When I was younger...

I Also had a crush on ROBIN....(wonder what he looks like now...)
And Peter from the Brady Bunch.....
Leif Garret....John Travolta....the BEE GEES....

10 pm bedtime......before summer....

Summer vacation....whatever...whenever....

Wonder BRA!!!! Yeah!

Can you imagine if we would've had cell phones and computers and MP3's "back in da day?"

Like Flashlight hide & go seek......kickball......neighborhood football......catching lizards...................BEING ACTIVE!

When I was younger I rode my bike everywhere! I was even in a bike gang. Which, for rural Americans means you go off roading through fields to your secret location and play in the mud. I was such a bad *kitten*.

I also would walk to the store and get jolt soda. Like I needed any caffeine.

I had a dark brown tan because I would lay on the roof covered in baby oil...skin cancer?

I tried to learn dance moves from movies.

I swam for hours, played on a tire swing, and caught fish using a towel and chewed up bubble gum.

I had to braid my leg hair before I could shave so I used tweezers to braid it. No joke. My mom is a very funny woman so when I asked if I could shave she replied sarcastically, "when you can braid it!" So...I did.

I wish I was a kid again...minus the braiding.

I also belived I woudl be married with kids by 22 and my husband woudl look like uncle jesse. Now that im 23 I am still holding out for an uncle jesse look alike.

When I was younger I rode my bike everywhere! I was even in a bike gang. Which, for rural Americans means you go off roading through fields to your secret location and play in the mud. I was such a bad *kitten*.

I also would walk to the store and get jolt soda. Like I needed any caffeine.

I had a dark brown tan because I would lay on the roof covered in baby oil...skin cancer?

I tried to learn dance moves from movies.

I swam for hours, played on a tire swing, and caught fish using a towel and chewed up bubble gum.

I had to braid my leg hair before I could shave so I used tweezers to braid it. No joke. My mom is a very funny woman so when I asked if I could shave she replied sarcastically, "when you can braid it!" So...I did.

I wish I was a kid again...minus the braiding.

I also belived I woudl be married with kids by 22 and my husband woudl look like uncle jesse. Now that im 23 I am still holding out for an uncle jesse look alike.

I remember bike riding with everyone in the neighborhood and hanging out in the drainage ditch trying to catch crawfish....that we would have battle for entertainment!

BRAIDING your leg hair...OMG!....I thought I was the only one who could do that! JK! (Hey, could start a new trend......leg Dreds) Oh too late...I already started that....

When I was younger I hated my red hair now I keep dying it red. (well actually I dye it light auburn but it looks red.) :ohwell:

Yeah....you know they say the rise in adolescent depression is like .....way up!......and there's just so much drama on the whole myspace thing.....and just how can you get your seratonin flowing....sitting there worried about the lil tramp who's after your dude?

Or....how or when do they get their dose of vitamin (sunny) D? What is it...10 - 20 mins of sunshine a day? The natural anti-depressent.....excercise and sunshine....

When I was young, I use to ride my bike and play with neighbors from sun up to sun down with no adult supervision. You just knew to come in before dark. Kids can't do that anymore.
When I was young, I use to wear my Michael Jackson leather jacket with pride.
When I was young, I use to wear lots of brown and blue eye shadow (at the same time) and thought I looked good. I finished the look with light blue mascara.
When I was young, rock shirts like Def Leppard, Metallica and Bon jovi were really in style.
When I was young, I played Atari and was content to play space invaders (kids these days would be so bored).
When I was young, I use to sit in the car without a seat belt and my father smoked 5 cigarettes in a 10 minute span with the windows closed.
When I was young, we use to swim in the lakes without worrying about polluted waters.

:flowerforyou:

omg big city kitty you are in my head today...I was thinking about this on the drive home from work...so I got this one all set LMBO

I grew up in the little Italy section of city which back then was my universe and seemed sooo safe...today omg...not so much!

When I was young, I felt safe, played out front w/ all the neighborhood kids till the street lights came on...or if parents were outside sitting on the steps or the lawn chairs (on sidewalks) we could stay out later!

We'd play stick ball w/ a broom stick for a bat and a half a pimple ball or tennis ball, you had to throw it sideways...it took skills to fling it and hit it...lol and make bases on cars, peoples stairs and sewer covers.

