When I was a young person, back in the 50's, I remember classified ads in magazines for something called?

Question

BIG MAILS. As I remember it, it was a "business" where people "co-published" little booklets that were nothing but other ads for things to buy or other little booklets filled with ads. Do you remember these BIG MAIL ads? They were popular back when postage rates were extremely low. I don't think they would work today because of high postage rates. Do you remember?

Answer 1

Oh gawd do I ever! Proof that work-at-home, envelope stuffing, chain mail, and Ponzi scams are NOTHING new! LOL!

I shelled out $5.00 to get in on the scheme, a princely sum given that my allowance was 25¢ a week at the time. When my Dad got through with charging me back for the office supplies that I'd used -- remember those smelly wet-process photocopies that you had to peel apart? -- I was out nearly $25.00. My total take? $0.00, leaving me $25.00 in the hole. I think those bastards were in cahoots with the photocopier manufacturers. LOL! I was on half allowance for what seemed like YEARS paying my old man back.

Answer 2

the 1st issue I wrote become a narrative approximately some angsty Muslim lady who had a million brothers and sisters. that's extremely embarrassing to communicate approximately, so i do no longer do it in many cases. I unfolded with a sentence conversing approximately how remarkable the sunlight become. What become I questioning? it is so cliche! i presumed it become what each and every author did (plus I sucked at beginnings--and nevertheless do--so i could no longer think of of something). yet whilst i desperate i wished to jot down, it become the 1st theory i might arise with. I have been so excited to jot down it, and that i wrote lots greater suitable than I ever had at that ingredient. I have been given to 40 5,000 words in the previous I got here up with yet another greater suited theory. I dumped that one and moved on. besides, i did no longer think of it become the superb, as I knew no longer something approximately writing or the publishing technique, yet I did think of my theory become unique. *dies* i did no longer think of i become going to be the subsequent JK Rowling, yet I did think of somebody might post it. *dies returned* I even published it on a writing internet site (the 1st actual one i might joined) and the only issue i'm able to assert that i become happy with myself for is that for the period of direction of the comprehensive experience i did no longer take the grievance as for my section as i presumed i might. some human beings regarded at it, and that i greater often than not have been on condition that i become solid at thoughts. Yeah. i assume i become because i become mad on the comprehensive worldwide on the time. that should be why she become so angsty! i do no longer endure in innovations what else they wrote, yet they instructed me some thing approximately having too many characters. (authentic, because i'm no longer able to endure in innovations all of them appropriate now.) I instructed them i might restoration it, and that i might submit it returned in the event that they wished to look at it. They instructed me they might like that. I never fixed it. I never published it. Ever. returned. I asked a query approximately writers and their first products as quickly as, and that i'm able to with a splash bit success say it somewhat is the only different place the place that's published. that's on lockdown on the different internet site, so no one has considered it because then. Lyra's tale is humorous, via the way.