Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread

[tlcya]

I give you - Jarts. Family fun? More like weapons disguised as toys lol

 

[worm]

Thought it was a baking thread.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

It's daily thread, not daily bread.

Though baking could be one of the topics. Yum Yum.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I've always thought that just plain darts could be dangerous.

Especially if thrown by someone like me, with no sense of aiming in the right direction

 

[charminglane]

I've always thought that just plain darts could be dangerous.

Especially if thrown by someone like me, with no sense of aiming in the right direction

As well as a few pints in...

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I rarely drink alcohol, it does nothing for me, so I'd probably have non alcoholic ginger beer.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

I remember playing a game when I was eleven years old or so that we called Splits. One person would stand with legs wide apart on grass. (I would go barefoot all summer and would end up being able to walk comfortably on burning hot blacktop, which did not make this game any safer.)
The partner in Splits would flip a pocket knife so that it would end up sticking into the grass between the other's outstretched feet. Nobody ever got hurt. It was just part of what we did until the street lights came on.

 

[tlcya]

I remember playing a game when I was eleven years old or so that we called Splits. One person would stand with legs wide apart on grass. (I would go barefoot all summer and would end up being able to walk comfortably on burning hot blacktop, which did not make this game any safer.)
The partner in Splits would flip a pocket knife so that it would end up sticking into the grass between the other's outstretched feet. Nobody ever got hurt. It was just part of what we did until the street lights came on.

I was also a barefoot kid lol. Did you purposefully pop the tar bubbles on the blacktopped street just for fun? I did. My mom would get so mad because I would come home with my barefeet covered in tar and track it through the house on coming home as you say, when the street lights came on. Lots of good memories coming out of this thread.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

I was also a barefoot kid lol. Did you purposefully pop the tar bubbles on the blacktopped street just for fun? I did. My mom would get so mad because I would come home with my barefeet covered in tar and track it through the house on coming home as you say, when the street lights came on. Lots of good memories coming out of this thread.

Oh, my, I never made the acquaintance of a tar bubble. I can see I missed out. That would have been fun!

 

[Mo Thuairim]

I was barefoot all summer long too. We didn't often have hot enough temperatures to melt the tarmac (asphalt in US?) and there wasn't all that much of it around back then where we lived. There were certainly no streetlights. So it was mostly soft underfoot with grass and wildflower meadows but our feet were well toughened up from constantly navigating through whins and briars (gorse/furze and brambles) in the back fields not to mention those agonising ubiquitous nettle patches.

 

[Knox]

How about red rover, red rover, send Kox right over? I would purposely disengage my arm right before if it was Kelly R, he was a tank!!! Or door bell ditch? Such fun memories to think about.

 

[Dotta]

OK folks
There was one place in the neighbourhood
which was our "Club".

It was the place where a special thing was situated:

"A Carpet Beating Rack"

Yep!
You read this right
A rack where people could bring carpets to beat them with a paddle to make them clean.

It was our gymnastics rack.

Yes!
The symbol of our childhood

The meeting point,
a place to hang out
and perform acrobatics today's kids cannot even imagine!

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

How many here had a Ouija board? They were quite popular in 7th and 8th grade.

My favorite "toys" growing up were my tap and ballet shoes, books, and my bicycle. I also liked to color and play jacks. I never really enjoyed summer because I missed being in school and dance classes.

 

[Megnut]

 

[Gemmie]

How many here had a Ouija board? They were quite popular in 7th and 8th grade.

My favorite "toys" growing up were my tap and ballet shoes, books, and my bicycle. I also liked to color and play jacks. I never really enjoyed summer because I missed being in school and dance classes.

I didn't have a Ouija board but I played with my friend's board. They were always "cheating" AKA Obviously pushing the planchette where they wanted it to go.

The game I always wanted was Operation. I never got one but a few years back I ran across one at an estate sale so I bought it. As an adult, it wasn't as fun as I had imagined it to be as a young child. lol

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[Gators North]

My brother and I had a Ouija board, but we didn’t play with it that much.

We also had a “Magic Eight Ball.”

Magic 8 Ball - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[justtrish]

OMG @ this family photos that Tricia had us go have a look-see.

When I got to this part "As you can see, my husband looks like he was quite excited about the tour." I checked out his face and thought her smile was bigger than his. Then I realized it wasn't his face she was talking about...

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Oh gosh!! LOL I'm glad as a female I don't have to worry about being "too excited" in photos.. the worse thing us girls might worry about is being too cold with the wrong bra on.

 

[angelainwi]

How many here had a Ouija board? They were quite popular in 7th and 8th grade.

My favorite "toys" growing up were my tap and ballet shoes, books, and my bicycle. I also liked to color and play jacks. I never really enjoyed summer because I missed being in school and dance classes.

I did and I hung it up in my bedroom. I started having visits from a scary looking old dude after it. I may have by accident invited him into my room...These boards come to find out, are dangerous and can let out bad spirits.

 

[Gators North]

I did and I hung it up in my bedroom. I started having visits from a scary looking old dude after it. I may have by accident invite him into my room...These boards come to find out, are dangerous and can let out bad spirits.

Yes, I’ve heard that too.

 

[Stunned]

Yes @Gators North you were spared the wardrobe trauma.
I am a very much lapsed Catholic

I tell everyone I'm a "Recovering Catholic".