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Things We Sent Off For

Hi Pete, our local pound shop have these magnifier sheets,or did have last week!
Nopt sure where in N.Wales you are but my son got one from a touristy type shop in Rhyl in August - can't remember shop name, nor street name, but if you walk from the sea-front towards the train station, on the pedestrianised area past shopping centre, it is on the corner at the set of lights before the ones on the bridge - my hubby is now cracking up at my description, but he doesn't remember the street or shop name either and he is of Welsh origin!!
 
sistersue61. thanks for reply.nice to know,i live on the Llyn peninsular by bangor.i think there is a pound shop there too.i will look
 
hi lloyed and mwonjm
firstly lloyed i never knew that about horace when he died buy i remeber seeing is advert of himself wich is the one you put up for us i wuld imagine he sols quite afew people down the drain
its was like charles atlas advert dont let the bully kick sand in your face build your body and you would
a big payment , and all he done and used was using simple excercise with a stannard chairthat you can lift with one hand daily a friend of mine years ago sent for the formula and thats what it was all about differt ways to used the single chair one big advert and one big conn
mwonjm i used to do the veron pools many years ago when i was 18 years old beleive it not
i was working at geo tucker eyelets perry barr machine minding and my older brother bill was working there as well he was an inpspector and every week we would try and decide which way to do the coupon
and one day with out my older brother how to do his numbers and how i done mine
and on the the collector due to around andcollect the coupns i did not go to work as i was sick
and i forgot to give them to my brother he took his but not mine
and in those days every wednesday following the saturday matches on wed evening atv used to interview all the jack pot winners and asked them how did they choose the numbers
and as god is my judge i sat on the floor in front of the tv and the intervier askedand he showed him the wa y
and on that saturday the foot ball teams was eight sets of teams all playing each other
and i clocked that on the wed before and thats the excact way i chose it the eight intials all playing together on that saturday i went white and balistic i turned and looked up at my brother said oh god bill i said
he said whats a matter because i had the coupon in my hand and reach and showed him
he called me every think under the sun the bloke whom won the jackot was from scotland i would have had half thatshare with him tjhat was with vernons he was little woods little would have payed more
but share would have been less because they always payed less than little woods
and i have never ever gamble again i dont even do the lotttery today
my faith and fortune as passed me bye now
i can only say with my hand on my heart and only god knows and my older brother knows that is the truth
best wishes to you both astonion
 
Oh dear Alan I bet you said a few choice words too. It was like my sons best friend who had put the same numbers on the lottery from when it began. This particular week he went out celebrating his divorce with Steve and when they got back to Steve's the lottery numbers were being drawn. All his numbers came out and when he returned home he searched the house from top to bottom turning out all his pockets. Well it was the one week that he hadn't put his numbers on and because he had been celebrating most of the week. It was a roll over and I think it was the fourteen thousand pound jackpot with no winners. How much would you have won Alan?. Jean.
 
hi.all there is a site on the www.you send off for things.and when they arrive they are broken or dont work.i dont use it any more,been ripped off to many times.
 
hi jean
it was worth 20 ,ooo with vernons and it was alot more with littlewoods
the scotman if i remember was from dumerline he was a mature man and i was only
a good looking whipper snapper
every time i drive to brum to see cousins in king standing i pass geo tucker eyelets
and as i pass i stare at the third ground floor frosted windows along as you pass the front reception
enrance of geo tucker and there they have rows and rows of machines
there is twenty machine that you constanly punch in bars to make those wretched screws
and i emediatly think oh god thats where i lost my fortune and change of life
it bears a mile stone in my life not to be
take jean give my regards to pete and sandra alan
 
I once sent for a two piece suit, as advertised in, I believe, the Sunday Mirror (or possibly the Sunday Post?). It cost less than four pounds and was beautifully stitched; excepting, that is, it had an elasticated waist-band. Worse still, it was a virulent green colour and was square in shape! God knows what sort of human-being it was meant to fit, clearly some cuboid alien species as yet unseen on earth! My old Dad laughed his socks-off and took the suit to both his work, and to his local pub, just for the hilarity of it! I wanted to send it back for a refund, but Dad insisted I should keep it, as a perpetual reminder of the pit-falls of 'buying unseen' ... which I did, but cannot say that I haven't been caught-out a time or two since; some don't appear to learn as quickly as others ... sighs ...





 
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:)I sent for something out of The Daily Mirror a while back and the next thing I knew I was put on this mens only Porn list and what came through the post shocked even me.:shocked::shocked: It took a while for me to be removed from this list so in between I passed this on to Ed Doolan to complain and next thing I heard his heart problem started up again but I am sure it was not because of that?.:rolleyes::rolleyes: Those were the days when radio WM had their action desk and sorted your problems out for you.
 