Every summer we'd enjoy one or two block parties, where we'd block off our street, and all of the residents would bring out to the street; chairs and picnic tables and bbq's( no gas grills either...charcoal pits), tons of food, like sausages peppers and onions and all kinds of goodies, sometimes a band would play, always music though...and usually at least a few of the adults would get really silly...the vino would flow lol...

We would go on weekend trips almost every weekend to Walden Pond or one of the surrounding beaches to beat the heat and get us kids out of the city...my parents were like the only ones who'd take us and now as an adult I realize wow! they totally rocked!

Saturday mornings were cartoon time!!! and then creature double feature came on at noon and after that we got kicked out of the house! lol...mom's rules...

I had a purple bike w/ a big banana seat and mad yellow and pink flowers on it...lol, then graduated to my first silver ten speed, and a hot pink skateboard and white roller-skates w/ pink wheels and stopper I loved pink and purple lol!

Everyone knew you in the neighborhood, and also knew your parents...so ah no monkey business! lol
(until we were old enough to be sneaky lol)

the ice cream truck would come everyday after supper

I had the biggest crush on Shawn Cassidy and Andy Gibbs(rip)....loved the monkey's show...but didn't like Davey Jones like all my friends...I liked the goofy Mikey!!

watched Lawrence Whelk w/ my grandmother and me and my brother would dance like bobby and sissy lol ( he still says I owe him for that 30 yrs later lol)

We never had tonic (or soda) my mom would buy from the milkman our 1% Nu form milk..lol and OJ and sometimes we'd have koolaid or Ginger ale as a treat...we'd love going to friends houses that got soda anytime they wanted and come home all jacked up! lol

corner stores were run by neighbors and always had penny candy

I thought bonny bell flavored lip glosses were the best thing ever....I could wear makeup and didnt' get in trouble and it tasted yummy!!!

family dinners w/ my entire family, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles every Sunday after Mass

Everyone would go in early when the Wizard of Oz came on (no cable or tapes then) and my mom would put out the big comforter and pillows, and turn the living room into a big bed lol...make us popcorn we'd all watch as a family

we'd go to drive ins w/ my parents in our pjs and again homemade popcorn and sometimes soda and candy as treats! woo hoo!

we'd go on mystery rides w/ my dad on weekend nights....even to just drive to another area of the city and see a raccoon diggin in someones trash....those were amazing nights to us kids!

omg...I could go on but I'm most likely boring you all LOL

hugs and great great thread!!!
I love going down memory lane!
Ali :flowerforyou:

When I was younger

I thought I was cool in Elephant bell bottom levis with converse all star tennis shoes with different colored shoe laces. Now I swear I live in dress clothes (not by choice).

I used to ride my bike all over the freaking place just because I was bored. Now for a workout I ride around the block and collapse.

In HS I could not gain weight for football. Now well I am on this site, nough said.

I never worried about anything. Now I have some many responsibilities.

When I was young, I use to ride my bike and play with neighbors from sun up to sun down with no adult supervision. You just knew to come in before dark. Kids can't do that anymore.
When I was young, I use to wear my Michael Jackson leather jacket with pride.
When I was young, I use to wear lots of brown and blue eye shadow (at the same time) and thought I looked good. I finished the look with light blue mascara.
When I was young, rock shirts like Def Leppard, Metallica and Bon jovi were really in style.
When I was young, I played Atari and was content to play space invaders (kids these days would be so bored).
When I was young, I use to sit in the car without a seat belt and my father smoked 5 cigarettes in a 10 minute span with the windows closed.
When I was young, we use to swim in the lakes without worrying about polluted waters.

:flowerforyou:

OMG while reading that I swear you were talking about me. EVERY BIT OF IT!!! Kinda crazy.:laugh:

When I was young, I use to ride my bike and play with neighbors from sun up to sun down with no adult supervision. You just knew to come in before dark. Kids can't do that anymore.
When I was young, I use to wear lots of brown and blue eye shadow (at the same time) and thought I looked good. I finished the look with light blue mascara.
When I was young, rock shirts like Def Leppard, Metallica and Bon jovi were really in style.
When I was young, I played Atari and was content to play space invaders (kids these days would be so bored).
When I was young, I use to sit in the car without a seat belt
:flowerforyou:

HAHAHAHA ! It's like you were living my life!..

