What I learned last year is many kids don't like typical candy bars. They want skittles and nerds, and the like, at least here.

All my "filler" candy was gone, and I ended up eating the candy bars myself. I dunno, maybe they all had food allergies?

Anyway, this year I got skittles and nerds, and less chocolate, so I'll probably end up with no chocolate and a bunch of skittles and nerds which I don't like.

the Board

"We encourage/dictate that you hand out small/cheap candy bars only so that others do not feel pressured/inadequate."

This is hilarious. Somewhere on the other end of the totalitarian spectrum is an HOA encouraging all residents to hand out candy!

That sounds like one of those "ok guys, no gifts, okay?" situation where some are too poor / cheap to afford something, but then everyone else is gonna be "fuck that noise" and gonna one up each other into the nicest gifts just to fuck with the rest. Hilarious.

I would understand why my kids would want to go to a full size only candy bar neighborhood but I wouldn’t really want to take them there… the house that does that is supposed to be the rare extra thing, if every house does it it’s not special anymore and my kids are getting diabetes

That is some seriously petty bullshit on the part of the HOA.

Get a fucking life.

Request denied.

Well, I guess that means I can still hand out out the little airplane bottles of whiskey to the kids.

Photocopy the paper and and it out with full sized bars.

King Sized bars, it is. HOA's can kick rocks.

Every child now gets 2 full sized candy bars and a bag of chips.

Fuck off busy body!

If people "feel pressured" over a candy bar, that's on them. Some people have no issue not even participating so your inferiority complex can suck it

must protect the neighborhood from the pressure of having a variety of candy

and think of the children! they need a consistent experience in receiving their candy

HOA are anti-social tyrants who force their idea of community onto a captive audience.

When I was a kid, the fun-size candy bars were for me, and I gave the full size to my parents. I got to enjoy the variety without getting full as quickly, and I could scarf down way more of the small stuff before they figured out how much I'd eaten. The full size candy bars were merely a distraction for my elaborate heist of my own candy.

The whole concept of HOA is crazy for me

Imagine buying a home for several hundred k only to be told by others in minute detail what you can and can't do on your OWN property. Land of the free my ass lol.

Buy like 500 USD worth of the big chocolate bars, the ones that are arranged in little squares, and hand them out.

You absolutely must give out full size candy bars. What happens if Death visits?

Why are HOAs so obsessed with "consistency"?