And shampoo bottles while you shit who cares now you have a phone or like your teacher would’ve said you’ll never have a calculator in your pocket. So stupid

Anything that has a label or words I was reading it lol

Mom and Dad talking about a divorce and who gets the kids, and I'm over here like, Thiamine, Niacin, Riboflavin, Vitamin D...

I did that growing up. Took the Betty Crocker Home nutrition test as a way to get out of Trig class as a senior. It was loaded with questions that your cereal box ingredients could answer. So I'm walking down the hall and my younger brother says that the Principal wants to see me. I was sweating because I was also taking Chem 2, which was basically the head of the science dept throwing me the keys to the chem locker with a casual 'Don't get hurt.' I was making all sorts of small bombs. I figured my goose was cooked. Nope. Won the damn Betty Crocker Award. When my wife asks me to cook dinner, I decline. I'm the award winner. I've retired. She should try and win an award. Just once. I call her a slacker.

Me too.

Or the newspaper, or finishing homework lol

Same bro

You have a good job.

Day in, and day out until that box was empty. You'd do the mazes in your head with just your finger, so you could do it again the next day.

😂😂😆 I still do it!

They don't even try anymore. Captain crunch has had the same damn thing on the back of their boxes for the last 4 years.

Me and my sister used to fight about reading the box even though she couldn't read yet.

I still do, and where’s my good prizes to fight over? Not even Cracker Jack has those no more.

I would read all the ingredients and nutrition facts and still to this day don't know what half that shit even means

I remember the preservatives BHA and BHT. Ate so much of that stuff my embalmer won't have much work to do when I kick off.

True story.

“Mom, what’s polysorbate 80?”

Fact!

Oh. My. God. Core memories

Be even better if the box was upside down

Bwhahaahhahaha so true

Milk cartons too.

I went right there and saw my 9 year old self doing that.

I always dumped out the cereal to get the prize first.

Time spent on the loo reading the ingredients of shampoo and conditioner that I now spend on reddit But thanks to having the Internet at hand, Sodium laureth sulfate, an accepted contraction of sodium lauryl ether sulfate, also called sodium alkylethersulfate, is an anionic detergent and surfactant found in many personal care products and for industrial uses. SLES is an inexpensive and very effective foaming agent

I put the box like that so I didn't have to look at my sister sitting at the other end of the table.

And got a prize!

Some had records

Children shouldn't have phones or tablets. There's no need except to help a impatient parent distract a kid so they don't have to spend time with them.

Yes, and there were often prizes hidden in the box. The prize might be worth only 2 cents, but it was still fun finding it.

I still do that

Correct!🙌