Did any of you have relatives that kept dishes of stale candy

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

and packages of "100 vanilla creme cookies" in the cupboard for months at a time?

That's what all that Valentine's Day candy at the stores already reminds me of. Won't it get stale by then?

My relatives always kept dishes of old circus peanuts, ribbon candy, hard candies and other strange things.

[Loonman]

1. That freaking ribbon candy

Stuff should be banned.

[Southsideirish]

2. Had a friend whose mom gave kids stale candy -kept the good ones!

They were "Rolls Royce rich" and she used to have some favorite chocolates delivered to the house on a regular basis. She knew her kids were crazy about them, too, and so to prevent the little sob's from getting to her good "stash" -she would "hide" the old, stale ones in a special drawer where she knew they would be found. Dumb kids would think they got the new ones while, in actuality, mom was chomping on them upstairs in her boudoir while kiddies gobbled up yucky ones thinking they were pulling a "fast one" one on mom. Nice!

[donco6]

3. My mom used to keep that hideous Christmas candy

(ribbons, peppermints, etc.) in a dish so long, that on the off chance you tried to take a piece, the entire glutinous mass would come out of the jar, making it impossible to eat. So you'd put it back.

It's probably still there.

[TrogL]

4. My mother has a dish of gumdrops on the piano

I thought it looked familiar. It's been sitting there for four years. Took me two days to pry it out of my dental work.

[scarlet_owl]

5. Yes. My dear great-grandmother who passed on in August

used to keep butterscotch disks in a dish next to some dried silver dollar plants. I think they were just part of the decoration. I associate those candies with her, and they always make me smile.