Toys of yesteryear

[tulip]

I loved Spirograph, as well as making potholders--remember the loops and the toothed frame?

I did not like Operation. I hated that buzz, not to mention the thought of operating on someone!

[Zen]

those potholders always shrunk to about the size of a coaster. If they could just stay the same size they'd be good quality potholders.

I may just look for one of those and go into business

[tulip]

You could make a bigger one...but the loops would have to be bigger, too. We had lots of potholders. I actually found one in the back of my folk's drawer in the kitchen a while back. It must be 30 years old! Yes, it is coaster-size, and more of a parallelogram.

[Aggie_Ama]

We would make multiple potholders and then Mammaw would help us join them together.

[tulip]

Aggie, I love your Mammaw!

[Crankin]

I loved the old Lincoln logs, that were actually made of wood. The ones my kids had were plastic (from the 80s).
I used to play incessant rounds of jacks up through 5th grade. Tons of sleepovers with my Barbie and my 3 suitcases of Barbie clothes. That was an addiction! I put them away in fifth grade and wonder what happened to them.
Re: the little people. I have a friend who used to say that they mysteriously multiplied overnight. She would get up in the morning and they would be all over her house, causing everyone to trip and hurt their feet.
When we moved to MA, we gave the Little People house, or maybe it was a garage, to our kid's preschool. Scott never forgave me.
Aggie, your mom is younger than me....

[Aggie_Ama]

You know Tulip, I took me a long time to realize how much I do too. That sounds harsh but she is a very cold woman. My mom said she isn't sure she can count how many times she said "I love you" on more than one hand. If I say "I love you Mammaw" she will reply "Uh-huh. Be careful going home". She was born to a woman that didn't know how to show love in 1918 (according to my mom).

I think now all those crafts and keeping the toys was her way of showing love. She is a bit crazy but the world needs more people like her I think. And they need more pot holders, Logstix, Lincoln Logs, craft time, Spirographs and sandboxes full of old pots and pans.

Did you know that an old flour sifter is one of the greatest sandbox toys ever? Hers was so rusty but was great at breaking up the sand when it got all clumpy after a rain or getting the leaves off the pecan tree out of the sand. Oh look, you can get a rusty one on ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/Neat-old-Very-pr...QQcmdZViewItem

[Aggie_Ama]

Crankin- But my brother had wood Lincoln Logs! He was born in 1976. My mom said her Barbies had they heads you removed to change them around, Mammaw still had a couple of them when I was a kid. I thought they were gross.

[Aggie_Ama]

My Mammaw was constantly going out to her shed and bringing toys from her kids, I was in heaven. She never bought anything modern except a swing set and beads or yarn to make crafts for us grandkids. My aunt was born in 1944, my uncle 1950, my mom is the baby from 1955. Their toys were great! She had an old Chinese checkers board no one new how to play but she had a ton of marbles, we would just arrange them on the board.