Does anyone recall the chain letters that were 'doing the rounds' decades ago?
I must have been around nine years old and a plain postcard arrived in the post addressed to me. On the reverse was a list of four names and addresses - along with instructions for me to send a picture postcard to the name at the top of the list. It claimed that if I followed the instructions, in X amount of weeks I would get picture postcards from all over the world and be blessed with good luck and fortune.
I was to then send a plain postcard to four of my friends adding my name to the bottom of the list and moving the other three upward (leaving the top name off).
It also stated that if I didn't follow these instructions I would break the chain and receive bad luck as thousands of people would be disappointed.
Naturally, my Mum stepped in and convinced me, quite rightly, that the 'bad luck' threat was a load of rubbish and she told me that she wasn't wasting her money on buying postcards and stamps for such a silly project.
Just wondered if anyone else recalled these silly chain letters?
