things that were a big deal when you were a kid [Archive]

cosmo105

04-16-2006, 01:39 PM

remember Rookie of the Year? that movie was huge. and that part where his tendons have healed...a little tight...and he releases and smacks the doctor in the face. the doctor yells, "FUNKY BUTTLOVIN'!!"

that was the hugest thing at day care. we'd rewind it over and over again just to hear that part. OH MY GOD DID HE JUST SAY FUNKY BUTTLOVING?!

and in 7th grade when i first found out what a dildo was. i leaned over to Christina (nicknamed hamsterface) in the computer lab and said hey! do you know what a DILDO is?? and she laughed and said yeah!! and i said EWWW!

and when people called it "macking" and holding hands meant something, yeah...

ChrisLove

04-16-2006, 02:23 PM

CrankItUp!

04-16-2006, 02:29 PM

Fonzie jumps the shark :cool:

Wearing his leather jacket, of course...HEY! (y)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bs4oEf2uXXs&search=fonzie

Pootytang

04-16-2006, 02:32 PM

Coca-Cola Shirts, Spuds McKenzie, The Rubics Cube, Trivial Pursuit, Milli Vanilli, Star Wars, and Atari were big when I was a kid.

burbboi

04-16-2006, 02:35 PM

Hyper-Color and Vuarnet t-shirts, pogo balls, and G.I Joes were all the rage when I was a little booger.

DipDipDive

04-16-2006, 02:42 PM

I still think holding hands means something...

:(

Skip-It tournaments were so hot in my neighborhood. I always blamed the fact that I sucked at Skip-It on a defective counter...

:( :(

Documad

04-16-2006, 02:52 PM

The Rubics Cube
When cleaning out my mom's house, I found my old keychain which was a little rubic's cube. It actually works. I'm using it now. :)

I was working at Target when Cabbage Patch kids were big. I always thought they were STUPID and UGLY, but I remember that being the first must-have toy that started a mania. Pound Puppies were kind of big right after that.

When I was a kid, whatever company made KoolAid had plastic cups with handles. They were short and squat and shaped like the head of the character. I think you sent away to the company after you bought enough KoolAid and you enclosed the wrappers. My mom wouldn't buy KoolAid (always cooler than the neighborhood). I was dying for a plastic cup shaped like a KoolAid character. My best friend was from a huge family that drank lots of the stuff and they had several cups. When I was at their house, I sometimes got to drink from one of their cups.

My hippie sister moved home a month or so later, and got a temp job working for whoever owned KoolAid (Pillsbury? General Mills?) and one day she came home with about a dozen of the things--each one a different character. That was one of the biggest events of my childhood.

I also remember thinking that Tupperware was a really big deal. My mom didn't have much of it -- mostly the shaker cups that she mixed up flour and milk in for soup -- but she treated it like gold. I couldn't ever use the Tupperware and if a lid went missing, OMG!

cosmo105

04-16-2006, 03:00 PM

you dorks :mad:

i didn't mean stuff that was POPULAR when you were a kid! i mean stuff that was a BIG DEAL! documad's going along the right lines though.

DipDipDive

04-16-2006, 03:08 PM

50's themed birthday parties were a big deal when I was little. I remember everyone else had the standard black skirt with white poodle number, and my poodle skirt was purple with a pink poodle and I thought I was so fucking rad. Wait a minute, nevermind, there was very little thought involved. I was fucking rad.

cosmo105

04-16-2006, 03:10 PM

when we took a tour of the frito-lay factory and got to see the cheetos pre-cheese...they were WHITE. that was intense. but getting a huge bag full of fun size bags of different chips was (y)

Cooky Puss

04-16-2006, 03:11 PM

'Gabber' music. :(

DipDipDive

04-16-2006, 03:13 PM

And another thing - I recall monitoring who slow danced with whom at school dances and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs being a very, very big deal. When Mike Pearson finally asked me to dance in 7th grade after having a crush on him since 4th, I thought he liked me, so I had my friend Michelle ask him if he did, and he told her I didn't have a chance because I was too flat. :(

cosmo105

04-16-2006, 03:17 PM

ouch. what was he expecting in 7th grade, DDs?

