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The 5 Best Toys of All Time
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There did used to be some cool drawstring bags that were used for marble bags.
Despite what others say, I have not lost my marbles 
. I have them in a blue mason jar in with my spices which are also kept in blue mason jars.
. I have them in a blue mason jar in with my spices which are also kept in blue mason jars.
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I really love blue mason jars.
Yes, those were worn out also.
The playground at school was our marble playing field. It was a fine white ground limestone.
Rough on knuckle, and knees.
I never played much when boulders or steelies were allowed.
But I could clean the pot with regular marbles.
Cat eyes and pearlies.
Jim
I wish you were close by.
We probably have over 1000 jars in our old barn. Pints and quarts.
No telling how many are blue ones.
I'd give them to ya,
We quit canning about 4-5 years ago.
Jim
Trees were not part of our repertoire. Growing up in the desert they were few and far between, and they all had thorns. Not much opportunity to build a tree house. Good luck trying to climb a cactus. We did build forts. Usually just a hole maybe 6' x 6' x 2'. We would hide it with brush. Spikedriver, you are so right. Building it was more fun than playing in it.
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I still have a couple flower base's half full of them, makes pretty medium. I may 'just for the heck of it ' see if I can still flic one across the floor and hit a marble target.
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Jim I got to slide this one in,,it came in handy on down the road for peg legging our jeans. Locking them stitches in real good too so they could handle all the dancing and fun.
That reminds me, we also made wood plank dance floors that didn't last long because most of us would rarher chase horses and donks than jitta bug. But we did dance at times. Outside homr made dance floors were fun.
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I played marbles too.
A brother loved snakes, I played with snakes, lizards, turtles, bugs.
We'd sit in uncle's car that didn't run much at our house. That was fun cuz it was probably a car from the 1940s, in the 60s. I was just a little pipsqueak.
A brother loved snakes, I played with snakes, lizards, turtles, bugs.
We'd sit in uncle's car that didn't run much at our house. That was fun cuz it was probably a car from the 1940s, in the 60s. I was just a little pipsqueak.
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Patch I wasn't good at marles but I was a snake magnet. I didn't play with them but sometimes swimming in our lake they like to play with me. Mama would say " get out of the water' I'd say why. Which always promised me stripes from her big tree limb . Snake swimming around my head right behind me, and you all heard about the two in the creek and ' Lords Last Supper].
I couldn't help it,couldn't pass this one up, lyrics in it too for our hearing impaired.
OH and Jacks - I was actually pretty good at jacks.
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Tremors run in our family, so as long as I was playing with family members did okay because we all shake - haha
That's exactly what it was. A drawstring bag made of some kind of velvet like fabric.
Erector set.
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I had dolls and some accessories, but I also liked playing with the toys that were for boys. We spent hours playing cards, putting jigsaw puzzles together and playing board games. We used to take the old newspaper and construct things with them and cardboard boxes.
I would say the best toy - universally liked - for children is the bicycle. For grown men, the best toy is the firearm. I'm not sure what the best toy for grown women is. For my wife, that would be a hockey stick. But she's far from normal...
Don't believe my wife's ever been in one, except maybe to retrieve a puck accidentally launched in there while playing floor hockey out in the hallway.
Crown Royal?
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They weren't Crown Royal bags back then, but they could be now.
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Nobody in my family drinks (well, except for me
), so it wasn't Crown Royal...
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It seems the original 5 best toys of all time have a common thread binding them together that is lost today: Imagination.
A stick could be a sing shot, rifle, Bow, arrow, digging tool, fishing pole, bat… Right on down to just something to poke something else with. Same with the other 4 on the list, just basic ingredients to have fun with using… Your imagination.
A stick could be a sing shot, rifle, Bow, arrow, digging tool, fishing pole, bat… Right on down to just something to poke something else with. Same with the other 4 on the list, just basic ingredients to have fun with using… Your imagination.
Another common thread seems to be making or creating something with them. Boxes, string, dirt, sticks...you can build with them. Now toys look great, but what do you do with them when the newness wears off? Legos are one of the only newer toys that really let's kids roll with their imagination.
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We jumped rope a lot as well. We also had hoola hoops that kept us busy.@Cnsper that's exactly what I was thinking
Jumping rope kept us busy as kids too. You could even tie one end to a door knob or fence picket and have another person swing two ropes - that was mostest funnest
Bouncy ball. I remember being in 5th and 6th grade. We had a game we played at recess with a bouncy ball and a wall. For one, we bounced the ball off the wall and caught it, once. Two, we bounced it off the wall and the ground and caught it, twice. I do not remember all the parts, but we were into it. A bouncy ball got a lot of use.
