So, here we are, university students with a limited budget. As a result, buying bags of candy from the supermarket might not even be plausible if you have your yearly craving for Halloween candy and are low on cash. Not to mention the fact that you can’t trick or treat without people asking awkward questions. Well, there is a way where you can still dress up, possibly (even probably) get some free candy and do something to help the less fortunate in your local community. So here is what you do:

1. Find a wagon, a lot of big cardboard boxes and get your Halloween costumes out of the closet.

2. Prepare little flyers saying that you will be coming around the neighbourhood to collect non-perishable food items for the Daily Bread Food Bank. Distribute them to your neighbours. (Live in residence? Make a non-residence friend!)

3. Go trick-or-treating for non-perishables on Halloween. A lot of the time, or at least in my experience, neighbours will reward your kind act with candy. Or at least, they offer you candy while you wait for them awkwardly to get you canned foods.

4. Once you’ve trick-or-treated to your heart’s content, drive your donations to the Daily Bread Food Bank!

Have fun trick-or-treating!

Picture from here.

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