The Treat Fairy: A Unique Trick To Get Your Kids’ Halloween Candy

By Sarah Matheny on October 30th, 2009

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Ahhh…Halloween.

How much do I love paying $40 for a glammed up garbage bag, traipsing around in the cold, wet night, knocking on strangers doors, or worse yet, the doors of people who I called the police on for leaving their dog outside barking until 2 am, only so they can fill my kids’ enormous buckets with hundreds of pieces of sugar and fat filled artificial garbage that my children will beg me incessantly for at all times of day for the next two months until the last roll of Smarties is gone?!  I think we’ve clearly established that I’m a Halloween Scrooge.  Don’t even get me started on the Fourth of July.

In a moment of brilliance on my older daughter’s second Halloween, I came up with a plan that not only would rid me of her cavity, diabetes, and obesity inducing bucket of treats, but would have her voluntarily giving me ALL OF HER CANDY.

Enter the Treat Fairy.  There’s Santa, there’s the Easter Bunny, there’s even the close relative, the Tooth Fairy…why not the Treat Fairy?  “Who is she?”, you might ask.  She is the magical and lovely nymph that comes to our house on Halloween night.  After my kids have trick-or-treated, stuffed as many pieces of candy into their mouth while I am chatting with our neighbor about the fact that I can’t believe someone called the police about her dog, my little butterfly and Batgirl brush their teeth and climb into bed, with their buckets of loot sitting near their bed.  Then, once they are asleep, the Treat Fairy comes and takes their candy away, and in its’ place leaves a special toy.  One year, she left a Cinderella doll, and one year she left a Tinkerbell DVD.  Word is this year, my oldest daughter has her eye on a purple pegasus My Little Pony.

Somehow, on November 1st, my husband’s co-workers are treated to a candy feast in the break room, save for the 34 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups that I have no doubt end up in my husband’s desk drawer.  I can’t blame him…those little cups are pure heaven in dark brown crinkly paper.  Now if I could just get the Treat Fairy to visit him at work, and perhaps leave him an all inclusive trip to Maui.  Yeah, that’s the ticket!

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