A few weeks ago, we went to one of our local thrifts, expecting no more than the usual piles of old National Geographic magazines and some incomplete Scrabble games. These treasure hunts rarely bring in anything worth mentioning, but that's what makes finds like this feel all the more special. It's a Ziploc bag, absolutely swarming with old cereal premiums, candies, and novelties from decades past. Circumventing the store's usual policy of selling everything in a bag for a quarter a piece, I offered five bucks for the whole thing and trekked on home to see what I got.
None of the items were really worth anything, but this was a major find. The bag had obviously arrived as-was from one donator to the thrift shop, and what its previous owner decided to hold on to through the years was unreal. There were over 50 items total -- 49 of which interesting enough to document here. The brunt of the lot was composed of cereal premiums from the 70s and 80s, along with a generous dose of old candy, stickers, figures, and pretty much anything else a kid would've collected.
Lords knows what kind of person would go through the trouble of holding on to this crap for all of these years only to give it away -- definitely makes you wonder what happened to its previous owner. Even if he was killed by aliens, I can't say that I'd be too disappointed. I'd rather have the bag of fun and him be dead. This was one awesome sack of junk, suspiciously filled with plenty of things that had to do with Cap'n Crunch. I don't doubt that many of you had some of the items shown below, and I personally owned at least half of this stuff. Click on each item to see a larger picture and read its description, and see how much of it you can remember...
Well, that was fun. The next time I decide to write forty-nine paragraphs about forty-nine different pieces of crap, please tell me not to.
- Matt (1/07/03)
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