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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 19:43:21 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal.
Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example, I think, Kelloggs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed green in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours.
All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun.
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Post by spiderpuss on May 18, 2020 19:45:35 GMT
I remember Weetabix did a whole series on Dr. Who (Tom Baker era). You could set up a whole game on the back of the packet and collect daleks and the like. I think the cereal went in the bin. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 19:47:34 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal. Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example I think, Kellogs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours. All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun. Magic Roundabout figures in Ricicles. I knew one sad person who ate Riclcles for a month just to get the lot. I, I mean he couldn't get Mr Rusty for love nor money for ages. Attachment Deleted
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Post by spiderpuss on May 18, 2020 19:51:19 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal. Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example I think, Kellogs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours. All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun. Magic Roundabout figures in Ricicles. I knew one sad person who ate Riclcles for a month just to get the lot. I, I mean he couldn't get Mr Rusty for love nor money for ages. View AttachmentWow that takes me back, yep I remember that.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 19:55:08 GMT
I can't remember the actual product (might have been washing powder) but in the 60's some company had a promotional gift of a series of model soldiers (one soldier in every box) about 2 inches tall and I managed to collect about a dozen of them. They seemed to be much better quality and in far greater detail than most of the other stuff they used to give away.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 20:30:44 GMT
I can't remember the actual product (might have been washing powder) but in the 60's some company had a promotional gift of a series of model soldiers (one soldier in every box) about 2 inches tall and I managed to collect about a dozen of them. They seemed to be much better quality and in far greater detail than most of the other stuff they used to give away. Not these were they? Puffa Puffa Rice? I got all these
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 20:36:24 GMT
I can't remember the actual product (might have been washing powder) but in the 60's some company had a promotional gift of a series of model soldiers (one soldier in every box) about 2 inches tall and I managed to collect about a dozen of them. They seemed to be much better quality and in far greater detail than most of the other stuff they used to give away. View Attachment Not these were they? Puffa Puffa Rice? I got all these No, they were British WWII soldiers. I seem to remember they were commandos and were a series of about six different soldiers.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 20:58:48 GMT
I remember Weetabix did a whole series on Dr. Who (Tom Baker era). You could set up a whole game on the back of the packet and collect daleks and the like. I think the cereal went in the bin. Yep ...I had about 20 swaps of Quark Attachments:
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Post by telfordstoke on May 18, 2020 21:04:02 GMT
Weetabix did a tie in with one of the Star Trek films and some character cards and I was in heaven as was fave cereal and loved Trek too. Still got them in a storage crate somewhere in garage lol
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Post by woodstein on May 18, 2020 21:26:14 GMT
My Mum saved up vouchers on back of pack and sent off for my 2nd favourite football game (after Subbuteo) - the sort where the ball goes into a players dished area and you flicked back the spring loaded player.
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 21:46:12 GMT
I can't remember the actual product (might have been washing powder) but in the 60's some company had a promotional gift of a series of model soldiers (one soldier in every box) about 2 inches tall and I managed to collect about a dozen of them. They seemed to be much better quality and in far greater detail than most of the other stuff they used to give away. Not being into hostilities and general rough stuff I loved collecting the little cards of wild flowers given away with those tall square 4oz packets of TyPhoo tea (loose, of course) when I was at junior school. Bluebells and Rose Bay Willow Herbs..... Even now, when I open a box of teabags or refill the teabag jar I can't resist having a sniff at the bits of tea 'dust', as the smell of it takes me right back to the original loose stuff and extracting the exciting new flower cards from it.
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Post by spiderpuss on May 18, 2020 21:46:14 GMT
My Mum saved up vouchers on back of pack and sent off for my 2nd favourite football game (after Subbuteo) - the sort where the ball goes into a players dished area and you flicked back the spring loaded player. I think it was called Striker.
