It’s that time of year again, the season that makes CEO’s of
candy manufacturing companies titter with delight. Yep, it’s the beginning of
the candy holidays.
Halloween to Christmas, they’ve got us. Candy corn to Cadbury Eggs, they commandeer
our attention, and money.
Not that I’m complaining. Like most people, at Halloween I dress my kid up and spend
hours watching her siphon candy from the neighbors only to snag my favorites
from her cheap plastic pumpkin holder once she’s in bed.
And I’m know I’m not alone.
With childlike glee, we’ll rifle through their goods setting
aside the Snickers or Kit Kats just hoping our kid hasn’t taken careful
inventory of their haul. With guilty
pleasure, we’ll savor each sweet bite thinking all the while that maybe
Halloween is our favorite holiday, at least until the red and green M&M’s
hit the shelves in late November.
And isn’t the stolen candy a paltry payment for a forty
dollar costume he or she will only wear once and then we’ll store for years
because we feel guilty throwing away memories or money or both?
The ironic part is that we (us silly adults) could just go
to the store and buy ourselves a bag of our favorite candy any time of the year.
Heck, isn’t that’s why we went to all the trouble of growing up, so we could do
whatever we wanted, and yet we rarely do.
Instead, we wait for the candy holidays to roll around so
that we can fill our bellies with sugary goodness whether in our stockings or
our children’s long since forgotten chocolate Easter stash.
Yep, I’m a victim of the candy holidays and then when summer
rolls around I always end up saying something stupid like, “How did I gain
weight this winter?”
So what about you?
What is your favorite candy holiday and most of all, are you a candy holdiay
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