Memories
Things from your younger years that you remember doing, seeing or playing with that bring back those good old memories π
Can be pictures or just typing out the memories. X
Making perfume from flower petals, daisy chains, commodore 64, Atari, whipping top, cats cradle, sliding down muddy hills ( although this has happened in adulthood and I can assure you it wasn't as fun π³π) pogo sticks, marbles, knuckles, card throwing, pogs, being out until the street lights go on ( and staying out longer... because you're a rebel π¬π)
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Seeing kids go nuts for Ghostbusters and turtles lol I remember them in my youth what a time to be alive no Internet no mobile phones or rather just started coming out no iPads life was great
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My brother and I used to go up to this park that had steep concrete slides and use sheets of linoleum to race down them faster. Weβd also play foosball or ping pong to determine who had to do the chores.
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Some of my people in this thread. We had an Atari, a C64 and later Amiga. Growing up in Cornwall had the benefit of a lot of outdoor play and beach days. Without going full
boomermillennial, everything was so much simpler in the 90s before mobile phones and internet.
I work in tech and I love it, but sometimes I do miss a time when nobody knew what a selfie was, and you could watch live music without 50% of the crowd filming it for instagram.1 -
π Crash dummies, micro machines, matchbox cars and Thunderbirds too! I had the little play setπ€¦ββοΈπ also the figurines of Ghostbusters ha!
Honestly that was the best part, just truly feeling free and living life through your own eyes. a beautiful time to have lived in π.
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Oh wow yes! The burn on the back of the legs or sides of your arms from them slides were something else! π³π I'd never thought of the linoleum thing, great idea lol. On a Mattress or in a sleeping bag sliding down the stairs I did though π
That's great way to decide on chores lol, my choice was do it, or don't go out! but either way I would do it π
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Ah I remember playing the prince of Persia and the F1 game looking at them now in comparison to the ps5 graphics my god π³π but were amazing at the time, hours of fun. I don't however miss dial-up π¬that sound still haunts me!π
Wasn't it just! Today's people could do with a little more of what we grew up with, it's rare you see people without a phone in their hand, I don't remember the last time a person looked at you and say good morning as they're too engrossed in their phone lol. handshakes... What happened to those?
Yeah I can't understand that π being present and enjoying yourself feeling the music, that's what's it's all about.
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Ilove to be bk in them days loved my childhood
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Pong for hours
Midnight sledding
Badmitton, frisbee, gimp crafts
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Sounds amazing! Have to ask what is gimp crafts? I've never heard of it before!
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I think weβve had the best of both worlds - and while I love the convenience modern technology has provided - life 360 helps ease my nerves as a parent - i only have one still at home - but I still check on my girls - think I worry more about them as adults than I did as kids- but I do miss the mental Rolodex I once had - I prolly had 20 numbers memorized back in the day now I only know my own - and now with the ai revolution- I really think we are going to have to start being intentional about mental exercise - I mean the Brain is a muscle too right - ok ramble over - carry on
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Can't argue with any of this man - you're right, we've been lucky to see the world change. Imagine how much more parents used to worry when their teenagers went to town all day with no phone or way of getting in touch with them.
LOL, Rolodex - I love it. Don't think I've seen one since school.1 -
Gimp - colorful flexible plastic strands came in large rolls - can be woven into all sorts of things - start projects in craft sessions at camp/park programs, take with and finish later - they were great time/fidgets to do sitting at games, waiting for next activity, at campfire - they were ubiquitous, people working on their thing.
Also beads. Macaroni necklaces,
And the 'Cone art projects' like wreaths or ornaments... 'glue/decorate the pods, nuts, pinecones gathered on scavenger walks'
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Is that what they're called! I've always wondered lol, I loved making them! Ive been calling them rubber string bracelets π€¦ββοΈ I still have one somewhere that I made from my younger years lol.
