Last year, our oldest was only 2, so we went to the TOT area of our town, did 5-6 houses for the experience, and called it a night and went home. Tonight we are going TOTing again, but with little sister in tow, so again I think we will just hit a few houses.

But last year, we passed a dentist with a "Candy Buy Back" program sign, and my husband (who didn't grow up in the US) started asking a lot of questions. Basically, it boiled down to, "If parents don't want their kids to have so much candy, why don't they take them home when they've gotten the amount of candy the parents will allow? And don't the people spending their money on the candy resent having to buy it for kids that are going to give it away?"

I was like.....uh.....yeah, when you put it like that.

I grew up in the country with about 5 houses within walking distance, so I never had a giant pillowcase full of candy. And our kids have been too young to do much TOTing so far.

What do you all think? If you live in a popular neighborhood, does it kind of piss you off to spend the money if you know parents are taking it to their offices or whatever?