![]() ![]() ![]() I consoled myself by going through the cards and reliving some of my memories of the great Wackies. Apparently, Topps had determined by then that collectors were only interested in the cards and didn't care about the gum. Imagine my surprise when I opened the first box and discovered that there was no gum! These were re-issues from the 1980's rather than from my childhood in the 70's. Now, I didn't expect that the gum would still be edible, I just wanted the smell of it on the cards. This was, you understand, before I had kids-back in the days when I had disposable income and free time. So, I delved further and actually found some people selling unopened boxes of Wacky Packages. They were never packaged, so they were never exposed to the gum. Of course, an uncut sheet wouldn't have the smell. But then, when it finally arrived, I was irrationally disappointed to find that it didn't have that gum smell. It was my first successful bid and I was thrilled-I could barely wait for it to come. The first thing I bought was the uncut sheet of original Wackies I just rediscovered in my basement. ![]() Years ago, right after I first found out about eBay, I discovered a thriving market for Wacky Packages. Of course, my original collection is long gone-lost in the mists of time with all the other cool stuff that would be worth a small fortune today if only I knew where it went. Getting a whiff of that gum smell instantly takes me back to grade school and stirs feelings I don't have any language to articulate. My memories of Wacky Packages are intimately connected to the smell of the stick of gum that used to come with them. I love Wacky Packages and I was really pleased to see that they'd started doing them again a couple of years ago-and that they'd gone back to including gum in the packages. I was cleaning out my basement over the long weekend in preparation for moving to a new house and I came across my framed, uncut sheet of Wacky Packages. ![]()
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