Odd things you liked doing as a kid

[BattleAxing]

Just a few more:

Other kids my age were starting to drink on the park. Where as I would be fashioning a fishing net out of a pair of low denier tights place them on each side of the canal and catch all the sticklebacks all by myself. I liked collecting various forms of pond life.

Making disgusting concoctions out of every liquid in the house.

Digging mud up and sieving it, then trying to sell it to the neighbours. Complete with yet another song - a spoof of dads army advertising what we called Broggalog which we claimed in the song would help revive weeds. Someone did actually buy it too. Probably because they rightly assumed we were really poor.

I was obsessed with dogs and would go up to complete strangers dogs to ask their name and pet them. I had a log of every dog I had ever met with its name and breed.

I would make these things called “Sand Cats” which was just balls of claggy mud rolled in sand that looked like tubes. I still to this day have no idea what my objective was. But it was something I did really often.

 

[Skyeball]

Made perfume out of rose petals and water. Once beheaded a full rose for this and my nan and grandad didn't mind. Can you imagine not minding? My mum would have took the scholl sandal to my backside for spoiling our garden at home
Some of my family lived semi rurally and rented some land for livestock, I used to spend quite a lot of time burying my hands in the corn and feed pellets. No idea why.
Also used to write poems and read them out to the eggs in the incubators to help the ducks and chickens hatch properly.
I did the catalogue thing (Avon included..Heather Shimmer anyone?)too, convinced I'd have a kitchen full of Eternal Beau when I got married to a nice man and had lots of babies.
Did get married to a nice man and had a reasonable flock of babies, not a sniff of Eternal Beau in the equation. I've been had.

 

[Rodneytrotter]

No idea why but I was a very religious child and used to pray all the time. I'd also get my teddies together and sing hymns. My dad is an atheist and my mum went to church occasionally but I doubt that influenced me.

I used to tell God that I was sorry for everything I've ever done but would love a pony of my own. I also used to tell him if someone had picked on me at school and how much I hated them. I also used to tell him to prove to me he was real by leaving a sign.

 

[HowlOwl]

Just a few more:

Other kids my age were starting to drink on the park. Where as I would be fashioning a fishing net out of a pair of low denier tights place them on each side of the canal and catch all the sticklebacks all by myself. I liked collecting various forms of pond life.

Making disgusting concoctions out of every liquid in the house.

Digging mud up and sieving it, then trying to sell it to the neighbours. Complete with yet another song - a spoof of dads army advertising what we called Broggalog which we claimed in the song would help revive weeds. Someone did actually buy it too. Probably because they rightly assumed we were really poor.

I was obsessed with dogs and would go up to complete strangers dogs to ask their name and pet them. I had a log of every dog I had ever met with its name and breed.

I would make these things called “Sand Cats” which was just balls of claggy mud rolled in sand that looked like tubes. I still to this day have no idea what my objective was. But it was something I did really often.

The “Sand Cats” is hilarious!

 

[Pesky Tarian]

I used to write little menus and play waitress taking orders from imaginary people.
On car journeys I liked to look out of the window and pretend I was in the music video for a sad song

 

[Glamourelle]

I remember when I was very young and jealous that my sister was old enough to go to school (I was about three). So whilst I was at home I used to ask my mum to make me a packed lunch in a lunch box which I would eat at the dining table. Bizarre kid

 

[HoGi]

Me and my sister would play "cafés" but not us serving. We would pretend we were in somewhere like Debenhams cafe and we would go to the fridge with a tray and chose our lunch. Mum would wrap a roll and stick some crisps in there etc. So it was like visiting a café

 

[Babycheeses2]

Not an only child - came from a big family with lots of cousins and we would all congregate at my grandmas every weekend. We used to grab blue and yellow towels and put them on the floor and make a 'beach'. We would get into our swimming costumes and sunbathe on the yellow towels and 'swim' on the blue ones We lived in a flat so no garden can you tell lol

Also used to play secretary one too many times, but we would always end up bickering with each other in the 'office' - we used to fight over who had the best 'office' (the best being the one made under the dining table) and our grandma would have to come and mediate.

Also would make up dance moves to all the pop songs and fight over who was who in the band

 

[Notorious PIG]

I used to love melting bic biro lids and various small plastic objects in the gas fire heater for some storage reason. Also, putting as many different ingredients into a sandwich as possible.

 

[Babycheeses2]

This has just reminded me that I once did my own giant art attack and viewed it from my top bunk. Used towels and clothes and all sorts.

Me and my best friend used to put on a Westlife album and imaginary slow dance with them, me with Nikki and her with Kian

Anyone else got kids now who don't do any of this sort of thing? Swear netflix and on demand TV has robbed them all of imaginations.

Are you my cousin..

Art attack was my fave, we used to use table salt and my grandma would go mental but then we would tell her we would hoover it up and so in the end she managed to get us to vacuum the whole house

We were obsessed with bewitched - denim all around hahha, s club 7, spice girls etc were a weekly set

My kids cringe when my OH and I break into song and dance when old music comes on - happens a lot in supermarkets - it makes me sad that they'll never have these anecdotes to share with their friends/kids etc

 

[Web30]

When ibwould go to town with my grandma she would take me in to travel agents to get brouchers, i would then spend forever reading them and planning a holiday.

