Wouldn't that feel good;just go back and say.Yeah I remember that!
The good old days, they were good then, and they're good now when we think about them.
Remember when decisions were made by going "eeny meeny miney mo"
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for the team.
It wasn't odd to have two or three best friends.
Come on; I know they're out there, lets hear them!
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It's not the big failures I mind so much, it's the constant pitter patter of little defeats.
I miss penny candy... I can remember going to the corner store with a few cents or a quarter and coming out with a fistful of candy.. baseball cards too. Packs of baseball cards were a nickel.. not $3.95! Comics were a dime.. not $4.99!
I remember going to the store and getting the penny candy or 2 or 3 cent candy. We'd go with a dollar to the candy store and end up filling a small paper bag with our treats. That wouldn't happen anymore and those kind of stores aren't around much anymore where you can pick and choose your candy.
When it was ok to say the pledge of allegiance in school and say "one nation under God." No one complained back then.
I remember when the Pledge of Allegiance was the normal start of every school day as well & you are right, no one complained back then, it was the norm... how sad, the way things are today
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How about deposits on pop bottles, talk about recycling.
Man i remember collecting bottles to get a candy bar... My mom drank a lot of Pepsi (as do i, now) & i was happy she did, we were forever cashing in those pop bottles.
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Kool Aid was the drink of summer.
Kool-aid is big at my house still, ice tea more so (for my son & i), but lemonaide/kool-aid as well.
Catching fireflies could occupy an entire evening.
I remember that! that was so much fun back in the day, have told my kids about that & even had them try to catch some with me, it's just not the same, they thought i was quite lame lol
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Riding your friends on the handle bars of your bike.
Yep Yep i remember doing that & we'd go as far as to tie our bikes together by the handlebars & ride down the hill... untill we didn't discuss it one day & went opposite directions (not smart)! That was the last time i remember doing that lol
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Race issues meant who ran the fastest.
Unfortunately i cant relate to that, having always been raised around racism, but i recall when Interracial dating was less accepting than it is now... much less accepting & forbidden in many races... latino for example.
How about deposits on pop bottles, talk about recycling.
I remember making that stop to at the grocery store to get money for the bottles.
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Catching fireflies could occupy an entire evening.
That was fun catching fireflies, but they never would flash in a jar in the house. I still think fireflies are one of the coolest things of summer. They put on their own little light show.
Remember when you spent a whole day putting together puzzles or playing board games. Do kids do that much anymore? Or does everything have to involve electronics. Lots of good times were had when our family sat down to play a game or put together a puzzle together.
Remember when you spent a whole day putting together puzzles or playing board games. Do kids do that much anymore? Or does everything have to involve electronics. Lots of good times were had when our family sat down to play a game or put together a puzzle together.
I never sat & did puzzles or played board games until i was much older & played with friends, wasn't really my thing.
Jumping rope & hoola hoops were always a good time back then!
tetherball was the best pass time for me back in my school days.
We lived at the end of a long county road when I was in grade school and I have so many fond memories of those years growing up there.
I remember going barefoot all summer long. I loved the feel of the dirt between my toes. I still don't wear shoes much in the summer now. My neighbor always teases that he is going to buy me a pair of shoes when he sees me outside barefoot. LOL
How about splashing in a mud puddle after the rain? Anyone else make mud pies? They were the greatest! I never ate them of course but my brother tried it once.
Our family used to play baseball almost every weekend since there were seven of us kids and my parents, we had enough for two teams and a huge yard to play it in. I actually got pretty good at it too.
How about sledding in the winter? My grade school had a huge hill next to it and we were allowed to bring a piece of cardboard to use as a sled. Man you could really fly down the hill on that cardboard!
I was never good at hula hoops, but I did jump rope quite a bit. If I had a place to jump rope I still would. It's a good form of exercise. I can't do in the basement because my rope hits the ceiling.
I remember putting cards in my bike spokes as a kid.
I remember going barefoot all summer long. I loved the feel of the dirt between my toes. I still don't wear shoes much in the summer now. My neighbor always teases that he is going to buy me a pair of shoes when he sees me outside barefoot. LOL
Better be careful, you might step on spiders!
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How about splashing in a mud puddle after the rain? Anyone else make mud pies? They were the greatest! I never ate them of course but my brother tried it once
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We played in the water that was running down the gutters in the street. Didn't make mud pies that much, but we had a great fun playing in the sandbox with the Matchbox cars or Tonka trucks.
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How about sledding in the winter? My grade school had a huge hill next to it and we were allowed to bring a piece of cardboard to use as a sled. Man you could really fly down the hill on that cardboard!
We used to use potato chip boxes. You could really get going on those things. They didn't last long, but what fun. I like to make snow forts too or tunnels in the snowbanks. Now that I'm old, I don't like snow anymore.
