Odd things you bought as a child

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I spent every cent I received or earned on hockey cards.

 

[Easily_Remembered]

Oh man, where to start?

I suppose that toys and comic books don't qualify as "odd".

So I would say either wrestling cards as a retort to your hockey cards, or the fact that my Sherlock Holmes obsession led to me accumulating a small collection of pipes. I'm even more surprised that my parents were okay with that.

 

[aRTie02150]

Those sticky toys you'd get from the egg machines. Especially the sticky hand ones.

Sniff

Great thread.

 

[Easily_Remembered]

Those sticky toys you'd get from the egg machines. Especially the sticky hand ones.

Sniff

Great thread.

I remember being in the 4th grade, and someone had somehow gotten one of those green sticky hands stuck on the ceiling of the cafeteria. I was hoping all year that it would fall so I could nab it. I bet nowadays they wouldn't be nearly that adhesive.

 

[aRTie02150]

I remember being in the 4th grade, and someone had somehow gotten one of those green sticky hands stuck on the ceiling of the cafeteria. I was hoping all year that it would fall so I could nab it. I bet nowadays they wouldn't be nearly that adhesive.

I used to do the same exact thing. They'd stick like cement to ceiling tiles. One was from 6th grade until 8th.

If you wiped them with an alcohol pad before throwing it, they'd stick even more.

 

[satanssockpuppet]

Wacky Packages. They were stickers featuring spoofs of various products, like "Band-Ache" bandages, "Moron Salt", "Mice Krispies" and so forth. In second grade they were the biggest thing, and you were a total nobody if you didn't have tons of them. Our school was covered in them, to a point where they banned them from the building. What a bunch of little retards we were.

 

[Bumley]

A funny thing is that I had a fixation on rock music as a young teen. Much like Norton, Ozzy and Black Sabbath were particularly of interest to me. I spent my money from working summers on CDs and music shirts. My mom and dad hated it. In retrospect, I might have smacked myself in the mouth for these foolish endeavors. On the other hand, should I have bought Duck Head shirts and Nike shoes? No. Fuck those preppy cocksuckers. Bear witness to my Ozzy on a toilet t shirt you middle-class-mom-works-at-the-electric-company-and-dad-is-a-well-adjusted-Ward Cleaver fucks.

Other than that, baseball cards probably. I don't think I ever bought things that I regretted. Or anything terribly odd.Maybe a butterfly knife or something here and there.

 

[Phish]

I spent a huge chunk of my bank account and summer work savings on a badass decked out gas powered offroad GoPed scooter with a bunch of aftermarket parts on it, like a jacked up dune buggy version of the electric ones you see in cities nowadays. I was young, but mostly everyone i hung out with was my brothers age or a few years older than me. So i got like one winters worth of use out of it by the time the next summer rolled around, a lot of my friends were getting their licenses and cars and my scooter ended up rusting away in the back of the garage and my friends picked on me for being a faggot.

 

[DMbA]

Wwaw throwing wet tissue at the ceiling

Fun time

 

[aRTie02150]

Wwaw throwing wet tissue at the ceiling

Fun time

This kid Renzo in 8th grade took a whole sheet of printer paper and balled it up and kept it in his mouth and filled his mouth with water from his bottle until the paper was saturated enough and threw it extremely hard at ceiling above him. I remember the ceiling tile moving up from the force but the paper ball stuck and we all laughed for a solid 45 seconds uncontrollably. Pencils followed.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I bought this stupid JuiceBox mp3 player thing that had cartridges you could put in like a GameBoy and watch tv.

 

[Phish]

I bought this stupid JuiceBox mp3 player thing that had cartridges you could put in like a GameBoy and watch tv.

A friend of mine bought a minidisk player back in the day and he swore up and down they were the next big up and coming thing coming down the pipeline and the brand new “iPods” that were hitting the shelves were going nowhere fast. Nice prediction, stupid.

 

[Uncle Floyd]

Sports cards, WWF cards, Star Wars/Indiana Jones cards, Garbage Pail Kids cards. Until Mom threw everything out.

I coulda been a collectah.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Sports cards, WWF cards, Star Wars/Indiana Jones cards, Garbage Pail Kids cards. Until Mom threw everything out.

I coulda been a collectah.

I probably have a bunch of Star Wars action figures that would be worth something if I didn’t inbox them and play with them in the tub. Hockey cards is a weird one because I could never recoup the entire investment because I spent so much fucking money on them but they have just been sitting in the same for over a decade. I can’t even bring myself to look up the prices on eBay of sets that I acquired by buying packs and boxes.

 

[RoTheHo69]

Wwaw throwing wet tissue at the ceiling

Fun time

I brought that back in highschool. I also used to empty the garbage cans on the floor of the bathroom, throw all the papertowels, take the garbage bags out of the garbage and force flush them down the toilet.

 

[EraGodless]

I spent every cent I received or earned on hockey cards.

Buying and selling fireworks- I was like 11 or 12. The problem was I didn't have any fireworks.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

Buying and selling fireworks- I was like 11 or 12. The problem was I didn't have any fireworks.

WWAWD blowing up apples?

 

[EraGodless]

WWAWD blowing up apples?

I only blew up GI Joe's/frogs/and a few windows-- taped m-80's to a few windows.

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

I only blew up frogs

I’m partially quoting you but that’s messed up.

 

[SoloJoeAcousticShow]

Mad magazine. I thought it was subversive, rebellious and very clever because I never seen that kind of raunchy satire about non political figures before. Then I found out about jews.