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What did you get with your milk tokens?

  • 17-12-2012 08:43PM
    #1
    ZombieBride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


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


  • #3
    ZombieBride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭ZombieBride


    My mother had a special token drawer in the kitchen.


  • #4
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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:


  • #5
    Techno_Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Techno_Toaster


    The Kellogg's cornflakes bowls:)


  • #6
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    ZombieBride wrote: »
    My mother had a special token drawer in the kitchen.

    Racist. :mad:


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  • #7
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    The plastic footballs and plenty of them


  • #8
    imurdaddy
    Site Banned Posts: 638 ✭✭✭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! :D


  • #9
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


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


    remember the bike reflectors that came in the cereal?


  • #10
    emsie80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭emsie80


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


  • #11
    cdb
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    Anyone remember the cardboard figures with the foldy base.


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  • #12
    Lando Griffin
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    Got a few Kelloggs 75 year celebration vans which were duly wrote off in various reinactments of The A Team The Fall Guy etc.


  • #13
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    cdb wrote: »
    Anyone remember the cardboard figures with the foldy base.

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


  • #14
    franktheplank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,168 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Roisy7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Roisy7


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


  • #16
    DylanII
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    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.


  • #17
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    phasers
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    I miss my Rice Krispie bowl :(


  • #19
    Poxyshamrock
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    phasers wrote: »
    I miss my Rice Krispie bowl :(

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


  • #20
    miss_shadow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,446 ✭✭✭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.

    :(


  • #21
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


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


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    We exchanged our milk tokens for cartons of milk. Those were the days.


  • #23
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #24
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭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 :o Got meself a few of those cameras!


  • #25
    Squaredude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭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


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