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I remember that well.......reading the boxes and sometimes ordering stuff that was advertised.......a big day for me was getting these "frog men" that you put baking soda in and they would squirm around in the sink.....

I also remember me wanting to eat my breakfast after my dad was done his as he would knock the box away saying it was rude to read while others were conversing.

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I used to listen to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and bought a piece of ground in the Yukon from a cereal box of Quaker Oats he was advertised on. I got 1 square inch of Yukon Territory. I had the deed to it for a long time.
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Not bad Jimbo...a square inch in the Yukon?

I wonder how they got away with stuff like that back in the day........reminds me of the guy in the late sixties who took out ads in multiple big city newspapers that read, "Last Chance, Send $1 to......"........This guy brought in many thousands of loot...can't remember how much but it was a lot....the Feds took him to court but he prevailed because he didn't promise anything. :D ----6
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Yep... a whole different world! And I still read at the breakfast table... except now it's usually a fiction novel.
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JimT wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:33 pm I used to listen to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and bought a piece of ground in the Yukon from a cereal box of Quaker Oats he was advertised on. I got 1 square inch of Yukon Territory. I had the deed to it for a long time.
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I not only read cereal boxes, I built a small fort of them in front of me so I didn't' have to watch my dopey little brother eat his cereal. He had a habit of pouring too much milk into his bowl and then dunking every single Cheerio methodically with the back of his spoon that made me want to strangle him.
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Plus one on Sergeant Preston and the baking soda frogmen.
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Yeah, and I remember my mother reminding me that the stuff on cereal boxes wasn't necessarily true, but it was whatever the company that made the serial wanted to children to think about.

Unfortunately, too many of today's mothers don't think that deeply, and just flip on some NPR-approved Children's Program or hands the kid a tablet, and then go check their own Facebook why the kid gets propagandized.... :|
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JimT wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:33 pm I used to listen to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and bought a piece of ground in the Yukon from a cereal box of Quaker Oats he was advertised on. I got 1 square inch of Yukon Territory. I had the deed to it for a long time.
Maybe we could all combine our 1 square inch and have enough for a gold claim.
I also had a ring with a spring loaded cannon to shoot Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice. "The cereal shot from guns."
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Bill in Oregon wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:23 pm I not only read cereal boxes, I built a small fort of them in front of me so I didn't' have to watch my dopey little brother eat his cereal. He had a habit of pouring too much milk into his bowl and then dunking every single Cheerio methodically with the back of his spoon that made me want to strangle him.
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:lol:

Plus one on Sergeant Preston and the baking soda frogmen.
Guilty of that with the Cheerios, but not one at a time... :oops:
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Spent the summers up in Vermont at "The Farm", defunct as such by the time I was around but an apple and dairy farm up until WWII and where my grandparents retreated during the Depression with six kids. No electricity, my grandmother having met the government folks on the road in the 1930s holding a rifle when they electrified the mountain with "We don't want it and it will never catch on!". No hot water but what got heated on the wood stove. Anyway, the adults would put the battery powered radio on in the morning to get the news while I ate breakfast and then there was often a story on the radio - I remember The Wind in the Willows one summer - and I 'd sit in the wood box next to the stove drinking tea. Then it was out to gather kindling, split wood and so on. Eat lunch and then run wild in the woods all afternoon with a hatchet in my belt and, after I turned 8, a Marlin 1892 in 22 (still have it), as long as I was back before sundown.
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DocRock wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:38 am Spent the summers up in Vermont at "The Farm", defunct as such by the time I was around but an apple and dairy farm up until WWII and where my grandparents retreated during the Depression with six kids. No electricity, my grandmother having met the government folks on the road in the 1930s holding a rifle when they electrified the mountain with "We don't want it and it will never catch on!". No hot water but what got heated on the wood stove. Anyway, the adults would put the battery powered radio on in the morning to get the news while I ate breakfast and then there was often a story on the radio - I remember The Wind in the Willows one summer - and I 'd sit in the wood box next to the stove drinking tea. Then it was out to gather kindling, split wood and so on. Eat lunch and then run wild in the woods all afternoon with a hatchet in my belt and, after I turned 8, a Marlin 1892 in 22 (still have it), as long as I was back before sundown.
What a great way to grow up.

I think I would have liked your grandmother...!

We did have electricity though, and I still have my first (and second) 22 rifles.
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Doc, wonderful memory! Y'all must be "getting up in years." God bless you.
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Bill in Oregon wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:22 am Doc, wonderful memory! Y'all must be "getting up in years." God bless you.
Well, at 53 I feel like I'm "getting up in years" but I suppose I've still got a few good ones ahead :mrgreen:

I was a "pleasant surprise" shall we say, 14 years younger than my youngest sibling and probably a bit of a shock to my parents I their mid and late 40s. But my parents and all the aunt's and uncles were Greatest Generation. Never met my Grandmother of "we don't want that" fame. My grandfather, born in 1888, and given the Marlin 1892 I mentioned on his 16th birthday, was still alive when I was little. Summers at The Farm were a hoot.
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I never believed all that stuff on the back of the boxes. I sent off for a toy blowgun one time. It took a zillion box tops and a king's ransom in handling then I had to wait 3 lifetimes for it to get there. It worked ok but a piece of PVC pipe would have done just as well had I known about it at the time if there was PVC pipe back them.
Maybe I should read the back of my cereal boxes again. Oh yea, I don't eat cereal any more.
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When I was a kid their was nothing to exciting to read on a box of Quaker oats, man I got to hate the sight of that box
some times we got to spice it up with raisins & the ever present maple syrup, still like the maple syrup but haven't had
oat meal in 50 years :lol:



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Brad, reminds me I haven't had a bowl of mush with milk, butter and brown sugar on it in quite some time. I liked it in small doses.
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JimT wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 6:33 pm I used to listen to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon and bought a piece of ground in the Yukon from a cereal box of Quaker Oats he was advertised on. I got 1 square inch of Yukon Territory. I had the deed to it for a long time.
HEY!! Me too! I forgot all about that. No wonder I like Yukon so much.
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I recall as a kid my parents rarely bought boxed cereal, and when they did it was the cereal that came in either large boxes, or even plastic bags. Of course those cereals were never pre sweetened, and NEVER had a prize in the box. Disappointing as a kid, and we often begged our parents to buy us some sugary cereal with a prize inside. But it wasn't in the budget, so we piled heaping spoonfuls of sugar on whatever cheap cereal they bought. Probably not any better for us, but even with lots of sugar on it still way cheaper for them.
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