Marlboro miles? (Just to see how old you are)

[David Charles]

I found this horseshoe set in my closet and it was new, I mean the horseshoes and spikes were wrapped up in packing stuff and all. I was wondering if someone left it here, then I talked to my gal and she said it was from Marlboro miles. I haven't smoked cigs in years, switched to a pipe and only been tobacco free for maybe five months now. I ebayed it and sure enough, my set was from the old Marlboro miles days. Just wondering if anyone else got into that way back when? What did you get?
It was like green stamps!

 

[RWClark]

Yep, got a couple nice Victorinox and Wenger watches and a really nice 100liter internal frame back pack.

 

[RaceGun59]

I am still using the Weber Gas grill and the igloo cooler I got. The winter parka finally died a few winters ago.

 

[Despraci]

I have a duffle bag that I still use to this day when I take short business trips. Only cost me a year or two of my life probably.

 

[Johnny Popular]

... Camel Cash. Got and still have a little butane lighter that looks like a cigarette pack using those. You press down the longest cigarette shape sticking out of a soft pack of Camel Filters to get a flame.

 

[Despraci]

... Camel Cash. Got and still have a little butane lighter that looks like a cigarette pack using those. You press down the longest cigarette shape sticking out of a soft pack of Camel Filters to get a flame.

I have a Camel zippo from that as well.

 

[Davey59]

The kayak
Grill set
Back packs
Lighters
Down coat
Hats

Probably more, I thin we got about everything they had. Pretty pathetic when you think about it. I wonder how many Corvettes I could own with that cigarette money over the decades.

Edit: Have all the Camel crap too

 

[prairie guy]

I got tons of stuff using the camel cash. SOme of the zippos I have never even used, just collected them. Atleast we got something tangible from the stinkies

 

[Krieger]

Still have a couple of the red and black checkered wool blankets.

 

[aerin34]

I still have the hoodie I got with those damn miles...

 

[David Charles]

Haha, I have several bowl sets, a portable fishing set, and did save up and pay a bunch on top for a Swiss watch that lasted maybe fifteen years and only died recently. It was pretty surprising how good quality that stuff was.

 

[David Charles]

Where are my vapor miles?

 

[David Charles]

Oh, I did get a Camel Zippo as well. They would let you put your initials on it engraved so I said my initials were 'Joe' as in 'Joe Camel.' Never used it, sitting in my cabinet.

 

[Rickajho]

Oh lord.. The Basic rewards...

Two mini CD/cassette/radio home entertainment systems
Set of table lamps sitting right next to me on the bedroom night stands
Two Zippo lighters with gen-yoo-wine plastic scrimshaw inserts
Black and Decker laser level
Insulated cooler with fold out side tables
Couppla quilts of some sort that are up in the attic still in the box

And that's only the stuff I can remember right now. I know there is more...

 

[bulldog63h]

I wanted the mountain bike.

 

[Rickajho]

Where are my vapor miles?

I'd be happy to get a recycling deposit back on all these empty glass dropper bottles.

 

[David Charles]

Rickajho, I'd forgot I have a portable Marlboro CD player!

 

[Racehorse]

I never got any marlboro miles or camel humps.

I am NOT a person that anyone can market to, since I started out my young life in the career of a Madison Ave. advertising firm. I learned enough there to permanently disdain marketing departments in general. I was the copywriter, so now when I read websites, I can instantly spot all the BS, and buzzwords.........

Thankfully, I got out of that biz quickly, being young and impressionable I noticed early on........so many of the people in the biz used to drink quite a lot......that kinda scared me......that was my first clue about the possibility of certain careers reinforcing *unfulfilled* or *unhappiness*. I don't know if it was the pressure (big clients with big money) or just having to hyperbolize, embellish, and tout.........using behavorial psychology on consumers to convince them of needing things they probably don't need.......

Years later, after they killed music, and I'd received so much junk mail and so many junk phone calls, I realized I made the right decision.

 

[Afcarmona]

i still have the marlboro miles leather dop kit... the swiss army watch, the duffle bag and the rest is all no more... i think i still have some miles squirreled away somewhere in a trunk...

 

[K31Scout]

Basic rewards for me. Had to cut the UPC bar code off every pack.
I have the lamps, radio, jacket and ash trays.