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Title: silly i know but
Post by: potluck6 on January 15, 2018, 12:50:53 pm
does anyone remember getting records 45's on cereal boxes. I sure do in 68-69 I was 13 or so and got Jackson 5 the archies and donny Osmond yeah Donny Osmond. The cereal was alpha bits I think. Seen at the store and begged my mom to buy it .
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Post by: betlynjua on January 15, 2018, 01:09:05 pm
Searching in some of the deeper corners of my memory banks, yes, I do recall Alpha Bits records.  And, yes, I do believe the Jackson 5 were among the collections.   :)

Are we showing our age here or what?!  LOL  :silly:
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Post by: dsosnowski06 on January 15, 2018, 01:10:22 pm
Not silly, I remember them.  We may being showing our age but they were good times back then
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Post by: breazybu on January 15, 2018, 04:20:50 pm
Things really have gone downhill. I never got records but I remember getting silly but durable toys in cereal boxes and Happy Meals. Today they just stink and fall apart.
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Post by: aflyingmonkey on January 15, 2018, 04:34:19 pm

I vaguely remember 45s on cereal boxes.... seems so familiar
There used to be some good stuff in cereal, Me & my siblings would have to rotate the prize & take turns who got it.

The cereal I get doesn't have any prizes in them... is that discontinued?   

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Post by: BATISTAGIRL663 on January 16, 2018, 01:32:38 pm
i think i remember those! and i may have some in storage still !! i may have to look about those --thanks for reminding me of them
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Post by: dwiley11 on January 16, 2018, 03:16:54 pm
my cousin gave me one when I was 10. It didn't play very well.
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Post by: gtdoss on January 16, 2018, 03:36:06 pm
Yes, I remember Alpha Bits 45s! I also remember going into Sears and buying from their 45 rack! 45s were the name of the game, at least for girls my age, at the time! Donny Osmond, the Jackson 5, the Monkees, Bobby Sherman, the Partridge Family, oh my! I tell my kids about 45 records and 33 albums, and they kind of look at me like I'm from outer space, LOL! :in-love:
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Post by: Jayce2013 on January 16, 2018, 03:50:24 pm
No idea of what that is.... but i loved reading and learning about that!!! Thank you all for sharing your memories!  :in-love: :party:
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Post by: Cbsteffen on January 16, 2018, 05:01:59 pm
I don’t think I ever got any. Those might’ve been phased out by the time I had been born (in 1984).
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Post by: mamatygress on January 16, 2018, 05:11:00 pm
Wow, I think that was before my time.  I do remember toys in cereal, though.
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Post by: gwilson31 on January 16, 2018, 05:24:36 pm
I remember 45's on cereal boxes...we sure had some groovy stuff back in the day LOL :peace: :peace: :peace:
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Post by: snuggleycutejc on January 16, 2018, 05:45:24 pm
Didn't some of the records came in colors, my memories maybe a blurrrr
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Post by: sbenkoski on January 16, 2018, 06:06:52 pm
does anyone remember getting records 45's on cereal boxes. I sure do in 68-69 I was 13 or so and got Jackson 5 the archies and donny Osmond yeah Donny Osmond. The cereal was alpha bits I think. Seen at the store and begged my mom to buy it .

You need a trip down memory lane !!  Lookie what I found a picture of !
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Post by: annadote on January 16, 2018, 07:08:11 pm
These were way before my time. Frankly, I didn't even know it was a thing. I thought toys in cereal had always been cheap plastic things. I guess that shows my age.
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Post by: Chelseaagrace on January 16, 2018, 07:52:52 pm
I remember getting all sorts of prizes in cereal boxes. I really do miss those
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Post by: sbenkoski on January 16, 2018, 08:14:13 pm
I remember getting all sorts of prizes in cereal boxes. I really do miss those

