How Much Do You Usually Spend On Christmas?

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Is it part of some kind of kids game?

You just bouuncrd them off of each other. Making s click clsck sound.

Kind of like a yoyo or paddle ball I guess.

 

[oldandcrabby]

Did they have Nintendo when you were a kid?

nope been married to my husband for 35 years and we long distant dated all before internet and cell phones.

 

[oldngray]

 

[oldandcrabby]

You just bouuncrd them off of each other. Making s click clsck sound.

Kind of like a yoyo or paddle ball I guess.

yes that is a good description of them.

 

[Returntosender]

No it is a toy.

I sorry that toy is way before my time. Never seen/heard of a toy with glass balls attached to strings. Closest thing I did was sling shot with ball bearings and breaking the glass windows abandon cars.

 

[oldngray]

nope been married to my husband for 35 years and we long distant dated all before internet and cell phones.

 

[olroadbeech]

Nowadays we would all be called bad parents if we let our children do what our parents allowed us to do.

you would be arrested.

 

[oldngray]

No free range parenting allowed. We would be out playing all day by ourselves yet managed to survive.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I sorry that toy is way before my time. Never seen/heard of a toy with glass balls attached to strings. Closest thing I did was sling shot with ball bearings and breaking the glass windows abandon cars.

They been banned for a long time.

 

[olroadbeech]

knockers ( glass balls on a string ) taken off market after too many injuries. they did come out with plastic ones.

 

[oldandcrabby]

I sorry this toy is way before my time. Never seen/heard of a toy with glass balls attached to strings. Closest thing I did was sling shot with ball bearings and breaking the glass windows abandon cars.

yeah I shishgabobed my Uncles favorite rooster with a bow and arrow. I worked like a dog that whole summer to pay for it. Along with damage to rooster was not only responsibility but accountability.

 

[oldandcrabby]

No free range parenting allowed. We would be out playing all day by ourselves yet managed to survive.

As long as we were in by the time the street lights came on.

 

[oldandcrabby]

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yep and cost us .37 a minute to talk long distance.

 

[olroadbeech]

No free range parenting allowed. We would be out playing all day by ourselves yet managed to survive.

our society is creating a lot of handicapped ( mentally ) children zombied out on ritalen and other depression meds and they will stay in their basements and only come out armed to the teeth and wreck havick on a sick populace.

sorry. having a bad day.

 

[olroadbeech]

yep and cost us .37 a minute to talk long distance.

we used 2 empty soup cans connected with string.

 

[oldandcrabby]

our society is creating a lot of handicapped ( mentally ) children zombied out on ritalen and other depression meds and they will stay in their basements and only come out armed to the teeth and wreck havick on a sick populace.

sorry. having a bad day.

what's going on you comforted me on bad day pm me if you want to. I am right here.

 

[oldandcrabby]

we used 2 empty soup cans connected with string.

Family lived in coal country we played with carbide from the miner's lamps. A nickles worth made excellent homemade bottle rockets my uncle showed us how to do it. He was a blaster before a mine collapse put him permanently out of work.

 

[oldandcrabby]

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Little too old of a phone but it was ATT trimline touchtone no call waiting or caller ID. I think my family in the South were still on a party line though.

 

[oldandcrabby]

Did they have Nintendo when you were a kid?

My son got the joy of brand new kind of game system called ninetendo. My husband and I are of the pong generation.

 

[rickyb]

more on myself and others, than on revolutionary charity unfortunately