What do you miss from your childhood?? - Page 7

Theresa · #61 10-13-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by winklebottom

Playing outside until the street lights came on.

My easy bake oven

Chatty Cathy dolls

Archie comic books

Hair dryers with Bonnets....the list goes on and on

momma handling EVERYTHING.
Not having a care in the world...
clothes washed and folded themselves,
food was already cooked,
the kitchen cleaned itself...
someone else checked the bumps in the night...

a constant feeling of safety and security.

playing outside and not worrying about strangers

mommas touch when I was sick - it cured everything

gas for < $1.00 gallon

appliances that lasted forever

cars that did too

new school supplies and the smell of all the new pencils in a CARDBOARD pencil box

not to mention the new lunch box with mathing thermos

youth camp

going to mamaws

on and on and on...

winklebottom · #62 10-13-2008, 07:15 PM

Does anyone remember those resin balls on a string that you got from the state fair...We called them Clackers.....and you could actually crack a skull using them!!
Toys were fun back then!!!
I also loved my "creepy crawler" and "fun flowers" maker!! you could get huge burns from those!! BUT....that never seemed to matter!
How bout making tents out of sheets over the clothline in the backyard. Camping out until you got scared, or the skeeters chased you in!!!

Esther · #63 10-13-2008, 08:44 PM

Cap guns that smoked when you shot them.

Esther · #64 10-13-2008, 08:45 PM

Playing hotchscotch and marbles and jumprope.

winklebottom · #65 10-13-2008, 08:45 PM

mood rings!!
silly putty!!

winklebottom · #66 10-13-2008, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Esther

Playing hotchscotch and marbles and jumprope.

How could I forget Hopscotch!!
what was that game with the string that you would put around your fingers....CATS CRADLE!! That's it!!

Margies3 · #67 10-13-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by winklebottom

Does anyone remember those resin balls on a string that you got from the state fair...We called them Clackers.....and you could actually crack a skull using them!!
Toys were fun back then!!!
I also loved my "creepy crawler" and "fun flowers" maker!! you could get huge burns from those!! BUT....that never seemed to matter!
How bout making tents out of sheets over the clothline in the backyard. Camping out until you got scared, or the skeeters chased you in!!!

I remember clackers. Broke a few windows with them, in fact

I do remember camping. But that is one of those things I will put in the other thread - the thread for hated things.

We used to take sheets and blankets and make a tent out of our kitchen table on rainy days. That was fun.

One of my favorite things to do was to sit on my bottom at the top of our carpeted stairs and bump, bump, bump all the way down. And then when I got just a little older and braver, it was even more fun to lay down on our tummys and go down head first. Drove my mom crazy. She was so afraid we'd get hurt. Imagine that!

All4one · #68 10-14-2008, 10:32 AM

Riding in the back of a pick-up truck. We never thought about it being unsafe, we didnt even have seatbelts in the car.

Rhoni · #69 10-14-2008, 12:09 PM

The naivete
The wonder
The sense of possibilities
Winning pizza eating contests and barely weighing 80#
Bible Quizzing

winklebottom · #70 10-14-2008, 07:33 PM

how bout touching worms....frogs....just " creepy animal things " in general and not being afaid of salmonella...etc. My sister would eat pill bugs!! And we would just laugh!!!