And Cracker Jacks  Toy Prizes , good stuff !!
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Post by: dwggs on January 17, 2018, 06:32:50 am
I didn't remember that until you mentioned it .. I have a vague recollection of it as I was only 9 or 10.
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Post by: gaylasue on January 17, 2018, 07:00:28 am
I can remember getting all kinds of stuff in cereal boxes!
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Post by: sak4kat on January 17, 2018, 07:14:10 am
WOW!  You mean something other than cheap plastic and now some sort of pressed cardboard for prizes in cereal boxes was a thing.  That's cool.  It would be awesome if they music in there for kids these days.... MP3 codes... or codes to earn a FREE player of sorts.  I remember having soap with bubble gum machine sized plastic domes in them.  There were tiny little figures inside.  Soaps were shaped like whales...a lion...can't remember the other shapes.  It was awful for my skin though.  Itched and itched for days to get to those stupid little figures.
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Post by: jkhanson on January 17, 2018, 07:22:53 am
does anyone remember getting records 45's on cereal boxes. I sure do in 68-69 I was 13 or so and got Jackson 5 the archies and donny Osmond yeah Donny Osmond. The cereal was alpha bits I think. Seen at the store and begged my mom to buy it .

I don't have any clear memories of the records as prizes in or on Cereal boxes.

However, I do remember that when we did get a cereal box that had a prize inside, Mom wanted us kids to wait until the cereal was gone before claiming the prize. 

We sometimes didn't follow her wishes.....we dumped the whole box of cereal out into big bowls and got the prize first off, then put the cereal back in the box.

You need a trip down memory lane !!  Lookie what I found a picture of !
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Post by: plennis on January 17, 2018, 12:57:22 pm
I sort of remember them.  I remember too that you could save box tops and get toy.
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Post by: pkrahmer on January 17, 2018, 08:08:30 pm
I  don't remember the 45s on the cereal boxes but I remember buying 45s and getting the prizes inside the cereal boxes.  Of course I never liked the  cereal but I liked the prize inside.  :rainbow: :peace: :snowflake: :wave:
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Post by: dreamyxo on January 17, 2018, 11:10:13 pm
Nope wasn't around for that.  I remember getting little toys and stickers.
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Post by: patti4me on January 18, 2018, 02:02:12 pm
I remember those too!  I can't remember the names of any I got but I sure remember being amazed they could put them on a cereal box.  I have quite an album collection and did have a bunch of 45's until last year when I got rid of them.  Now they seem to be making a comeback and I wish I had kept them.  One of our grandkids got a record player for Christmas!  He'd love to have my old 45's but I've already told his mother she could have my albums.  Hopefully she'll pass them on to him. 
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Post by: mapiklfish on January 18, 2018, 06:30:29 pm
I do vaguely remember that.  We had a Jackson 5 45 that I know we would not have bought.  Had to come from one of the cereal boxes.
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Post by: kimber62372 on January 19, 2018, 08:13:34 am
Wow! What a nostalgic memory! I wasn't born yet but I do remember something like that in the late 70's I think...lol
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Post by: adriarobi on January 19, 2018, 08:34:05 am
Wow! I forgot all about those. I was having my kids back then.

I go back further to when there were little prizes in cereal....like in Cracker Jack.

Do they still make that?  I don't have the teeth for pop corn any more, but was fun, and prizes in Shredded Wheat....they were cool

Ah, the old days. So much simpler back then.

 :rose:
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Post by: vickysue on January 19, 2018, 03:15:20 pm
Yep I am getting old, my boys would always want the cereal with the records on them. Those were the days. Of course living 90 miles from a big grocery store I always bought one for each of the boys. In fact they are still in storage. I think I will give them too their  step brother and sister. One more thing  taken care .
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Post by: cathy37 on January 19, 2018, 06:31:22 pm
I do remember records being on the cereal boxes.  They were cardboard and didn't have very good sound quality, but as kids we didn't care.
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Post by: Gerianne on January 20, 2018, 07:59:06 am
Cracker Jack ruined our teeth giving us cavities.
We loved the tiny prizes inside those boxes.
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Post by: bshee58 on January 20, 2018, 08:02:29 am
no
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Post by: fjaz1 on January 20, 2018, 10:49:23 pm
Are you just asking us a question?  What is the subject for discussion ::) 8)