i remember when i was dating this guy for a couple weeks in 8th grade and it was kind of obvious we weren't that into each other. then on valentine's day this girl that liked him sent him a valentine candygram...and he and i didn't send each other anything. and everyone was like OHHH SNAP jessica are you just going to let that fly? and i didn't care.

burbboi

04-16-2006, 03:38 PM

you dorks :mad:

i didn't mean stuff that was POPULAR when you were a kid! i mean stuff that was a BIG DEAL! documad's going along the right lines though.

Well, i guess I can omit everything I stated EXCEPT for G.I Joes. These toys were a very, very big deal to me when I was a kid. I'm talking 7-ft aircraft carriers with a full complement of solders, jets, choppers and weaponry ready to rock at a moments notice. Humvees, hovercraft, ninjas..I could go on for hours here.

If there was trouble brewing in the backyard, I can guarantee the G.I Joes were well aware of it and planning to take action every time.

kaiser soze

04-16-2006, 03:46 PM

'Gabber' music. :(

you like gabber?

anyways, the big deal for me as a kid was the word "Jackass", hickies, and igor the bunny over the hill

ASsman

04-16-2006, 04:11 PM

Weed.

Justin

04-16-2006, 04:18 PM

What is the age range regarding being a kid?..like before 13?

i was into video games, sports and wrestling

hardnox71

04-16-2006, 04:30 PM

Well, that would depend on what stage of 'kid'ness you are talking about.

Baseball was the biggest thing to me from about the age of eight to about eleven or twelve. I still love the game but at the age of thirty-five the magic that goes along with the childhood dream of playing second base for the Yankees has somehow disappeared. :D

Another big thing for me when I was kid was being able to finish a school year at one fucking school. I was always getting pulled out of one school and stuck in another one for a month or two then getting yanked out of that one and put in another one. This was all in Southern California. Things kind of stabilized after the age of ten here in Chicago.

My hamsters were a big deal when I was about nine. I had about ten of them but not all at once.

The beach. Ever since I can remember I was always at the beach. I used to live in a little place called Imperial Beach. It's in Southern Cali about thisfar from the Mexican border, right along the coast. We used to live right on the beach, literally. Walk out of the back yard gate and you were standing in sand. I used to spend entire days running up and down the beach and the pier. I was only about six but I knew all the old guys that would sit and drink beer and fish. They would always let me fish with them. The people at the bait shop at the end of the pier would always give me free worms and hooks and shit. They knew a six year old doesn't have any fucking money. One guy gave me a rod and reel and a full tackle box once. Everybody in the area knew me and it was always cool. Everyone always looked out for me. I guess they figured there must not be too much going on at home if this kid's running around the fucking beach all the time. And I stayed in the water. I loved swimming. Couldn't get enough. I used to go so far out in the ocean that the lifeguards on the pier would get worried and come out in their little boats and bring me back closer to shore. I was well on my way to becoming Jeff Spicoli before I moved to Chicago. I was definitely a little beach bum. It was long before I knew what gangs and drugs were. They were around in the late 70's but not really so much in Imperial Beach. If they were I was just oblivious to them. Had no clue what they were. All I knew was the beach. That and my stepmom were all that mattered to me. I think Imperial Beach was one of the happiest parts of my childhood. It is definitely a big deal to me.

CrankItUp!

04-16-2006, 05:45 PM

my slinky :D

Documad

04-16-2006, 06:30 PM

I'm so old that when I was little it cost a fortune to ride on an airplane. It cost more than it does now and money was worth a lot more than -- my dad made very little. I can't remember why, but we were coming home on a long car trip from somewhere like Colorado and my parents put my two older brothers on a bus so they could get back to school. A few days later, we got to Chicago, and my parents put me on an airplane by myself. My sister was in her 20s and she was going to pick me up at the Minneapolis airport. I have no idea what my parents were doing next.

I remember how cool the plane was. It was a big plane, and I was the only kid. There were businessmen but it was about 1/3 full. Airplanes used to fly pretty empty back when tickets cost a lot. The stewardess paid lots of attention to me and gave me multiple bags of peanuts. She also gave me the plastic glass with funny-shaped ice and a Coke. I felt so sophisticated drinking out of the clear plastic cup. I had never seen something so much like the Jetsons as that airplane with the bright-colored seats. The stewardesses were young and glamourous like my Barbies (my Barbie had an airplane and she was a stewardess). I played with the tray and the light and we had headphones with music. It was about a 45 minute flight. The stewardess walked off the plane with me and waited until I identified my sister from the little group at the airport lounge.

Two years later, I got to fly to San Diego by myself and I got to stay with my aunt and uncle. Their daughter took me to Disneyland. Only one other kid at my school had been to Disneyland. For this trip, my parents bought me a few new outfits, including a banana-yellow warm-up suit. I also had royal blue suede adidas with white leather stripes. And I had a brand new, hard-sided red Samsonite suitcase with a matching cosmetics' case. There are home movies of me in said outfit putting my luggage into my dad's giant red car, and movies of the airplane taking off at the airport, but dad filmed the wrong plane and ran out of film halfway through the real take off. That trip was the first time I saw the beach, and smog. I didn't enjoy the beach at all because I had just seen Jaws and every bit of seaweed freaked me out.

Documad

04-16-2006, 06:35 PM

The beach. Ever since I can remember I was always at the beach. I used to live in a little place called Imperial Beach. It's in Southern Cali about thisfar from the Mexican border, right along the coast. We used to live right on the beach, literally. Walk out of the back yard gate and you were standing in sand.
That is very strange. I skipped ahead without reading your story closely. And my first beach was that very beach, I'm almost certain. My aunt and uncle had a relative who was enormously fat and whose husband apparently made a fortune on produce, but they had a place right on the beach. They were loud and scary and it was my first time without my parents. The homes on the beach were kind of jammed together. I couldn't imagine that people lived like that. When I was there, they drank and partied all the time inside and on the beach, and we had been kettles of corn boiling in pits on the beach.

Matt

04-16-2006, 07:43 PM

remember Rookie of the Year? that movie was huge. and that part where his tendons have healed...a little tight...and he releases and smacks the doctor in the face. the doctor yells, "FUNKY BUTTLOVIN'!!"

that was the hugest thing at day care. we'd rewind it over and over again just to hear that part. OH MY GOD DID HE JUST SAY FUNKY BUTTLOVING?!

oh my god. Me and my sister did the same thing. after that scene, we both said Funky Buttlovin in reaction to everything for the rest of the day.

and Ghostbusters toys were big in my neighborhood. My friend cory had the damn action figure that came with the little ghost trap and I WANTED IT SO BAD! I one-upped him by getting the actual Proton Pack, though.

hardnox71

04-16-2006, 07:44 PM

and we had been kettles of corn boiling in pits on the beach.
Big round circular concrete pits? I remember those. There was one about every couple of hundred yards all up and down the beach. :)

nobbus

04-16-2006, 09:23 PM

this forum(!!!!!)

Astra

04-16-2006, 09:28 PM

being able to say you're eight years old is pretty big.. It's for some reason a number that is big while still being so little.

QueenAdrock

04-16-2006, 10:23 PM

Knowing someone semi-famous was always a big deal. It's still that way for my friend's niece. She was bragging about knowing a girl who's brother played in a band that played at the local coffee house, because that was BIG. I met Jim Palmer (of the Orioles) back in the day and wouldn't stop bragging about it. My friend Tommy one-upped me by claiming Michael Jackson came over to his house to feed his fish when he was on vacation.

Oh yeah! Also, going to McDonald's on the last day of school and being able to order anything you wanted.

