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Reading the current thread about Black Friday and ordering online versus buying in town made me remember with a silent chuckle that when I was a kid (I'm 60) my sibs and I used to mail order items advertised on Cheerios boxes. We must have bought six Frisbees that way.
You'd collect a certain number of box tops, send in a quarter or two, depending on how many box tops you mailed in, and wait. Instructions always said to wait six to eight weeks for delivery. Seems to me it really did take that long.
We ordered little toys by sending in Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers that way, too. I recall having gotten a couple of gold tone circle pins and two "weather poodles," ceramic dogs which turned pink or blue according to humidity supposedly as an indication of fair or rainy weather ahead. I had two of each of those because I liked the first so much that it was worth it to wait six to eight weeks a second time.
Yah, times have changed. I don't think many little kinds even know how to address an envelope now. Do they know anything about waiting two months for a small item?
You'd collect a certain number of box tops, send in a quarter or two, depending on how many box tops you mailed in, and wait. Instructions always said to wait six to eight weeks for delivery. Seems to me it really did take that long.
We ordered little toys by sending in Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrappers that way, too. I recall having gotten a couple of gold tone circle pins and two "weather poodles," ceramic dogs which turned pink or blue according to humidity supposedly as an indication of fair or rainy weather ahead. I had two of each of those because I liked the first so much that it was worth it to wait six to eight weeks a second time.
Yah, times have changed. I don't think many little kinds even know how to address an envelope now. Do they know anything about waiting two months for a small item?
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