When I was young...
my mom use to call JEEEEEEEEEEEEENIFFFFFFFEEEEEEEEER to come home, and if I didn't hear her, my aunt 2 houses up from us (all 1 acre apart) would also call JEEEEEEEEENNNNNNIFFFFFFFEEEEERR! I would respond I'M COOOOOOOMIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGG! she would then relay it to my mom. And off I went to dinner!

I use to ride my back far away from home to get ice cream with my friend!

I use to make ribbon barrettes and wear them proudly.

I use to like boys with giant belt buckles that said their "NAME" , tight pants and elephant laces!

I roller skated around my block with stitches on my lip (so I couldn't talk) with a note from my mother that I gave to everyone (I was selling a fundraiser) telling them that I couldn't talk and this is what I was selling. The kicker is... I was wearing a navy blue bodysuit with green shorts with white stripes up the side with rainbow knee socks!!! again with ROLLER SKATES!!!

I use to have to find a PAY PHONE to call my parents and tell them where I was and where I was going.
and if I didn't I got, "you didn't have a dime! we've been worried sick!"

omg big city kitty you are in my head today...I was thinking about this on the drive home from work...so I got this one all set LMBO

I grew up in the little Italy section of city which back then was my universe and seemed sooo safe...today omg...not so much!

When I was young, I felt safe, played out front w/ all the neighborhood kids till the street lights came on...or if parents were outside sitting on the steps or the lawn chairs (on sidewalks) we could stay out later!

We'd play stick ball w/ a broom stick for a bat and a half a pimple ball or tennis ball, you had to throw it sideways...it took skills to fling it and hit it...lol and make bases on cars, peoples stairs and sewer covers.

Every summer we'd enjoy one or two block parties, where we'd block off our street, and all of the residents would bring out to the street; chairs and picnic tables and bbq's( no gas grills either...charcoal pits), tons of food, like sausages peppers and onions and all kinds of goodies, sometimes a band would play, always music though...and usually at least a few of the adults would get really silly...the vino would flow lol...

We would go on weekend trips almost every weekend to Walden Pond or one of the surrounding beaches to beat the heat and get us kids out of the city...my parents were like the only ones who'd take us and now as an adult I realize wow! they totally rocked!

Saturday mornings were cartoon time!!! and then creature double feature came on at noon and after that we got kicked out of the house! lol...mom's rules...

I had a purple bike w/ a big banana seat and mad yellow and pink flowers on it...lol, then graduated to my first silver ten speed, and a hot pink skateboard and white roller-skates w/ pink wheels and stopper I loved pink and purple lol!

Everyone knew you in the neighborhood, and also knew your parents...so ah no monkey business! lol
(until we were old enough to be sneaky lol)

the ice cream truck would come everyday after supper

I had the biggest crush on Shawn Cassidy and Andy Gibbs(rip)....loved the monkey's show...but didn't like Davey Jones like all my friends...I liked the goofy Mikey!!

watched Lawrence Whelk w/ my grandmother and me and my brother would dance like bobby and sissy lol ( he still says I owe him for that 30 yrs later lol)

We never had tonic (or soda) my mom would buy from the milkman our 1% Nu form milk..lol and OJ and sometimes we'd have koolaid or Ginger ale as a treat...we'd love going to friends houses that got soda anytime they wanted and come home all jacked up! lol

corner stores were run by neighbors and always had penny candy

I thought bonny bell flavored lip glosses were the best thing ever....I could wear makeup and didnt' get in trouble and it tasted yummy!!!

family dinners w/ my entire family, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles every Sunday after Mass

Everyone would go in early when the Wizard of Oz came on (no cable or tapes then) and my mom would put out the big comforter and pillows, and turn the living room into a big bed lol...make us popcorn we'd all watch as a family

we'd go to drive ins w/ my parents in our pjs and again homemade popcorn and sometimes soda and candy as treats! woo hoo!

we'd go on mystery rides w/ my dad on weekend nights....even to just drive to another area of the city and see a raccoon diggin in someones trash....those were amazing nights to us kids!

omg...I could go on but I'm most likely boring you all LOL

hugs and great great thread!!!
I love going down memory lane!
Ali :flowerforyou:

HOLY SMOKES ......it's crazy how all these childhood memories are sooooo similiar! The DRIVE-IN...why did they get rid of those! That was good times! I guess with crime and just this generation in general.....it's all about feeling safe!

