I bought a (Panasonic) Walkman with Embassy cards. Found a carrier bag with f-ing hundreds of them on my way home from work one day and put them together with my pile and boom! 
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Christmas 1980 or 1981, I can’t remember, but maybe the best present I ever got as a kid.
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packet cut to fit a suit jacket
Mid 90s I worked in an office with lots of sales people always off to Turkey or Scandanavia so had constant stream of duty free vodka & fags
My go to was Dun Intl or Dunhill lights which were a normal size packet but bevelled edges to ease getting out your pocket - great design feature
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TCR was the best. You could even disconnect the track and the power would still work so you could make jumps.
oh, just watched the ad - had jumps with Race n Chase too.
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Whereas I had an ancient Scalextric track that my dad got off a mate (I think), that would refuse to work if even one little bit of the track had any kind of slightly loose connection (still loved it though)
Also I had the stock cars which would reverse direction if you went round a corner fast enough
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Probably a dodgy transformer…
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errrrrr… 
did you guys have clove cigarettes? my demographic smoked these like they were going out of style (they were going out of style).
about once every five years i buy a pack, smoke half of one, and throw the rest away. can’t believe i used to power down a half pack a day of these. somehow i survived.
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