Nancy | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:23 pm   mitch mmiller no--but definitely lawrence welk every saturday with my mmom and dad ;-) |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:24 pm   MissLibra, I felt bad for the rabbit too. But, I remember that I was Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs - still am. And remember that goofy leprachan for Lucky Charms? Irish Spring soap - manly yes but I like it too. |
Nancy | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:27 pm   also the andy williams show with the bear that always wanted cookies.... ;) |
Misslibra | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:36 pm   Yes that lepracahn, only thing I can remember him saying at this moment is their magicly delicious. But I never could understand why they put marshmellows in a cereal, to me the two never went together. And you know til this day I have never tasted that cereal before. LOL |
Gail | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:42 pm   Magically delicious - I couldn't remember what it was he said. I couldn't stand lucky charms. Remember Capn Crunch? I loved them right out of the box! |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:45 pm   Miss L, unless they've improved it a lot, don't bother. To me, those little pieces of marshmallow always tasted a little like soap. Toucan Sam for Fruit Loops. early 70's commercial for Grape-Nuts done by Ule Gibbons...."did you know certain parts of the pine tree are edible?" Rumor had it he died from a severe ulcer brought on by drinking way to much Coca-Cola. Some would have you believe it was the Grape-Nuts that killed him. Don't believe it of you see it on this thread. |
Misslibra | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 07:52 pm   Oh yes Captain Crunch was one of my favorite to. I remember when you could keep your door open, and unlocked in the summer time without worry. I remember when penny candy was really a penny. I remember on hot summer nights you could walk anywhere without worry. What happen here ?!? How did guns, and gangs and all sorts of ugly other things, get into this picture. Can you believe how drasticaly things have change compared to when we grew up. The song, where have all the flowers gone... come to mind. |
Kady | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 09:10 pm   Remember these songs..... Your Momma don't Dance, School's Out, Smokin in the Boys Room, Knock Three Times, Billy-Don't be a Hero, Goodbye my Friend, and I still love anything by Tommy James & the Shondells. |
Tess | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:10 pm   My whole childhood is summed up in this thread. WOW. we did the limbo along with the Chinese jumprope and the Cat's Cradle with the string along with the paper thingy. We had the original Mr. Potato Head where you used a real potato and the game Cooties. the mom's would have cocktails in the afternoons and have drinks like "grasshoppers and pink ladies" none of the moms worked outside the home we played outside after dark at night with all the kids on the block and everyone knew everyone else. Blowin' in the Wind there were no baggies or ziploc bags, sandwiches were wrapped in waxed paper and milk was a nickel. our uniform skirts had to touch the ground when you knelt down (til junior year then all heck broke loose) the Mike Douglas show in the afternoon and Art Linkliter (sp) interviewing those crazy kids |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:35 pm   LOL some of these things I had actually not thought about in the past 20+ years! I am just shocked when I remembeer how short my shorts were then - gawd no shame?? LOL And we used to make those darn um ...uh...chains out of gum wrappers - I had an AMAZING collection of gum wrappers and I spent all my time making them while watching TV - remember those?? And the um thingy's that we made by taking a peice of cardboard and cutting the ends every 1/8 an inche or so on two sides remember? It's vague right now but I spent tons of time doing that Nobody mentioned the marble collections / and ods-even with them was that just a local thing or did other kids do that too??? I know something else I used to do alot was making paper mache' things with balloons and uh...what else??? I don't remember lol while I didn't cheat in highschool - I sure did alot in 5th & 6th grade we had so many clever ways to cheat LOL I played with paper dolls ALL the time I had soooooooo many of them Remember making forts? Igloos? and pig latin? LOL Did you make secret code languages?? I know me and my friends did alot ya know what I mean where you'd write the ABC's and put the new letter under each one - and use those letters to write notes to one aother |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:41 pm   We made halter tops out of bandana's I remember playing jaxs alot and slapjack and war lol something else we did but i'm not sure if this was just a local thing or not was to use crayons and make - um i can only discribe it as something that looked like a puzzle - on the page and thn we would take a piece of paper and write BACKWORDS on the piece of paper on top of the crayon page - when that was done the words would show up on the other side of the page in all sorts of neat colors did you totally love the gold and silver crayoons? and magenta LOL I remember playing hide and go seek alot with freinds too and playing teether ball for hours on end I loved that - and was soooooo good at it |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 