Poll: What did you use to hold your candy when you trick-or-treated?

Buttercup16

We always used our pillow cases.  The little pumpkin basket things are cute, but they don't hold as much candy! 

hula_lula

a pillow case

Lelly

The pumpkin basket and when I got older mom upgraded to to Halloween bags.

Serendipitie

I had an orange pumpkin for the neighborhood, and then when we went to the richer area, I busted out the pillowcase!

Nikki1007

I always had the little pumpkin basket. I am jealous that they now make them in pink. We only had orange when i was a kid.

Buttercup16

Serendipitie:

I had an orange pumpkin for the neighborhood, and then when we went to the richer area, I busted out the pillowcase!

 LOL!  We loved the rich neighborhoods - full size candy bars!  Woot! 

Mrs White

both?  we carried the bucket but mom had the pillow case and when we got full we would dump. 

Did anyone elses mom sort thru the candy first "to make sure it was safe" ie: take the stuff she wanted?

HazelEyes730

We had these Halloween bags.  They were pretty big and held a lot of candy. My Mom still has them actually.

Nikki1007

Mrs White:

both?  we carried the bucket but mom had the pillow case and when we got full we would dump. 

Did anyone elses mom sort thru the candy first "to make sure it was safe" ie: take the stuff she wanted?

Mine did and I plan to continue the tradition of looking out for childerns safety.

Buttercup16

janineb:

ditto the pillowcase.

out of curiousity, did anyone else have to collect donations for unicef at the same time? It was a school fundraiser. we had this little box thing on a string that went around our neck. always crimped the style of our costumes.

 We did Unicef too, except we weren't smart enough to hang it around our necks.  We'd hold onto it by the little handle.  It was kind of hard to carry around with our sleeping bags... ::smacks forhead::

Echloe

pillow case

Buttercup16

LOL!  And by sleeping bags - I of course meant pillow cases...Sleeping bags sure would've held a lot of candy...but they'd be a bit cumbersome...  :P

Echloe

Mrs White:

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Did anyone elses mom sort thru the candy first "to make sure it was safe" ie: take the stuff she wanted?

?Yeah. ?I remember the big scares in the day were razor blades in candy. ?Can you imagine?

pmarie33

we used pillow cases

Matsifloxacin

we used those big plastic bags you buy for halloween.

Stacy092306

We had a little bucket, and we would dump it into a bigger bag our mom had when it was full. 

epona3

Either a pumpkin bucket or the Halloween grocery bags (we were high rent!)  I've never seen anyone use a pillow case, but maybe I'm just getting senile.