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Survivors of the great mouse disaster!
Back in 1979, I bought a bunch of the Smooth-N-Juicy gum cello packs at the end of the year, and threw them in a dresser drawer in my bedroom. Fast forward about 25 years, and I was back at my parents' house looking through some things and opened said drawer, only to find out that mice apparrently can't resist "juicy" gum, even if it is 25 years old! Ended up catching the mouse and took him for a long drive (he looked pretty pleased with himself running away into the woods!) but he had literally chewed up every pack. I thought the packs were just a sad memory, but was recently happy to find two stowaways in a small drawer in an old tool drawer box my uncle made a good 50 or 60 years ago that I threw some miscellaneous stuff in. Mets on the top of both packs, so I am sure my long and tortured history of Mets fandom helped save them! Clearly these packs were made to be opened and not saved, but these two survivors make me smile when I see them!
Happy collecting! Last edited by laughlinfan; 09-14-2018 at 02:15 PM. |
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Great story! Those are cool packs. Not sure I've seen one like that before.
Let us know the results if you open them, but you might want to check and see if they are more rare and valuable than a standard cello from that year. You'd be surprised how much unopened packs go for these days. |
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Ozzie is calling, you gotta open them
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I have no idea what those are worth unopened but I doubt I could resist the temptation to open them myself for long.
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I'm sorry to say that I have no interest in gum cello packs, but I wonder if your local animal control agency might be disapproving of the inhumane treatment of your house pet. Not that it bothers me - when I lived in a remote rural area, not a day went by that I didn't see some urbanite dropping off one or more unwanted animals and speeding away.
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Those packs are pretty interesting. And they're probably tougher than the regular cellos.
Somehow I don't recall mine having the same gum pack. I'll have to look. Some of our mice get the same treatment. When I first went to buy traps, my daughter wondered "why do we have to dead the mice" No explanation really worked... So we made a deal the ones that go in the live catch traps (which mostly don't work) Or get trapped in the trash barrel get taken to a park a few miles away. The rest..... Snap! |
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