trick or treating
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12 Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween
I am a Halloween scholar with a PhD in witchology from Virginia Tech*, and I want to share my knowledge with you. These 12 Halloween facts and “didya knows?” cover everything you ever wanted to know about the holiday: pumpkins, black cats, and novelty music. Isn’t that what Halloween is all about?
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The Smartest Ways to Put Leftover Halloween Candy to Good Use (Besides the Obvious One)
It’s (almost) that time of year again. When kids run giddily through the neighbourhood (hopefully not freezing under those Star Wars costumes made of impossibly thin fabric) and return home with a metric ton of insulin-spiking, mood-altering candy that you — despite your best covert laundry-room nibbling efforts — can’t get rid of fast enough.…
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How to Buy Exactly Enough Halloween Candy, Without Going Over
The hardest part of Halloween (besides deciding on the perfect costume for you or your small children) is figuring out how much candy to buy. Running out early is obviously no fun at all — but given that the good stuff costs upwards of $14 a bag these days, neither is overbuying. (It turns out…
