[Figtreejohn]

Where are the cheapest places to get Halloween candy this year? Prices are rediculous!

 

[zacharybinx]

I went to Walmart. The $4.68 bags were the best deal only about .20 cents an oz. that was the best price I found.
-Z

 

[bl00d]

W/ the crazy prices I cannot afford candy, So I am hitting up the dollar store picking up spider rings, and bubbles.

 

[ah2610]

My suggestion is to check out your local grocery stores that offer buy one get one free deals, if there are any. Printable coupons are easy to find, and I match those with the sales. For instance, last week my local grocery store had 3 lb bags of Laffy Taffy bogo. Regular price is 8.99 each. So you get twice the amount for the money, and THEN I had coupons to stack with it. With coupons, I paid 5.99 for 6 pounds of Laffy Taffy, and regular price would have been 17.98. It can be done on the (fairly) cheap!

 

[Madame Leota]

Walmart has the best prices around here, even with so called sale prices at other stores. Fun size chocolate comes out to around .08 per bar.

 

[sookie]

I used coupons and the sales and CVS and got $2 back in extra care bucks. I think I spent around $12 total for 4 bags.

 

[DebbyLW]

After comparing all of the prices I found the best place to be Walmart and used printable coupons.

 

[DayTek]

We are doing treat bags this year and holy crap, yeah, it's expensive! We started buying candy at the end of September - Buying one box almost every week. We just bought it at our local grocery store...Probably not the cheapest, but we got one on sale the one week. It's easier on the budget to buy it gradually rather than all at once. Just picked up our last box today and that should be enough to fill bags and have some loose candy for extra kids.

Normally we'd buy candy a few days in advance according to what the weather would be, but we like more variety when doing treat bags. We usually don't get more than 45 TOTers max, so it's not too bad. I couldn't imagine buying for hundreds! We'd really have to buy early to afford that!

Candy is expensive in general, so I guess buying gradually might help the pocketbook. Since it's getting closer, checking flyers for deals might help.

 

[Pumpkinprincess]

Costco. I buy 3 boxes of York P Patties. $11 for 175 patties. I give one out at the beginning and get more generous as the night goes on. We do a walkthrough haunt, so I think that's plenty.

 

[DaveintheGrave]

Go to the Dollar Tree store. They've got plenty of candy there.

 

[jdubbya]

We buy the fun size bars. Kit Kat seems to be the best buy with 21 bars per bag. Most of the others have 18. A bag is running about $2.65. considering we get close to 600 TOTs on a good night, we'll drop over $90.00 on candy w/o coupons. We're going to start buying this week. A lot of stores start marking it down too so watching for sales and will def. be using coupons, but hey; it's once a year and so worth it IMO!

 

[Ophelia]

We do Costco, also. We got a Mars variety pack of full sized bars(30 total) for $12. That breaks down to .40 a bar. They have a limit of two boxes. They say per household, but we decided to try again on our trip today, and we still got the discount. So, between two trips, we bought 4 boxes, a total of 120 bars.

That's a great price for us, and they are bars we'd be willing to eat if there are leftovers. (Snickers, Milky Way, Regular and Peanut M&Ms, and Twix.)

 

[Ophelia]

Wow, upon reading that, I really feel the need to apologize for such a broken post. I guess it's safe to say I was just typing what came to mind.

 

[HallowweenKat]

I've bought all my candy at Sam's Club the last several years & we get about 300 ToTers, 3-4 pieces per kid.

 

[slash]

yea the dollar tree has some pretty good candy, walgreens has some sales as well.

 

[JLWII2000]

Go to the nearest creepy guy that drives a van with no windows, he usually has free candy. LOL. In all seriousness, I go to Costco but if you don't have the membership I would price match at Walmart or I've noticed some places put Halloween candy on clearance the day of or the day before Halloween.

 

[moonwitchkitty]

Wal-mart bought a few bags of candy 200 count for 8.95 a bag. thought it was a good deal.

 

[TK421]

I've been finding some good deals at Kroger stores. Lots of $2 bags and/or buy two, get one free, etc. It also helps to check the weekly flyers.

 

[13ghosts]

I don't get many ToTs so I don't have to buy more than a few candy bars, but I'm a year round coupon shopper. Target seemed to have some good candy deals this year, I always check totallytarget for their deal matchups. And there have been a lot of candy coupons in the newspaper this year, especially if you have a store that doubles coupons you can definitely get a great deal.

 

[oaklawn Crematory]

My haunt has attracted alot of TOTS . I scaled back from full size candy bars to kudos to fun size candy bars. I still spent $60.00 in treats this year. I expect 600 kids this year. Just can't handle the increase.