And Kiplinger's confirms something every 8-year-old has always known: 90 percent of parents admit to taking candy from their children's trick-or-treat bags.

I recognized them because they were shoving each other, grabbing at trick-or-treat bags, shouting and fighting.

I saw her dropping candy bars into the three trick-or-treat bags.

She leaned over and sifted through her trick-or-treat bag.

Some kids in costumes were coming up the driveway, all carrying bulging trick-or-treat bags.

This was a response to reports of tampering with children's trick-or-treat bags.

They had to check their trick-or-treat bags for razor blades.

Last year, Steve had slipped a very real-looking rubber rat into her trick-or-treat bag.

They were across the street from her, standing in the light of someone's driveway, examining the contents of their trick-or-treat bags.

This he gripped in his left hand like a trick-or-treat bag.