I laughed last year at that also, but I still think some parents are just cruel to their kids to get a laugh.
I remember when I was a kid walking from the time I got out of school until 8 at night.
We used to go into peoples homes where they baked halloween cookies and cupcakes, sit down, have a glass of milk, then go to the next house. Its incredible how things have changed.
Then Id get home, and seperate all the stuff I disliked, handed it off to my parents, or my siblings, or sometimes used it to trade with my siblings to get what I wanted.
Candy was a currency as good as gold when you went trick or treating and you were 5 y/o.(Id cry also if someone told me they depleted my investment portfolio)
I used to have to monitor my son, because he would hide candy under his mattress, in his pillowcase, all over his room, outside, whereever we wouldnt find it.
Hed get on sugar highs wed have to hold him on the ground.
I now give out 90% trinkets, toys, etc.......only keep candy for the older kids who dont want a 50 cent toy.