Memories of being a kid - Time flies

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  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
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    HA! Helmets. You wish!

    We had woodchip playgrounds. Still hurt, but probably not as bad as cement!

    I miss old, metal playgrounds. It's all plastic now. Boo, safety.

    I wanna find a swingset somewhere now. :(

    Trampolines! I loved "double jumping"....where you get someone to jump down next to you just as you're going up. You go SO HIGH! I've fallen off the trampoline a few times doing that. :happy:
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    Big wheels, Classic Water Slides/Rollerskating, WBBA little league baseball, Doogie Houser, The Wonder Years, Pogs, The Little Mermaid, Slap bracelets, those little shirt clips, double socks with Keds shoes, riding bikes everywhere, SOOOOOOOO many!
  • amandajones1978
    amandajones1978 Posts: 140
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    When cartoons were worth getting up early on Saturdays to watch
    Big Wheels
    Later "bedtimes" in the summer
    Playing at the community pool all day and going to the elementary school for summer lunches
    Making witches brew.....srsly..whatever my siblings made that year made the worms jump out of the ground when my mom dumped it out
    Catching fireflies
    Running around barefoot...even across our gravel driveway.
    Mom's hot cocoa after sled riding for hours
    Building caves in my mom's forsythia bushes
    Kick the can
    Blanket forts on rainy days
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    Was anyone else addicted to these? I remember sneaking one into the movies in my jacket, and it exploded all over when I opened the cap...spraying the people in front of me :laugh:

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    MMMMMMM black cherry was the ultimate!
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    OMG, making forts!!!!! I loved doing that!

    That was THE best!
  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    How about astro pops? Anyone remember these? They took them off the market because they were too dangerous? I hear they are bringing them back though.... I miss those!

    Also bazooka gum and having my parents freak when I ate a whole bunch and had the tattoos all up and down my arms. Dad made me scrub them off! Ha... now the kids all have real ones!

    Anyone remember Martha Fracois Gerbaud? hahaha
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    Bazooka gum, fireballs, cigarette vending machines in restaurants.

    Penny candy, or five cent candy.
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    How about Hubba Bubba or Bubblicious gum. Do they still make that??
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
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    How about astro pops? Anyone remember these? They took them off the market because they were too dangerous? I hear they are bringing them back though.... I miss those!
    what? How is THIS dangerous? oh wait...yeah, I see it now........:laugh: :laugh:
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  • Reedern
    Reedern Posts: 525 Member
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    How about astro pops? Anyone remember these? They took them off the market because they were too dangerous? I hear they are bringing them back though.... I miss those!
    what? How is THIS dangerous? oh wait...yeah, I see it now........:laugh: :laugh:
    $(KGrHqF,!pUFBQ,QG1uTBQkFESpk!g~~60_1.JPG?set_id=8800005007

    In all the times we ate them as kids, we NEVER had any injuries from them.... just goes to show that 1 bad apple can really mess things up for everyone else! haha
  • What316
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    Thunder,thunder,thunder cats Hhoooooooooo
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,198 Member
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    Thunder,thunder,thunder cats Hhoooooooooo

    Cannot believe I forgot about them!

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  • What316
    What316 Posts: 563
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    Liono only has 2 % body fat
  • PomegranatePriestess
    PomegranatePriestess Posts: 2,455 Member
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    OMG, making forts!!!!! I loved doing that!

    That was THE best!

    I was just heading back in here to talk about forts... and somebody beat me to it!

    I was going to say: remember when your neighbor would get a new appliance, like a fridge or a stove, and your first thought was NEW BOX FORT!!!

    We would connect a few huge boxes together and feel like we made a palace. :laugh:
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
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    How about astro pops? Anyone remember these? They took them off the market because they were too dangerous? I hear they are bringing them back though.... I miss those!
    what? How is THIS dangerous? oh wait...yeah, I see it now........:laugh: :laugh:
    $(KGrHqF,!pUFBQ,QG1uTBQkFESpk!g~~60_1.JPG?set_id=8800005007

    In all the times we ate them as kids, we NEVER had any injuries from them.... just goes to show that 1 bad apple can really mess things up for everyone else! haha
    yeah, and one money-grubbing parent with an ambulance chasing lawyer.... sad!
  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    Yup!!!

    When my parents added onto our house, it was like striking gold. All the boxes and whatnot from new materials, that we played with.

    Whatever happened to that imagination?
  • SPARTANPOWER
    SPARTANPOWER Posts: 52
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    In a matter of minutes
  • Dr_Flo
    Dr_Flo Posts: 465
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  • harleydall76
    harleydall76 Posts: 586 Member
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    Another memory of childhood is when we used to have those rhymes that we would would do with a friend. You know, where you would clap your hands together and sing some song to it.

    Someone help me out, WTH do you call that? Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
  • Hellbent_Heidi
    Hellbent_Heidi Posts: 3,669 Member
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    Another memory of childhood is when we used to have those rhymes that we would would do with a friend. You know, where you would clap your hands together and sing some song to it.

    Someone help me out, WTH do you call that? Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
    Miss Lucy had a baby
    She named him Tiny Tim
    She put him in the bathtub
    To see if he could swim.
    He drank up all the water
    He ate up all the soap
    He tried to eat the bathtub
    But it wouldn't fit
    Down his throat.
    Miss Lucy called the doctor
    The Doctor call the nurse
    The Nurse called the lady
    With the alligator purse.
    In walked the doctor.
    In walked the nurse
    In walked the lady
    With the alligator purse.
    "Measles," said the doctor.
    "Mumps," said the nurse.
    "Nothing," said the lady
    With the alligator purse.
    Miss Lucy kicked the doctor.
    Miss Lucy kicked the nurse.
    Miss Lucy paid the lady
    With the alligator purse.


    THANK YOU GOOGLE :laugh:

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