Though the prospect of collecting old cereal boxes might sound as ridiculous as mining on Mars, it's really as easy as picking up a newspaper. A classified ad in national collecting periodicals like Antique Trader Weekly, Toy Shop, and Today's Collector will generate a flood of responses. Before you advertise, figure out what you want to collect--Wyatt Earp Cheerios? Freakies toys? Cereal Box Games? Space premiums? Maltex postcards? Everything Quisp and Quake? Colon scrubbing muffin recipes from Kellogg's Good News? Then write your ad. Amid scores of offers for last month's Frosted Mini Wheats will be the occasional gem right up your alley. Often pickers stumble across caches of vintage Wheat Honeys or Sugaroos in old stores or warehouses and blow out their mega finds for peanuts through these widely-read publications. But you won't get lucky unless you advertise.
Through niche "zines" like Flake: The Breakfast Nostalgia Magazine and The Freakies Magnet, you'll be able to tap into a network of collectors around the globe from Boston to Zimbabwe. Buying, selling, and trading duplicates through these 'zines is a convenient way to bond with other breakfast buffs who share your affliction. Flake also runs display ads for reputable cereal dealers such as Quake, Just Kids Nostalgia, Tick-Tock Toys, and Hake's Americana, while not so reputable snakes-among-the-flakes are singled out for a massage from Grandpa's meat cleaver. Hailed by Newsweek as a "real journalistic gem," Flake serves up fun for the whole family!"
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