Anybody play with Pick-up -Sticks when you were a kid

[texanwitch]

It was a simply game but fun.

[Cabcere]

1. Heck yes, I did!

:hi: That was fun...I had forgotten about that game, but those were some good times. :) Thanks for taking me back to that! :thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

2. That was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. n/t

[Critters2]

3. Yep!

My grandparents had this great room with all my dad and aunt's old toys from when they were kids. They had a can of pick-up sticks we'd get out all the time.

And carroms. I loved carroms.

[texanwitch]

4. I wonder if kids would play that game today.

Today I was talking with a neighbor, and how fun the game was.

All the game was a bunch of plastic sticks.

[Haole Girl]

5. Brace yourself for this pic. We were too poor for the store bought kind

:rofl:

It's a small miracle I have all my teeth! lol

[texanwitch]

11. Nice picture.

They were just baby teeth.

Y'all had that cool swing, I am going to build one.

[Haole Girl]

12. Thanks

I was 7 in that pic, so I guess so (I was a small 7 year old). To be honest, I completely blocked out the losing teeth part of my childhood! :scared:

That swing was cool. It was at my Grandmother's house. :hi:

[texanwitch]

16. I have plans to build it but never the time.

My Grandparents had two swings on the front porch.

Well, one was a glider type.

My Grandfather built both.

[davsand]

6. Pick-up Sticks and Jacks.

Does that make me old?


:shrug:

Laura

[Critters2]

7. Jacks!! Jacks were a religion in the spring among

us girls when I was growing up.

Does that make me old?

[davsand]

10. Not old, but maybe crippled if you stepped on any of them

Remember how they USED to make them out of metal?

That was one game my Mom could count on me to pick up every time without fail!



Laura

[texanwitch]

13. They must have been made out of steel.

Good thing jaxs had nice round edges.

[Critters2]

14. It hurts just thinkin' about it!

Hi, Laura!! :hi:

How's everyone down by you?

[davsand]

24. Hey, Lisa! How's it going?

I'd been wondering about you lately. I'd run across a thread on here of yours where somebody had been kind of mean to you (in Real Life) and you were talking about wanting to get out of where you are...

I'd been wondering how you are doing, and asked Kev just last week if anyone at the office had heard from you lately! Please tell me you are doing ok? If not, I'll have to do a road trip and come up there to smack somebody around for you!


Laura

PS, We are all fine. Material Girl is back in school again (5th GRADE!) after a summer of volunteer work at CCHCC. We (the pseudo adults) are doing fine too. Busy, but fine!

[Critters2]

25. Things are better.

Not great, but better. They were pretty shitty there for a while. Still some hurt feelings floating around--mine and others'. But things are settling back down. I've been thinking I should go down for a visit one of these days. I haven't been to C-U in a long time.

[HeeBGBz]

20. Jacks were great

Until you stepped on one in your bare feet.

[Critters2]

22. That must have happened more than I realized.

I don't think I ever stepped on one, but you're the second person to mention it. And yeah...that would hurt!!

[HeeBGBz]

26. They make them out of plastic now

It really sux because the colorful metal was part of the allure.

[texanwitch]

29. Plastic jax.

The sound of jax on cement, not same with plasitc jax.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Jacks!

I still like playing jacks!

(And no, that doesn't make you old!)

[texanwitch]

9. We had a lot of cheap games.

We liked to play Battle with this huge deck of cards, must have been 300 cards.

We could keep a game going all day.

[txwhitedove]

15. Sure! Long summer days on the porch with my girlfriends and ...

an A.M. radio, playing pick-up-sticks, and jacks with a golf ball (personally marked of course) - golf balls bounce way better than those cheap rubber balls, especially for picking up cherries and around the world. Wanna play?

:hi:

[texanwitch]

19. I was never good at playing jax.

A good player could take all the jax.

[txwhitedove]

27. Aw, we didn't keep each others jacks. I did have a great collection...

of marbles from playing with the boys. We even played during school recess, but I quit playing marbles with the boys after I got an ant, yes an ant, in my panties. Went back to class and got in trouble for scooching all around in my seat. When the teacher asked what was wrong, "Do you have ants in your pants?" I had to say Yes.

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

31. I was good at marbles.

Still have them in old sock.

Wonder if they are worth anything.

Well, you still had your marbles.

[Gormy Cuss]

17. And paddle ball!

We drew our own hopscotch squares on the sidewalk and jumped rope too.

[Critters2]

18. And foursquare

The school playground had "painted-on" foursquares, but at the park and at home, we drew our own with chalk.

Good times.

[texanwitch]

23. Paddle ball,

I wonder how many kids hit themselves in the eye with that little ball.

I saw it happen.

[davsand]

28. Those paddles were DANGEROUS in the hands of a pissed off Mom!

Those were worse than a Nylon Spatula--and THAT says it all!



Laura

[SeattleGirl]

30. I used to dread it when my mom got hold of one of those where the

ball had come off. :scared:

[texanwitch]

32. The paddles were made out of solid wood.

I got a smack or two with one.

[SeattleGirl]

34. So did I.

Yikers! :scared:

[texanwitch]

35. I didn't get many smacks.

The few I got hurt.

[HeeBGBz]

21. I loved Pick Up Sticks

I sucked at it pretty bad.

[Kali]

33. sure - heck we still play them

took some down to Chihuahua to play at the family's house we stay at - playing silly games is easier than trying to make real conversation when the Spanish is rusty!:P

[Maddy McCall]

36. Tiddly Winks and Pick Up Sticks were my favorite childhood games.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

37. yes, we played it at my grandparents when we would visit

and then we got some at home

it was a fun game...

:hi: