What was your favourite games as a kid?

Aprilla said:
I loved monopoly and cards.
we played hide and seek in the dark.
I had buckaroo as a kid and mouse trap too.
I miss the good old days.
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lol..with all due respect you're not much older than my daughter.. so she had Buckaroo & Mousetrap too... :D


For us in the 60's.. we played mostly Balls against the wall.. that was our go to game...skipping or chinese ropes...

 
CallMeKate said:
Oh, how I loved my paper dolls! The ones I remember most were my Donna Reed set. Must have been in the mid '60s,,, I was 8. Wonder if I could find some on eBay for nostalgia's sake? :unsure:
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I bet you can..One games we loved as little girls was swapping paper scraps... the scraps were a particular type..angels Santa, fairies, Flowers.... Victorian scenes..

Some years ago I found a whole load of them unused on Ebay, I had to buy them, just for old times sake.. and they still sit in the drawer..untouched..:D
 
We had game night every Tuesday, or might've been Wednesday, when me and my brothers played board games at "the little table" while Mom and Dad and my grandparents played cards at the dining table.

My oldest brother's favorite was Monopoly. I hated that game because he almost always won, and I almost always came in last even when our youngest brother was old enough to play. (this was before my sister was born...I was going on 18 when she was born)

Mom & Dad made us take turns choosing what game we played, but we still got in fights over it...but we got in fights over the rules of the games, too, so, par for the course.

My pick was always Scrabble, and Grant, my oldest brother and the self-appointed keeper of the dictionary, challenged me on at least 2 or 3 words every single game. Maybe that's why I have a pretty good vocabulary (my grammar stinks, but whatever).

Except for game night, we always played outside. Usually baseball.

Oh, and we played War a lot. We had this massive set of little plastic army men and military trucks and bivouacs and stuff, even a little field hospital, and we played with them on these 3 huge piles of dirt that our Dad gave us for Christmas one year.

Dad actually bought a huge dump-truck full of clean, kind of sandy soil, and hired some guy to dump it out in 3 separate piles in the old corral behind the house - one pile for Grant, one for Hoover, and one for me. (McKinley wasn't born yet)

Seriously one of my favorite Christmas presents of all time...a big ol' pile of dirt.

It was a blast playing on them after it rained. Dad and Gramps covered them with tarps when they knew it was going to rain, but they still got moist, and pretty wet around the bottom. It was a good 3 years before those piles of dirt completely eroded flat, mainly just from us playing on them.
 
hollydolly said:
That has gone straight over my head...I only have a vague recollection that she was an American actress...:unsure:
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I only remember her from The Donn Reed Show.

The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone. Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone, and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children, Mary and Jeff. The show originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1958, to March 19, 1966.[1]
 
hollydolly said:
yes I knew she was an American actress.but what's that got to do with scraps ?
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Recap: Someone said they liked paper dolls.
I said I loved my Donna Reed paper dolls.
Then I said I wonder if I could find some on eBay.
You said I probably can... that you'd bought scraps and they ended up in a drawer.
I said that's probably what would happen to my Donna Reeds, too.
 
CallMeKate said:
Recap: Someone said they liked paper dolls.
I said I loved my Donna Reed paper dolls.
Then I said I wonder if I could find some on eBay.
You said I probably can... that you'd bought scraps and they ended up in a drawer.
I said that's probably what would happen to my Donna Reeds, too.
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Thanks for the update. I think I need a nap ;)
 
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