Yesterday I mentioned I don’t dress up my dog for Halloween. Some might find that a bit fuddy duddy.
Well, I’ve found something that beats it.
A dentist in Mansfield, Ohio is offering to buy back Halloween candy from children. And he’s not the only one.
Dentists across the country are participating in the ‘Halloween Candy Buy Back’ program.
At Dr. Callen’s office in Mansfield, trick-or-treaters will receive $1 per pound of candy turned in (5-pound limit per child) and free toothbrushes. They will also be entered in a drawing for one of two children’s bicycles.
Now, I know the dentists’ intentions are good. Halloween candy is all about sugar, and sugar consumption promotes tooth decay.
But geez oh Pete.
Halloween only happens once a year! Shouldn’t every kid experience the rush — and resulting sweet belly — from overeating candy after a night of trick-or-treating? Believe me, it’s the best way to convince them to never do it again.
Plus, do we really want to turn Halloween into a money-making venture for kids? Cause this sure feels like it.
Five bucks is five bucks, after all.
Scared for life
Halloween weekend is here.
The pumpkins are carved. Parties planned. Costumes conceived.
And now critics on-air and online are recommending what horror films you should include in your Halloween movie marathon. The expected have risen to the top — the Halloweens, the Nightmares on Elm Street, the Screams, the Exorcists.
Your basic nightmares.
And while Paranormal Activity 3 has been advertised to have 15 minutes that will “mess up your life,” I’ve already “been there, done that.”
I saw this film in the theatre with my sister, mom and her good friend Jeanean who loved horror movies. (The rest of us really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into.)
Based on a true story, The Town that Dreaded Sundown follows a Texas ranger’s hunt for a serial killer who terrorized the people of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946. The killer wore a pillowcase over his head as he preyed on the residents of the town, primarily young people parking in the woods.
He was brutal and cruel and terrifying. And he was never captured.
Suffice to say no one slept in our house that night. Actually, I’m not sure any of us slept much that week, even knowing he was probably long dead. The imagine of his face covered by that pillowcase — breathing in and out like an animal — will haunt me for the rest of my life.
If you like really scary movies, I recommend it.
But it will mess you up.
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