Favorite things as a kid

[J_is_my_initial]

I was politically incorrect I guess. Btw, i feel old with some of these posts. I remember Santa bringing me a machine gun that made noise. I loved it and my boy cousins thought it was cool. I remember a tape recorder i got, i was always taping music from the radio and tv. My mom has a pic of me dressed up as a cowgirl with a holster, vest and hat. I was not all tomboy though. Santa brought me a doll and my mammaw made clothes for her and a bed was made by someone.

[DBlain]

Barbies were my main thing, we had a street full of girls my age and we played hour after hour on our driveways, patios and in our rooms, planning weddings was always one of the main topics of play. The other two things were stilts and a pogo stick. Not sure what made my Dad think of this but he made me a pair of wooden stilts I got pretty good walking around the neighborhood on them. I also used that pogo stick a lot, wonder if they still make them

[DBlain]

just did a search and there sure are lots of pogo sticks out there guess it's still sort of popular

[ilovejoel]

Originally Posted by DBlain

just did a search and there sure are lots of pogo sticks out there guess it's still sort of popular

Yeah, i've seen videos on youtube of extreme pogo sticking, lol where they do cool tricks. I think it's a sport now or something

[sugarmamma]

We loved to play JARTS

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Cha Cha

This is what my childhood was like. I was the only girl with 2 brothers and nine boy cousins. We llived on a farm outside town. I didn't care much for toys. I was obcessed with Little House on the Prairie though. We had an old delipadated barn I used to use as my Little House. I'd tie my horses up there and play all day in my own little imaginary world, and go off riding and playing with the animals on my own prairie adventures. (My dad used to get so mad at me for taming the cattle) The funniest thing to this story is around the corner was a curly headed blonde girl who looked and acted just like Nellie .

Too funny -- Nellie! Your "Little House" playtime sounds idyllic. I loved reading the Little House books and later watching the tv show.

My favorite things as a kid: books, dolls and dollhouses, and clothes.

[rubynrosie]

Originally Posted by lynzy420

God I'm old....We had am radios (thats all there was was a.m.), we rarely played inside so I don't remember a whole lot of toys, rollerskates, bikes, skateboards, football, baseball, iceskating, on rainy days, paper dolls and Barbies, Yahtzee, Pokeno, monopoly, gin rummy and war! We burnt ourselves crisp in the summer and froze our asses off in the winter...but we were always outside.

Ditto...we were outside as much as possible...riding bikes or 3-wheelers...I had pets galore cats dogs guinea pigs pony and even a goat. My cousins dad built her a tree fort and I would take the dog, goat and pony to her house and play Little House on the Prairie. Also skating on the creek as a little kid. For toys...when I was really little I had those books w RECORDS so you could hear the story and follow along. Baby Alive was big and Cabbage Patch Kids...but my fav....my pets!

[rubynrosie]

Originally Posted by Cha Cha

This is what my childhood was like. I was the only girl with 2 brothers and nine boy cousins. We llived on a farm outside town. I didn't care much for toys. I was obcessed with Little House on the Prairie though. We had an old delipadated barn I used to use as my Little House. I'd tie my horses up there and play all day in my own little imaginary world, and go off riding and playing with the animals on my own prairie adventures. (My dad used to get so mad at me for taming the cattle) The funniest thing to this story is around the corner was a curly headed blonde girl who looked and acted just like Nellie .

Oh Shelly...too funny...I didn't read all the responses until I posted mine!! Gotta love the Ingalls family!

[Cha Cha]

In those days, we burned our own trash in 55 gallon barrels. I ended up accidentally burning that old barn (my house) down. I didn't know cow manure smoldered and burned and I thought I was putting out my fire by throwing dirt on it (cow manure). My parents still think it was just wind carrying burning debree that caused it. I never did come clean on it. (Just to be clear, at the time my dad said..."I've been wanting to get rid of that old barn for quite a while now." They just assumed and never did ask, so I never offered).

[AngelFae]

Originally Posted by Cha Cha

In those days, we burned our own trash in 55 gallon barrels. I ended up accidentally burning that old barn (my house) down. I didn't know cow manure smoldered and burned and I thought I was putting out my fire by throwing dirt on it (cow manure). My parents still think it was just wind carrying burning debree that caused it. I never did come clean on it. (Just to be clear, at the time my dad said..."I've been wanting to get rid of that old barn for quite a while now." They just assumed and never did ask, so I never offered).

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! Totally sounds like something I would do!