CJM

04-16-2006, 10:37 PM

getting up early in the morning to watch Tin-Tin, Astro-Boy, and You Can't Do That on Television.

christmas/halloween parties , and "country day" at my elementary school.

sneaking over to my friend's house to watch The Simpsons in grade 4, cause my parents wouldn't let me.

road trips with my family

snow days

hardnox71

04-16-2006, 10:42 PM

You Can't Do That on Television.
Wasn't that on Nickleodeon? I remember a show called that. I used to watch it all the time. What's sad is that I'm a hell of alot older than you.:o

jackrock

04-16-2006, 10:45 PM

Rugrats

hardnox71

04-16-2006, 10:47 PM

Rugrats
I liked Tommy.

cosmo105

04-16-2006, 10:50 PM

My friend Tommy one-upped me by claiming Michael Jackson came over to his house to feed his fish when he was on vacation.
hahaha. :D

when a girl in 7th grade had lice...and they shaved her head...oh MAN that girl's social life was RUINED.

Medellia

04-16-2006, 11:04 PM

I remember that Surge crap. It was HUGE in eighth grade. Blech.

jackrock

04-16-2006, 11:06 PM

when a girl in 7th grade had lice...and they shaved her head...oh MAN that girl's social life was RUINED.
whats wrong with a bald girl?

DandyFop

04-17-2006, 02:47 AM

I wish I had a better memory. I just remember some really stupid social stuff. Oh wait, here's one...I might have told it before?

I was in fifth grade, and I was SO excited because we were going on a field trip to this place called the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center (http://www.spacecamputah.org/p_flights/index.html), where honestly, it's like they stick you in on an episode of Stark Trek:TNG, and you get to be on the ship.

I lived about a half a block from my school, and I was so excited to go that day that I started running. Well, I tripped and fell really hard on the corner. I couldn't decide which way to go so I just went to school and they gave me a bandage and crap and then my mom showed up and said I couldn't go on the field trip (I don't remember how bad it was). I was so sad, and I went up to my classroom because they hadn't left yet, to tell my teacher I couldn't go. Mrs. Norris, she was such a huge bitch. I came in all pitiful with my bleeding elbow, and asked her if we had any homework because I couldn't go. She snapped at me and said "No, of COURSE we don't have any, we're going on a field trip today". I was so sad that whole day :(

But the place does like over-nighter things (and actually you could do a program for a few weeks, they told us people who did it really started losing touch with reality), and my parents signed me up for one later .It was so fucking awesome! I really wanted to be the Chief Medical Officer because I had red hair like Dr. Crusher (yes, I'm a dork), but I was just some kind of ensign. The "enemy" started using my computer for communication though, at one point, and I had to like quickly type all this shit. It ruled. We ate pizza, and then the girls (there was like 4, compared with the 10 or so boys) had to sleep in the auditorium on the stage because we weren't allowed to sleep in the actual bunks since the boys slept in there. There was even a fucking Jeffries Tube that some guy came in a weird suit and went into.

You can rent it out and I think I might force my friends to come with me.

jackrock

04-17-2006, 02:57 AM

^ :)

jackrock

04-17-2006, 03:15 AM

When I was a kid, whatever company made KoolAid had plastic cups with handles. They were short and squat and shaped like the head of the character. I think you sent away to the company after you bought enough KoolAid and you enclosed the wrappers. My mom wouldn't buy KoolAid (always cooler than the neighborhood). I was dying for a plastic cup shaped like a KoolAid character. My best friend was from a huge family that drank lots of the stuff and they had several cups. When I was at their house, I sometimes got to drink from one of their cups.

i used to have a yellow one when i was younger!

A few years ago i was notorious for hiding in cupboards. One night late at night i snuck out of my room, took a flachlight, and just sat there till my ass got numb. Somehow my mom found me (i thought i was doomed) but she laughed and took a picture. Incase you were wondering i was wearing 1 piece red pj's that had a butflap... good times.

