What did you get with your milk tokens?

ZombieBride

Do you remember back in the day when you could cut tokens off milk cartons to get yourself a soccer ball or deck of cards. Or off breakfast cereal to get a spoon.

Do you remember doing this an do you still have the item that took months of collecting tokens for?

Where To

I loved the wee submarines that ran on baking soda. We didn't need coke when we were young.

ZombieBride

My mother had a special token drawer in the kitchen.

Where To

ZombieBride wrote: »

My mother had a special token drawer in the kitchen.

My mother had a special drawer for the wooden spoon for when I used all her baking soda.:mad:

Techno_Toaster

The Kellogg's cornflakes bowls:)

Fr_Dougal

ZombieBride wrote: »

My mother had a special token drawer in the kitchen.

Racist. :mad:

Tar.Aldarion

The plastic footballs and plenty of them

imurdaddy

Where To wrote: »

I loved the wee submarines that ran on baking soda. We didn't need coke when we were young.

I had a fleet of them for bath time!

admiralofthefleet

cups and plates from the golden vale milk when that started.


remember the bike reflectors that came in the cereal?

emsie80

hahaha - was only talking about this the other day. mam used to sellotape bundles together got a hairdryer once

cdb

Anyone remember the cardboard figures with the foldy base.

Lando Griffin

Got a few Kelloggs 75 year celebration vans which were duly wrote off in various reinactments of The A Team The Fall Guy etc.

9959

cdb wrote: »

Anyone remember the cardboard figures with the foldy base.

Eh, they were the actual Cornflakes when immersed in milk.

franktheplank

Where To wrote: »

I loved the wee submarines that ran on baking soda. We didn't need coke when we were young.

I've been meaning to get one of those off ebay coz they were frigging amazing!

Why can't they make cars what run off this stuff, oil crisis, what oil crisis duh.

Roisy7

Mam Got an alarm clock in 1989/90 with the tokens, it's still working

DylanII

I never got anything from cereal boxes (Im probably too young) but I do remember collecting the Coca-cola labels to get an alarm clock.

Irish Guitarist

I sent away for a Coca Cola camera (that used film) years ago. I still have it somewhere but I'm not sure if it works. Not that I'd buy film for it anyway.

phasers

I miss my Rice Krispie bowl

Poxyshamrock

phasers wrote: »

I miss my Rice Krispie bowl

Was it blue plastic with snap crackle and pop in the bottom of the bowl? :P

miss_shadow

I was trying to save for a new duvet cos the one I had was the one I had since I was 3 yrs old over the years I actually would go to bed freezing my butt off as there was no heating or insulation in the house either.

Never did get the new duvet but I did help my mum with her hoarding problem! She loved the idea of collecting these tokens until finally they stopped exchanging tokens.

Defiler Of The Coffin

I'm sure they'd be all worth loads of money now had I kept them

Valentina

We exchanged our milk tokens for cartons of milk. Those were the days.

the_syco

Where To wrote: »

I loved the wee submarines that ran on baking soda. We didn't need coke when we were young.

Very vaguely, but yes I remember them! Were they blue or yellow?

kerry4sam

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I sent away for a Coca Cola camera (that used film) years ago. I still have it somewhere but I'm not sure if it works. Not that I'd buy film for it anyway.

Jeez, I actually found my own a few weeks back while I was clearing out and tidying up! Remember being surprised at it actually working when it first arrived, thought it would be a gimmick that wouldn't function right Got meself a few of those cameras!

Squaredude

Recently collected tokens from coco pops boxes and got a bowl with a built in straw.Delighted with myself.I'm really just a big child!!:D