childhood memories survey
MrsMills712
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A "Childhood Memories" Survey. Why?
1. It's cold and snowy out and I'm stuck inside being bored.
2. It goes along with the theme of everybody's cartoon icons.
3. It's fun to read other people's answers.
Here we go:
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
* What games did you like to play?
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
* What do you wish you could have changed?
* Did you have any pets?
* What was your favorite christmas present?
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
1. It's cold and snowy out and I'm stuck inside being bored.
2. It goes along with the theme of everybody's cartoon icons.
3. It's fun to read other people's answers.
Here we go:
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
* What games did you like to play?
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
* What do you wish you could have changed?
* Did you have any pets?
* What was your favorite christmas present?
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
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* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
- At my house, running around the neighborhood, or at my grandparents' home.
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
- Algonquin, Oxford, Nelson and Wabash. We liked to move around.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
- No.
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
- Barbies, Babydolls, Colorforms, Polly Pockets
* What games did you like to play?
- Tag, Hide n Seek, Duck Duck Goose, Candyland, Monopoly Jr.
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
- Here and there, but mainly my Grandma was my baby-sitter.
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
- In 2nd grade we were playing a game in gym class and a boy tripped and pushed me over and I cracked my face against the gym floor. It busted my lip and knocked my front tooth out. I should have made that kid pay my dental bill. Grr :P
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
- Playing house, school, restaurant. My imagination was all over the place.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
- Not as a "kid", but when I was like 15. I'll always have fond memories of Pensacola Beach, FL and the boys we met
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
- Any trip to Gatlinburg, TN. The whole family would go and rent out condos on top of the mountain for the week.
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
- With school. I can't remember what I put in it.
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
- Unfortunately, I'm still here.
* What do you wish you could have changed?
- Nothing. I absolutely loved being a kid.
* Did you have any pets?
- A dog. He lived for 17 years, so he pretty much grew up with me.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
- A Lego doll house.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
- Being caught in lies :-/0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? North Attleboro MA and Pawtucket, RI
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Sweet Ave
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies!
* What games did you like to play? Tag, shoots and ladders, candy land, old maid and building tree forts
* Did you have a baby-sitter? no one other than family
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? um not really, almost lost an eye when hammering together a fort though
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? bugging my older brother, singing in a church choir, going to the beach and Cape Cod with my family or to New Hampshire
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? yes...Kim Catalano! and cousins
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Cape Cod
* Did you every bury a time capsule? Nah
* Did you move away from where you grew up? I did, with the military
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing, everything bad and everyting good made me who i am today, although i wish i knew my mom more.
* Did you have any pets? A kitty named Ali
* What was your favorite christmas present? Any thing art , books, and barbie
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? rolling my eyes!0 -
Ooo, I like surveys!
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
North shore Massachusetts until I was 9 and then Concord MA until I was out of high school
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Lawrence Rd.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Nope
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? I liked to color a lot!
* What games did you like to play? Candy Land
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Yes, a few
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? A few, LOL. One time I was climbing up the bulkhead to the basement and I fell through
I was okay though. Another time when I was much younger I thought it was a good idea to put one of those old fashioned hook latches in my mouth, and I got stuck on it. Got a big scar in my cheek.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Playing outside a lot
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? I don't think so but I used to make friends on vacation
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Disneyworld
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? I wish I had kept my old friends longer
* Did you have any pets? We always had at least one cat, sometimes 2
* What was your favorite christmas present? One of my cats! I got her when I was 8 I think, and I still remember that day, them putting her in my lap with my eyes closed
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Not cleaning my room. LOL0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Independence, Mo
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Davidson
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Nope, wish I could remember his name...
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Simon, loved that thing.
* What games did you like to play?
Hide and seek, red rover, tag....
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
When I was real little.
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Fell out of tree and fractured collar bone, what fun that was...
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Cartoons on Saturday, reading
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Nope
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
The ones where we drove to Cali
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
A few times and have no idea where in my moms yard they are, one day someone is going to dig up a coffee can of pennies, lol.
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
To Rancho Cucamonga, Cali and then to Omaha, NE
* What do you wish you could have changed?
A few things could have been better, and then there where things I could have lived without, but in the end changing the past would change the present, nope don't want to do that...