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 21:59:43 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal. Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example, I think, Kelloggs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed green in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours.All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun. Plastic tulips free with washing powder - they certainly were! We didn't have any of them but I well remember other people who had them. I'm sure it must have been in the 1960s and there was a massive craze for a specific style of wicker basket (not really big enough for a lot of shopping, but just a few things) called a 'gondola' basket - they were all over the place - millions of them - and very often the 'stylish' owner of the basket would attach a plastic tulip to the side of it - it was obviously considered the height of sophistication.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 22:52:31 GMT
I can't remember the actual product (might have been washing powder) but in the 60's some company had a promotional gift of a series of model soldiers (one soldier in every box) about 2 inches tall and I managed to collect about a dozen of them. They seemed to be much better quality and in far greater detail than most of the other stuff they used to give away. Not being into hostilities and general rough stuff I loved collecting the little cards of wild flowers given away with those tall square 4oz packets of TyPhoo tea (loose, of course) when I was at junior school. Bluebells and Rose Bay Willow Herbs..... Even now, when I open a box of teabags or refill the teabag jar I can't resist having a sniff at the bits of tea 'dust', as the smell of it takes me right back to the original loose stuff and extracting the exciting new flower cards from it. I think Typhoo cards have been covered in another thread some time ago but it doesn't harm to include them here. I remember collecting complete sets of Flags of the World, Wild Animals, Transport, Plants of the U.K., Famous People, and quite a few other subjects. I thought they'd been lost when I left and got married but I found them when I was clearing out my dear old mum's house after she'd passed away. They're now secure in one of the bookshelves in my home office.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 18, 2020 23:14:50 GMT
I was looking at some of the posts and it seems clear that some of the giveaways got better and more desirable, probably as time went on. We certainly didn't have Doctor Who figures or soldiers or anything else good from the time I was thinking.
As a point of interest I actually saw the first ever episode of Doctor Who. I think it was early Saturday evening, probably in 1962. William Hartnell was the Doctor, and his assistants were two teachers named Barbara and Ian, who seemed to get taken along accidentally. The Daleks were in there from the start.
Tea cards have now come into the equation as I have read in some recent posts. Typhoo was mentioned and I think there was a teabag brand called Brooke Bond who did their own versions. I think it may have been PG tips who did the best series with African Wildlife, and British Butterflies.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 23:49:36 GMT
I was looking at some of the posts and it seems clear that some of the giveaways got better and more desirable, probably as time went on. We certainly didn't have Doctor Who figures or soldiers or anything else good from the time I was thinking. As a point of interest I actually saw the first ever episode of Doctor Who. I think it was early Saturday evening, probably in 1962. William Hartnell was the Doctor, and his assistants were two teachers named Barbara and Ian, who seemed to get taken along accidentally. The Daleks were in there from the start. Tea cards have now come into the equation as I have read in some recent posts. Typhoo was mentioned and I think there was a teabag brand called Brooke Bond who did their own versions. I think it may have been PG tips who did the best series with African Wildlife, and British Butterflies. You're right, some of the cards I thought were Typhoo were actually PG Tips.
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Post by murphthesurf on May 18, 2020 23:49:52 GMT
Not being into hostilities and general rough stuff I loved collecting the little cards of wild flowers given away with those tall square 4oz packets of TyPhoo tea (loose, of course) when I was at junior school. Bluebells and Rose Bay Willow Herbs..... Even now, when I open a box of teabags or refill the teabag jar I can't resist having a sniff at the bits of tea 'dust', as the smell of it takes me right back to the original loose stuff and extracting the exciting new flower cards from it. I think Typhoo cards have been covered in another thread some time ago but it doesn't harm to include them here. I remember collecting complete sets of Flags of the World, Wild Animals, Transport, Plants of the U.K., Famous People, and quite a few other subjects. I thought they'd been lost when I left and got married but I found them when I was clearing out my dear old mum's house after she'd passed away. They're now secure in one of the bookshelves in my home office. Yes, we did have a similar thread a while ago, Dees. That's amazing that you found them - absolutely marvellous. I'm sure you'd never part with them, but if you did want to I'm sure there'll be plenty of collectors who'd love to buy them.
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Post by somersetstokie on May 19, 2020 0:01:32 GMT
When still a boy we lived on a new development housing estate, that was still being built. I don't know which brand it was but one Tea came in a green paper packet with red seals on, possibly Brook Bond. Very distinctive and easy to spot in the wild. I used to scour the estate looking for the builders' current areas of activity to see if there were any of the green bags of tea left around by workmen, from teabreaks, so that I could retrieve the series Card from inside.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 0:35:05 GMT
There was those things that you put between the spokes of the wheels of your bike ...I think were in Frosties.
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Post by bathstoke on May 19, 2020 5:31:29 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal. Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example, I think, Kelloggs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed green in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours. All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun. Didn’t Percil do an offer on Britishrail tickets that the ICF exploited...
