Denied Expectations (or why I bought way too much candy!)

EDITED...

# of Extra-Large bags of candy purchased in anticipation of Halloween: (3) 4

# of Extra-Large bags of candy opened: (0) 1

Amount of candy actually put in bowl: 1-Extra-Large and 1 1/2-(Medium) Large bags

# of Trick-or-Treaters: 12

# of anticipated Trick-or-Treaters: >12

# of Extra-Large bags of candy remaining: 3

Amount of candy remaining in bowl: TOO FREAKING MUCH!!!

Apparently I grossly overestimated the amount of candy we needed.

What do you think the chances are that Wal-Mart will take the extra bags back, even with a receipt?



On the upside, I was the happiest this year with our decorations that I've been since we moved in: I found a almost cat-like gargoyle at Big Lots for cheap and sat it on top of a upside down flowerpot, and then put a set of luminaries that we got for very cheap a few years back and which spell out "boo" (or "obo" or "oob") in front of that on one side of the door. On the other side of the door, I left the planter which always lives there and added one pumpkin and one jack-o-lantern which had the best face I've ever carved (thanks to DH for drawing the face for me to follow, I got stuck on the same design every year and can't move past it). These were huge pumpkins - a good 16-18" tall, and proportionately round. And of course, I bought them on Monday at Wal-Mart for less than $6 for both. DH asked where I'd gotten them because they were so large, he thought I would have paid a bundle for them. We had talked about going out to our local pumpkin patch, but life got in the way. Hopefully we can manage to do that once we have kids, it always looks like such a fun time and so cute to see the little kids in the pumpkin fields.

What about you, how was the turn-out in your neighborhoods, and how well did you guess how much candy you would need?