* Did you have any pets?
Oscar the coolest cat ever!!!
* What was your favorite christmas present?
A memory book that my Great Grandmother gave me with pictures of her, my mother and father and me.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Usually something my sister did wrong.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Muskegon, Michigan
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Sheridan
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies or cabbage patch doll
* What games did you like to play? School, bar tag on the monkey bars
* Did you have a baby-sitter? only family
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? no, alway was a cautious kid......never even had stitches
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? camping, hiking with family
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? no
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Camping at mini pond
* Did you every bury a time capsule? in school
* Did you move away from where you grew up? yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? not a thing
* Did you have any pets? yes, lots
* What was your favorite christmas present? doll house
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? fighting with my little brother0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
White Plains NY
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Main Street
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies
* What games did you like to play?
Manhunt...kinda like hide and seek
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
No...my mom was a sahm
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Nope never have broken or fractured or even sprained anything
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
trying on clothes that i couldn't afford...lol
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
only boyfriends later on
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
same every year... wildwood NJ
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Nope
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Oh yeah...married a military man
* What do you wish you could have changed?
Nothing
* Did you have any pets?
yes a thousand cats...or it atleast felt that way...ha ha
* What was your favorite christmas present?
a bunny stuffed animal...still have it:)
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
messy room...staying out to late0 -
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Outside of Rochester, MN
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? County Road
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? no we really haven't talken since I quit 4H in 7th grade
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? summer my bike, rainy days Breyer horses and barbies, winter sled
* What games did you like to play? trivial pursuit for kids
* Did you have a baby-sitter? my sister usually
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? nope they weren't freak
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? exploring the hills around my house.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? no
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? when we went to my grandparents cabin in northern WI
* Did you every bury a time capsule? no but thinking about making one for this year
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes (see user name)
* What do you wish you could have changed? taking dance like my sister did
* Did you have any pets? yes, 3 cats, 2 dogs, and a rabbit
* What was your favorite christmas present? a stuffed bear call Dilbert that I still have
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? not being able to be my mother's mind reader0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Orange Beach, AL
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Canal Rd.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
some of them
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies, Lite Brite, Easy Bake Oven
* What games did you like to play?
any board games, hide and seek,
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
I was a "latch key" kid so no...I was my own baby sitter and I watched my younger brother and sister when they came along
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
when I was in 1st grade my friend and I were sitting at the bus stop before school and a tornado came right through our neighborhood....we didn't know it was coming because our parents were already at work....we started running towards a neighbors house and the winds were so strong they picked us up....it was the weirdest feeling ever....my mom got a call at work that her daughter got picked up by a tornado lol....it wasn't funny at the time, but we laugh about it now....
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
climbing trees, building forts and clubhouses in the woods
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
I usually went with my friends and their families...
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
I went to Disney World for the first time at 19years old....that was my favorite. Everyone's child like at Disney World right?!
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
nope
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
I am a few towns over
* What do you wish you could have changed?
nothing specifically about my childhood...but If I could change anything that happened during it would be that I still had my little sister, she passed away 13 years ago when I wasa 12 years old....
* Did you have any pets?
multiple dogs over the years....
* What was your favorite christmas present?
either my bicycle or my own TV and VCR when I was in High School
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
back talking0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Southeast Texas.. always a Texas girl.
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Carriage Cove Lane
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? sort of.. I was five and I grew up with them and am friends with most of them on facebook.
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? cardboard boxes... my brother and I had awesome imaginations and preferred the boxes over any toy we owned.
* What games did you like to play? pretend: school, grocery store, astronaut, house, monster/victim, cop/robber, WWF, etc....
* Did you have a baby-sitter? not a regular one, no.
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? no
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? me and my brother, bikes everyday, mostly violent chicken standoffs, lol
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? no
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? we never vacationed, but I do a lot now
* Did you every bury a time capsule? no
* Did you move away from where you grew up? yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? nothing, there was lots of drama growing up, but it's made me the strongest person I know. I can deal with a lot of things that many people can't.