Another is my evil babysitter. I used to go to her house lots, because my parents began to work or whatever. There was a fair bit of older kids there (gr. 5) w/e. they were all so mean to me. I remember on one occasion, the babysiters son (same age as me) hit me on the head with a plastic ball>intended to look like a spiked mace. Man did that hurt, so anyway some how i ended up going for the timeout in thje corner... much like every other visit. In spite of this all she did make a mean grilled cheese sandwich, though she always made me eat the dark crust (which made/makes me gag).

Baths. Who could forget taking baths as a kid? I had/have the coolest boat (i still use it on the rare occasion i take a bath) Best with bubbles. I had these cool cars and vans that i took to the tub, the would change color with warm water, then change back when put in cold water, great stuff.

DandyFop

04-17-2006, 03:18 AM

and when people called it "macking" and holding hands meant something, yeah...

Totally random, I was browsing the section of "comedy" band sits on myspace, and this was the first one I clicked on - http://www.myspace.com/acommentaryonlife. It's not very good, but the song they've got playing, "Middle School Love" reminded me of the OMG HOLDING HANDS.

I remember me and this kid Joe Fogg always talked about how we should "go mack". I think he wrote it in my yearbook.

Waus

04-17-2006, 03:33 AM

and when people called it "macking" and holding hands meant something, yeah...

...I still call it macking.

Lyman Zerga

04-17-2006, 04:52 AM

crankitup's slinky

Cooky Puss

04-17-2006, 05:04 AM

you like gabber?

No, but it was a big deal when I was a kid. All the boys in class had their heads shaved and wore Australian tracksuits. And nikes with the air chambers perforated. And they all danced in their rediculous drugged up manner. All the girls liked gabber too ofcourse, because you had too, it was the cool thing to listen to.
I hated it. I listened to 70's rock like queen and thin lizzy.
Yeah I was a bit of an outsider. :(

steve-onpoint

04-17-2006, 08:38 AM

My sticker album.

abcdefz

04-17-2006, 08:47 AM

When I was a kid, getting something in the mail was a big deal.

What else... fireworks were a big deal. Star Wars was a big deal. Getting HBO in our city was a big deal -- besides the movies, there was a burlesque show on from time to time and I remember one particular woman had these really great breasts that were full and defied gravity. I actually took photos of the TV to try to get a permanent record.

Ralph and I schemed to rent a post office box so we could subscribe to PlayBoy, but my oldest brother wouldn't rent it for us.

Music was a huge deal. I also liked to get the promotional posters from our local record store (Nickleodeon, actually). I'd make a huge collage on the wall. I remember one of the posters was for Styx's Pieces of Eight -- one of the Hypgnosis covers (Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons, etc.).

What else. Mountain Dew. Writing -- I was writing stories by then, grabbing a 2 liter bottle of Mountain Dew on the way home from school, riding bikes with my friend Sam and Brett.

Stamp collecting. Biking, swimming, water skiing. Snow mobiles, eventually, that was a big deal.

I had only a couple of girlfriends when I was still a "kid," but girls were a pretty big deal. But I didn't have much of a chance with any of the ones I was interested in; I remember distinctly two different girls actually snorting with disgust when I asked them out.

Wacky Packages. Some super hero figures, some Star Wars figures, Micronauts, Big Jim with the camper set and the fire truck set. Movies were starting to get to me, and Sam and I had plans for their 8mm camera but never got around to doing anything with it.

That takes us up to about age 13.

steve-onpoint

04-17-2006, 08:54 AM

When my dad brought me home a 75 cents wall-crawler from Cumberland Farms.

Lyman Zerga

04-17-2006, 09:35 AM

My sticker album.

oh god yeah!

TAL

04-17-2006, 09:37 AM

Moving to the country in another country.

Echewta

04-17-2006, 10:06 AM

My first mutual fund.

