Anyone given these to take while trick and treating?

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NotSoLittleTeapot@reddit

My neighbor's kid was collecting for Unicef last Halloween! I was so surprised and so happy I gave him $20.

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Party-Section-2338@reddit

These were handed out at school before Halloween, my parents used to run string through the two holes on the top and and hang it over my neck

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PlagueDrWily@reddit

My neck is suddenly aching from the memory of carrying all that change.

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Dandibear@reddit

Whoa this just summoned an ancient memory

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Every year! This is obviously one of the boxes we had here in Canada… did Americans do UNICEF on Halloween too? I’m assuming these ended around the time we phased out the penny. I don’t remember my own kids ever having them.

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Okra-Tomatoes@reddit

No but my parents thought UNICEF was a communist plot. Conservative Christian parents were just different.

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kamshaft11975@reddit

Omg. Core memory unlocked 😭

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DJSfromthe1900s@reddit

My parents used to dump all their spare change in it so I didn't have to take it trick or treating.

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slippedintherain@reddit

I grew up in Texas and don’t recall ever seeing this.

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Thamnophis660@reddit

Yes, school also handed them out. Is UNICEF still around? Are there still big charity organizations that a lot of people know of, or is that a thing of the past?

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tribbleorlfl@reddit

Yes, and also collected money for Heiffer International in Bible School!

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detourne@reddit

Yup, always felt so weird taking it out. I usually just put a bunch of my own pennies in it and took it back to school.

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chocki305@reddit

Same, hid it in the pillow case while out. Filled it with pennies when I got home.

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Awkwardpanda75@reddit

Man, I bet you have all kinds of life hacks to “technically” comply.

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chocki305@reddit

My favorite was I was told I wasn't allowed to sell the candy bars for charity at church. So I skipped out of church early and stood just off the property on the side walk near the exit of the parking lot.

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CalgaryChris77@reddit

I always worked so hard to try to get mine filled, and would fall behind my friends.

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Lorena_in_SD@reddit

I never encountered them as a kid, but I did work at a nonprofit in high school where we handed them out all fall until Halloween. Last year, UNICEF had them available for mail order.

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AZbitchmaster@reddit

I knew about them, but no one ever handed them out to kids in my area.

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NurseCait@reddit

Sure do!

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Stinkerma@reddit

Trick or treating is worshipping the devil and collecting money for the devil was just as bad. My parents were a bit more religious than I am.

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iwasnotarobot@reddit

These used to collect many pennies and dimes and nickels. Then people pretty much stopped using cash.

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

They won’t stop me from delivering these unicef pennies! Go pennies help the puny children who need you.

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Timelord8214@reddit

Never fall for Land Shark's trickery

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checkoutmuhhat@reddit

I had to hand out candy and fucking bible tracts to all the other kids trick or treating. Never got to as a kid, so when I had a house and my own kids I went overboard with it all. Halloween is the shit.

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wow-signal@reddit

Ah that was YOU!

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Our school wanted us to do Ronald McDonald House!

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TuckerCarlsonsOhface@reddit

“Trick or treat for UNICEF, trick or treat for me!”

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Radiant-Avocado-3158@reddit

I owned that shit. Always the highest “earner” in my school.

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FormidableMistress@reddit

Not during Halloween but at that weird Santa's Workshop at school where you could go buy your family nick nacks. They always had a little box by the register.

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Doun2Others10@reddit

Yep! And as an adult, I kinda wish I could have sent my kids out with one. Except, who has change these days?

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trickytetrazzini@reddit

memory unlocked, thank you! i remember raising money for unicef, but had completely forgotten about these little boxes.

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Ok-Zucchini-5514@reddit

We didn’t have them where I lived but I always wanted to after reading about them in Blubber

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Fickle_Cranberry1014@reddit

Do it this year

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1_art_please@reddit

Yes, all the time. People would put change in it and i would take it back to school. When I was 12, my classmate hit thr box out of my hand and thr split open box landed in thr hallway, change flying everywhere, and other students all grabbed the change. I was really upset and emptied my piggy bank of change to put it back in to try to make up for it.

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