Sounds like an amazing camp! We didn't have that growing up, we just did it off our own backs, like finding leaves or anything with texture, putting paper on top of the textured nature item and using either crayon or pencil to run over the paper. Or paint, glue and glitter with googly eyes and pine cones. We did do bead necklaces and bracelets though. plaited grass, making noises with a blade of grass ( between both thumbs) or making owl noises between the thumbs π. Also using the grass that was left after mowing to make birds nests or being creative with a picture made out of grass, grass angels too (like snow angels) π€·ββοΈ we had a lot of time on our hands and had to use our own imaginations π but wouldn't change any of it π well maybe the constant nettle stings after rolling down hills π we ran out of dock leaves after a while π
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Yes, camp was just a week though, so fun.
Lots of walks to the park - daisy chain weaths - long hot days of summer.
Weekend camping at the beach, driftwood forts, sandy roads for the hotwheels, combing for shells and agatesβ¦
Fun memories!
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When we had a cold, we'd sit on the kitchen counters with pans bubbling their backsides off, the steam would help us sweat it out, and helped with a blocked nose lol π
or we'd use a large bowl full of warm/hot water sometimes add Vicks vapour rub in it, and put our faces over it with a towel over your head and the bowl... suffocating! but helped a lot with colds π
Vicks in socks to stop you coughing through the night.
When we were sick we'd be in bed or on the sofa with a cold/wet face cloth over our forehead.
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Oh the vicks, the misery & tingly memories, lol
For tummy aches, Alkaseltzer was tried, but some stomach bugs dragged on - so we nibbled saltines & sipped room temp 7up...
Tonsils out meat popsicles or ice cream bars for a day
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π It definitely tingled! I just love the smell of Vicks, brings back good memories of finally being able to breathe through the nose lol.
Ah saltines and 7up! think I'd have preferred that! We instead had rich tea biscuits and lucozade original π
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Loved watching this π
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I loved playing out, the whole street would play British Bulldog or acky tracky 123. We would build dens and have peg gun fights. I hated that my little brother had to come everywhere with me lol Looking back now we had so much fun together.
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Omg peg guns I forgot about those π did you ever have the potato gun? Where you pressed it into a potato and shot the piece out? π Oo what's acky tracky 123? Lol I had friends that had their younger siblings tag along too, they felt like a baby sitter most of the time, and their siblings were still in prams! π³π We used to play curbs or curbies standing on opposite sides of the road and aim for the curb with the basket ball, the ball always ended up with a bulge or it exploded π³π ah den building! Oh it was like our own little forts we checked on them daily to make sure they were still in order π did you ever play red rover, dear Mr crocodile can we cross the water or what's the time Mr Wolf? π The big tractor wheels laying down to climb on in our school playground, the pull out wooden climbing thing in the school hall for gym, seemed much more scary as a child π
Ah them were the days π
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Yes we had potato guns too haha
Acky tracky 123 was a bit like hide and seek but you had a base and had to make it make to the base without getting caught. I loved playing curby and what's the time Mr Wolf. Yes the school apparatus seemed really high lol.
They were great times π
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π They were great fun weren't they!
Ah ok got you now! We called it soemthing else but I can't for the sake of me remember what it was called π€π
Lol we had one neighbour that used to shout at us as he could hear it in his house, so had to move further up the street π I'd still play it today but I don't think anyone would put up with it now π
Feels just like yesterday π
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Trolls. Orange haired.
Flower Power & daisys in hair.
Ninja turtles & neon clothes for kids followed laterβ¦
Birkenstocks & flip flops.
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Boglins! Crash dummies, felt picture making, view master, family tree house playset, that telephone that you'd drag around with a piece of string and the sound of the rattling would annoy the life out of everyone π, major Morgan, pound puppies, strawberry shortcake doll.
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Wow memories right there who remembers pogs slammers and visionaries and centurians and absolutely love that my son love Ghostbusters like I did back in 1985 lol π€£ π€£
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And playstation 1 came out I was Bout 15 loved it that when gaming was proper gaming no online had to go to mates house and remu Ur controller lol π€£
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