My sister and I used to get Halloween night to eat only our candy (there was probably a limit on the number of pieces) and then it all got dumped into one big pile along with the leftover candy that didn't get handed out at our door, which was kept in the kitchen.
The reason this worked is because we usually went together so we had all the same stuff anyway and my mom always bought a bag of each of our favorites (which didn't overlap, helpfully) and those were the last bags to be opened to give out. So the leftover candy was stuff we liked, which is always better than tootsie rolls. (Which I HATE and always made up half of my stash!!) I think we had a limit of X pieces a day, but I don't remember.
We always used to dump it out with my dad and he would go through and make sure everything looked ok, which looking back on it was just his way of getting some of his favorites. (He would say things like "Oh, this doesn't look like a good piece, let's put it aside.") This only worked while we were in elementary school. ;)
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The reason this worked is because we usually went together so we had all the same stuff anyway and my mom always bought a bag of each of our favorites (which didn't overlap, helpfully) and those were the last bags to be opened to give out. So the leftover candy was stuff we liked, which is always better than tootsie rolls. (Which I HATE and always made up half of my stash!!) I think we had a limit of X pieces a day, but I don't remember.
We always used to dump it out with my dad and he would go through and make sure everything looked ok, which looking back on it was just his way of getting some of his favorites. (He would say things like "Oh, this doesn't look like a good piece, let's put it aside.") This only worked while we were in elementary school. ;)