Originally Posted By friendofdd It seems you can buy modern clamp on skates. 'Course you may have to spend $100-$160. <a href="http://www.skates.com/Skorpion-skates-s/154034.htm" target="_blank">http://www.skates.com/Skorpion...4034.htm</a>
Originally Posted By Tandelothien Anyone else got Black Magic Woman playing in their head with the words changed to Nose Picking Woman
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost The playing cards in the spokes thing almost makes me cry now. I am old enough that we used to use baseball cards that we got in bubble gum. Do you have any idea how many Mickey Mantle Rookie Year cards I went through to make it sound, in my mind, like a motor? I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl Gum wrapper chains! I tried to teach my daughter how to make them a few years ago. They just don't make gum wrappers like they used to. Now I sound old!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Last week during the Ca rain I mentioned to my niece how badly I wanted to be in DL for the rain! SHe said we just needed some galoshes. Now I severely want a pair of those red rain boots they make for little children and a yellow slicker raincoat and want to be in DL! I also remeber my first red plaid school briefcase. Back then we didn't have backpacks!
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin We used to dig forts in ourback yards. One time my friend's brothers dug us a bomb shelter, about four feet deep they put boards over this pit and put dirt on top of the boards....her mom wouldn't let us play in it "because it might cave in". Grownups were always spoiling our fun.
Originally Posted By Marlin Perkins Ever order some of that junk out of the back of a comic book? Wait 6-8 weeks for delivery...EVERY day checking the mail to see if it came. When it finally arrived it could turn out to be just a hunk of plastic junk and you'd still be excited--then again, it WAS just plastic junk. I ordered the X-Ray vision glasses. What a disappointment. You couldn't see through people's skin...just their clothes. @@ < 0 (Thanks for that SpongeBob).
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Ohh I had those and Sea Monkeys too, but our cat ate the sea Monkeys by drinking out of the bowl. I had a Kiddi Fondue set too with chocolate, vanilla and cherry/strawberry morsels that you melted in a little red fondue pot and it had little yellow forks that you used to dip mini marshmellows into the melted morsels.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I had a Silly Cycle and a Crazy Car too. Those were so much fun to ride. You couldn't go straight if your life depended on it.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper We were regulars at Disneyland but every time we went we spent the next few days "playing Disneyland". The ottoman was the Tom Sawyer raft. We would tie rope to an under car creeper (you know...the thing with casters that you lay on to slide under the cary) and it would serve as the Matterhorn, the Train, or any other "vehicle ride". I think we also used the ottoman as the People Moover. Good times. I still love to climb trees too. I did that a lot in California because we had great trees. It isn't that fun to climb a palm tree here in Florida but whenever I see a worthy tree I'm willing to give it a go...much to the chagrin of my wife.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin We had flexi riders...it looked like a snow sled but it had wheels. I ran into a cactus on that thing once.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight All these things everyone did as a kid is such a fun, look back in time. My friend's and I would make up dances and rehears songs that we danced to and then get our mom's to come watch as we put on a show for them. Someties we would roller skate to music and pretend we were at the skating rink. Allthis make's me laugh so hard when I think back to how cool we thought we were.
Originally Posted By ibob fun safe stuff like ... pull a buddy in a wagon with your bike ... or a flexi while steering with your feet ... cardboard down a iceplant hill (canyon sledding) ...
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Ya know, we had so much fun back then and no one ever got seriously hurt by doing the things we did as kids. We had great imaginations too. We made our own fun and it was all innocent fun to boot.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Once my mom got a new washer and of course one of my older brothers took the whole thing apart so we used the outer shell as a 'space ship' and the box from the new washer as another 'space ship' and the gardenhose as a tether so we could 'space walk' between the two. It was all fun and games until someone turned the hose on while I was in my space ship.