Tzar

04-17-2006, 10:40 AM

tamergochis - proper ones; no imitations.
having popular shoes.
having a cool pushbike.
seeing MA or even R18+ movies :eek:
odd bodz

ericlee

04-17-2006, 10:49 AM

clip on earrings
the Jacko jacket he wore on Beat it
parachute pants
^^ I've got a pic of my cousin wearing all of the above and I break it out whenever he's over and I've got some friends over as well.

butterfly knives
the strings for sunglasses so that you can let them dangle. People used to have like a hundred of those on their sunglasses.

abcdefz

04-17-2006, 11:05 AM

...I think the last fashion fad that I hopped on was getting rainbow suspenders like Mork circa 1976. Then getting a bunch of buttons to pin on them.

enree erzweglle

04-17-2006, 11:25 AM

bikes: trying to ride one inside until spring

school: when the teacher showed a movie during class or when school let out early for assemblies or pep rallies; when kids advanced through the Smart Colors in SRA cards; when college students guest-taught; when nuns wore civilian clothes

summer: going to drive-ins; entering read-a-thons; fishing with my brother; when the old lady next to us had her granddaughter stay with her a couple of months

general: getting your adult library card; being old enough to do stuff alone: run, bike, go to the library/museum, run errands; when the museum staff would let me and my sister go behind the scenes to watch the "Scientists" prepare exhibits

maybe trivial to you, big to me: finding fossils; saving up enough to buy a vinyl single; jumping rope; skating; watching hippies & anti-war rallies in our college neighborhood; collecting computer-generated confetti for football games; making frying-pan popcorn; getting mail-order books; watching lightning bugs; taking long night walks with my ma/dad

As a kid, I think I ran everywhere.

Matt

04-17-2006, 11:29 AM

1997 Red Wings versus Flyers. one kid in the whole school liked the Flyers and was beat up nearly every day. the term social pariah comes to mind.

B4BY 4NN

04-17-2006, 11:45 AM

South Park was at it's prime when I was in 5th grade. I used to make construction paper cut-outs of the characters and sell them to my classmates to get into a higher rank among my peers. Didn't work.

-Tamagotchi (which I still play with today)

-TY Beanie Babies

Bellbottoms and those Spice Girl-looking shoes were popular. Especially if they were from Delia's catalogs. 50p!

-Spice Girl POPS (everyone put the stickers on their notebooks or bikes)

Echewta

04-17-2006, 11:47 AM

http://www.gkko.com/videos/2819/learning-to-count-in-the-80s/

abcdefz

04-17-2006, 11:57 AM

I can't believe I forgot videogames. We got in on Pong when it first came out, then Atari cartridges, etc.

Plus, the arcade games. Space Invaders, Joust, Donkey Kong, Tempest... (y)

kll

04-17-2006, 11:59 AM

Horses
Roller skates with funky laces
Star Wars action figures
Horses
Rick Springfield
Grease and fighting over who got to role play as Sandy
Silver Spoons
Magic Mountain
Horses
the beach
my record collection
Izod tops and collecting every color imaginable
Espadrilles and collecting every color imaginable

skinnybutphat

04-17-2006, 12:13 PM

remember Rookie of the Year?
that was the hugest thing at day care.

Jesus I'm old. I remember being in high school, cutting class, smoking bowls and going to film crowd shots for that movie.

cosmo105

04-17-2006, 12:14 PM

omfg, DELIA*S. i used to get the catalogs in the mail because i subscribed to seventeen. :o when i was THIRTEEN. hah. i so desperately wanted those plaid skirts and the white garters and the pennyloafers...gah.

kll likes horses a little too much.

skinnybutphat

04-17-2006, 12:15 PM

abcdefz

04-17-2006, 12:23 PM

Frogger

ASsman

04-17-2006, 12:28 PM

Crack cocaine.

