Max | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 02:25 pm   Whit, I don't remember how we did it. I have a little gizmo now that makes the same thing. It's got 4 little latch-hook needles and you thread a piece of yarn on, attach a weight and then turn the crank and it makes those long, tubular strands of cording. Great for ties on knitted or crocheted pieces and for making little "braided" rugs for dollhouses and stuff. I used to make all kinds of things. I even sold a few things at a consignment shop when I was a teenager. Decoupage things and crochet. Remember entering your best baking in the county fair? I won blue ribbons for my apple pie several years. I have lots of ribbons for crafts projects, too. I used to make a good amount of money every summer by entering stuff in the fair (you got money as well as ribbons). |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 02:34 pm   Whit, I was going to try to type this from memory but decided to search for Spool Knitting and found it!! Here you go! Spool Knitting |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 02:35 pm   Max, by chance, is that apple pie recipe posted in the TVCH Recipe book?? |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:00 pm   Gail thanks! The second I saw it actually ON the spool it totally brought back how I did it It's amazing to me how many things we did as kids. I wonder how many of those things we've mentioned will be dying arts now that kids spend so much time playing video games and stuff. I still remember when I was little my mom putting um I think they were called pincurls??? In hair - she'd wrap it into a tiny circle then put two bobbie pins to hold it down and she'd do that all over my hair. And I remmeber having to sleep with these HUGE rollers in my hair - that was so hard. I remember when pads only came in one size - huge! LOL _ and we had to use a belt to hold them in place. I remember those beaded purses we used to carry around LOL I see kids carrying those today - couldnt GIVE those away at a yard sale 10 yrs ago. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:24 pm   Do you guys remember um I think they were called Wizzers - or Wizzlers? They were like TINY little "tops" a little smaller then your computer mouse sort of round with a rubber thing sticking out of the bottom - you'd quckly rub the rubber part over and over then they'd spin all over the place. Me and my brother used to play all sorts of contests with them Do you remember those um not sure what you'd call them but they were jointed dolls that sat on a pedestol and you'd push something under the pedestol to make them dance and move and etc. |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:35 pm   Is this what you are talking about? Wizzers |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:44 pm   LOL Yup Gail! I've never heard of the "Can" kind - ours were like the ones at the very top of the page. We had all sorts of contests with them - see who could keep theirs in a circle we made longest, or who could get theres to go out of the circle first, or who's would stay going the longest. We'd take our other toys and use them to invent tricks. Those were a ton of fun anyone know if they are on the market still I havent seen one since I was 12ish. |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:49 pm   According to that site, they are available at Toy-R-Us and Target. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 03:53 pm   Oh I know something me and my brother did all the time that I havent seen mentioned yet. He had a charlie macarthy um doll - that we used to do vantriliquist acts with. It's mouth moved - I think with some mechanism in the back. We also made alot of hand puppets out of socks. Which reminds me of those silly socks we used to wear - rainbow colored socks with different colored toes LOL. And our choker necklesses Well I'm going to be gone alot next week I have a web project to do (and gonna make one for Tess's daughter as well - so gramma's across the country can keep in touch with her little one The person who posts the most things for kids to do - in my Mom I'm Bored thread wins a quick website from me as well hehe - someone could find about 100+ ideas just from THIS thread I will be aorund just not living here this week LOL |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 04:01 pm   Remember making "telephones" with 2 cans and a long, long piece of string? |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 04:01 pm   One of my favorite things in school was using #3 pencils. I have no idea why but I loved it. When you sharpened them the shavings would come off all in one long long peice and I'd sharpen mine to death LOL. I also remember when glue sticks first came out - those who had them were the lucky ones! Oh and the rubber cement - we'd cover the top of our desks with it let it dry then roll it up into a ball - we'd have competitions to see who could make the biggest ball. Hehehe which reminds me of making rubber band balls - we used to make those all the time too! Looking back I think we were really lucky - to not have had cable tv - and video games. We sure did create alot of fun games. I still want to know if anyone else did the marble collections / steelies / boulders od's & evens with marbles and stuff. It was one of the biggest things in our school each year I am not sure who "started" it each year but at some point we'd all be bringing our marble collections and this went on for a few months each year. We were seriously gambling though - perhaps that's why it's not done now? LOL Does anyone remember something called jumping jacks?? Um it's really vague at this moment but - uh they were little balls? or something that would hmmm start jumping ? LOL I don't remember but I know we all were into those when we were little... (seems like they were made illegal or something?) I am sure someone here knows what I mean. Gail - you seem to be THE expert on all this - you should write a book! LOL |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 04:02 pm   Yup we used cups - to make those telephones! And when walkie talkies came out - we wanted them so bad it wsn't even funny we didn't get them for several years though - but when we did we used them sooooooo much |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 04:09 pm   Oh I got one! Hehehe well haven't seen it mentioned here yet??? We used to make paper airplanes all the time - everyone in class would make them and we'd have contests during recess to see who's flew the furthest or the highest - or who's looked the coolest. I made some dang good ones but one guy Jan Goodwin always made ones that beat mine LOL - I hated him |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 04:31 pm   I think I know a lot because of the way I was raised. My dad was in the Air Force from when I was born til left home I lived in Tacoma, Washington, Ottawa, Canada, Duluth, Minnesota, McGuire AFB, New Jersey, eastern France, back to Tacoma, then down to Albuquerque. Then I joined the Air Force did a lot of traveling on my own. When I lived in France (1963 - 67) we did not have TV - at all. Our entertainment was with all the other kids and on Saturdays we went to the kiddie matinee (25 cents bought you a movie and bag of popcorn). We were exposed to a lot of different things there, including traveling to a lot of other countries (Belgium, Holland, Germany, Luxumburg, and various areas of eastern