Gum Wrapper Chains & A Story
10th
2009
Did any of you ever make these gum wrapper chains when you were younger? I guess you’re supposed to make them as long as you think your future husband will be tall, or something silly and ridic like that…
When I was about 8 years old, my mom taught me how to do the old rip-in-half-fold-twice-long-ways-then-fold-ends-to-center thing, most likely to keep me busy and quiet during a church service or something, and I’ve been addicted ever since.
(If you’re wondering, yes, I am easily amused.)
Well, in jr. high (okayyyy… it was high school. I know.) I had an unhealthy obsession with collecting Starburst wrappers, and I eventually succeeded in making a chain that was 6 feet, 4 inches long. That seemed like an acceptable height for my future husband, right? So I stopped.
I stashed the obnoxiously long, multicolored chain in the old shoe box with the stack of letters I had written to, again, my future husband (easily amused and cheesy… a lethal combination) and under my bed it stayed.
Fast forward to 2006. After Justin and I returned from our honeymoon, I remembered the box full of cheesy love letters written by a silly, romantic teenage me. We opened the box, prepared to read and laugh at the stupidness of it all, then I saw it. In all it’s colorful glory, the looooong Starburst wrapper chain. All 6 feet, 4 inches of it.
Which, funny enough, happened to be the exact height of my new husband.
I think 15 year old Morgan wins.
how cool is that?! starburst wrappers as fortune tellers. :) love it. also, i think i’m the only one in the world that never learned how to make these nifty little chains.
on July 10th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Seriously love it!
on July 10th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
That’s all kinds of awesome! It must have been a riot reading those letters.
on July 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I think that’s the sweetest story in the world.
on July 10th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
how adorable is that?!
on July 10th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
That is such a cute fun story! I love it. :)
on July 10th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
That is kind of amazing haha. I wish I did something cool like that? Hey, it’s not to late to start right?! haha
on July 10th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
That’s so cute! I had friends who had the same obsession in middle school.
and I’m easily amused that it’s the same height as your husband!
on July 10th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
It was destiny from the beginning!
on July 11th, 2009 at 7:18 am
That’s so cool!! Some of my teenage stuff is packed away, deep in the roof in my parents house, but a lot has been thrown out I think… probably for the best, knowing the sort of thing I’d have written!!
Saskia x
on July 11th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I love this story. So romantic. Hmm, I’d probably would of given up around 5’9″ because I’m lazy. Good thing too, because my hubby is 5’9″ :)
on July 11th, 2009 at 9:11 am
i’ve seen some small purses like that, i want one lol!
so cute!!!
on July 11th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Wow that’s nuts!
on July 11th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Oh, my gosh! Cutest story ever!
My mom recently sent me a colored-pencil drawing I did of my future husband when I was about nine years old. We both couldn’t stop laughing because we were all, “Um, yeah. Dead ringer for Jay. IS THAT CREEPY OR WHAT?”
I love things like that.
on July 12th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Shut up! Mmm, pink starburst.
on July 12th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
How funny! I never heard of the wrapper chain, but it sounds fun. Kinda reminds me of M.A.S.H. (am I the only one that remembers M.A.S.H.? lol)
on July 12th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Awww! I love hearing stories like this… Totally warms my heart to see how some things are just meant to be. :)
Before this I hadn’t heard of a gum wrapper chain, but Lauren mentioned M.A.S.H… and I totally remember playing M.A.S.H! Ahh, memories.
When I was sixteen I started writing letters to my future husband, which I still have locked away in an old jewelry box. I meant to keep writing until I got married, but over the years I’ve forgotten or found it increasingly hard to remain impartial about his identity when I have someone I like in mind.
I may just have to try the gun wrapper chain. Never too late to start. :D
on July 12th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
That is so cool! Good thing you didn’t keep going to like, 8 feet because obviously this actually comes true haha!
on July 13th, 2009 at 9:29 am
That is too perfect!!! I love it!! :) You are so adorable I want to squeeze you.
ps. I filled an ENTIRE journal with letters to my future husband. Now who’s cheesy??? ;)
on July 13th, 2009 at 9:37 am
OMG, I love it!
on July 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hahahaha, OMG thats so cute! So strange. I wonder what other childhood things could come true.
on July 13th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
That’s aweomse! It was DEFINITLY meant to be!!
on July 13th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Wow… a chain for The Star who Burst into Your Life… Awesome :-)
denise
Surviving Breast Cancer
on July 14th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Told you it was true. ;)
on July 14th, 2009 at 8:11 am