Comments on: The Halloween Science FAQ http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/38202 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:16:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Di http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/38202/comment-page-1#comment-227434 Di Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:39:24 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=38202#comment-227434 Don't leave out "chicken skin" the most commonly used in Hawaii. I am impressed by anyone getting a black trash bag that filled! We were only allowed to trick-or-treat after school not at night so if we got a couple of pounds of candy it was a great take. On the other side, a couple of years ago I felt bad that we wouldn't be home on Halloween so I put out a plastic cauldron and filled it with full size candy. At the bottom I put a note that said if you saw the note I was sorry that everyone had gotten there first. I found out from a neighbor the next day that someone took ALL of it by noon time....that's when she took her grandkids up and down our block after preschool. And I didn't leave for work until 9am so after school started. What adult would do that? Don’t leave out “chicken skin” the most commonly used in Hawaii.

I am impressed by anyone getting a black trash bag that filled! We were only allowed to trick-or-treat after school not at night so if we got a couple of pounds of candy it was a great take.

On the other side, a couple of years ago I felt bad that we wouldn’t be home on Halloween so I put out a plastic cauldron and filled it with full size candy. At the bottom I put a note that said if you saw the note I was sorry that everyone had gotten there first. I found out from a neighbor the next day that someone took ALL of it by noon time….that’s when she took her grandkids up and down our block after preschool. And I didn’t leave for work until 9am so after school started. What adult would do that?

]]> By: ufluffed http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/38202/comment-page-1#comment-227063 ufluffed Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:23:30 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=38202#comment-227063 My neiborhood was also spaced very far. Being the rescourceful people they were, my dad and the neibors dads would decorate their lawnmowers and pull us around in the trailers. O i miss the good ole' days My neiborhood was also spaced very far. Being the rescourceful people they were, my dad and the neibors dads would decorate their lawnmowers and pull us around in the trailers.
O i miss the good ole’ days

]]> By: Missy http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/38202/comment-page-1#comment-226886 Missy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:19:42 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=38202#comment-226886 The only thing I can think that they may have left unaccounted for- Rural children often trick or treat by car. houses are spaced about every half mile in my area, excepting some small developments that we have. So generally parents will load up their goblins and ghouls and drive them from one house to another, allowing for greater distance covered with less time. Using this method I once filled a black garbage bag up halfway... another benefit of car-treating is that you can store the trashbag in the back seat, and empty your smaller bag so that people feel sorry for you and give you more. The only thing I can think that they may have left unaccounted for- Rural children often trick or treat by car. houses are spaced about every half mile in my area, excepting some small developments that we have. So generally parents will load up their goblins and ghouls and drive them from one house to another, allowing for greater distance covered with less time.
Using this method I once filled a black garbage bag up halfway… another benefit of car-treating is that you can store the trashbag in the back seat, and empty your smaller bag so that people feel sorry for you and give you more.

]]> By: Ben http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/38202/comment-page-1#comment-226678 Ben Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:42:15 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=38202#comment-226678 The term for goosebumps or your hair standing on end is actually piloerection. The term for goosebumps or your hair standing on end is actually piloerection.

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