* Did you have any pets? yes.. various cats and dogs through the years, some birds and fish as well
* What was your favorite christmas present? getting my bike when I was 8 (I think)
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? rough-housing with my brother and breaking things, lol.0 -
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
- Not as a "kid", but when I was like 15. I'll always have fond memories of Pensacola Beach, FL and the boys we met
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
- Any trip to Gatlinburg, TN. The whole family would go and rent out condos on top of the mountain for the week.
I live about 20min from Pensacola Fl. on the other side of the Alabama State line.
We go there for all of our shopping.
Gatlinburg is awesome. I have been there tons. I love it. It's so beautiful.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Rainier WA. (Really small logging town)
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Fillman Rd
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Most of them via Facebook
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
My Bicycle, Whatever I found in the woods, my neighbor's horse and on rainy day books...
* What games did you like to play?
Had the standard 80's set of board games but I was an only child and the nearest kid my age was almost a mile away. So there was a lot of bike riding/racing, fort and bike ramp building, we'd play make believe in the barn...
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Gramma. Mom and I lived with her
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
More than I can count... One of my favorites (again involving the bicycle) one of the older boys that lived down the road had friends over and I went down to ride bikes with them. We decided to build a ramp bigger and higher than any ramp built. EVER. So we found 2 old tractor tires, stacked them, placed a piece of plywood as the ramp (now mind you this was an awfully short piece of plywood, pointed directly and the sun hanging above the trees at the end of the street. Now I have visions fo Icharis... ) Anyway I was brave (or dumb) and wanted to try it first. I went about a quarter mile down the road and pedaled as fast as my little legs would go, swinging the bike side to side for maximum speed (and cool effect) and then I hit the ramp. I kicked my bike out like all the BMX guys did. (Never mind that it was a Huffy with a banana seat) As I sailed toward the sun I realized it was getting dark. I was headed for the trees and there was nothing I would do to stop the inevitable. I took a VERY large tree branch to the top of the head. Knocked me out cold and split my head open. I woke up with all the boys standing around me and one of them said, "Your Gram's going to kill us!!" and the ran away leaving me to walk the mile home while I bled profusely and saw double thanks to the concusion.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Listening to 8 tracks or the radio
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
We didn't take vacations
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Summer Vacation... lol see above
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Yes it's probably still out there in woods on the border of our property and Fort Lewis
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
As fast as I could when I turned 18.
* What do you wish you could have changed?
I don't know. I could say that I didn't have a crazy mom or that I lived in the city but that experience made me who I am. So I'm going with nothing
* Did you have any pets?
A cat, a miriad of chickens, a pig and the horse my neighbor gave me.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
My bike & the box of my grandfather's 8 tracks
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Not getting home in time, or coming home FILTHY from playing in the pond or the woods.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Portmarnock, Co Dublin, Ireland
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Ardilaun
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
No sadly we drifted apart :frown:
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies, Cindys, Football, Colouring Book
* What games did you like to play?
Football, Rounders, Kiss Chase, Tip the Can (kinda hide n seek game), Roller Skating and Biking
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
No
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Yes broke my front tooth while on roller skates speeding down a hill ended up going over a bonnet of a car and hitting the kerb ... to this day my mum thinks I fell on the pavement lol
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
We hung out with friends either at the local beach, park or similar OR just hanging out in friends houses
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
No
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Corfu, Greece
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
No
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Sadly yes moved out when I was 17
* What do you wish you could have changed?
A lot
* Did you have any pets?
We always had cats growing up even tho I was always bringing home stray dogs lol somehow they never ended up staying :grumble:
* What was your favorite christmas present?
My first bike
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Bunking out to hang out with my mates late at night ... I was a TERRIBLE child lol0 -
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Greenville, MI
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What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Swem (Dorrel for 4 years)
Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Sad to say, no. We tried for awhile, but they all had different plans.
What toy could you most often be found playing with?
My collection of Barbies
What games did you like to play?
Monopoly, Cards
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Did you have a baby-sitter?
Normally one of my older cousins.
Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Got my finger caught in a pulley system and had 22 stitches inside by the bone and 18 on the outside.
How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Walking in the woods, sketching, riding my horse.
Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
On a mini-vacation. Went to Cedar Point for the weekend. Took my best friend Karen
What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
When we went to New York. Long Island and Hicksville.
Did you every bury a time capsule?
