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.

[cyclotic]

Not at all, we just chose not to play in that one.

[MotorCityBuck]

“just buy what you like. Then the “excess” will disappear by itself”

It really is that simple.

Happy Halloween 🎃

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[mylife]

Correct!!

[Old Yeller]

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



Sounds like a Mayor Pete quote.