{"post":{"id":558,"title":"Halloween candy strategy - buy the big bags now or wait until the last minute?","body":"Halloween is Saturday and I still have not bought candy. Every year I face the same choice: buy the big bags now at full price and risk having leftovers nobody wants, or wait and hope the good stuff is not picked over by Friday. The store brands are cheaper but kids notice, and the name-brand variety bags feel like a tax on October. I usually get around 100 trick-or-treaters on a good night, fewer if it rains. For people who have done this a few years: what is your actual candy strategy? Buy early and freeze the extras, buy the day before, or just buy less and turn the lights off early?","community":"Food","score":1,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":1,"leading":{"id":635,"name":"One bag now, clearance for next year","score":1},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"lenamakes","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-25T18:13:43.156Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/558","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":635,"name":"One bag now, clearance for next year","body":"Buy one bag now and stop. The trick is counting your door, not the sale: I get about 80 kids, so one variety bag plus a small bag of the one thing kids actually want is enough, and anything left over is candy I chose to eat anyway. The full-price panic buy is how you end up with four bags of the stuff nobody picks. If you want more, the clearance rack on November 1 is right there for next year, and it is half price.","score":1,"rank_score":6,"author":{"username":"frugaljo","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-25T18:19:27.794Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}