Hey, I think this is a thing everyone should do, great-aunt or not.

We were watching the scene in Coraline recently where Forcible and Spinks chip out their candy dish and realized that Emmett doesn't have a real life association with hard candy stuck in a candy dish. Unwrapped, loose and dusty.

Grandmas have ribbon candies and grandpas have those chocolate sparkles or whatever that have white sprinkles on them. And honorary grandmas next door have mexican fruit candies. At least in my experience

My grandmother always had Hershey's kisses and those strawberry hard candies in the wrappers that look like strawberries, with green on the twisty part.

My grandmother always had wintogreen lifesavers in her purse. Well, the one grandma did. The other one was better known for buying us sugary cereal when we visited (WHEEEE!)

My grandmother had Mentos. I doubt she still carries them.

My grandmothers' always had peppermint nobs...a nfld specialty.

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One of my grandmothers always had Chiclets, which I now can't think about without thinking about Cindy's "it was square and it looked like a tooth" story.

Kitkats in the purse.

My grandmother had nonpariels in her room. I was such a brat--I would go into her room and pretend to smell them, so she would give me some. ::rolls eyes::

My mother still has the covered glass dish for hard candies, but nothing in it.

I ran this morning, and then went climbing, and out to lunch, and I have done nothing else all day other than nap and read.

My grandmother did not keep candy in the house, but we did get what she called a "chocolate covered" (Eskimo pies) for dessert.

My great-aunt lived to be 100, but I never met her, so unsure on her candy preferences.