# What did I get in the mail, 1993?

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [February 15, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151 "2023-02-15T04:27:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 4:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/1 "2023-02-15T04:27:08Z")

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Do any of you old timers remember who made these? I ordered it 1990-ish from an ad in Yo-Yo Times. He called it a Padauk Penny (I think).

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**Author:** ![RC\_yo-yo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rc_yo-yo/32/168781_2.png) [@RC\_yo-yo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RC_yo-yo)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/2 "2023-02-15T05:05:39Z")

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I wish I didn’t throw away my old copies of the yo-yo times.

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**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/3 "2023-02-15T16:52:00Z")

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Well I answered my own question today, looking for something else, I found an envelope with a couple yyt’s in it.  
Monarch was the company, I thought it was a man’s name who made the yo-yos, but I was remembering wrong.

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**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/4 "2023-02-15T17:07:16Z")

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I want order everything listed there!

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**Author:** ![bheinz63](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bheinz63/32/137310_2.png) [@bheinz63](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bheinz63)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/5 "2023-02-15T18:51:39Z")

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this title is hilarious lol

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**Author:** ![BTK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BTK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/BTK)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-did-i-get-in-the-mail-1993/370151/6 "2023-02-16T00:42:43Z")

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Looks like Tom Holmes out of CA. My wife surprised me with one with one penny having our anniversary year and the other my birth year.

Bunny Martin used a couple of heavier wood ones for long string tricks and how smooth they played.