Wombles, Smurfs and Miscellaneous Tat

Bin them - before it's too late!!

Empty yogurt cartons from 1990. I kid you not. I want to be clear I'm not one of those people that keeps empty egg cartons and flattens cereal boxes, but every now and again something like this slips through the net.  The weird thing is I can tell you EXACTLY why I have these:

1. They are Dennis the Menace yogurts and at the time I collected all things D.C.Thompson (the publishers of the Beano).

2. A certain number of tokens from the cardboard insert got you a free stunt kite (which I still have...and I may also have a spare cardboard insert...*sigh*)

The reason they have survived as long is the fact they stack inside each other and I can put even more crap inside of them (Badges at the moment).  So what do I mean by "Bin them - before it's too late"? Well if I had thrown these out at the time, I wouldn't give them a second thought now.  I may have vague recollections of eating Dennis the Menace yogurt, but I'd still have the stunt kite as a memento. Now though they are 22 year old empty yogurt pots, and from a collectors point of view that puts a very different spin on things: Where would I get/see another one? (Lets ignore the question: Do I want/need another one?)

That has always been my downfall, and the fact the badges are going back in, and they are going back in the cupboard suggests things aren't going to change any time soon!

(Oh, and it was nice yogurt!)

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