How To Calculate Exactly How Much Halloween Candy You Should Buy for Trick-or-Treaters Don't get stuck with dreaded mounds of extra Hershey bars this year.

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[mylife]

You don't want to end up with bags upon bags of extra candy this Halloween, especially considering our current economy of shortages; experts say costumes, decorations, and yes, candy, are all stuck at U.S. ports, as there aren't enough truck drivers to transport the goods.

Luckily, there's a new online calculator that uses a simple equation to determine exactly how much Halloween candy you should buy to satisfy all of your trick-or-treaters (without wasting a morsel).

🎃 You love math. So do we. Let's solve some problems together. The calculator—jointly developed by Birmingham, Alabama-based delivery company Shipt and Mars Wrigley, a self-proclaimed "leading manufacturer of chocolate, chewing gum, mints, and fruity confections"—is pretty fun, with two sections that have different mathematical goals.

How Much Candy Should You Buy For Halloween? The first section calculates the gross (no offense, this just means the total) amount of candy you'll need for your trick-or-treaters. To figure that out, you'll multiply time × kids × generosity. In the second part, you'll figure out how much extra candy you need to purchase now if you want to make sure there's still enough left by the time October 31 rolls around. For that, you'll multiply the number of days ahead of Halloween it is when you buy the candy × your household size × your sneakiness level.

[mylife]

Simple, buy Reeses peanut butter cups, place in freezer, turn out the lights.

More for me!

[Bookwoman]

Dreaded?

[tet68]

There is such a thing as “extra Hershey bars”?

[corkoman]

Popular Mechanics? Pathetic.

[Kartographer]

Just do what I do post signs saying the house is under quarantine because of COVID that scares everyone off!

[Sacajaweau]

It's super good when cold. I used some to make coconut bars, some to make pecan globs...

I want to share with kids why??

[Steve_Seattle]

I live in a cul-de-sac of only five houses, and most years I have fewer than ten trick-or-treaters. (One year I had none, and it wasn’t last year.) But the year I only get enough candy for ten trick-or-treaters will be the year I get twenty or thirty.

[blueunicorn6]

In honor of empty shelves Biden, I’m going to give them a note to vote Democrat.

[pepsi_junkie]

Give out apples. After you give out one word will spread quickly and no more trick or treaters to worry about. Problem solved. So the answer is: buy exactly one apple.

[Billthedrill]

I still have froze Kit Kats from last year. Nutrition is overrated.

[BenLurkin]

“You don’t want to end up with bags upon bags of extra candy this Halloween, especially considering our current economy of shortages”

That make no sense.

[mylife]

exactly!

[fidelis]

If any of you have an excess of mini-chocolate bars and Reese’s this year, just send them to me. I won’t let them go to waste.

[right way right]

Must not be the writer of “The Wordless Workshop”.
This is a serious article, I thought it was satire at first.
I need to go out in the shop and busy myself.

[faithhopecharity]

Thanks so much, popular mechanics! We could’ve never figured out how to buy candy bars without your invaluable help!!

[stars & stripes forever]

I don’t do demons.

[Dilbert San Diego]

How can we make something simple so complicated????

I get some candy based on the numbers of trick or treaters in past years. If the candy runs out, then we turn out the lights and we’re done for the evening. No need for advanced calculations.

[mylife]

[pfflier]

You don't want to end up with bags upon bags of extra candy this Halloween,

I quit reading right there. That is what Halloween is all about at my house, especially the mound of extra Hershey bars..

[proud American in Canada]

Who doesn’t want extra bags of Halloween candy?

Strange article. Most people can figure that out on their own. They don’t need to do math.