This is a
Halloween activity that resembles
trick or treating. You and if you wish your friends go
door to door but instead of saying "TRICK OR TREAT" you explain your cause. In my case I said "I am
collecting cans for a Halloween
food drive sponsored by my
school, if you would like to
donate some
canned goods I would love to take them." Most people respond with cans, but some deny your
request. A downside to this is that you do not
receive as much
candy. I guess after you ask for cans they forget about the candy. When doing this it is a good idea to take a
car with to drop off the donations and not
injure yourself carrying them.
This year I went out with one other
friend. Together we
collected 143 units in the time frame of 3 hours. On the candy side we only got 213 small or "
fun size" units. The most common type of canned
food received was
tuna with 12 cans, and the runner up was
strangely
black olives with 8 cans. All in all it was loads of fun and a good excuse for an older teenaged boy to go out for Halloween.