Kept meaning too. I Think we may have done one in grade school.
Did you move away from where you grew up?
About 50 miles from there, Still in MI
What do you wish you could have changed?
Took up a different career. But then again I would not have met my husband. Kept a better watch on my weight, but then I would not have met all you wonderful people. Stayed closer with my old friends.
Did you have any pets?
Me personally? My horse. Family pets - Boxers - Ringmaster and Micky.
What was your favorite christmas present?
Hmmmm....I would have to say.....my Barbie House (brother sat on it 3 weeks later)
What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
My brothers. Not cleaning my room. Other then that I was a pretty good kid. Grew up on a farm so there was really not a lot to get into trouble with. Too busy.0 -
*Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Port Coquitlam, BC Canada (suburb of Vancouver)
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Glade Cres.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Skipping rope, dolls, barbies
* What games did you like to play? Hide n' seek, tag, water fights
* Did you have a baby-sitter? None - my mom was a stay at home mom
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Split my lip open
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? playing at the park
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? yes
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Harrison Hot Spings - went there every year until I was 14
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Not until I moved out on my own
* What do you wish you could have changed? Just if I ate healthier
* Did you have any pets? Yes had dogs - Frisky and Tippy
* What was your favorite christmas present? ghetto blaster
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Being late for dinner0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
My friends house he had all the tennage mutant ninja turtle action figures all of em and the coolest blocks ever to build a place for them to live
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
22nd Ave
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Nope not really they havent done much in their lives
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Nintendo remote prolly
* What games did you like to play?
Monopoly, kick the bucket, baseball, football and basketball
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Yes I did I went on a dinner date with her a couple times and went out to the bar with her a couple times yeah good stuff SMILES
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Was thrown out a window by my moms boyfriend, Fell off a tree thirty feet high and lnded on a skateboard
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
With friends and playing sports
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
yep went to sioux falls and mexico with a friend
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Missionary trip in mexico built a school and a church
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
No
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yep joined the navy for eleven years but now I am back I missed Minnesota
* What do you wish you could have changed?
Nothing really
* Did you have any pets?
3 dogs atone point in time
* What was your favorite christmas present?
prolly when we got a nintendo
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
My younger brother.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
In a neighborhood called "Kachina Village" outside of Flagstaff, AZ.
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Toho Ave.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Not for several years now.
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Our Spectravideo (knock off Commodore64), LEGOS, and before that my "Alpha Probe" (imitation of the space shuttle).
* What games did you like to play?
Monopoly and Risk.
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Many...we ran them off a lot.
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Fell down a 25 step outdoor flight of stairs when I was 3 and damaged my knee.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Exploring the woods in our neighborhood (it was a REALLY rural neighborhood)
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Yeah, but not until I was 14.
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Going on our yearly family vacations with my Dad (usually a driving vacation).
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Yes, but can't remember what I put in it.
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yes, moved to Phoenix when I was 13.
* What do you wish you could have changed?
Changing the past can have drastic effects on the present.
* Did you have any pets?
Labrador mix named Cassidy. He was a great dog. Much better than his replacement chihuahua.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
The Alpha Probe (see above)
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Lighting fires would probably be the most common cause.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Los Angeles County in CA.
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Apperson St.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies
* What games did you like to play? house
* Did you have a baby-sitter? only family
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? no
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? I was always swimming
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? yes
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? San Diego with my Grandma and great Grandma
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? I have not been away from California longer then 6 months
* What do you wish you could have changed?
* Did you have any pets? many
* What was your favorite christmas present? life size doll
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? procrastinating0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Linden, New Jersey
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Melrose Terrace
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Yes -- we've reconnected on Facebook!
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies
* What games did you like to play?
Barbies, School, House
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Sometimes
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Nothing really freaky, but I sprained my ankle all the time (and I still do!)
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
I grew up right across the street from a park and a library, so I never lacked things to do!
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Yes -- when I was in the sixth grade, we went to Iowa to visit my parent's friends who had a farm, and I was able to take my best friend with me (the one that I've reconnected with on FB).
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Disney World!
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Not an actual time capsule, but a friend and I took a bunch of old newspapers and hid them in my attic. Hmmm....I wonder if anyone ever found them?
