Kelloggs reflectors for your bike spokes!

I collected cornflake stamps forEVER and got the whole set of old style cars they had and the cardboard village too. I played with them everyday (until i was far too old) and eventually put them away safely in the attic. Then found out my mam gave them to my nephew who is a destructive little sh*te and now they’re all wrecked or lost. Ragin!

Toffee lollies with numbers on the wrapper – if you got a 5 then you got a free Lilly.
Oh and the pink stick of bubblegum that came with the Neighbours cards

Eh free piggy banks from ulster bank? The goodie bag ulster bank used to give out for kids yearly was awesome too!

The ring in a barn brack at halloween… Image 7 kids all trying to find it ha ha ha.. I didnt even like it but still ate it to get the ring :))

Anyone remember peeling the inside off the coke bottle top to reveal a symbol? Was it for a yo-yo or something

Free a nipper. They were so hard to get though. Hounded the aul lad to buy petrol in maxol for what seemed like years. Don’t think I got one in the end.

Anybody remember the 2fm 7up beat on the street? They were in the early 90s and they were free. Holy god that takes me back. Electric Eddie, Gerry Ryan’s brother, and a load of ugly 2fm dj’s. would love to see some footage

Collecting coco cola labels to get something free, although I always had to give mine to my older bother! Also, tokens from avonmore cartons of milk and Lyons tea tokens…don’t know what we got from them, but always had a drawer full of tokens!

I used to get told off for putting my hand into the box of cereal to find the freebie inside before anyone else got it. Apparently it wasn’t hygienic.

Sweets on airplanes as you’re just about to land.

Also, I know it wasn’t technically free as it was a competition and you weren’t guaranteed it, but I used to love when you could win the £5/€5 notes in the Walkers Crisp packets. Shame they don’t do it anymore – the excitement was exhilarating!

Definitely the best by far were the free bike spoke reflectors from the Frosties boxes. My bike was covered in them.

Anyone ever get free money for bringing glass mineral bottles back to your local shop? Mine did…and I brought them by the crate load.

I used to give freebies behind the school sheds!!! Lol joke obviously :)

Anyone remember the weetabix characters? Bixie dunk brain and Brian were their names I think, there might of been another one. There was a cool weetabix atlas too. I’m sad..

My mother had a special drawer for golden vale milk tokens! We used get all kinds of stuff… I think my weighing scales came from there.

Free colouring books and crayons on planes and in restaurants

The fights in my house as a kid over who got the toy in the cereal remember that well lol :-)

Remember before the den ended every summer they used to have a huge competition of stuff to keep someone entertained for the summer, it used to have footballs and a stereo and a tv and a skateboard and a bike and a summers supply of hb icecreams! I used to dream about winning that competition!

The space Lego with eight tokens on the cornflakes box were my favouite freebee.
I never got anything sent back from wheetabix. The process was called “sending off for stuff” anything i ever sent off for to kelloggs was delivered, not so with anyone else.
I sent off to wheetabix four times to enter a competation for a Dragon computer, I never got a glow in the dark poster that everyone was promised.
To this day I remain loyal to Kelloggs.

In the UK when the floats were passing during a parade they would throw off paper hats, lollys and balloons.

I used to get freebies for serving mass….oh wait!

Nostalgia…..overload…….BANG!

I remember getting a free model train and train tickets with tokens from the Corn Flakes box. Around 1990/91 if I remember correctly.

does anyone remember those red hard sweets that could have 2 pence hidden in them? Health n safety would have a field day now.

Spat my sugar lump out when the mammies head was turned, still alive though!!!

I lived for those free cereal toys. The best ones were those you had to collect tokens for, a reward for all your dedication to coco-pops

K’ora club was the place to be ‘! Loads of free stuff.

A Kevin Moran football with Dawn milk, I think it was.

Thanks journal, nice to be brought back to those times!

Sammy Stamp books…bottles of warm milk..the dandy ,wizzer n chips ,buster, cow pies…cadburys timeouts..one could go on…mmmm

Sandwiches at school for those who had brought none, or had none to bring, no questions asked, and a 1/3 pint bottle of bainne. Wednesday treat was a currant bun!

premier league stickers

Animal cards in the bottom of a box of tea bags!

Brilliant article!

And don’t forget getting a king size mars bar and packet of crisps for getting one of father Murphy’s special god hugs and not telling anyone about it. Ah the memories.

Nice bit of nostalgia alright
The spoke reflectors were my favourite
Or those “free” commodore or Atari cassette games with magazines that I fought with for hours to load.
But are these items for free really???

Brightly coloured cereal bowls with Disney characters on them that we got free when my parents got a certain amount of petrol… Can’t remember what petrol garage they were from though. Anyone??

Free lollipops from bank tellers. They made the standing in line worth it.

Rice Krispies had brilliant stuff, we always seemed to be saving tokens or searching the inside of the box! Our house was full of their stuff, it was great! I’m fairly sure we still have the little matchbox sized toy truck. Two of my favourite token ones were the radio with earphones and the frisbee…fantastic

I had Fozzie on the horse

Kalkitos anybody? Can’t remember the spelling.

We never had cornflakes.only often meal porridge made with water.so no reflectors.we were very poor .

The only thing that was free when I was a child was the state . I think Devil Era and Ian Pastery used to say that a lot on the adult’s news anyway – just after Batman or the Monkeys or the Anne Jealous thing.

I think most of the staff in journal are going through some sort of mid life crisis. All this pining for the 80′s and 90′s is getting a bit boring. Surely your lives can’t be that sad these days?

Seems like the Journal is struggling for ideas except for these nostalgia articles. There has been a lot this week alone.

Healthcare, oh wait, that was in Scotland. Oh, and uni, but I did spend the grant in pubs across Glasgow and paisley.

Rubbish article

I agree rubbish topic