GernBlansten Posted July 1, 2015 Posted July 1, 2015 1. MOM and DAD PAYING THE BILLS 2. Taking the old family trips in the Old Station Wagon 3. Sunday lunch at Grandmas house. 4. Days when there was NO RESPONSIBILITY and NO WORRIES. #1 & 4!!!!! Add: A day when I'm "bored." A day when I could fit into size 30 pants.
paulF Posted July 1, 2015 Posted July 1, 2015 A combination of all the above i guess! Running and playing soccer all day long with friends ,building model airplanes and rc toys, riding bicycles for hours and hours, hunting/fishing and just being outdoors. Not having a cell phone and being able to disconnect from everything is definitely something that i miss too. It's obvious that some things we can't get back like family trips and so on but as of late, i realised how much i miss all this and decided that i'm going to go back to it all and for the past few years i actually have done so even though being an adult with responsibilities makes a lot of this pretty hard to do sometimes. So back to running, camping and being outdoors, getting on my motorbike and going out and about for days with no destination only a direction(No cell phone for other than emergencies) and it feels bloody awesome. 1
Duxnutz Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 PinBall, how exciting it was when the first Nintendo came out and general horsing around. How many of you keep in contact with friends from your childhood?
JohnS Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Playing football in the street with jerseys for goalposts. And soapbox racers. Yeah...definitely did those things. In Australia, we called soapbox racers 'billycarts'. Hours of fun racing down our street.
jat Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 What I miss is being ignorant of time. When I was a kid, I didn't need a watch or a calendar or to divide my day up into 'task increments'. You got up when you felt awake, got sent to bed against your wishes and in between stuff happened. Probably like most of you my Outlook calendar is starting to see entries into the last quarter, as I plan the year away.
maxcjs0101 Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 fireworks - didnt get enough of this when i was a kid due to parents financial constrain but still enjoyed what i had. spider hunting and fights - when we were 13, friends and i would scour the mini jungle in search for these metallic greenish male spiders and keep them in casette tape boxes to fight
smokinjaycutler Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Drinking tons of kool-aid in the summer, pop up swimming pool. Awesome flavored soda (returnable bottles). Making forts. Playing nintendo for hours and hours in the winter. 1
nick2021 Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Lack of video games and cell phones for sure---granted we had video games in the past, but nothing like what we have today that keep our children glued to the TV/PC 24/7.
Fuzz Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 How many of you keep in contact with friends from your childhood? From high school and uni, about a dozen or so, From earlier than that, none.
avaldes Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 How about the excitement of the last day of school?!? Camping at the beach over the 4th of July weekend Playing Baseball in little league Catching Crawdads in the little stream by the house Taking a day off of school to go fishing...any kind of fishing!
KRunch61 Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Playing kick-the-can Pick-up baseball at the sandlot Street hockey Whiffle Ball 1
Fuzz Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Playing kick-the-can Pick-up baseball at the sandlot Street hockey Whiffle Ball I'd be careful about teaching kids kick-the-can. If they get caught kicking the can more than 5 times, they could be arrested for "illegal transportation of litter". Or some old man's pills might be in the can, and if goes down the drain, he'll sue.
dvickery Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Pin ball machines ... Goodness I miss pin ball ... Nickel a game ... 6 for a quarter . Derrek 3
Onelove Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Miss fishing with one of my grandads and stories told by both, and whoever said that there was no such thing as a free lunch must have been born at age 18. Total consumer at heart though and what I miss the most, above all the days / nights playing with friends and cousins etc. and no responsibilities or bills, is the smell of a Darrell Lea store and all that it promised.
Duxnutz Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 From high school and uni, about a dozen or so, From earlier than that, none. Interesting how the passages of time changes things. I've got one friend I've known since I was 5 (and beat him in the head with toys).
Carpenter69 Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 Right on! What kind of BMX did you have? Check out bmxmuseum.comI still have my Red line from 83. Perfect condition. First thing I bought with my own money.I miss fishing, baseball from sun up to sundown. Most of all I miss the lack of technology. I wish we could get rid of cell phones for a month!
jat Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 I still have my Red line from 83. Perfect condition. First thing I bought with my own money. I miss fishing, baseball from sun up to sundown. Most of all I miss the lack of technology. I wish we could get rid of cell phones for a month! Redline !! how fantastic. I had a Mongoose with yellow plastic wheels. Spokes were so 60's and these wheels were the biz.
avaldes Posted July 2, 2015 Posted July 2, 2015 I had a Diamondback Silver Streak. I used to love those Redlines! 2
NCPANTHERZFAN Posted July 3, 2015 Posted July 3, 2015 I always wanted a Hutch... Just too expensive. I too had a mongoose. The only thing that was original was the frame! I had so many upgrades! Kinda like my Jeep now! Jeep stands for Just Empty Every Pocket.
MIKA27 Posted July 3, 2015 Posted July 3, 2015 We need an old school bmx thread A bit of inspiration perhaps, although not our BMX's of old (This is using road bikes) , still used to do tricks on BMX.
avaldes Posted July 4, 2015 Posted July 4, 2015 I found this pic online, it is just about identical to my old bike! Good times:) 1
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