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yes...first to England, and then to Colorado.
* What do you wish you could have changed?
Nothing. Everything that happened in my life, good and bad, has shaped me into the person I am today.
* Did you have any pets?
I had an orange cat named Morris who lived for almost 16 years. We had a Brittany Spaniel for about four years, but my parents found him another home when he bit me on the face.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
A Barbie camper.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
In school, it was always for talking too much!0 -
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Carteret, NJ
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Hagaman St
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
no
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
board games, dolls
* What games did you like to play?
house, school, 52 pick up
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
older sister
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
walked into one of those 4 seater swings and cut open my knee when I was six. Lots of bruises, sprained ankles
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
In the summer swimming and playing in the park around the corner, reading, playing games
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
no
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Only vaca we went on was to NIagra Falls, other then that we went to our cousins in College Pt., Queens
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
Yup, in grammer school
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yup, to California for 7yrs then moved back east (wish I was still there every winter)
* What do you wish you could have changed?
don't know, nothing I guess
* Did you have any pets?
dog named Queenie
* What was your favorite christmas present?
A doll whose shoes I wanted to wear when I grew up
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
picking on little brother, laughing when getting yelled at.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Moose Jaw, SK
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Currie Cres
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? not really, but I have them on facebook
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? my barbies
* What games did you like to play? all games!
* Did you have a baby-sitter? only if my mom and dad went out for an evening
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? caught my finger between 2 bowling balls and fractured it.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? biking, playing with friends, playground, and spending time with my grandparents
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? only camping at the lake
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Disneyland with my grandma, her friend, and her friends grand daughters when I was 10
* Did you every bury a time capsule? make one yes, bury it no.
* Did you move away from where you grew up? sadly yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? spent more time with my grandma and grandpa, been a better friend at times
* Did you have any pets? yes!!
* What was your favorite Christmas present? I think it would be either my Holly Hobby house or my Barbie camper bus!
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? not coming home on time and not telling them were I was (as a teen)0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? At home
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Fruit
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Marbles, jacks, and dolls
* What games did you like to play? All sports and monopoly
* Did you have a baby-sitter? No, just my wonderful sister.
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Yup! At camp
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Building club houses and skating
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Yes
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? The amusement parks
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes
* What do you wish you could have changed? My sister young death
* Did you have any pets? Yes cats and dogs
* What was your favorite Christmas present? A pimple medicine that my sister left under the tree for me before she died unexpectedly on the 23 of Dec.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? I really did not get in trouble to much at home but at school it was for fighting a lot.0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? - South Brighton, Adelaide, South Australia
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Benny Crescent
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? No
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Lucky Locket Kiddle
* Did you have a baby-sitter? No
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? I cut my right hand on a glass bottle that my Mother told me not to touch and I sliced through my tendon in my first finger. I had plaster on my arm for 13 weeks.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Make believe and playing dress ups. Once we got a TV in 1964 I was pretty much hooked
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? We only went on one vacation to my Aunty's in Sydney
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? None really, but we have been to Bali 13 times in the last 25 years
* Did you every bury a time capsule? at school in grade 5
* Did you move away from where you grew up? I live on the other side of Adelaide from where I grew up and I haven't spoken to my parents for the past 18 years
* What do you wish you could have changed? My Parents!!! They were both naracists.
* Did you have any pets? a black Labrador/Greyhound cross called Labby Loo
* What was your favorite christmas present? a mini Kitchen with a little roast chicken in the over and running water over the sink
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? anything and everything with my Mum. I only had to breath wrong for her to get upset and lock me outside0 -
A "Childhood Memories" Survey. Why?
1. It's cold and snowy out and I'm stuck inside being bored.
2. It goes along with the theme of everybody's cartoon icons.
3. It's fun to read other people's answers.
Lucky you! It's hot here, and hasn't stopped raining for weeks!!