 

[SwimmingPigs]

Bring cups into the bath with me and pretend I was a bartender (serving bathwater and bubbles)

I invented a game at primary school called 'the bloody game' where one person would be the murderer and everyone else had to run away from them - if they were caught, they would be 'killed'.

When I went fishing with my dad I would help some of the maggots (used as bait) to 'escape'

I once chewed up some bread and rolled it into balls on a baking tray, then tried to serve to my family

 

[watermelon sugar]

I used to set up all my teddy bears up so it was like a tv studio doing the news so I put a teddy bear behind 2 chairs, set more teddy bears up as a tv crew, like they were filming, and I was the weather girl I used to want to be a weather girl when I was little.

when I was in the bath I used to swish backwards and forward like I was in a whirlpool. Used to do my mums head in

 

[Lalla]

Another only child here. I was often referred to as having a 'rich imagination'. TBH I think half my family thought I was a right little oddball.

I used to:

Make my poor mother play boarding schools with me. This was when I was about 7-8 and obsessed with Malory Towers, St Clares, Chalet School etc. So I used to write my mum letters 'from boarding school' and she would have to send me written replies. She had a lot of patience.

We lived in a cul de sac (or as it's known in Essex a banjo ) so I used to play out a lot. We made rosewater perfume from rose petals (always smelt vile) and I also had snail collections - basically a group of snails collected from around and about, the challenge was to find unusual or very small ones. I'd keep them in tupperware for about a week with a selection of leaves until they died/ my mum found them, whichever happened first. I used to also play reporters and interview my parents about events in the news

I cut my Sindys hair into a bob, pierced her ears and added makeup with felt tips. She looked very cool. She was also in a same sex relationship with another Sindy (mainly because I didn't have a brother I could borrow an Action Man from) and they adopted a baby

I used to regularly draw the outside of my future homes - front and back elevations and floorplans of the layout/ furniture positions.

When I was a bit older, 11 or so, when I was home alone during the school holidays, some days I would put on makeup and a dress and be a newsreader - I'd sit in the living room with a table and some papers in front of me and read aloud the Ceefax news (I have never told anyone this before )

I was also clearly ahead of my time as around the same age I would also do makeup/ hair/ cleaning tutorials to entertain myself - where I'd do a whole voice over (just to myself, not recorded or anything, this was the early 80s, we didn't even have a video recorder let alone a video camera!) about what I was doing, how to achieve different looks etc. Jesus if I'd been born 30 years later I might have become an influenza. What a horrible thought!

 

[Jaybtee]

played videoshop
got all the vhs in the house put a ticket in them and someone would come in and you'd have to give them the ticket out and stamp it to give them the tape lolllll

I also ran a Pokemon school
made booklets up with quizzes about pokemon and kids in the street would do them and i would mark them OMG

Another one that played schools all the time - not an only child but I loved it.
Also used to drink malt vinegar from the bottle.

i used to pour vinegar in tea spoons and drink it haha

 

[BattleAxing]

I honestly always felt I was alone with the catalogue fantasy thing. I’m surprised how popular it was!

I had collections of animals too. Already stated where I would collect sticklebacks with a pair of tights. I would also collect tadpoles, 2years later there is a thriving frog community in my dads back garden. I also once at the age of 10 collected a huge bucket of great crested newts and took them home. My dad told me to put them all back because I was breaking the law - I didn’t know. Oops

I liked to disturb ants nests and watch them all come out.

I also liked to make rose perfume but mine always ended up as smelly, stagnant, pissy smelling water. Disappointed much.

When I was on a bus I would always choose one item of clothing or accessory each passenger had and “store” it in my imaginary wardrobe.

 

[Kim Mild]

Another only child here. I was often referred to as having a 'rich imagination'. TBH I think half my family thought I was a right little oddball.

I used to:

I cut my Sindys hair into a bob, pierced her ears and added makeup with felt tips. She looked very cool. She was also in a same sex relationship with another Sindy (mainly because I didn't have a brother I could borrow an Action Man from) and they adopted a baby





I was also clearly ahead of my time as around the same age I would also do makeup/ hair/ cleaning tutorials to entertain myself - where I'd do a whole voice over (just to myself, not recorded or anything, this was the early 80s, we didn't even have a video recorder let alone a video camera!) about what I was doing, how to achieve different looks etc. Jesus if I'd been born 30 years later I might have become an influenza. What a horrible thought!

I also used to do make up / skin care 'vlogs ' I'd make products up to review and stuff. Thank god that sort of embarrassing crap never ended up online.


I used lipstick to dye my dolls hair.

I was OBSESSED with catalogues top, and I'd make up imaginary characters and choose wardrobes for them.

 

[Blowup80]

I used to draw bras on the page 3 girl in the paper before my Dad got home from work

 

[BattleAxing]

I used to draw bras on the page 3 girl in the paper before my Dad got home from work

I always drew dog faces on their boobs and used the nipples as the nose.

 

[Blowup80]

I always drew dog faces on their boobs and used the nipples as the nose.

My Dad started hiding the paper in his workbag. I was a bright kid. Didn't take me long to work that out