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What is the most polite way to turn kids down on Halloween?

I feel like to earn their candy bar, the kids have to work for it. Their costumes must show a certain level of effort and creativity. How can I give candy to the kids who actually tried to look original and turn down the kids with generic costumes without seeming impolite? Thanks.
Freedom: Wow. Is that anger I’m sensing?

I’m going to take your question not as negatively as the majority of these people did. I think what you mean by “generic costumes” is when the kid wears a tshirt that says “this IS my costume”, or when they wear a trashbag and say they’re goop or something like that. I mean, there are things they can wear from the 99 cent store to make them look creative. They don’t necessarily have to go and spend a hundred dollars to look ok.

I really can’t stand seeing that either. You know what else I don’t like? I don’t like it when there are like 5 teenagers who take a little kid trick or treating. The little kid is all dressed up with make up and everything and the teenagers just have a freakin’ grocery bag with them and trick or treat themselves. I think that’s extremely ridiculous.

Unfortunately, I’m too freakin’ nice of a person and I end up giving them all candy. But you know what I do? I get a bowl of cheap crappy candy, and a bowl with good candy bars like snickers or m&ms. To the kids I give the good candy, to the teenagers with no costume, I give them crappy candy. Now if they are all small kids, I can’t be mean at all and they all get candy bars… I wish I could be a little mean, but then again, maybe it’s not their fault they couldn’t dress up at all, maybe their parents just didn’t want to spend the money.

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