Did you know if you walk into our Safeway at 6pm on New Year’s Day, they’ll basically pay you to haul their Christmas candy overstock away?

We got eight packs of Reese’s “trees” for a quarter each, a big bag of York patties for a quarter, several large chocolate Santas for a quarter each, and so on.

Mmmmm. Choc-lit.

This entry inadvertently sponsored by Hershey’s and the Safeway inventory controls department. Thanks guys!

(Non-candy lovers may wish to review Hoppin’ John, my family’s sort-of New Year’s tradition, followed this year by my parents but not by us here in Seattle.)