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Post by werrington on May 19, 2020 5:41:27 GMT
Just watching yet another NCIS repeat. The agents collectively were busy searching in a home kitchen for a hidden or missing "flash card from a memory chip" (?) and Gibbs found it in a box of cereal. Took me back a long way and when we were kids we used to eagerly look in the new cereal box for the latest promotional gift, usually a toy of some sort. I remember as an example, I think, Kelloggs Frosties, had a series of 5 or 6 plastic fish, about an inch across. They absorbed light and glowed green in the dark, so you could hang them up in your bedroom as spooky decorations. There used to be all sorts of odd things like that, and other stuff like Washing Powders had their giveaways too. I think Daz had some decorative plastic tulips, in different colours. All seems a bit naff now but in the late 50's early 60's there wasn't that much colour in peoples lives, and it was all a bit of fun. Didn’t Percil do an offer on Britishrail tickets that the ICF exploited... We used them ourselves at Stoke also mate
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Post by bathstoke on May 19, 2020 5:49:12 GMT
Didn’t Percil do an offer on Britishrail tickets that the ICF exploited... We used them ourselves at Stoke also mate I thought train travel was free back in the day. Always seemed to be...
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Post by werrington on May 19, 2020 5:57:02 GMT
We used them ourselves at Stoke also mate I thought train travel was free back in the day. Always seemed to be... 😊
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Post by hamptonpig on May 19, 2020 7:25:20 GMT
I lost my wedding ring a few years ago. About a week later my youngest pulled it out of the bottom of a box of Cheerios not knowing what it was!
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Post by AlliG on May 19, 2020 8:10:10 GMT
I was looking at some of the posts and it seems clear that some of the giveaways got better and more desirable, probably as time went on. We certainly didn't have Doctor Who figures or soldiers or anything else good from the time I was thinking. As a point of interest I actually saw the first ever episode of Doctor Who. I think it was early Saturday evening, probably in 1962. William Hartnell was the Doctor, and his assistants were two teachers named Barbara and Ian, who seemed to get taken along accidentally. The Daleks were in there from the start. Tea cards have now come into the equation as I have read in some recent posts. Typhoo was mentioned and I think there was a teabag brand called Brooke Bond who did their own versions. I think it may have been PG tips who did the best series with African Wildlife, and British Butterflies. Anorak alert! The first episode of Doctor Who was on November 23rd 1963 (the day after the assassination of JFK)
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Post by somersetstokie on May 19, 2020 8:16:56 GMT
Fair enough. My memory wasn't perfect after nearly 60 years so it was off the top of my head.
Clearly I don't really recall where I was when Kennedy was assasinated either!
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Post by kidsgroveboxxy on May 19, 2020 8:37:52 GMT
I remember in the 90's collecting cycle reflectors for your cycle wheels. I remember Corn Flakes used to do this, possibly some other Kelloggs cereals did, but I remember Corn Flakes vividly.
Why did companies stop doing these 'free gift' promotions?
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Post by telfordstoke on May 19, 2020 10:43:42 GMT
There was a Baywatch sticker cereal promotion in the 90s I'm sure. Not that I had stickers all over the fridge in my student digs obviously er....lol.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 15:13:55 GMT
I was looking at some of the posts and it seems clear that some of the giveaways got better and more desirable, probably as time went on. We certainly didn't have Doctor Who figures or soldiers or anything else good from the time I was thinking. As a point of interest I actually saw the first ever episode of Doctor Who. I think it was early Saturday evening, probably in 1962. William Hartnell was the Doctor, and his assistants were two teachers named Barbara and Ian, who seemed to get taken along accidentally. The Daleks were in there from the start. Tea cards have now come into the equation as I have read in some recent posts. Typhoo was mentioned and I think there was a teabag brand called Brooke Bond who did their own versions. I think it may have been PG tips who did the best series with African Wildlife, and British Butterflies. Anorak alert! The first episode of Doctor Who was on November 23rd 1963 (the day after the assassination of JFK) I remember reading that. They had to repeat it the following Thursday as so few people watched it
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2020 15:16:29 GMT
I remember in the 90's collecting cycle reflectors for your cycle wheels. I remember Corn Flakes used to do this, possibly some other Kelloggs cereals did, but I remember Corn Flakes vividly. Why did companies stop doing these 'free gift' promotions? Was it these? Was 5 or 6 different colours.
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