On 9/11/2010 4:22 PM, Tara wrote:
> My big brother and I used to love getting the prizes out of a box of
> cereal. We were pretty good at wiggling our grubby hands through the
> cereal to get to the prize at the bottom. I remember diving
> submarines that were powered by baking soda. We both have a vague
> memory of a train trip that was somehow subsidized by Wheaties box
> tops.
>
> My boys got their first cereal box prize this week. They were
> intrigued by an episode of the Max and Ruby cartoon in which Max is
> trying to get to the bottom of a box of cereal to get the prize. They
> had never seen cereal with prizes because we rarely buy the store
> brand and we don't buy the junky, colorful cereal. Miracle of
> miracles, I realized that the two boxes of Golden Grahams in our
> pantry contained Shrek markers. They were delighted. The prizes
> aren't in the bottom of the cereal anymore; they are between the wax
> paper liner and the box.
>
> Tara

My mother had an entire service for 12 set of silverware (probably
stainless) with the initial of our last name on the handles. She got the
whole set with General Mills coupons.

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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