France. I guess in some ways, I was somewhat fortunate in that most of the times when we moved from place to place, we lived in base housing. Just about everyone who lived in base housing had kids and plenty of them. There was no shortage of playmates and none of the dangers you see these days. I didn't feel lucky growing up because everytime I made friends it seemed like I was leaving them to move somewhere else. I was exposed to a lot of different regions though. I remember my parents having (and going to) cocktail parties. They got dressed up really nice and had interesting appetizers and drinks. That was it. Remember how the grownups used to dress up so nice all the time? |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:06 pm   Well I was raised on a ranch at least for most the years I can remember wll 8 to 15 so the grownups didn't dress up LOL I do remember how we kids had to behave - ESPECIALLY around company! And mom and dad sure didn't buy us something everytime they went to the store like alot of parents do now. We kids got special treats just once in a while - but then we didn't live around convience stores either. But I do remember that mom and dad never assumed if they stopped to buy something they had to buy US something too. We just never expected that to happen, nor could we ask. I would love to know more about what the BOYS did back then - alot of the things I mentioned I did with my brother - but most the things I mentioned were "girl things" to do - I know what the boys were doing - looking at the underwear section of the sears catalog LOL! |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:22 pm   Brings back memories, Gail...My dad wore a suit and tie even one the weekends. It wasn't until I was in high school that he finally got different color shirts besides white. Moms always wore girdles even when they weren't overweight. Whit, I remember something called Mexican Jumping Beans. Those were really cool. My sister and I had those pin curl things in our hair every night until 8th grade when I finally got to grow my hair long. My mom's big thing was not letting me part my hair in the middle so I didn't look like a hippie. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:31 pm   Ya I think they were called mexican jumping beans - can you remember what they were or what they did and were they outlawed (just seems to me they were? Maybe I'm thinking of pop rocks though I know those were outlawed when I was about 11 or so cause some gal swallowed a whole package or something like that LOL |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:36 pm   My mom hated it when I grew my hair out in high school. The corker was when I wanted wire rimmed glasses. Only hippies and drug addicts wore wire rimmed glasses. I saved for nearly a year to get mine. Remember those horrible garter belts to hold up your nylons? |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:38 pm   LOL Yup I had garter belts and my mom MADE me wear a girdle! I was totally skinny too but I had to wear one with alot of different outfits! And I remember my dad had some sort of garter belt he wore to keep his socks up Oh and remmber Grownup men - at least those around my town ALWAYS wore a tshirt underneith their shirts |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:59 pm   Oh man I just remembered one - the glamour head doll - she was a doll head about the size of my head actually - and cut off at the shoulders. She came with alot of makeup and hair stuff - and I used to spend hours on end fixing her hair hair and makeup |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 06:00 pm   Ok and I know this is still in stores - but man when I was a kid I sooooooo loved playing pickup sticks - I was a total pro at it too |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 06:01 pm   I hated garter belts. They always cut into my leg and I was not heavy at all--not an ounce over perfect...One of the best days ever was the first time putting on panty hose instead of nylons. My mom's nylons had seams down the back and she's never worn a pair of jeans in her life! I didn't get my first pair of jeans til I was in my 20's. We had school uniforms made out of wool that looked like sailor suits. Remember bobby socks and saddle shoes? We had to wear those to school and polish them (the shoes) all the time. Whit, I think the Mexican Jumping Beans had little bugs in them that made them jump around. At least some of the ones we had did. My dad used to go down to Mexico and Baja California on fishing trips with friends and he was always bringing back stuff. (mostly because he never took a vacation with the family--ever) Remember when Dad's didn't do dishes or laundry or help with the kids at all? My dad went to the office and when he got home no one had better be in "his chair" and if you looked at the newspaper before he did it had to be folded perfectly. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 06:07 pm   I remember always wanting a ant farm - they adverised them in the back of the comics and I never got one. Funny thing is after all this thinking in this thread I realized I had a GREAT deal of toys alot more then I realized (all these I've mentioned were toys I had after age 8 though LOL I wish I would have thought to make an antfarm myself. IT was one of the first things I bought my son when he was old enough - and I loved it way more then he did! LOL |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 06:13 pm   Ya I found the mexican jumping beans ib a website doesnt look like they were banned guess I was just confusing them with the pop-rocks. Ya my dad had HIS chair too - we were not allowed to sit in it. We were not allowed to read the paper - and we would get um thwapped? if we put an elbow on the table. We kids weren't allowed to talk at the dinner table either. We always sat down for a family meal and my mom ALWAYS made a full breakfast on the weekends. She always put bread and butter at the table. And ya at all family gatherings the MEN did nothing the women did everything! Ya know in some families it's STILL That way when it comes to familiy gatherings! Hard to believe that - speically when it's like both wife and hubby in those families work but when there's a big family gathering the men sit around the women COOK - and clean LOL! That's getting rarer and rarer - I doubt it'll be like that in 30 years - but for now men still want to pretend to wear the pants when around other men I guess. Or it's just tradition perhaps. I was born in '64 and my MOM picked out my cloths for me till I was 12 - she made me wear green knee high socks and those saddle shooes - I was the laughing stock in school alot.. most my friends were wearing james jeans and hash jeans and I had to wear a dress to school about 3 days a week - the other girls only had to wear a dress on fridays. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 06:21 pm   Do you remember Wheeloo's Um they were this metal thing shaped like a U but about 9 inches long - it had a yo-yo looking thing on it and as you moved it up and down it'd go from one side of the U to the other I'm running out of ideas but I bet someone will think of somethings I've forgotten I know I'm going to print this thread out sometime and share it with friends they will get such a kick out of it If Neil ever sees my post regarding a "favorite thread" section - I hope someone picks this one! (I already have mine picked out so I can't lol |