out anything, they got it good...you would have been soaped to death for this sort of thing when I was a kid...plus a lot more I suspect.
We were little terrors growing up in PA. I actually think it is not so prevalent with the highly structured lives kids live now and personal electronics.