Hi Jean, You sound like Tony Hancock,"This book is terrible, as soon as I have read it I am going to get it banned!!!
Bernard
 
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As a lad i remember sending of for a 3D viewer from Weetabix and like the advert said you can get your veiwer from weetabix it will only cost you 3/6 . It was good at the time, All the best formula t .
 
mw0njm said:
sistersue61. thanks for reply.nice to know,i live on the Llyn peninsular by bangor.i think there is a pound shop there too.i will look
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When my wifes brother was alive he lived at Tile Cross and whenever we went over there we always finished up in Coventry, there a big Poundland shop there, and when we
went one week, a 99p shop had opened just over the way from it, Happy Days, Bernard
 
Around the late 50s and early 60s the back page of Exchange and Mart carried ads for horse racing tipsters. There was one, I think he called himself Captain Hill who, according to him, never lost. Week after week he claimed all four of his selections had won at fantastic odds - 33/1, 25/1, etc. Life teaches that this is just too good to be true, but who did buy this amazing racing intelligence?
Ted
 
As they say " There is one born every minute". Another saying "you don't get something for nothing " are wise words well worth taking notice of. In stead of racing tipsters todays conmen promise high yield investments.
Perhaps Captain Hill would have given me a better return on my money than the bank which sold me my private pension. The BBC 4 used to give two horse racing tips and tip rising shares. Quite often you could make more money backing the horses than the investments.
I remember my dad had a Daily Mirror "Swizzle Stick". Shaped like a pencil its rotating cubes had 1 ,2 , X marked on them used for Lucky pool forecasts. No . he never won the pools. I suppose thats what happens when you read The Mirror.
 
We also collected the stamp of the Brooke Bond tea packets. Can't remember what we got with a full book though.
 
Just remembered my Mom collected labels from Black and Greens Tea. We went to Birmingham centre to exchange them for a fireside companion set and a hand operated meat mincer, the type that clamped to the table.
Mom was a tea addict , I recall we had all types but they all tasted the same, standard british breakfast tea. It was later in life that I learned of the great variety of flavours that tea can come in.
 
Same as Richard I just remembered my dad sending off for a kit to make your own radio. It did work when he finished it. Jean.
 
just had a look in a 1961 practical wireless.. ex rental tv set 11 quid ita bbc despatch in 3 parcels for easy assembly 25 shillings extra.
 
What was it you said you wanted Pete?.:rolleyes: Did you build it yourself and it blew up?:D. Only kidding. Jean.
 
My mum used to get pink stamps from the garage at the bottom of The Rock, on Washwood heath Road, when she bought a gallon of paraffin
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Over the years I had lots of things from Embassy coupons, coffee set, bathroom scales, a wok, kitchen scales are some I remember. We also had different sets of glasses from petrol stations, can't remember whether they gave out stamps or vouchers, then we had gifts from green shield stamps and some sort of pink stamps can't remember who gave those out.
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I sent away for the Sinclair Micro Wrist Radio. It sort of worked after a fashion ! I had more luck with my crystal set radio , hidden inside a fountain pen as used by secret agents, or so the Boys Own Paper stated. And who was I to argue. On a winters night I could pick the Light Programme or even Luxembourg. Hardly Hi Fi but it kept me happy. The draw back was you could not use it on the move, it had to be earthed.
My mother would not have let me anywhere near a TV kit build. I got the blame for blowing up our old Sobel TV.
 
We've got one of those, we inherited it from my father-in-law.
mw0njm said:
hi.all i dad sent off for was a piece of plastic that you put on a newspaper to make the print larger,so you could read
it.i had that for years and used it to look at wiring diagrams in workshop manuals. but sadly i have lost it
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Embassy Cigarette coupons for a 8mm Film projector late 1960s and I've stil got it and its still works:)
 
We've still got one of those, up in the attic. Do you remember the cards you had to collect from weetabix. We've got a few of those too.
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As a lad i remember sending of for a 3D viewer from Weetabix and like the advert said you can get your veiwer from weetabix it will only cost you 3/6 . It was good at the time, All the best formula t .
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The only thing I remember sending of for was a Golliwog badge. It took ages to collect the coupons from jars. I only received one Golly badge. I am thinking I sent off for a Prescold Refrigerator model but don'tremember receiving it.I think a lot of the things we might have sent for were in the "Reveille" newspaper which I used to buy on Witton Circle.
 
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