Too much supply. Not enough demand.

Every Halloween, I end up buying way too much candy for trick-or-treaters. I'm not sure why I fall into this pattern every year. I just always overdo it.

It's not like I don't have past experience to learn from. This is our eleventh Halloween living at this address, and in the past ten years, we've probably had a grand total of five trick-or-treaters come to our door.

We live in a rural area, so it's not like kids are going to casually walk past our driveway en route to visit the rest of the neighborhood. Our driveway is kind of long, so that can be a bit intimidating as well. Basically, the only way a kid is going to knock on our door, is if mom or dad drives them up to our house.

Which is why every year on Halloween, I start the night with a huge bowl of candy. And when the last few minutes wind down for the designated trick-or-treat time, the bowl is just as full.

So if you're in my neighborhood this Saturday, November 1st, between 4:00 and 7:00 PM, feel free to stop by our house to take your fair share of this bountiful harvest. If I'm impressed with your costume, you can help yourself to two handfuls from my big bowl of treats.

But if this Halloween is like every other year of the past decade, my family and I will be grazing on milk chocolate and partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil well into next year -- in fun size!