FULL SIZED CANDY BARS for Halloween!!

By Nancy Pav

Real Estate Agent with Century 21 Redwood Realty License # 0225028579

October 31, 2007 02:01 PM

Happy Halloween everyone! I went to the Giant and picked up full sized candy bars for the Trick or Treaters.

Do you remember the days when you went trick or treating? I do and I can't help but wish I could have gone out with the kids tonight too. I remember the family that always gave out the full sized candy bars- Burt and Grace Charbonneau. Every year they gave out those candy bars and guess what? It was the first house we all visited. And I'm 42 and still remember who gave out the best candy! What about you?

Which, in my sugar induced high, led me to think about the corelation between full-sized candy bars and REALTORS. Each and every day, I strive to be the REALTOR that the people in my life think of when they have real estate needs. And I would also like to think that they will remember me fondly in 30 years.

So, my question to all of the consumers out there is, what has your REALTOR done to set themselves apart in your eyes?

And to all of my REALTOR friends, what do you think makes people remember you?

Oh, by the way, I'd love to hear about the full sized candy bar family from your childhood.

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Megan Barber

Barber Virtual Assisting Solutions, LLC - Vineland, NJ

Great post Nancy! I'm sharing it with my own clients to encourage them all to be that full-size candy bar giver!

I think I may be a little young to remember the days before the "fun-size" candy bars, but I do remember a few houses in my neighborhood that gave out rolls of pennies, and when I was a little kid I thought it was the coolest (maybe only 25-50 cents worth, but it was still a lot when you were 6). I also remember the house that gave out toothbrushes.

Nov 01, 2007 02:16 AM

Jill Wente

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate | Gary Greene - Spring, TX

Realtor, CRS, MCNE, CHMS

Nancy: I remembered the full size candy bar house when I went trick or treating as a kid. The last couple of years I decided that I was going to be known as the full size candy bar house. This year I gave out 82. Next year I need to purchase at least 60 more. I had to turn out my porch light.

Nov 01, 2007 02:18 AM

Brad Andersohn

Retired Executive Director of Education at eXp - Boulder Creek, CA

ActiveBrad - 707.646.1876

We took the kids out tonight and got loads of candy but not 1 single full size candy bar! :-(
We still had a blast and enjoyed the spooky tricks and treats! :-)

Nov 01, 2007 02:22 AM

Phaedra Hubbard

My Florida Home Store - Clearwater, FL

Clearwater, Dunedin, Palm Harbor Real Estate Exper

I remember going out as a kid and almost every year someone was giving out the full size candy. The past two years going out with my two kids, we haven't seen one full sized bar. Wonder why...

I think it might be because Walmart and other stores offer such good deals on the bags of small candy. One thing I did notice was some people gave the kids like 4-5 of the little bars, which is technically equal to one big bar :)

Nov 01, 2007 02:40 AM

Christina Bennani-Persechini

Keller Williams Realty Boston North West - Lexington, MA

Realtor - The House For You

Our old office was on the town trick or treat trail, we would get hundreds of kids stopping by. Our last year at that location we went all our, loads of candy, coffee, cider and cookies for the adults and a "haunted house for sale" listing sheet. Our office was decorated to the max and we had a great time!

Nov 01, 2007 02:50 AM

Therese VanderMeer

Midwest Properties of MI - Grand Rapids - Jenison, MI

Realtor-Greater Grand Rapids, MI area communities

Hi Nancy, Congratulations on your feature...what a "treat" for you! I actually hand out assorted full sized candy bars and had one child actually state...Is this all you have? I almost fell over laughing!

Back in the day....in our neighborhood, we had one elderly gentleman who passed out a small goody bag with different candies...every year this was the home we had to be sure to stop at. :-)

Nov 01, 2007 02:53 AM

Rob Robinson- Lehigh Valley PA

Bertrum Settlements (Title & Abstract) - Allentown, PA

Therese - the kid was saying "What the heck is a ZAGNUT" bar and a "MALLO CUP"?