10:51 pm   Ok maybe it was just me (cause for my first 8 yrs I didn't really have toys) but i will never ever forget when the christmas catalog came out when I was 9 or 10 and I would spend hours looking at those dolls - I thought they were the most beautiful things and i wanted to have them all. I would imagine that I had them all - and I'd look at those pages over and over and over lol. My first nice doll was um - well she was sort of soft - she wet her diaper and she'd cry when you turned her head. and I think... she smiled when you turned it the other way or maybe i'm mistaken on that. Oh hehehe I remember one - I spent hours on end making houses out of toothpicks - man that was hard! and making houses out of decks of cards I was very good at that OH and something else we did was play a game called password - it had these red sleeves you put the cards in... someone mentioned that string game - remember when two or three of us would um - play it together? the "pinky" one and so on with the string being swapped between players using special ways? (I hope someone knows what i mean LOL) hehe remember playing "Thumbs up"??? (I cheated on that sometimes - no idea why - but I remembre I cheated sometimes) Where you'd all put your head down on the desk and everyone would put their thumbs up - and then someone would come touch your thum and then uh?? I dont remember what after that rflmao |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:04 pm   I remember when we'd braid our hair in dozens of tiny braids and then in the morning we'd take them out and comb our hair and we had this really funky hairdo - but we loved it - not sure if this was a local thing or not I remember when we'd write all over our peechies They only had one color peechies back then! and ya know - I never thought about it till this last week but for some strange reason we were OBSESSED with lipgloss back then - and we'd put massive amounts on our lips constantly lol - gawd knows why I remember when we'd write all over our pants - don't know why we did that either but man my mom would get so mad! I remember sneaking some cloths underneith my cloths to school and keeping them in my locker for days my mom would make me wear something geeky I remember totally being terrified of showering with the other girls - it was totally imbarrasing to me - especially when we had to use that um - other little shower room for when we had our periods lol did your school have one of those special rooms ? In our school we all had our own full size lockers and we had tons and tons of things stuck on the sides and the inside of the doors. My 7th grade year - I had to go to a school with 7th through 12th grade and it was the last year that PDA (public display of affection) was aloud and frankly boy was it allowed - the older students would be making out in evrey nook and cranny and it was embarrasing sometimes! I remember during breaks all of us smokers would congragate in the bathroom and shcare cigerrettes 2 or 3 girls per cig One thing many of us girls did - don't know if this was local or not - but we'd make um - BOXES out of paper - alots of them and store tons of silly little things in them in our desks I remember having bubble blowing contests all the time with my friends (with bubble gum) oh gawd - just remembered how many millions of hours I spent playing with my etch-e-scetch I loved that thing sooooo much |
Whit4you | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:30 pm   "Does anyone remember that kit where you could make rubber insects by pouring the stuff into heated molds? " shoot what was it we made out of molds - it's driving me crazy trying to remember what it was I remember having tons of these little tiny plastic "dolls" they were about half an inch tall and there were dozens of different ones - they were pink anyone remember those? They were something you ordered in the back of the Archie comics. this might be a local thinng but I remember cupping one hand into the other and we'd blow on our thumbs to make sounds - sorta of like flute sounds. we did the same thing with blades of grass hehe just thinking someone could use THIS list to add 100 things to the Mom I'm bored thread Hmmm and for some stupid reason we'd spin around in circles till we got dizzy then watch the world moving up and down - around us ?? LOL NO we weren't on drugs - don't know why we did this! |
Max | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:31 pm   My best friend and I would talk all day in Pig-Latin or a variation where you put an AB behind every consonant (such as TabVab CabLabUBabHabOUSabE for TV Clubhouse). We got really good at it, too. Drove our parents nuts! We rode our bikes EVERYWHERE. In high school, they built a community pool about a quarter mile from my house, but we still rode about 10 miles to our favorite swimming hole instead. Catching crawdads and putting two of them into a bucket to see if they'd fight. Swimming in the river until after dark and diving under when the bats would dive-bomb out heads. In my little town, the big thing for high school kids to do was cruise main street. It's one-way now, but back then it wasn't. The big hang-out spot was on the corner in front of the Bakery and next-door liquor store (some combo, eh?). We didn't have cars, so we used to drag main on our 10-speeds! One of my friends and I used to put on a Cheech & Chong (remember them?) kind of accent and cruise up and down main street on our bikes. In the summer, we'd stop and say, "Hey, man, let's go and have a floating root