Evolve now or 'save your candy'

You said like you will never be able to find any candy anymore. If you are near a nest you can get 1k candy in a few day. If you have a rare mon just evolve it since there is nothing guarantee what will happen in the future. This is a very crap question for me.

So I have about 2k pidgey candy, 500 weedle, 200 caterpie.

Once I hit 3k pidgey, 1k weedle, 500 caterpie (or something like that), I will use up:
1k pidgey, 500 weedle, and 300 caterpie

so that I still have a good amount of candies left in case an event is released in the near future.

I've heard the possible dates for events are: St. Patty's day and Easter. I don't know if the rest of the world celebrates either of those days lol but that's just what i've heard. I would bank on something happening around Easter if I were to guess (4/16), we were just given a lot of new pokemon and therefore I would think that the closer holiday, St. Patty's day, wouldn't be necessary.

I'm not taking it seriously at all, really. I don't think this means anything more than a Niantic employee spreading a friendly message about making us think wisely about how we use our resources. I didn't plan on mass evolving until this possible Easter event but other evolutions are happening with me. That's just me

I'm saving it so far, but if nothing happens on friday, then I'm spending it. There's no way I'm waiting for Easter. It's too far away.

I think this comes down to 2 things: Are you low on mon space? Do you need the xp right now? If the answer to those questions is yes then evolve now, if not why rush at all? I am at 750 mon space, gonna need like 400 evolutions or so to be "full", I have probably 250 at this point, so I have no rush at all, xp won't make a difference for me because I am half level 35.

If I was level 29 close to 30 for example or had 350/350 mon every day I would probably do a lucky egg at this moment even when they said save your candies. But that is not my case.

My advice is, if you can hold to them, why not do it? For me there is absolutely no difference between doing a lucky egg today or doing 4/5 lucky eggs in 3 weeks or a month, won't change anything at all.

Is your in game name also QuickAttack9? We may be from the same city, as I see your defender. For privacy reasons, I cropped out the gym location.

Although I seriously doubt this would ever happen, one thing niantic could do to liven up the game is 50 percent reduction in required candies and star dust to evolve/power up your mons for a one week event. This would encourage those of us who really want to spend resources on cool outlying/marginally useful Pokémon like hitmonlee, slowking, etc but can't justify the expense.

Of course this would probably never happen, it's a nice enough idea for me to hold out. We would certainly hang on every word niantic says from here on out and they probably have enough anxiety about this already :)

I'm going to do a mass evolve soon with Pidgeys/Rats/Sentrets etc. I have so many candies that the actual mon is the limiting factor not the candies.

But when it comes to big evolutions (Tyranitar, Fortress, Slowking, BellAwesome, another Blissey, Gen 2 starters - have enough candies to evolve all 3 of them) and powering my big guys like Snorlax etc. I'm saving my candies.

No idea if anything is actually coming but I have enough attackers and defenders now that I'm pretty set. I will keep doing mass evolutions but saving my candies for the "good" guys.

I'm saving and can wait a month or so. I do some defenders-only power ups thou.

I did a mass evolve on Sunday. I have enough others to do 1 more mass evolve right now. I just spent 400K in dust, along with the candies, powering up 8 mons from lower levels to at least level 33 this morning.
I figure I have at least a month until anything new happens, and it would be foolish to have those mons that are useful right now just sitting there because of some rumor. I'll recoup that 400K in dust and all those candies in the month that you are holding yours, and I'll collect 10 gyms a day while I'm at it.