Remember the ad about the beach bully who kicks sand in the wimpy guy's face?

Then the wimp somehow acquires muscles and beats up the bully.

Which was supposed to allow you to throw your voice. It was a small piece of cardboard wrapped with some kind of ribbon that you were supposed to place somewhere in your mouth. I couldn't figure it out and was therefore doomed to being unpopular.

What I really wanted was a computer that you build yourself. It was advertised in a lot of comic books. But my dad said it was a waste of money and I didn't want to push it because I didn't want to admit my goal was to use it for world domination, which is what I thought computers were used for.

Quite a combination -you could dominate the world and the whole time you could make somebody else take the blame if anything went wrong.

Couldn't get it to work.

I think a lot of the toys were designed to allow you to throw your money away

It was something that if you bought into some of those things and expected great things it taught you a certain level of discernment necessary for your future.

I think I had $10 and was poring over the ad, trying to get the most for my money. I was about 10 years old. My Mom was hovering and asked me several times if I wanted to spend my money that way. Yes, I did. She let me make the order, and when I got it, lesson learned. I remember the crystals, the voice thrower. I think I got the device that was supposed to cast an image onto paper so you could draw it. I got it set up and working, but the image on paper was unfocused and faint.

Funny, seeing what the stuff was didn't make me stop wanting it.

They were supposed to grow in water. Didn't work.

Do I remember that you could actually buy a live teacup monkey?

I do also remember the tea cup monkey- didn't think it real.

The post makes me want to get them out and look at the ads.

Apparently you use to be able to order live animals through the mail. I pity the postal workers who had to deal with that, and the monkeys themselves, of course. I've never seen a memoir of somebody who actually ordered one.

A few years ago, my daughter and her husband ordered live chicks for their flock. My son-in-law went to the p.o. office to pick them up. Jokingly told the clerk he'd heard it was a good place to pick up chicks. She didn't think it was funny.

Anyway, the chicks survived the journey and enjoyed the life span of happy chickens. There are so many adventures of the chickens. I had no idea they are so entertaining

I just remembered that I know 2 people who bought dogs that were shipped. I hope there are tight regulations on all of those transactions.

This seemed like a decent alternative until the real thing was available.

Can we still get one of those ?

Love the name of the Company