Fun with Yeo Tokens

For many years I buy milk, butter and other dairy products from a brand called Yeo Valley Organic (Disclaimer: it is purely personal taste that I buy their products. I have no association with the company other than being one of their customers. There are many other brands available, readers please choose based on your own preferences.). The company offer “tokens” on their products for their customers to collect. The collected tokens can be stored on the customers' accounts via their website, by entering the corresponding code printed on the products. The stored tokens can be spent in exchange for whatever they offer on their website. Even though I don’t use the tokens for anything, I do want to store them. However, I don’t always enter the codes every time I bought or finished a product straightaway. In fact, I almost never do that. Instead, I cut out the codes and put them in a box, thinking that one day I will enter them.

Today was one of those days. I decided to “bank” a few tokens by submitting some of the codes. I have accumulated so many that the box I am using has become too full! However, some of the cut-out codes have stuck together and because they have stuck together for so long, the prints of the codes have merged and faded! An example is shown on the picture above.

So instead of throwing them away (I totally can do that!), I tried to solve it. I used the Magnifyer app on my iPad to get a closer look and played with contrast and filters on the image.

Imagine the excitment I have when I finally cracked it and got the codes accepted!

Sometimes tiny wins do make the day.