Odd things you liked doing as a kid

[Couldlifeeverbesaneagain]

I always wanted to be a teacher when I grew up and would make my own worksheets with a black felt pen on a plain piece of paper which I'd then have go at completing myself in pencil. This was when I was about 7

I always thought I was odd for doing this as most of my friends hated school whereas I loved it.

I also used to make my own bus timetables for different stops around the house and pick up my dolls and teddies and put them in the basket bus that I'd drag around with string

I am an only child so enjoyed making my own entertainment - I am now a normal adult I swear!

What *odd* things did you used to do as a child? Keen to hear your experiences!

 

[JustHereForTheAgriculture]

I also used to make my own bus timetables for different stops around the house

That is so precious

 

[Beauhead]

I used to eat the fruity lip glosses from Avon lol

 

[HoGi]

We had a window that was a bit larger than normal so I could sit at it and my knees were level with the window sill.

I used to sit there and pretend I worked in the bank and stamp bits of paper (like they used to with paying in books etc)

 

[AliceInWanderLost]

I used to eat the fruity lip glosses from Avon lol

i used to eat the aquafresh milk teeth kids' toothpaste out the tube. i just loved the flavour!

 

[LittleMy]

My best friend and I would play “chippies” in her Granny’s garden using newspaper pages and bits of freshly cut grass. We also used to build proper dens using bits of old furniture we found. We used to make them out in the fields (we lived near the countryside) with the other kids who lived in the neighbourhood.

 

[Hbirdette]

I used to snack on frozen peas. Still do now tbf.

 

[klarakluckbag]

Me and my brother used to pretend that our garden shed was a spaceship, and the old metal vice that was attached to the workbench, was the ship's steering wheel. I used to let him "drive" if I was in a good mood (I'm the eldest!) and he'd say "Prepare for take-off" and I'd sit in the garden chair and pretend to strap myself in. Happy days!

 

[sylviepie]

Another only child here! I used to:
- climb in low-down kitchen cupboard to lick the salt shaker
- write "end credits" for my school class and teachers as if we were characters in a film, and decide on fitting names for the "actors" playing us
- keep my video tapes of Neighbours in a rucksack in my room in case of fire (999 the telly programme responsible for that)
- accidentally invented prostitution for my Barbies by saying Ken could kiss them for a fee
- get my auntie to write out then mark some sums (she's a teacher). I'd also get maths books to do at home.
- pretended to my mum and dad that we were getting homework, and I'd come up with my own assignments.
- come up with stories while playing tennis against the back wall, which I'd say out loud.
- if I got scared while trying to go to sleep, I'd make my way downstairs (with the lights on) with my hands on my bum as if that would protect me from behind.
- called Intercity trains Durham Trains because that's where we went on them.

 

[prozacprincess]

My Gran had Kays Catalogue … anyone remember that?

It would be the first thing I reached for when I went to her house, but not to look at toys. I would turn to the bedroom furniture pages and imagine what bed and furniture I would have, and then go to the clothing pages to choose clothes and put them in my imaginary wardrobes. I could actually physically see myself putting coats in the end wardrobe, skirts in another etc

 

[Sea]

Read out teletext/ceefax news in different regional accents!

 

[Couldlifeeverbesaneagain]

Really enjoying reading everyone's stories. Thank you

 

[Badabing101]

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.

 

[LittleMy]

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 also drank malt vinegar from the bottle!

Used to play Blind Date with my friends in the school playground. My best male friend always insisted that he was Cilla Black (he came out when we were 16).

I also used to draw black eyes around my Barbie dolls’ eyes with pen so they looked like they’d been having a Barney. My mum used to go apeshit.

 

[BattleAxing]

My Gran had Kays Catalogue … anyone remember that?

It would be the first thing I reached for when I went to her house, but not to look at toys. I would turn to the bedroom furniture pages and imagine what bed and furniture I would have, and then go to the clothing pages to choose clothes and put them in my imaginary wardrobes. I could actually physically see myself putting coats in the end wardrobe, skirts in another etc

I did this and would be so happy to find a catalogue in someone else’s house I didn’t have like Kay’s or Freeman’s, I would not look at toys but all the houseware stuff envisaging an entire house. I would even be able to “pick up” where I left off.

I would also write lists of all my classmates and give them job titles.

Dry hump the sofa arms and call it “rubbing pigeons”

In a moving car I would envisage a small super Mario like character jumping over all the obstacles like a platform game.

I played out from quite a young age and would place a fizzer or Parma violet on the floor then cordon it off from other children and claim it was drugs and I was waiting for the police.

If I found a shopping trolley on my estate I would place my little brother in the seat and go “imaginary” shopping. Saying what stuff I was buying as I was pushing him along. I felt grown up haha.

I also “managed” a busking act which involved dressing my little brother up in an old yellow rain mac that belonged to my dad and my sister playing a guitar and singing. I wrote them a song called “banana with no common sense” and would make them perform this outside in the hope passers by would give us money. No one ever did.

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

Take all the tinned food from the cupboard, "scan it" across a section of the dining room table, add up the cost on my calculator and make my little brother pay for it with Monopoly money.

I also used to use the stairs as a bus and my little brother had to be the passenger. I insisted he be called Tommy during the game.

Use a flower hanging basket as a net for playing fake basketball

 

[Couldlifeeverbesaneagain]

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.

The best bit of having a cone of chips was drinking the Vinegar left at the bottom!

 

[BettyCrockerr]

This is a bit random



We used to get mud and mix it with water to create a paste and then use a stick to rub the paste on the old stainless steel dustbin lids… if you do it, it turns it a darker colour that’s shiny…. I have no idea who found out about it or why we did it but I remember playing around with mud and rubbing it on bin kids for hours….!!!!


As you were……!

 

[Silverplume]

Only child here, did the same as some of you with catalogs.
We have cottonwood trees all around here, and they drop twigs constantly. The twigs have knobby knots: if you snap the twig right in the knot, both sides show a star shape inside the pith of the twig. Complicated to write out, but fun for a kid. I showed my granddaughter a couple of years ago, and loved her child-joy at finding stars hidden in her own yard.
Fun thread!

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

I found a dead fox one day so decided I'd lead my friends to it. We visited it every single day until it had decomposed to such an extent that you couldn't go near it without heaving. I don't know why we did this.

I used to chisel my name into the paintwork on the window sills and, when accused, blame my older brother.

I would write the full names of everyone in my class on a blank page at the back of one of my books and use this to register if anyone had been off school that day. If they had I'd make a guess as to why.