When you had a few dimes as a kid what did you buy? I used to buy those candy cigarettes,

[applegrove]

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Bazooka gum, Sweehearts, or sour cream and onion chips. My sweet tooth was so bad as a kid that I used to eat baby aspirin, kids' vitamin, vitamin C tablets before I was old enough to walk the 5 blocks to Mama Teresa's corner store.

[Grantuspeace]

1. Baseball, football, basketball cards. (early to mid 70's)

I still have most of them. But I should have sold them in the late 90's when prices were high.

[geardaddy]

13. Yep, I bought football cards.

This was my prized one.

[Grantuspeace]

21. I had that one! And still have triples on the '72.

I loved the "in game shots", but hated that the "debranded" the helemets and jerseys.

[MorningGlow]

19. Partridge Family trading cards

I still have them somewhere. Never could manage to nail the complete set, though. They also came with the rock-hard sliver of "bubble gum" that'd cut the inside of your cheek if you weren't careful.

Oh, and wax lips.

[Grantuspeace]

22. I have a couple of them too.

And a couple of Osmonds too. Mmmmm...... Not good..lol

[elleng]

2. Italian Ices, from the little store around the corner, under the El!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. lol, I used to buy cigarettes from the big kids.

Actually I also remember going to the store with friends to buy smokes for one of their parents, who said we could keep the change (all perfectly normal and legal then). We bought 2 White Owl cigars with our change. I wish I had picture of us as 'cool' 8 year olds smoking stogies!

[pscot]

4. Orange pop

there was a 2-cent deposit on the bottle.

[ellisonz]

5. They need to bring back gum cigarettes. n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. A local variety store in the early '60's used to sell something called a "Surprise Pack" for a dime.

It was about the size of a vending machine bag of chips. You never knew exactly what would be in it but you'd get a small collection of different things-- like a rabbit's foot keychain, different types of candy, rub on tattoos, whistles, trading cards, flags, all kinds of cheap stuff that seemed like a king's treasure to a little kid back then.

[cliffordu]

7. Booze.

A necklace on me all my life.

(Apologies to Michael Ondaatje)

I grew up with a kid who's uncle made Shine.

Odd that he's doing life without parole for murder.

Couple of them, actually.

WTF took me back to that ??

Wine.

[unionworks]

8. 45 rpm records

At the national record mart.had to save up a buck or two, back in 67 - 70.

[Bake]

9. Candy? I bought the real thing!

They were $0.50 a pack out of the vending machine, which of course had the mandatory "You must be 21 (I think ... might have been 18) to purchase" sticker.

Ahh, those were the days!



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[Graybeard]

28. Vending machine cigs for 25 cents in my day.

The machines took a quarter and you got a pack of filter-tips (something new in those days). If you chose a non-filter brand they were only 23 cents and you got back two pennies under the cellophane on the pack of cigs!

[Bake]

36. Shoot! I thought I was the only one who remembered cigg vending machines!

You're older than me! Heck, you're older than dirt!!





Bake

[Rambis]

10. They sold me the real thing once

gave them a nickel they gave me these...

Dad was happy

[Bake]

37. My stepmother (rest her soul) used to smoke Tareytons

We called 'em air-sticks. I used to sneak one or two out of her pack. But she was COUNTING them! Ha!



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[RebelOne]

11. Comic books. n/t

[rurallib]

31. betchya I bought more!

and then one day without telling me, my mother gave them all away to the Children's Hospital. Said I was too old for them anymore!

[geardaddy]

12. Bub's Daddy and Now and Laters and Bottlecaps

[Paper Roses]

14. Potato Chips. My Mom would not buy them . She was ahead of her time. Thought they were junk food.

[trof]

15. Bubble gum. Fleer's and Double-Bubble.

Which one had the corny comics and riddles printed on the inside of the wrapper?
On edit: back then it was a few pennies, not dimes.
I think a piece of bubble gum was 1 or 2 cents.

