Prize in cereal

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My favourite was sending away box tops for the Captain Crunch Pirate Chest. I still have the secret treasure map it came with.

I never really did get over never having gotten the X-Ray glasses at the back of comic books and that my sea monkeys never materialized. I loved monkeys and my mother refused to get me one, so that was my only choice, and the monkeys dipicted always looked so happy and playful..

Remember both of those, and more. They were both scams, of course. Here is a list of those scams, and more.

11 Shameless Comic Book Ads That Cost Us Our Allowance Money | Mental Floss

I remember the Charles Atlas ads; even sent of for one, but put another classmate's name on the order. Don't know if he ever got it; he never said...and his muscles didn't improve, so he probably didn't. Remember "dynamic tension"?
 
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Also ads for army surplus, jeeps for $1, how i envied you living in America
 
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And don't forget about getting plans to build your own bulldozer at the back of PM.
 
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Sea monkeys! (Brine shrimp I think they were...Mexican jumping beans! (Seed with a worm in it).
I became disillusioned at about 5 years old, watching this poor old guy downtown playing the accordion, he had a tin cup, wore big sunglasses and a "I'm blind" sign around his neck.
The disillusionment came at about 5pm one day as I watched him throw his stuff in back of a new Cadillac and drive off.
 

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