Things we did when we were young

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Vida May

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I have a pair of roller skates with a key to tighten the clamps on my shoes. Do you remember those skates? No brakes and no give. It is amazing how well they worked considering how much skates have improved.

Remembering roller skating around and around the block of apartments leads to remembering playing jacks, hopscotch, jump rope, hide and seek. Of course, I had dolls and stuffed animals and I tried sleeping with all of them in my bed. That didn't work well. After one night of rolling over on hard dolls, I decided against sleeping with them.
 

I had a pair of those skates. They were awesome. I remember all the other games that went along with them. Skipping rope- double Dutch, jumpsies, red light green light, hide and seek, red rover etc., hop scotch, Nikki Nikki nine doors. I also remember filling my bed with stuffed animals. I had so many I couldnā€™t fit into my bed very well. Luckily the stuffed animals were soft enough that I could just shuffle them over .
 
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I played Jaxx (sp?) for hours with my sister.
We used a hard regular golf ball to play as that little cheap red ball in the package wasn't worth squat.

We also played Chinese jump rope with a Chinese jump rope made out of rubberbands!

Will teach both games to my 8 yo grand daughter when I see her next.
 
-Oy- said:
All I'm saying is it's a good thing there were no smartphones or internet back then. No evidence. I did nuffink me and they can't prove otherwise :ROFLMAO:
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Oh, we had the Mommy Mafia back then. Whenever you misbehaved, somebody's mother saw you do it and felt that it was her particular obligation to call your mother to report it. AND, your mother thanked her for ratting on you.
 
So many!.....lol
1. Riding three on a bike with no helmets.
2. Tree House.
3. Running through the dangerous DTD mosquito spray in the summer .
4. Kickball and dodgeball.
5. Building our own bikes.
6. Being out all day, just be home before the streetlights came on.
7. Neighborhoods full fruits on trees and everyone had a garden.
8. Playing in the junkyard and landfill.

I'm surprised we survived but really had fun.
 
We were brought up rather strictly. Went together with my 2 sisters to the Saturday matinee. We were given a badminton game which we loved.
Never went swimming to the local pool as my father was always working 6 days a week. Never went anywhere except to visit our grandparents every second week. My father took our family to an aerodrome to watch the Air Force give flying demonstrations. My father had no idea how to bring up daughters. Oh, we were allowed to skip rope at the front gate, played Jax and board games. Christmas holidays were so boring, but we got through them.
 
I didn't have those roller skates but I did have the cheap plastic ones , my friends had the heavy metal ones with the key ... but I used to go to the roller disco, and I wored the boot skates ...

Wev played mainly in the streets, and in the school playground.... Hopscotch, Balls against the wall, skipping, climbing eveything that could be climbed... I didn't have a bike but my friend had 2 so she and I ould ride for miles, onto roads we had no businss being on...

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we'd spend hours in the park getting chased off by the park-keeper from the slides or swings we were too big to be on... or if we were in the park when it was supposed to be closed...

We'd climb up on the highest shutes and spend hours sliding down and burning our legs n the hot metal on hot summer days.. swinging higher on the swings than was safe for us.. and at the end of the day we'd all spin the swings so they rolled right over the top bar... and be too high for anyone else to get on them..
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Just about everything we did , cost no money at all.....
 
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CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Never heard of "Steal the bacon"! Curious. Mind picture: someone running away with Wilbur!!
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Old-fashion felt/wood eraser between two rows of children facing each other. Kids each assigned a # (say1-10 on both sides, low # at opposite ends of line); teacher calls Out #7 and the two opposing kids designated as 7 have to race to try to be the first to pick up the eraser (ā€˜baconā€™)
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Old-fashion felt/wood eraser between two rows of children facing each other. Kids each assigned a # (say1-10 on both sides, low # at opposite ends of line); teacher calls Out #7 and the two opposing kids designated as 7 have to race to try to be the first to pick up the eraser (ā€˜baconā€™)
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Oh: Rather like the shuttle run exercise in PE (PhysEd) back then?

In your version, if I am imagining it correctly, the TWO kids are running TOWARD each other to be the first to get the eraser???
Head injuries?
 
We would jump off roofs of small sheds with an umbrella but of course that didn't work and we would ride our horse when parents were not home and once I fell off but didn't get hurt (we were not supposed to ride him without our parents being home) We were brats but it was fun at the time. Also played all the kid games like hide n seek, soft ball and the girl games, too.
 
CooCooforCoCoPuffs said:
Oh: Rather like the shuttle run exercise in PE (PhysEd) back then?

In your version, if I am imagining it correctly, the TWO kids are running TOWARD each other to be the first to get the eraser???
Head injuries?
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lol no I donā€™t remember any collisions. The lines were about 15 ft apart. We were usually running on a diagonal. Oh course I was always the one who hesitatedā€” not the boldest kid on the playground haha
 
Wow, neat post...

I grew up in a small town in the Colorado mountains. As you would expect, during the winter we had fun doing things like ice skating, sledding, skiing, making snowmen and snow forts. We had snowball fights all the time, including on the school playgrounds before and after school. It was frequently below zero sometime reaching forty below zero. We played outside regardless of how cold it was. We dressed for the cold and knew when to come in when we got really cold. The cold was no big deal to us as kids, but I do recall my parents complaining about it. I have fond memories of those times. Summers were beautiful and we camped, fished, hiked and rode our bikes all the time...!
 
chic said:
Ditto and I was a latchkey kid also so had more alone time than most. And, I've never worn a bicycle helmet in my entire life. o_O I'm fine. :giggle:
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Yes, we just jumped off the bike if something happened. Kids today don't get itšŸ˜†
 

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