beer!" And then go to the soda fountain in the drug store. That place had the best sodas! Remember getting fountain cokes and having them add in some cherry syrup? Now THAT's a cherry coke. I loved those, but can't stand the canned ones you get now. One of my friends used to have them put chocolate syrup in her cokes. Ugh! Summers at a friend's cabin by the lake outside of town. Great times. Doing crosswords, playing cards and Scrabble, putting together jigsaw puzzles. We didn't have a lot of money, so family vacations were usually camping trips. That was great by me. Lots of fishing and hiking and just hanging out as a family. No one seems to have much time for that any more. Going fishing with my dad and hiking down these big cliffs just to get to a sweet spot on the river. Then him spending most of his day getting our lines untangled from the bushes instead of fishing. He never seemed to mind, though. Sure do miss him.  |
Max | Saturday, May 12, 2001 - 11:34 pm   Whit, those were Creepy Crawlers. Someone mentioned them up a ways in the thread. I had them, too. Burned myself a lot of times making those crazy things, but I loved them! Did anyone have Troll dolls? Dad brought me one when he came home from a convention once and I ended up having several different ones. I used to spend hours making outfits for them from felt and arranging their hair in different ways. We did the whistle with a blade of grass, too. |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 12:07 am   We had troll dolls with all different colored hair and we made the outfits, too. We also had pet rocks. It's so wierd how everything you read here brings back another memory, and another.... We braided yarn through a spool with 4 nails on it and made long ropes of this braided yarn that we made into potholders. We also had these little square boxes with pegs all the way around and "wove" potholders with colored loops of some strange material. We made the chains out of gum wrappers, too, and daisy chains to wear on our heads and as necklaces. |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 01:24 am   Lol ok really off to bed guys Please take a minute and click on the banner at the top of the page - I think it's good to click the banners there once in a while ya know (helps pay for this site maybe.....or not but anyhow LOL) Goodnite! |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 05:39 am   I remember doing the wooden spool thing with the 4 nails to make a long rope. I made lots of the potholders too with the loops of different colors. I did the paper chains out of gumwrappers too. Did anyone mention this: the long flat plastic laces that you used four strands of to weave and you would make keychains out of it? Remember Macrame? I did a lot of that too. Max, where I live here, they have a place called Sonic Drive-in. It is a chain but I am not sure how wide spread. I know they make cherry cokes. I go there all the time with my best friend and her husband likes chocolate cokes. The first time she told me about them, I thought "Gross" but I tried hers and now I am hooked. Sonic has really good ice too. It is the really good crushed ice that you can chew after the drink is gone. My brothers and I used to make tents under the coffee table and when the weather was good under the clothesline. I remember that all our blankets had holes in the corner where we had taken clothespins apart and pounded them through the blanket corners to hold them. Remember those girl scout uniforms. I was a girl scout for about a year or 2 in France and had a good time. We did a couple of camping trips. I remember one really interesting (and very good) thing was orange cake. You would cut the top off of an orange (we got really huge oranges over there) and hollow out all the fruit and put it into a white cake batter and mix it up. Then you would pour cake batter back into the orange and put the top back on wrap in foil and bake over the fire. Tess, my mom used to wrap our sandwiches in wax paper too. I made outfits for my troll dolls too. I even made a big house for them out of a big cardboard house we got from big McDonald's order. |
Twiggyish | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 07:07 am   How about Gumby? (The one before Eddie Murphy's hilarious version) I remember black and white t.v. and then color. I remember no air conditioning in our Florida home.. the only a/c was in the local department store. |
Nancy | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:05 am   gail i think you mean Gimp?(the plastic strands) |
Gail | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:08 am   Nancy, I don't know what they were called but you had 4 strands (I think more talented people used more) and you crossed over 2 side (like front and back) then you wove the other two side under one and over the over and just kept it up for a long time til you had it a few inches long. |
Nancy | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 09:10 am   yeh it was called gimp(i think) --i made little key chains and things with them ;-) |
Tess | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 01:27 pm   Oh, gimp....we had it and made all sorts of things with it.. you could do a flat version or square and all different colors. We got it at the park and rec and the playground and even could buy it in stores way back when.... |
Whit4you | Sunday, May 13, 2001 - 02:08 pm   Does anyone remember HOW we did the spool with the nails thing? I can not for the life of me remember HOW it's done - can someone explain? |