Toys from the 90s :)

Making up for my lack of posts last week with three in a row this week. You're welcome. ;)

As I was wasting hours of my life perusing Facebook last night, I found this gem on a friend's wall. Obviously I went through and reminisced about all the toys I used to have. Between my sister and me, we had #s 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, and 50.

1. Those roller skates were not a great investment for us because we lived on a tar-and-chip road and the little plastic wheels couldn't handle all the gravel. Therefore, my sister and I did more walking tripping than skating.

2. Moon shoes were THE BEST! Until we got to big and broke the elastic with our jumps...whoops.

6. Did anyone ever win this game?

7. Somehow we didn't get tired of hearing the same song. Over and over and over and over again.

9. I'm pretty sure we spent hours recording "secret" messages on these little guys and then turning the dial so we sounded like robots or Alvin and his chipmunk brothers. I'm not sure what ended up happening to them. If I had to guess, I'd say my mom hid them from us.

12.  I used to have a Reptar-mobile that had coloring books and crayons and other crafty stuff inside.

13. I'm pretty sure we had every Disney version of these. Almost as much fun as watching the actual movie. Almost...

15. We both had gold ones that we used to race from the top of the hill on our street (or our neighbor's driveway).

18. We used to cheat at Bop-It by having one of us man the bop-it and pull-it, while the other one had the twist it. This was actually a horrible idea because we ended up blaming each other every time we lost!

21. The little boy I babysat last year had one of those echo mics. I hid it from him every chance I got...hahaha. Why are children's toys so annoying??

22. Tamagotchis were banned from my grade school because kids spent too much time taking care of their strange creatures and all the beeping drove the teachers crazy. Obviously I couldn't just let mine die, so I did the logical thing and made my mom take it to work with her and care for it.

24. The lazy man's form of catch.

26. Looooooved my LiteBrite.

27. My sister begged my mom for this art kit. I think she used it twice. Story of kids' gifts...

28. Who thought this was a good idea...?

30. PlayDoh that you were supposed to let dry out basically, but mom would never let us cover any of our stuff with it like the commercials suggested.

31. I have no recollection of this story but my mom swears it's true: One time, a friend came over to our house and wanted to play with my Sky Dancers. So we took them outside and everything was fine and dandy until she got one of them stuck on the roof. Apparently I acted like it was the end of the world and refused to let her play with any of the others. And of course we don't have a ladder at my house, so for all I know, that little fairy is still up there!

32. Yeah we definitely never built anything this cool. We were lucky if we could find enough pieces to make a snowflake.

35. Our aim was so bad that no one ever got "soaked." We chalked it up as a success if a couple dribbles hit our intended target.

39. Did anyone else have the 96 pack of crayons??

40. We.were.OBSESSED.with.pokemon. We had the Game*Boy games, the cheat books for the games, and the cards. We would bring them to school to trade with our friends. I'm pretty sure we knew the names of all the original 150. I even had Charizard at one point.

41. They do have a very distinctive smell. Why is that?

42. Hahaha I took this to a slumber party one time and we spent the whole night taking and decorating pictures of each other. The paper turned into stickers--what more could you ask for??

43. The cure for our roadtrip boredom.

45. I always assumed ours was broken because it never seemed to register as many skips as I believed I accomplished. Clearly faulty technology.

47. I spent hours moving my Polly Pockets from the first floor to the second floor.

50. Instead of getting an allowance, we used to get a Beanie Baby every week. Of course we thought they'd be worth millions one day. Now they just sit in a tote in our garage collecting dust...apparently we should have sold them as soon as we bought them. So much for our get-rich-quick scheme.

Hopefully you had as much fun as I did thinking about the toys we used to play with!