The 3rd Annual Trick-or-Toiletries and How You Can Participate!!!

Now that you're filled in for the last 2 years from my previous posts I can tell you about this year's Trick-or-Toiletries! I'm so excited for the upcoming Halloween! And I hope that you are too. My goal this year is 300 items again, and hopefully we will do better this year than the last! We've made the fliers and I can't wait to pass them out. Mom says that a week before Halloween will do, because we have to deliver the fliers close enough to Halloween so that people don't forget, and early enough so that they have time to go shopping and that sort of stuff (sigh).
 
And now I can tell you how easy it is to do this in your neighborhood. All you have to do is think of something to write on a flier explaining what you are doing and why. You can put fun pictures on your flier, print it out, cut it (we fit two fliers on one sheet of paper) and you're ready to hand them out! Here's a hint: people like to see colors so try to do colored print or print it on orange paper.

The next step is to pass out the fliers. Try to pass them out on a weekend when more people are home. If you don't then you might not get as many donations! It's up to you if you want to leave fliers at houses where nobody's home. I decided to just give the fliers to people who were home so I could explain it personally. Either way, when you are handing them out bring a notebook along and write down the addresses so that you don't forget which houses to go back to on Halloween.

The last step is collecting the donations! If a neighbor says they won't be home, I give them the option of either leaving it on their own porch with the flier attached for me to pick up on Halloween night or they could leave it on our porch anytime. When you head out to trick or treat you may want to bring a wagon. There hopefully will be a lot of stuff, so you will be glad that you did!

Please tell your friends about this blog and about Trick-or-Toiletries because I'm hoping this year that with my blog we can spread the word all throughout the country and get kids to collect more than candy each Halloween.