Childhood Memories

What was your best childhood memory?

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Lazy summer days in the pool in the backyard & riding my bike around the neighborhood. Having fun w/ friends in Girl Scouts. Playing cards w/ my mom every night at the dining room table while she cooked dinner. I also loved everything about Christmastime, opening gifts Christmas morning, etc.

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Spending summers in Greece visiting my grandparents with my little brother. We'd walk to the park every single night where we'd get gyros from our favorite souvlaki place. We'd take them home and eat them on the stoop of my grandparents house while my grandpa told us these elaborate stories he made up about dragons, princesses, fairies, etc. He was truly gifted at making up these beautiful fairy tales and was very well known around the neighborhood. Their neighbors used to sometimes come out and sit with us to listen to his stories too. I just remember feeling so incredibly happy and content.

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Eating vegetables out of my Grandpa's garden in the summer.

Sleepovers with my cousins at my Grandma's house.

Going to the Planetarium and Teddy Roosevelt's hose with my parents and sisters.

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Leaving at 9am on my horse and getting back at dinner time. Getting kicked out of the Burger King drive thru because we would ride through it to place our order Swimming with the horses in our ponds or going to our friend's house and going off their rope swing. Mudding on the 4 wheeler and coming home covered from head to toe. We had so much freedom and it was so much FUN

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Playing with my brothers as kids. We used to put sleeping bags over our bodies and run around blind trying to bump each other. Makes me laugh just thinking about it

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going to finally get my cabbage patch kid. I remember that day like it was yesterday I think it was six.

I will always remember the great times we had at my grandparents house and doing different things with them. I miss them so much

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Playing out in the street, until the street lights came on with all the kids in the neighborhood.

Night Swimming.

Carefree summer days. No school, No work, just sleep in, relax, play.

Swimming lessons at the beach.

Camping trips.

Wishing school would go quick to we can move up to the next grade.
Now, I wish time could go back!

Bittersweet!

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Summers at Silver Point beach club with my huge extended family..there were be 30 of us there at times, celebrating birthdays or fathers day/Fourth of July etc...my cousin and i would make lanyard bracelets to sell, or we'd play basketball at the courts for HOURS. I loved it there!!

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Going to my aunt Margie's house with my grandmother.

My grandfather waking me up for school.

Summers in California.

Riding my bike. Lomia Dollar.

Throwing peeps at my neighbor.

Spitting gum in my bf's sock.

The party in the dark.

So many things that make no sense at all to anyone but me.

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All the kids on our road used to play kickball in the street.

Dodgeball in our backyard.

Riding our bikes "the back way" to the local supermarket/strip mall and getting a garlic knot and ice water from the pizza place, 100 tootsie rolls for $1 from the drug store (we usually paid in pennies and they HATED us!) and then nought shopping with whatever change we had left at Ben Franklin.

Catching frogs in a senior citizen apartment complex and keeping them as pets all summer We used to have froggie play dates with our neighbor friends!

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My parents took a Chinese cooking class and one night we sat around the stove making egg rolls and eating them as soon as they were done.

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Spending sundays at my grandparents house in howard beach, with the whole fam. Big sunday dinners, playing pokeno at the dining room table, walking to the corner store with my grandma, going to the arcade with my little cousins etc.

A week every summer in lake george with my parents, sister and best friend. We did the same things up there each year and went to the same restaurants. There were no tv's in the cabins we stayed and i just loved the comfort in traditions.

The weeks that my dad worked midnights - on saturday mornings he would bring home mcdonalds b'fasts for us and sundays he would go to the bakery and get fresh crumb cakes and rolls and come home and make us egg sandwiches.

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Fishing with my family

Watching my brother's Football Games

Sunday Night dinner with everyone(we still do it thought)

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Too many to count, but a few are:

Sailing with my family

Building forts in the woods every year with friends.

Exploring the dunes, running through the cattails.

Trapping horseshoe crabs, swimming off the docks.

Biking to the penny candy store with friends.

and of course, the ice storms with no electricity & mounds of snow.

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Everyone has such simple memories - as in, no material things, video games. Just spending time with family and friends.

Also, the amount of freedome we had but knew everyone was watching so we just didn't get in trouble - I wish DS would have this but times have changed.

I'd be interested to know what our kids fondest memories will be in 30 years.

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Walking to Grillo's which was an old school candy store. $1.00 or less and you could walk out of that place with a huge bag of candy

Staying out late with my friends riding our bikes and drawing with chalk in the middle of the street

Catching fireflies

Having sleepovers with my BFF and staying up watching Tales from the Crypt and eating Ramen Noodles

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Family vacations to Disney World.

