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IcyPeas

(21,860 posts) Sun May 16, 2021, 06:41 PM May 2021

Today's children don't even know what this is.... [View all]

I, for one, remember these. They were fun.

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Today's children don't even know what this is.... [View all] IcyPeas May 2021 OP

I had one of those! I don't even remember what it's called, it's kind of a top, I think. Ocelot II May 2021 #1

It's a top. Made by Fisher-Price, IIRC AngryOldDem May 2021 #4

IIRC, it hummed if you made it go fast enough. Ocelot II May 2021 #40

Yep. AngryOldDem May 2021 #61

I think that IS mine! Heh! Guilded Lilly May 2021 #2

Seriously! Looks just like mine too! soothsayer May 2021 #3

I had the old fashion wooden ones that you wound with string and flung with a Chainfire May 2021 #5

Those took a lot of practice ironflange May 2021 #34

I believe the present day equivalent is soldierant May 2021 #37

That whole Twitter account is a trip. AngryOldDem May 2021 #6

I remember. Today's kids, even some zoomers and young millennials... brush May 2021 #7

I operate my "rotary phone" every day...Some don't even know what that is... Stuart G May 2021 #9

I received one at age 2, and played with it a lot! Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #8

what a great picture of you with this toy!! IcyPeas May 2021 #10

I must've broke it at some point, before the mid-70's. Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #13

IcyPeas taking some of us down memory lane - Thanks!! NoMoreRepugs May 2021 #11

Yep! Dave in VA May 2021 #12

It even could be a singing top. BittyJenkins May 2021 #14

I had one that "hummed" if you got it up to the right speed. Arkansas Granny May 2021 #15

It's amazing how little it took to entertain us. Remember jacks? Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #16

I remember them... Harker May 2021 #18

Also pick up sticks? Rebl2 May 2021 #22

I loved pick up sticks! We'd play them at... electric_blue68 May 2021 #31

I got really good at jacks. Ocelot II May 2021 #38

I loved playing jacks, but hated when I stepped on one barefooted yellowdogintexas May 2021 #55

LOL no kidding Ferrets are Cool May 2021 #62

Yes, and I bought one, 15 years ago, for my granddaughter. sinkingfeeling May 2021 #17

Awww... DemUnleashed May 2021 #19

I could make mine go a million miles an hour.. Permanut May 2021 #20

You can still find those in antique stores. Laffy Kat May 2021 #21

I had one just like that! Useless in FL May 2021 #23

We were so easily amused Generic Brad May 2021 #24

Made a weird noise as I recall twodogsbarking May 2021 #25

Ha! and then he advanced on you with another toy, bent on revenge... PatrickforB May 2021 #27

Me. I had one every year until I was about 6 or 7. Maybe a bit older. We had PatrickforB May 2021 #26

Yeah. I could hardly do any of the yo-yo tricks! : ( electric_blue68 May 2021 #50

LOL, yeah, all I could manage was walk the dog and around the world. PatrickforB May 2021 #58

We did! My 4 brothers and I. judesedit May 2021 #28

The lead-based paint on those was very tasty... Wounded Bear May 2021 #29

I did! I think it was actually my dad's and I played yellowdogintexas May 2021 #30

Either I or my cousin's had one when we were very young. electric_blue68 May 2021 #32

And they sure don't know what this is. NBachers May 2021 #33

I don't think I know what that is. 🤔 electric_blue68 May 2021 #47

Smirkymonkey has it right- push the plunger to get it into a soda bottle; let it go to seal it. NBachers May 2021 #59

thanks to you both... electric_blue68 May 2021 #60

For soda bottles? smirkymonkey May 2021 #48

How about Gyroscopes? Mr.Bill May 2021 #35

Had one of those, too. And a Slinky, the metal kind Ocelot II May 2021 #39

Battery sales back then must have been Mr.Bill May 2021 #43

Loved the slinky electric_blue68 May 2021 #52

Yes, but I don't think I tried the string trick....Cool! electric_blue68 May 2021 #49

I liked when he put it in the box. Mr.Bill May 2021 #54

I've never seen that... electric_blue68 May 2021 #56

How about Tinker Toys, or the little sparkler wheel "pump" electric_blue68 May 2021 #36

I'd forgotten about the sparkler thingy, but I had one. Ocelot II May 2021 #41

yeah, I remember those kalidiscopes! electric_blue68 May 2021 #45

I was a Lincoln Log guy myself. Mr.Bill May 2021 #44

I think I had lincoln logs myself. But then came.... electric_blue68 May 2021 #46

we had Tinker TOys and Lincoln Logs both yellowdogintexas May 2021 #53

Boy, I LOVED these! I had a couple when I was about 4-5 years old. Nowadays, kids think The_REAL_Ecumenist May 2021 #42

I know, it's so strange. On nice days, if we weren't in school, we would play outside all day and smirkymonkey May 2021 #51

Yes! My older sisters had one and I inherited it when they got too old for it csziggy May 2021 #57