[jamesatemple]

16. Little round peanut cartons that guaranteed...

..."you might find a nickel, dime or even a dollar inside". All I ever found was stale peanuts.

Other times I would buy a six-pack of "cold drinks" ~ little paraffin wax "bottles" with a few drops of colored sugar water inside. Kids would bite the top off, drink the liquid, then chew the wax. The six-pack cost a whole nickel so I would savor the last bottle.

[RZM]

17. Soda

Always loved it. Still do, though I try not to drink it much now

[pipi_k]

18. Wax lips and nik-l-nips...

candy dots on paper

Bazooka bubble gum

bubble gum cigars (my favorite was yellow - banana)

Pixie stix

licorice whips

nickel packs of chewing gum..."Blackjack", "Teaberry", "Beemans Pepsin"

Oh, such good memories

[Populist_Prole]

20. Baseball Cards

I even liked the gum. Can't stand sports now though.

[Moondog]

23. Mad Magazine, comics, that sort of thing.

[grntuscarora]

24. Bazooka bubble gum and Monkees trading cards.

n/t

[frogmarch]

25. Little Golden books for

my baby sister. In the early 1950s, they cost about 25 cents apiece. She loved them, and she still has them.

[applegrove]

26. That is so sweet.

[pipi_k]

42. We had those too...

but our parents bought them.

My favorite was "Big Little Kitty"

[Graybeard]

27. Comic books and then more comic books.

Mostly the EC comics (Tales From The Crypt, The Haunt Of Fear, Weird Science). The new issues came out on the first of the month and were 10 cents. They were read and re-read and then I took them to a Junk Shop in the neighborhood.

The junk shop would buy the comics for 2 cents each and throw them in a big bin of used comics that they then sold for 5 cents each. Buying old issues that we hadn't read would tide us over for the rest of the month until the new ones came out.

[Ohio Joe]

30. Buttered onion roll

Shorts Deli.... mmmm, good stuff

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Comic books, Mad Magazine, cherry phosphates,

those little candy dots on strips of paper, Milky Ways (they were only a nickel).

[Tabasco_Dave]

33. Fake tattoos

Green apple Jolly Rancher stick candies, lemon heads, Pixie sticks, Fun Dip, Good and Plenty, and matchbox/hot wheels cars.

[csziggy]

34. Hershey milk chocolate bars

And I ate them the best way - put them in my back pocket until they melted from the heat of my butt and the Florida heat, then licked the nearly liquid chocolate off the foil backed paper.

Hershey bars just don't taste the same today, what with the changes in sugars and the plastic wrapper.

[PassingFair]

35. Old Fashioned Taffy (in the wax paper)

Best bang for my nickel!!




I see you can still get it.

At the movie theater, I used to buy caramels...cheap and long lasting.

[RedCloud]

38. Lik-a-maid sticks and root beer!

And I always would scrounge for recylced bottles for my junk candy fix!

[Art_from_Ark]

39. Bazooka bubblegum

(Save the comics and send them off for a "prize&quot
Candy cigarettes (but never the real ones)
Syrup-filled wax thingies (shaped like Coke bottles, or skulls around Halloween)
Tom's snacks (from the local gas station)
Kitty Clover potato chips (7-cent bags)
Orange Crush, Shasta Root Beer, Fizzies
Krazy Kar bubble gum cards
Admission to the Saturday matinee movie (25 cents)
Various cheapie collector coins (Indian Head cents, V nickels, Buffalo nickels)
Zero and Butterfinger candy bars

[Bad_Ronald]

40. Depending on what time of year it was, & precisely how many dimes I had, it could be......

...Baseball cards, Star Wars trading cards (1977-78), comic books (Spider-Man was & still is my favorite), Chunky bars, frozen Charleston Chew bars (they were tastier frozen, but biting into one frozen could be a tooth-shattering experience), caps for my cap gun or a buncha of Bazookas.

[MadrasT]

41. Zotz

The hard candy with the middle that fizzed? Loved those things.

[Broken_Hero]

43. Bazooka gum, and baseball cards nt