[celstu1]

Originally Posted by lynzy420

God I'm old....We had am radios (thats all there was was a.m.), we rarely played inside so I don't remember a whole lot of toys, rollerskates, bikes, skateboards, football, baseball, iceskating, on rainy days, paper dolls and Barbies, Yahtzee, Pokeno, monopoly, gin rummy and war! We burnt ourselves crisp in the summer and froze our asses off in the winter...but we were always outside.

I am 36 and thats where we always were too! Outside!
Sled or ice skate in the winter. In summer we played laser tag a lot in the neighborhood, went to the sand pits to play, rode bikes, pogo balls (remember those?), pogo sticks, frog/grasshopper/turtle/firefly catching or fishing (with homemade poles aka - string tied to a stick), building horribly bad tree houses, climbing trees or swimming in our pool.

Nights and rainy days I played with Strawberry Shortcake dolls or Barbies or we got to play the Nintendo sometimes, but not often. I always had my walkman on, I have all these old pics of me and I always have my walkman ear phones on! LOL Probably listening to Milli Vanilli, NKOTB, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson or Belinda Carlisle!

Roller skates.... I used to go roller skating every saturday for years and years. I loved it!

[ilovejoel]

Originally Posted by celstu1

I am 36 and thats where we always were too! Outside!
Sled or ice skate in the winter. In summer we played laser tag a lot in the neighborhood, went to the sand pits to play, rode bikes, pogo balls (remember those?), pogo sticks, frog/grasshopper/turtle/firefly catching or fishing (with homemade poles aka - string tied to a stick), building horribly bad tree houses, climbing trees or swimming in our pool.

Nights and rainy days I played with Strawberry Shortcake dolls or Barbies or we got to play the Nintendo sometimes, but not often. I always had my walkman on, I have all these old pics of me and I always have my walkman ear phones on! LOL Probably listening to Milli Vanilli, NKOTB, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson or Belinda Carlisle!

Roller skates.... I used to go roller skating every saturday for years and years. I loved it!

This also sounds alot of what we did, our favorite was my sister and I riding our bikes with our walkie-talkies, we thought we were so cool, haha

[Britster]

LOVED my childhood... lol. I had so many fun things I remember coming out.

I collected Pogs for a while and Pokemon cards (never understood the 'game' tho).

I loooveeddd my Barbies and accessories, and I loved Polly Pockets.

I remember getting the first Gameboy and then when the Gameboy COLOR came out... oh boy that was the best!!

Nintendo 64 - Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, I played for hours!!! Best games ever. Wish I could find the exact game as before but most have been updated etc by now.

Remember those jump skip things? It went around your ankle and you skipped/jumped and it counted how many you did! lol ...

I used to rollerblade outside with friends forever. Like I'd be out there from 9 am to 8pm in the summer. Pop in for lunch once in a while lol.

I did always love my dogs. I would collect toy dogs, and dog breed books!

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by sugarmamma

We loved to play JARTS

LOL aren't those the things that were banned or recalled or something you were a dangerous child huh..bwahahahaha

We rode bikes, played outside all day. My favorite toy that I still have is my Mrs. Beasley doll. I also loved Barbie and mom taught me how to sew by making clothes for my Barbies.

[enchilila]

Originally Posted by kjc

Horse lover from a very young age and collected horse figurines. Still have them all. TV shows were Fury, My Friend Flicka, Sky King, The Roy Rogers Show, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Captain Kangaroo, Miss Sherri Lewis and Lamb Chop (the original), Shirley Temple movies, Black Beauty.

Dolls were Thumbalina, Chatty Cathy, Barbie and Ken. Smokey the Bear (Only YOU can prevent forest fires). Rocky and Bullwinkle, Popeye the Sailorman, Mighty Mouse, The Mickey Mouse Club, Mr Magoo, The Jimmy Dean Show, The Ed Sullivan Show (The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and so many others) The Red Skelton Show, Bonanza, Westerns and cowboys.

I loved to play in a sand box, then bike riding, tomboy and outdoors type kid, skateboards, surfing, water skiing.

OMGosh, we must be around the same age!! Do you remember Tom Terrific, with his oil can hat?! What about Felix the Cat?? LOL Yogie Bear and Boo Boo?? LOL I still have my Charmin' Chatty, too! I have everything in a cedar chest and they look brand new. I never let anyone play with them.

I had two older brothers that I used to play football with, climb trees with, and helped build tree houses.

Ahhh, memories! The good OLD days!