The Wizard of Oz Witch scared the bajeebers out of me....and all those flying monkeys!...
AHHHHH.....Saturday morning cartoons!.....if you didn't get up at 6:00 you missed SCOOBY DOO!

Walking to the store for penny bubble gum....with a dime.....and putting all of it in your mouth so I didn't have to share with my mean ol' brother......and then there were times when he wasn't so mean and we collected every single KISS bubble gum card that created a poster! That was alot of pop bottles we would turn in for 5cents each. Man! I wonder how much that Bubble gum poster would be worth today to some KISS ARMY fan!

And a huge memory for me.....flying "bat" kites! My brother would let that thing out so far that it would look like a dot in the sky and take an hour to real in!

THOSE are some neat memories!

omg big city kitty you are in my head today...I was thinking about this on the drive home from work...so I got this one all set LMBO

I grew up in the little Italy section of city which back then was my universe and seemed sooo safe...today omg...not so much!

When I was young, I felt safe, played out front w/ all the neighborhood kids till the street lights came on...or if parents were outside sitting on the steps or the lawn chairs (on sidewalks) we could stay out later!

We'd play stick ball w/ a broom stick for a bat and a half a pimple ball or tennis ball, you had to throw it sideways...it took skills to fling it and hit it...lol and make bases on cars, peoples stairs and sewer covers.

Every summer we'd enjoy one or two block parties, where we'd block off our street, and all of the residents would bring out to the street; chairs and picnic tables and bbq's( no gas grills either...charcoal pits), tons of food, like sausages peppers and onions and all kinds of goodies, sometimes a band would play, always music though...and usually at least a few of the adults would get really silly...the vino would flow lol...

We would go on weekend trips almost every weekend to Walden Pond or one of the surrounding beaches to beat the heat and get us kids out of the city...my parents were like the only ones who'd take us and now as an adult I realize wow! they totally rocked!

Saturday mornings were cartoon time!!! and then creature double feature came on at noon and after that we got kicked out of the house! lol...mom's rules...

I had a purple bike w/ a big banana seat and mad yellow and pink flowers on it...lol, then graduated to my first silver ten speed, and a hot pink skateboard and white roller-skates w/ pink wheels and stopper I loved pink and purple lol!

Everyone knew you in the neighborhood, and also knew your parents...so ah no monkey business! lol
(until we were old enough to be sneaky lol)

the ice cream truck would come everyday after supper

I had the biggest crush on Shawn Cassidy and Andy Gibbs(rip)....loved the monkey's show...but didn't like Davey Jones like all my friends...I liked the goofy Mikey!!

watched Lawrence Whelk w/ my grandmother and me and my brother would dance like bobby and sissy lol ( he still says I owe him for that 30 yrs later lol)

We never had tonic (or soda) my mom would buy from the milkman our 1% Nu form milk..lol and OJ and sometimes we'd have koolaid or Ginger ale as a treat...we'd love going to friends houses that got soda anytime they wanted and come home all jacked up! lol

corner stores were run by neighbors and always had penny candy

I thought bonny bell flavored lip glosses were the best thing ever....I could wear makeup and didnt' get in trouble and it tasted yummy!!!

family dinners w/ my entire family, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles every Sunday after Mass

Everyone would go in early when the Wizard of Oz came on (no cable or tapes then) and my mom would put out the big comforter and pillows, and turn the living room into a big bed lol...make us popcorn we'd all watch as a family

we'd go to drive ins w/ my parents in our pjs and again homemade popcorn and sometimes soda and candy as treats! woo hoo!

we'd go on mystery rides w/ my dad on weekend nights....even to just drive to another area of the city and see a raccoon diggin in someones trash....those were amazing nights to us kids!

omg...I could go on but I'm most likely boring you all LOL

hugs and great great thread!!!
I love going down memory lane!
Ali :flowerforyou:

This is exactly my childhood. So amazing! Love the flash back. Thanks.