We played in the water that was running down the gutters in the street. Didn't make mud pies that much, but we had a great fun playing in the sandbox with the Matchbox cars or Tonka trucks.
Yep i remember playing in gutter rain & making mud pies, like Cindy of course, i never ate one lol
I was a tomboy & was into the tonka trucks & what not as well.
I know this one was mentioned a few months ago when we had a similar thread about memories of the past & I know some say they still have them here & i know Texas still has them, i personally haven't seen one (In WI) since i was a kid... Ice cream man/truck... i remember waiting for him to come everyday, same time, same place.
I remember playing in the yard under the sprinkler or making our own slip 'n' slide out of a sheet of plastic and a sprinkler.
I remember building tents out of old blankets and crawling inside to read or play. In the summer we built them outside and in the winter we had the blankets stretched over the chairs in the house.
I remember playing in the yard under the sprinkler or making our own slip 'n' slide out of a sheet of plastic and a sprinkler.
I remember building tents out of old blankets and crawling inside to read or play. In the summer we built them outside and in the winter we had the blankets stretched over the chairs in the house.
I remember all of the above as well... man that was a lifetime ago!
Being the nature lover that I am, I was always bringing home caterpillars and then hatching them into butterflies. Well, they did the hatching part, I just waited and watched. The big cecropia moth was the coolest. Those are huge.
I also brought home huge colorful garden spiders sometimes. Maybe it was only a couple times. That was the only spider I ever brought home. It was the size of them and the pretty yellow and white stripes on them that I liked.
Once I brought home a couple of big beetles that had pinchers on them. One managed to bite the other one's head of during the night. That was the end of that.
Another time I brought home a big waterbug. I built it a little pond of it's own in a container. He stayed out there for a couple of weeks and I have no idea what he ate in that time. I suppose whatever small bugs landed in the water. One day he must have gotten tired of his tub of water and seaweeds, because he took off. I guess that's when I found out they could fly.
Did anyone have a neighborhood band? Our next door neighbors, who were all in high school at the time, started one. The two sisters sang, their brother played drums, and another neighbor guy and my brother played guitar. This was way back in the early 70's. They played "House of the Rising Sun" and "Bottle of Wine" a lot. I don't think they really knew any other songs. LOL But, I had the biggest crush on the guy who played drums!
Oh, you mean like the electrical boxes. I was thinking at first it was another name for a phone booth.
No, never played on those.
Yeah the electrical boxes, we use to meet there in the evening & play cards or whatever cuz it was under a street light usually & most parents would let you go to far, i remember the box to be centered in our neighborhood.
That was back in the day when waterbeds were all that lol remember waterbeds BEFORE they came out with waveless waterbeds??? those were a mess!
I remember that! that was so much fun back in the day, have told my kids about that & even had them try to catch some with me, it's just not the same, they thought i was quite lame lol
Yep Yep i remember doing that & we'd go as far as to tie our bikes together by the handlebars & ride down the hill... untill we didn't discuss it one day & went opposite directions (not smart)! That was the last time i remember doing that lol
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Unfortunately i cant relate to that, having always been raised around racism, but i recall when Interracial dating was less accepting than it is now... much less accepting & forbidden in many races... latino for example.
Sounds like you needed a Sister Gertrude in your Neighborhood, She made us understand in the 5th grade what those words meant, One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice For All.
She was around long enough to send most of us boy's into military service with those words & a prayer.
I rememeber baseball games that lasted for days.
Playing Monopoly forever, Scrabble, Hop Scotch with my dumb ole sister, because she would tell my Mom if I didn't.
Hide and seek, most of our playgrounds were covered with gravel, where were the safety nazi's then? Swings had wooden seats, with heavy steel chains, slides were made of the same steel and seemed pretty high comparativly.
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It's not the big failures I mind so much, it's the constant pitter patter of little defeats.
That was back in the day when waterbeds were all that lol remember waterbeds BEFORE they came out with waveless waterbeds??? those were a mess!
shhh, we still have our waterbed. I've been wanting a new bed for years, but always need something else more. I hate the headboard on it the frame. I will say it is comfy especially with the big puffy mattress pad I have. Maybe in another 10 years I can afford a new bed.
Hide and seek, most of our playgrounds were covered with gravel, where were the safety nazi's then? Swings had wooden seats, with heavy steel chains, slides were made of the same steel and seemed pretty high comparativly.
I was thinking that earlier that we stood in the swings and there was blacktop below us. We used to crawl under the merry go-round and then spin it. Sometimes we climbed on top of the middle of it and rode it. No one got hurt either.
The park we went to as kids had a big rocket you could climb up in the inside and there was a slide coming out of side of the rocket. Those metal slides got darn hot in the sun.
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