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  • 50 Best/Worst Childhood Fads

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    According to Joe Carter <--- click for full listing

    8. Clackers:




    What made it the best: You could scare your little brother by clacking them right beside his head.
    What made it the worst: You were a little brother.



    27. Mood Rings





    What made it the best: People could tell what mood you were in by looking at your finger.
    What made it the worst: Unless “hot and sweaty” counts as a mood, they couldn't detect anything.



    37. Scratch ’n’ Sniff Stickers




    What made it the best: The cherry and banana stickers that smelled like cherry and banana (sort of).
    What made it the worst: The licorice one that smelled like the inside of a baby’s diaper.



    45. Swatch Watches




    What made it the best: They made you feel sophisticated.
    What made it the worst: Your parents wouldn’t buy you an overpriced piece of Swiss plastic.


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  • #2
    I had all those btw ... my favorite scratch and sniff stickers where the Pizza ones

    They had a very strange, tantalizing odor

    I also had the original Clackers ... who cares if there is an occasional shard of glass or black eye with a kids toy.

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    • #3
      scooper dooper!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Red Kittie Kat View Post
        I had all those btw ... my favorite scratch and sniff stickers where the Pizza ones

        They had a very strange, tantalizing odor
        As I was scanning those scratch n sniffs I saw the pizza ones and had the same memory! I had completely forgotten that one existed! The only other ones I really remember are the popcorn, grape jelly, skunk and bubble gum machine.

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        • #5
          I still have my garbage pail kids cards. Found them a month ago when we were moving.

          And, I still have a hacky sack. I still can't keep it up more than one or two kicks.

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          • #6
            talk about a trip...

            thanks for sharing, anyone remember those slap/snap bracelets? Here kid, slap this sharp piece of stainless steel covered in cheap fabric around your wrist...

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            • #7
              My sisters had most of those exact scratch and sniff stickers in their sticker books. I loved the chocolate ice cream cone one.

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              • #8
                Okay...there was/is nothing wrong with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. And...if he was going to have a TRUE list, he should added Lego in there...for same reasons as the cars. Cuz, let's face it, my Dad stepped on a few on the way to bathroom...and we got in HUGE trouble when that happened. LOL

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Cosmo View Post
                  I still have my garbage pail kids cards. Found them a month ago when we were moving.

                  And, I still have a hacky sack. I still can't keep it up more than one or two kicks.
                  those might be worth something, people go ape over them.

                  i found my hacky sack a month or two ago too, wish i still had a pair of airwalks to go with it!

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                  • #10
                    Yup, I had clackers, a Swatch watch, a Cabbage Patch Kid, friendship pins, Lip Smackers, Mad Libs, Magic 8 Ball (dangnabbit bubbles), a mood ring, a Ribuk's cube I could never solve and loved pop rocks.

                    I also had this thing that went around one ankle, had a long flexible tube and a lemon on the end with something in it that rattled. You'd use it like an ankle hula hoop, jumping the free leg over it as it came around. I used that thing to death.

                    I still love energy drinks - yay Monster!
                    Last edited by KitchWitch; 10-23-2012, 06:09 PM.

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                    • #11
                      you better stock up Kitch, looks like they are gonna start crackin' down on it. LINK ughhhhhhhhhhhhh

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                      • #12
                        Aw, man.

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                        • #13
                          I solved the rubiks cube once I realized I could disassemble and reassemble it

                          I was always getting in trouble for taking things apart as a kid. Especially when I took my mothers radio apart that wasn't working. However even at 10 years old I fixed it with a rubber band

                          I have a gift ... what can I say

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Cosmo View Post
                            I still have my garbage pail kids cards. Found them a month ago when we were moving.
                            I'm pretty sure I still have mine too, they're in the basement with my baseball cards. Maybe I'll cash 'em in for retirement or a layoff, whichever comes first

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                            • #15
                              I use to kick ass (get it? Kick? nevermind) at hackey sack in HS. During Mayhem this year there was a group of about ten or so people that played sack all through Slayer and Sklipknot. Kids these days...

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