Just had to share this Halloween tradition with you guys which began, quite innocently, with me buying my Halloween candy early one year.  I figured I was being efficient.  Until the family got hold of it and decimated my supply!  Which was when I began to hide the bags from them, thinking I could keep them safe from sticky fingers and growly stomachs until hubby and the kids had a legitimate excuse to steal the treats on Halloween night.  Except they kept finding the bags! 

Pretty quickly this became one of our Halloween traditions.  I'd buy candy early, hide it around the house, and they'd attempt to find it before costumed kids came to the door to "take" it from them.  This year I was about to give up the habit.  I'd put a bowl in the middle of the table and stocked it with chocolate.

You'd have thought I'd crushed our pumpkins in the road.

I was informed this was not the proper way to approach the holiday.  Goodies were meant to be tucked away in the cleverest spots I could find so that my son could prove he was even smarter.  So far he's found all but one bag of Reece Cups.

I wonder if vampires would enjoy their own version of this game.  They could hide humans around the mansion and then take turns trying to find them.  Creepy fun for the bloodsucking segment.  What do you think?