DapperDiverge

04-17-2006, 12:56 PM

nike sneakers (kids were always getting jumped for those)
now & laters (especially grape)
kool-aid (especially still in the packets)
dookie braids
shaving $ signs in your head
rollerskating/blading
sega (especially Mortal Kombat... FINISH HIM!!!)
Save by the Bell
blowpops (by Charms!!...say what?? CUT, CUT!!)
Uno
rocking/shaking cars so the alarms would go off
DING DONG DITCH!! bitches (hard to do in a condominium apartment...especially having to hide in the laundry room or garbage room)
friendship bracelets
red light
red rover
bloody mary
those hand games like miss mary mack or rockin' robin' type shit
double dutch
getting into fights!! nothng like 3 days off suspension!!:D (y)

abcdefz

04-17-2006, 01:03 PM

One of my friends got into breakdancing in a huge way. A local dance school wound up hiring him to teach it. But the red pants/shirt/bandana/wristbands thing looked pretty cheesey to me.

*shrugs*

Young stuff:

Three Minute Mysteries.

Encyclopedia Brown. (y)

kll

04-17-2006, 01:03 PM

Fuck a Rick Springfield.

SPUDZ McKenzie & Trapper Keepers!

Along the dog lines, there was this scruffy dog stuffed animal called a
Le Mutt. He was all the rage.

Sticker books (as someone else mentioned), especially scratch-n-sniff

Horses

BOP magazine

Dance Party USA

KROQ with Richard Blade as a dj

Sarky Devotchka

04-17-2006, 01:12 PM

Seventeen Magazine! we couldn't wait to be 17!

school dances were a big deal, when I went to a lutheran school we had them...I think they were for 5th grade and up. If you danced with a boy, people stood along the side and watched and took pictures and teased you afterwards.

also, getting a good seat in the lunch room was a big deal. or sitting at the "boys" table, where they'd try to gross you out the whole time to get you to leave. I was the champ at that.

cosmo105

04-17-2006, 02:13 PM

i wanted to be Encyclopedia Brown's girlfriend. :o

my best friend was the queen of eating stuff - she'd mix her danimals yogurt with whatever people put in - sprinkles, ketchup, relish, sprite, anything - and totally eat it for a dollar.

my parents never let me have Kool-Aid Jammers because they were pretty much 0% juice and 100% high fructose corn syrup. i had to have fuckin' JUICY JUICE. THANKS MOM :mad:

b-grrrlie

04-17-2006, 02:37 PM

As soon as I learned to read I was an avid visitor to the library, read just about all the Viisikko-books (http://www.q-point.fi/kauppa/images/IMG_0397.JPG).
Also after I'd turned 9 I always wanted a Marimekko (http://www.marimekko.co.uk/images/tasaraita_black.jpg)-striped long sleeved shirt, but I never got one cause they were so expensive. It took me 17 years before I got my first striped shirt, I always called it my Ramones-shirt then.

I can't remember any toys from my childhood that were anything special, but I did build a robot out of cardboard boxes, egg cartons and toilet rolls. He was called Robot Ropsis. I was hiding behind a sofa when I did it (propably I'd done something bad again, I was quite a tomboy as a kid and those days I got belted a lot, these days my dad would be in prison for child abuse) and mum took a photo of it, put it where the sun shone on the floor as we didn't have any flashes for the camera (http://img.2dehands.be/f/ad/13647202-agfa-camera.jpg) (those days you had to put a single use flash every time you wanted to take a pic with flash).

Maybe the biggest deal was the travels. We went on holiday every summer, travelled around Finland for a month, staying at different campsites. Also our grandparents lived quite far away, so our car made loads of miles every year, and I loved every meter of it. Maybe that's why I still get itchy feet if I don't get to travel somewhere every year.

Sarky Devotchka

04-17-2006, 07:52 PM

Thanks cosmo, I was wondering about this. We don't Noah have hardly any of the processed crap out there because we want him to be healthy. He now refuses to drink sodas when offered and asks for water. He pretty much just eats apples if ever goes to McDonald's, and he wants to eat spinach(organic) with everything. Now I know he is just going to resent us for it.

I can live with that.

I used to eat really healthy up until kindergarten when other kids said that kids aren't supposed to like vegetables. I came home and yelled at my mom, "why didn't you tell me that kids don't eat vegetables!" she was like, "oh great, here we go".