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Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 8:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
I should add the disclaimer that my wife thinks any message board is a waste of time. She doesn't get it or has the patience for it. So it's no offense to any one here.

Serenity
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06-28-2005

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serenity a private message Print Post    
no and no.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Friday, January 27, 2006 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
well, darling nick, that means you can come here and just vent and tell life stories and have your own (very appreciated) escape. 'you can lead a wife to TVCH, but you can't make her post'!

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Yes and I dunno, lol. I sent the link to a friend of mine who loves BB so she could read the live feed thread. She knows I've made some trips to meet the folks here. So if she's reading this, "HI!!!!!"

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 7:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Happy Saturday TVCHers!! Hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. :-)

War, that cracked me up when you said "then I remembered Darren"

Here are the results of: Have you ever invited a friend or family member to join TVCH?

Yes23
No19


If yes, did they become a member?

Yes15
No8
Unsure2


Today's question is: Did you ever have a clubhouse or a treehouse?

My answer is no. I always wanted a treehouse...they seemed very fun!


Skootz
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07-23-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
No - and same things as Lori - would of loved one

Dlmmo
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11-20-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dlmmo a private message Print Post    
no

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Yes. I had a beautiful playhouse that my Daddy built while my Mom had taken my brother and me to Kauai one summer. When we got back, there was this house and a swingset put up. It became the clubhouse for every kid in our neighborhood over the years.

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
No, and I always wanted one, too.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
No ... but there was this large limb on the tree out front & we used to pretend it was a tree house. Does that count??

Jbean
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01-05-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jbean a private message Print Post    
no, but i, too always wanted one.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
Only the kind of clubhouse you made out of sheets and couch cushions!

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Yes and I loved it.

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
No--but plenty of blanket tent ones. Big boxes, even an empty closet. Anything I could make one out of, but never a real treehouse or clubhouse.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
No, no yard for one.

Max
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08-12-2000

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Max a private message Print Post    
No, but my friend across the street did and my other friend and I tried to build one several times in an empty lot. :-)

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
No, and I still want one!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
No. I was an only child. Took me a long time to come out of my shell, despite tons of my mother's efforts.

(Now....most people that know me wish I'd go back IN to that shell!! LOL)

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 10:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyn a private message Print Post    
Yummm I love clubhouses! Any sandwich that comes with bacon is alright with me

As far as forts are concerned, I'm afraid that's a no

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 10:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
i made a clubhouse from plywood when i was 12. the first thing that moved in was a black widow spider. the first thing that moved out was me.

my dad built a beautiful playhouse when i was 5. i watched out the window at night, but pretended to be surprised with my 3 sisters the next morning! he even got us a small-size card table and red folding chairs. i always played the husband and would kiss my wife and kids goodbye and then take my tricycle out on the busy highway. i loved to drive hand-over-hand when i made my turns.

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Yep. Hehe, mom and granny decided us girls needed one shortly after we moved back to California, but neither of them was very good at building stuff. So they bought plywood and made one shaped much like an upside down V. The thing was absolutely huge and bright yellow and we loved it. It's still sitting in the backyard at her house, lol, though these days they use it to stack firewood under. Tabby, we were never allowed into it til an adult had checked for spiders and wasps because they had a nasty habit of setting up their homes in out clubhouse!

When our kids got a little older mom and step dad decided they needed a treehouse. She'd fenced off a smaller area of the yard as a play yard for the kids right outside her bedroom window, set up our swing set, a sand box, and all their outside toys, and they built the little tree house. It's the perfect place for younger kids, cuz the treehouse wasn't very high up (maybe 5 or 6 feet) plus they couldn't get out of the play yard by themselves, lol.

Legalboxer
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11-17-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Legalboxer a private message Print Post    
Actually yes to both…

When I was really young, at 5, I had a tree house that seemed to reach across a large tree limb in the backyard that we had to climb up this long ladder to – it had an overhang and I guess some kind of siding considering how young I was and how far up the tree it was, but it was open air and seemed like one of those balconys where you can just have a 360 view of the whole yard.

Around 7 I also had the normal kind of makeshift clubhouse with my neighbor who was 8 but then…..

when I was 12 I started to build my own “clubhouse” in my backyard, which was about approximately 8’ wide by 8’ long by 14’ high, with a framing and foundation out of 2 by 4s, raised on some concrete blocks about 3 feet above the ground, which led to making the stairs to the wooden door, insulation between the outside walls and inside paneling, a window next to the door and two more windows on other walls, plywood floors, a slanted roof with black shingles and a skylight, double coated white paint on the outside siding and eventually a table and chairs inside.. by the time it was all finished I was 14 and my dad moved in with his new wife and so I never really had much time to use it but that didn’t matter to me since it was the completion that seemed so cool.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Yes. We built a "fort" up in a tree. Why my mother didn't stop up us, I'll never know...I know if it were my kids up that high, I'd have a heart attack. I used to bring a book up there and spend the whole afternoon reading in peace.

Then there was the year that my Dad built us a snow fort. It was constructed with big blocks of snow like an igloo only it was square with openings for "windows".

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
No, but we had a "fort" in a neighborhood vacant lot because we didn't have any trees at my house!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
My brother and I each got desks for Christmas one year. They were really nice desks but we didn't really take to them that much. The boxes, however, we used to build an inside "fort" .. we had windows and a passthrough from one side to the other and my brother had some sort of "space transmitter" that had fake microphone and such, sort of futuristic or what they thought was futuristing back then.. that was part of our fort. This was indoors.

In our neighorhood we has some special places that were like clubhouses, but not in our yard.

(we did freeze the back yard for ice-skating for two winters, though).