Sell Your Halloween Candy Back To Dentists
Have you heard of this? A network of dentists will buy back your Halloween candy for $1 to $2 per pound at HalloweenCandyBuyBack.com. After a few zip code searches, there actually does seem to be a few dentists in many metro areas. They are then encouraged to donate the candy to be sent to troops overseas.
Seems like an idea with good intentions, but somehow seems funny to me. Candy is bought by my neighbors, which is given out free to kids in costume, which gets sold to dentists for cash, and then is finally donated?
As a kid, the best part was trading candy between friends afterward. (I’ll add that I was always made to brush regularly and have never had a cavity in my life.) What was your favorite Halloween candy? I still love Dum-Dum lollipops.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Candy corn, taken by the handful. (No sissy hand-gel back in my day, kids.)
My dentist drives an S600 for a reason.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Smarties and SweeTarts for me. And I’ve always brushed twice a day and still ended up with 3 or 4 cavities.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
thumbs up for the KING size Snickers or Baby Ruth bar. Not that cheapy “fun size”.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Ugh I hated SweetTarts and Smarties! They were always left over after I ate all the good stuff, also Bazookas and tootsie rolls were the bottom of the barrel for me.
In the fancier neighborhoods I’d get regular sized candy bars, which was awesome. Remember the weirdo family that would hand out mini toothbrushes & toothpaste?! Must have been a dentist!
October 30th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Oh man, I love candy corn as well. I think I might have to buy some now.
Anyone get bags of pennies sometimes? Usually picked last were tootsie rolls and those black/orange paper-wrapped gooey candies.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
love candy corn, hate smarties. yuck!
Now, sending candy to the troops is awesome. I volunteer at my local food bank, and have it on my list to talk to my dentist next time I go there. My dentist gives me a free toothbrush and floss with my cleaning (I’m sure given to him by a rep). I want him to give me a bunch of single-wrapped toothbrushes and as much travel size toothpaste as he can so I can give it out to clients to come to the food bank I volunteer at
October 31st, 2009 at 12:27 am
You say you never had a cavity in your life Jonathan? How does your dentist stay in business then? If one goes to 3 different dentists he will get 3 very different diagnosis.
Bags of pennies were a killer, they would make your bags so heavy to carry home after trick or treating as a kid.
October 31st, 2009 at 1:42 am
I’ve had probably 10 different dentists in the last 10 years. All just check after a cleaning and say “hmm… uh-huh… mm… you have nice teeth” and then leave after 30 seconds. I have no idea what a filling is like, and I hope to keep it that way!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
I HATE CANDY CORNS!!!!