Cash for Candy Will Pay You For Leftover Halloween Candy and Send It To Troops
https://963kklz.com/2024/11/01/cash-for-candy-will-pay-you-for-candy/
by Carla Rea
96.3 KKLZ — THe Mike & Carla Morning Show (Las Vegas, NV)
Let’s be realistic, unless your neighborhood is full of particularly hungry children, you probably have leftover Halloween candy.
If you have bags of Snickers, Reese’s, and M&M’s, candy corn, One solution would be to eat it all yourself – after you throw out the candy corn. which may have already occurred to you. Another would be to donate it to a really good cause – whatever that would be, involving candy. Another option – sell your leftover bags of candy, that will go to active troops and veterans.
Candy For The Troops
Cash for Candy program is supported by HealthyWage. It is a health and wellness platform that offers monetary incentives to manage your weight.
Just fill out a donation form and send it with your candy to ‘Friends of the Troops.’ Healthy Wage will pay $10 per pound of candy, with a maximum of 10 pounds ($100) per person. Seriously – how much candy did you buy, that you even possibly have 10 pounds of candy leftover?
The candy will be distributed, and given to service members, veterans, and families in the US and abroad. Payment for your leftover candy will be sent within four to six weeks – check or PayPal.
Here Is How It Works
There is a caveat: You are responsible for shipping costs. So if If you only donate a small amount, it might not be worth it with the price of postage. But, it’s still a good thing to do!
Only unopened and unexpired candy will be taken. So keep anything you took a bite out of! The candy must be sent by November 15, 2024. Healthy Wage is allotting a total of $10,000, which will be given on a first-come first-serve basis.
But this isn’t the only way to get rid of your leftover candy after Halloween. Treats for Troops allows businesses to sign up to be collection sites, and then it is forwarded for redistribution. Some dentists will do similar programs (the evil ones), or you can always just freeze the candy. Or eat it real fast, before mom and dad send the extra bags away!
Carla Rea is the morning show co-host on “The Mike and Carla Morning Show" on 96.3 KKLZ, in Las Vegas. She has been working with her partner and friend Mike O'Brian for the past 25 plus years. At KKLZ for 12 years. Carla Rea is a Gracie Award winner. She started out in talk radio, "when talk radio was still fun" Rea says. Prior to, and along with doing the morning show, Carla is also a comedian. You may have seen her on Conan O'Brien, Evening at The Improv, Showtime, or several comedy clubs across the country. Carla also worked as a light feature reporter at KSNV/NBC Las Vegas, going behind the scenes at various shows, and restaurants on the Las Vegas strip. As a content creator 96.3 KKLZ, Carla writes in a sarcastic, cheeky, unapologetic way on Las Vegas, movies, TV, celebrities, and this thing we call life.