Gleanings

[muninnhuginn]

Picked up a fine feather as I left to pick up Looby Loo. Found a Smarties lid (i) after we left school--a little scratched but what with their imminent demise* we're not being choosy. Looby Loo found an elastic band (our posties are really getting butter fingers). Finally, Looby Loo yelled for me to stop and she picked up 13p in 2p and 1p pieces. Not a bad haul.

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* There's a petition, if you care to sign. Not that this ranks high in the major crises facing humanity and all. But we completists (LL and me both) would like to complete our alphabet!

Comments

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

LOL. It looks like I am the only person from the United States to sign it. I hate when they change the packaging though, period. Alter it slightly, I don't mind, so long as it's only temporary - but change is not necessarily better and a lot of folsk have a lot of good memories associated with packaging. It's something we grew up with (well, I didn't grow up with Smarties but we have had packaging changes of a similar nature here - abysmal works!)

The packaging looks quite a bit like the one for M&M minis here...

Thanks

[muninnhuginn]

It's not getting the largest response in the world, it has to be said.

The packaging looks quite a bit like the one for M&M minis here...

Longer, and the tube's cardboard. The mini M&Ms are in a plastic tube, aren't they? (I'm sure we've got some of those lying around somewhere too.)

It's a sad day for keeping the streets clean: I always pick up the Smartie lids even if I later throw them out as too scratched and dirty. So that's less non-biodegradable litter lying round the place. I don't think I shall be doing the same with the new packaging.

Re: Thanks

[armb.livejournal.com]

> It's a sad day for keeping the streets clean

Unless people are more likely to drop the whole new packet with cardboard flip-top than they than they currently are to drop the tubes, surely there should be less litter even without you picking up some of the dropped lids?
(And the new lids, being glossy cardboard like the tubes, will be slowly biodegradable-ish.)

If things get really bad ...

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

... you can have my smartie lid collection (I remember the surprise/shock at an Albacon when they were looking for people with strange collections and I mentioned my smartie lid collection, it seemed to take the wind out of their sails and they just said I'd won!)

I had friends collect them for me, so not only do I have a lot of letters on different coloured lids, there are also some font variations in there as well!
I'm not sure where they are at the moment (could be at my mum's house in the cellar, or could be in my garage here) but I see no point in keeping them, so if Nestle stop making smartie lids, you are welcome to mine.

Re: If things get really bad ...

[muninnhuginn]

I'm not sure they're that bad... yet. We've a fair collection and even the odd one that's not orange. But I'll bear it in mind--especially if you're trying to declutter.

(On another subject entirely, it seems a company you worked for recently is advertising for a tech writer. No, I'm not considering applying.)