Summers at my Grandparents house in Farmingdale, hanging out with my cousins. Swimming, making forts, chasing down the ice cream man, playing "office", going to the park. Soooo many great memories. I miss that house, I miss those good times.

Anything with my Grandpa. One thing that always stands out is whenever we slept over he would go out super early before anyone woke up and buy us fresh crumb cake, raisin biscuits, and rolls from the bakery.

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Sundays in the Summer

We used to go to church, come home and change into bathing suits. Then with about 10 people in my dad's Chevy Nova we would drive to Jones Beach. . .the only way he knew. . .SUNRISE HIGHWAY ALLLLL THE WAY DOWN. It would take two hours. We passed a store with a little boy sitting on a toilet and would all wait to spot it.


Stay at the beach ALL day. . .my mom would make. . .BEACH PASTA (baked ziti with no ricotta) and we would have a huge cooler of TANG to go with it. We ate with real forks and knives but on paper plates. . . my mom even brought the crystal salt shaker! THEN we had to wait an HOUR before swimming, TORTURE!!!

For snack, we would have ripe juicy peaches. . I can still taste them! Then wait another hour lol

We played, swam, took naps under teh umbrella with my mom (whose goal in life was to NOT get a drop of sun on her). My dad used to belly flop in the shallowest surf, weirdo LOL

And just as it was getting dark, my mom would wipe us down with these great babywipes that came in a circular container and popped out - SMELLED SO GOOD! and put us in the car. We would drive home and I fell asleep. . .but I had to wake up so my mom could hose me down in the shower in the basement (the only time I used it) and then rub me down with baby oil and noxema for my face, since I was BRIGHT RED at that point. . .

I would pass out and sleep SO good, and couldnt wait until the next Sunday to do it again!

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Playing with my cousins- we had creative imaginations, we would play for hours concocting "magic potions" out of water and herbs "grass and leaves from the yard", making up treasure hunts, playing house, coloring etc...

Riding bikes after dinner up and down the block with the other kids on the block waiting for Mr. Softee to come around.

Sitting and talking with my Dad on the front stoop while he watered the lawn and had his gin and tonic for the night. I still remember this specific memory the most and I only got to enjoy this for a short time since he passed away when i was 10.

The smell of the Christmas decorations when we took them down from the attic.

Spending the summer upstate at our parents friends summer house. We would go for the whole summer with my aunts and uncles and cousins. All of us kids slept in one big room up stairs in sleeping bags.

We would spend hours on safari in the jungle (the corn fields), go hiking for mushrooms in the woods with hiking sticks that my grandfather would carve out of wood for each of us, catch fireflies, etc.

I miss those days

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My favorite childhood memories are of my cousin, our friends, and I. We used to live a block away from each other. My cousin had an alleyway behind his house so we'd always go back there and play and hang out. There were a few other kids on the block we were friendly with, particularly two brothers who lived right next door to my cousin. We would never ring the bell or call them or text them or anything complicated like that. On a nice day, we'd stand in the alleyway and shout "JOHN! ANDREW!" until the boys came out to play. Then we'd do whatever- light fireworks, play HORSE, fence to fence freeze tag, manhunt, everything! It was just so much... simpler then. I feel bad for kids now- they don't get to enjoy a childhood like I think we did. I wouldn't trade those memories for all the technology in the world.

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family vacations. crazy times with me, my sister and our black lab. in the backseat of mom & dad's Eldorado. we would fight and then laugh for hours about the arguments. the dog would pass gas & all hell would break loose.

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probably all the lazy summer days my parents have a big inground pool, and we used to just spend all day out in the backyard swimming, playing in the dirt, riding bikes. i grew up on a farm in South Jersey- so the 14 acre lot my parents had was just one huge playground for us LOVED it!!

Also- all of our family trips. my parents like to travel, and took us all over the US. all of the national parks out west, disney world, maine, michigan... we would always drive, and camp. so it was A LOT of family together time. which was good and bad- but usually good. it was always fun just to have a week or so together without TV, phone and all of that other stuff to distract us

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Posted by Michelle1123

All the kids on our road used to play kickball in the street.

Dodgeball in our backyard.

Riding our bikes "the back way" to the local supermarket/strip mall and getting a garlic knot and ice water from the pizza place, 100 tootsie rolls for $1 from the drug store (we usually paid in pennies and they HATED us!) and then nought shopping with whatever change we had left at Ben Franklin.

Catching frogs in a senior citizen apartment complex and keeping them as pets all summer We used to have froggie play dates with our neighbor friends!