Nov 01, 2007 02:56 AM

Beth Anderson

Goedert Real Estate - Tecumseh, MI

Realtor - Tecumseh / Lenawee County

For the last few years I haven't had any trick or treaters, most of the kids head into town where there are more homes and easy distances between. I always have candy, just in case. One of my nicest memories of Halloween was when we purchased our first home, we moved from a large town to a small little area which was basically one street of homes in the middle of cornfields. Our daughter at the time was just little and we decided to take her with us back to our friends in Ann Arbor to trick or treat with their kids. I didn't want to be the mean new neighbor who punked out on giving candy, so I set up a bowl on the front porch full of candy options with a sign saying I was sorry that we couldn't be there, but please take some candy. I wondered how long the candy would last, thinking chances were it would be gone after the first group got hold of it. Was I surprised to arrive home and find the bowl still half full. In the larger town we had left we would not have been shocked if the bowl itself was gone along with the chair it sat upon.

Nov 01, 2007 04:28 AM

Jon Higgins

Century 21 Elite Performance - Springboro, OH

ABR

I hope you attached your business cards to those big candy bars!

Nov 01, 2007 05:13 AM

Anonymous

Great post. I make a valid point. I would remember them also. Best of luck and keep doing what you do.

Nov 01, 2007 06:51 AM

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I still remeber the full size candy bars. The other thing that I remeber best is my grandmother always being so excited when we got there and she would act like she didn't know who we were. I remember one time my older brother dressed up like a woman and my grandmother REALLY didn't know him. That was the best year ever.

Nov 01, 2007 09:27 AM

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Daniel Smith

First Priority Financial - Spanaway, WA

PROUDGAY

Wow, If I were still a kid I'd stop by your house twice :). All the best to you! Dan

Nov 01, 2007 09:46 AM

Jennifer Hartwick

Crane and Crane Real Estate - Columbia, MO

It makes me remember when I knew exactly which house it was in our neighborhood that gave out full size candy bars! It was the first house we would hit every year! The last year we lived in town, I bought full size bars to hand out, I wanted to be that house. But we moved to the country and haven't seen a trick or treater for years.

Nov 01, 2007 10:42 AM

Joni Parkinson

American Homes, Real Estate - Simi Valley, CA

Realtor, Moorpark Real Estate, Simi Valley Real Estate, Moorpark

Proves that folks who are NOT "cookie cutters" will always be remembered. As a Realtor with over twenty years of fullt-ime experience, I take great pride in providng Full Sized candy bars...so to speak. I am always availble for each and every client and they know that if I don't call them back within two hours I am probably dead. It's super to now be able to provide real estat services to the children of my former clients. Whenever you can state you work mainly form referrals.....you are a full-sized candy bar in my books!

Nov 01, 2007 11:31 AM

Paul Warner -- Orange County, CA Appraiser

Warner & Associates - Mission Viejo, CA

When I was a kid, my friends and i would go to the full size candy bar homes several times on the same night! most of the time the owners didn't realize that we had been there earlier!

Good post

Nov 01, 2007 12:34 PM

Nancy Pav

Century 21 Redwood Realty - Ashburn, VA

Nancy Pav, Your "GottaHave" Realtor

Or did they?

Nov 01, 2007 01:31 PM

Josh Craig

1-800-GOT-JUNK? - Torrance, CA

A collegue referred me to this blog. He was right! Great content and awesome analogy. We are the full size candy bar givers of junk!!!!

Nov 01, 2007 03:48 PM

Bob & Carolin Benjamin

Benjamin Realty LLC - Gold Canyon, AZ

East Phoenix Arizona Homes

The post about the home made pop corn balls and donuts -- have a feeling that if we gave kids today home made anything that the parents would throw it out. We have gotten to the place where we all have to be worried that a weirdo put something into a non-packaged and sealed item. Sad to say.

Nov 01, 2007 05:25 PM

Chip Holmes

Eagle Home Appraisal - Las Vegas, NV

Henderson NV Real Estate Appraiser

There were no full sized candy bars in my neighborhood growing up. It was all about speed and number of houses hit. The days of dodging teenagers stealing bags and really scary pranks are over. My kids go to "safe street" and hit half a dozen homes on our street. We have so much candy it could feed an entire elementary school.

Nov 01, 2007 10:29 PM

Mark Miller

Long & Foster - Ashburn, VA

Quality vs. Quantity. Do what you do better than the rest and you wont't have to keep piling on the crap. One King Sized Snickers Bar is more satisfying than a back full of bit sized candy.

As the cool house in the neighborhood, full sized bars are the standard for the neighborhood kids.

Nov 02, 2007 03:44 AM

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