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Evadne Street
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Nope
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? I used to do creative stuff, like make friendship bracelets or even hair wraps haha
* Did you have a baby-sitter? I had an afterschool carer
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? I was pretty lucky in my family of freak accidents. I once cut every finger on my right hand open on a cat food tin and had to have stitches in my thumb
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Make believe, used to play a lot of Xena Warrior Princess or arts and crafts stuff. Bike rides and rollerblading with Sam (the Scotch Collie) in tow.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Yes, we used to go to Yamba (on the NSW Coast) every summer holidays and one of my girlfriends always came along
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Yamba and we used to go to Sydney for every other xmas
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
' Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes, my parents worked for Defence, so I was born in Sydney, moved to Brisbane, moved to Canberra and then finally settled in Brisbane
* What do you wish you could have changed? Myself.. I was a seriously anxious child and wish I could have lightened up a bit, and I suppose I wish my mum didn't have to go back to work, but she did what she had to do. My parents were/are amazing
* Did you have any pets? Sam the (most beautiful) Scotch Collie, Skittles the cat, Emma the cat (still alive), Missy and Chester the Staffordshire Terriors (still terrorising the family ;-))
* What was your favorite christmas present? Ooohhh.... probably a smalll keyboard, or a Barbie Van
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Talking too much. I talked a LOT0 -
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Southern Louisiana
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Oak St
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Nope
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? I was always riding around on my bike
* Did you have a baby-sitter? I baby sat the dog and the dog baby sat me
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Fell out of a tree, face-planted the concrete while jumping a ramp on my bike and chipped a tooth(good thing it was a baby tooth), got bit by a dog.... etc
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Fishing
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? We were to poor for vacations back then.
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Um, I did go to alabama and saw the submarine and ship there once that was fun.
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
' Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes, Joined the Army, Settled in seattle for a while and back down here until I move again.
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing
* Did you have any pets?Yes
* What was your favorite christmas present? My BMX
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Never really got into trouble.. Well... I never got caught anyway....lol0 -
Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? New Jersey
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Haven Terrace
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? Yes
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Barbies and my chemistry set
* What games did you like to play? Monopoly- we had marathon games that went on for days!
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Rarely; my mom was stay at home
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Getting run over by a bicycle once; and by a sled once!
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? We had so many imaginary games.
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Yes; often our neighbors kids
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Wildwood NJ- fun at the beach!
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes; but still visit often
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing; my childhood was idyllic!
* Did you have any pets? Yes; a series of dogs and cats
* What was your favorite christmas present? My thumbalina doll. ( anyone old enough to remember that?!)
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Usually teasing my siblings.0 -
Assuming less than 10 years old...
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
In the woods and hills around where I lived in Gloucestershire, England, UK
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Can't say as it's a common security question.
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
No
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
lego/meccano
* What games did you like to play?
Can't remember - prob anything involving imagination
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
No
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Lost my front teeth falling off my tricycle
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Climbing trees, cycling, running around, fishing
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
No
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Visit to Jersey, UK Channel Islands, when I was 9 - I went by myself to visit family there.
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
No
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yes, but not quite far enough!
* What do you wish you could have changed?
Not much - it was later in life that everything went wrong
* Did you have any pets?
Yes, fish, guinea pigs, cats.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
At that time, probably my own bike, but a big set of technical lego was pretty special too.
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
I was sweet and innocent at that age and never got into trouble :-)0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? In the gardens, orchard and the woods round my house
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? It was right out in the country, not a street at all and no name, just the Village
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? No
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? Dolls house
* What games did you like to play? mainly I used my imagination, used to play on my own a lot as an only child living in the middle of nowhere
* Did you have a baby-sitter? No my parents both were around all the time
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? No but I was raped by a family friend when I was 9
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? riding, going to the beach, reading, playing on my swing
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? No
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Trip to Rimini, San Marino and Venice when I was 7
* Did you every bury a time capsule? My class did when they buit a new classroom on the School
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Not far at all
* What do you wish you could have changed? The rape
* Did you have any pets? Yes my Dog Tara for my 7th birthday, and family dogs - Tarnus and Jane -two poodles and a German shepard Liza and Streak an old English Sheepdog, two guinea pigs named bubble and squeak, my horse Suki and Henry my cat, and two pet jackdaws named yo yo and come on and a budgie named bluey.
* What was your favorite christmas present? My dolls house
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? Not eating properly, I only ate a very limited diet0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Winthrop, Maine
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Rt. 41
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
Occasionally
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Barbies, Legos and Shriky Dinks
* What games did you like to play?
Tag, Battleship, Sorry, Uno
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Never- I was raised by my grandparents and their motto was if I couldn't go, they didn't need to go
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
I was riding my bike down the road to buy my grandmother flowers and I hit the soft dirt on the side of the road. I went over
the handle bars, split my lip and passed out. Thankfully my cousin was with me and helped me home. I should have just
picked flowers, my grandmother would have loved them even more!
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
Talking on the phone, writing, reading, drawing
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
No
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
I don't know that I had a favorite. We went on a lot of trips and they were all fun. The longest was to Texas to see relatives and we made a lot of stops before we got there (because we drove) so I guess that was the best.
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
In school
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Sadly yes
* What do you wish you could have changed?
How I applied myself in school. I was such a smart girl, I just was too social!
* Did you have any pets?
Several cats through out the years. We had to keep replacing them as they would get hit by cars or get eaten by fishers.
* What was your favorite christmas present?
A Tandy computer!!!!!! Compatible with NOTHING!!!!! But it was a computer!
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
Boys0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up?
Springfield, OH
* What was the name of the street you grew up on?
Cherokee Dr
* Do you still talk to your first best friends?
No, but I still talk to the ones I made in middle/high school
* What toy could you most often be found playing with?
Until my younger sisters were born, I played with a bunch of boys.. my brother and cousins. We played video games, we were always outside, tag, legos, ninja turtles, sports, etc. I couldn't keep girly toys like barbies because they would always end up being destroyed in the fan... lol
* What games did you like to play?
We loved board games, hide-n-seek (we had a huge woods beside our house), and unfortunately, my brother and cousins loved to practice their wrestling moves on me- which always ended with me getting hurt and them getting in trouble!
* Did you have a baby-sitter?
Yes, mostly my older cousins/ aunts would watch us because my grandparents lived far away
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid?
Appendicitis at a very young age, I burnt/pulled all of the skin off of my hand while pouring water in my mug for hot chocolate
* How else did you enjoy spending your time?
My brother and I would beg to spend the night at my aunt and uncles house because we loved playing with our cousins- they were practically our brothers growing up
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you?
Yes, a few times- the only time as a child though was on a houseboat trip to TN
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child?
Until I graduated high school, every year we would go on a house boat trip on the lake in TN- we would take our jet skis and spend a week on the boat with some of our aunts, uncles, and cousins
* Did you every bury a time capsule?
No
* Did you move away from where you grew up?
Yes, when I was in the 4th grade we moved 45 mins. away because of my moms work- close to Columbus, OH
* What do you wish you could have changed?
We moved in the middle of my 4th grade year and it was a really hard adjustment, I know my parents didn't have a choice.. but it would have been better to wait until the start of 5th grade if I had a choice
* Did you have any pets?
Yes, we had a few dogs growing up- my first dog was names Gizmo lol
* What was your favorite christmas present?
Probably my barbie car with my name on it that I drove around the yard, I don't know if I got that at Christmas though...
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble?
For some reason I lied a lot as a kid- over really stupid things0 -
* Where did you spend most of your childhood growing up? Playing in the streets in Buena Park, CA.
* What was the name of the street you grew up on? Eudora
* Do you still talk to your first best friends? No
* What toy could you most often be found playing with? A ball of some kind.
* What games did you like to play? Hide and Seek
* Did you have a baby-sitter? Back in those everybosy's parents kept an eye o everyone's kids
* Did you have any freak accidents as a kid? Pulled a hot vaporizer over on myself when I was 3. Spent 3 months in a burn ward. Almost lost my left eye and left arm.
* How else did you enjoy spending your time? Ride my bike
* Did you ever take a friend on vacation with you? Never went on vacation when I was a kid.
* What was your favorite vacation, as a child? Vacation for us was spending a weekend at Grandma and Grandma's house.
* Did you every bury a time capsule? No.
* Did you move away from where you grew up? Yes.
* What do you wish you could have changed? Nothing
* Did you have any pets? German Shepard named Kimo. Someone hung him when I was about 8.
* What was your favorite christmas present? Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots
* What was the usual cause for your getting in trouble? I rarely got in trouble. If I did, it was something trivial like harassing my yournger brothers or sisters.0
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