[Misc] Things you did as kid that don’t seem popular any more

[Jim in the West]

Playing conkers
Recording the Top 40 on a tape recorder
Sticking Green Shield stamps in those little books
Playing I-spy on long car journeys
Going up the park on Sunday, after watching The Big Match

 

[stewart12]

definitely one thing was making plans- usually would involve ringing up friends on their home phone and then just hoping that they'd turn up

 

[MTSeagulls]

Pen pals, I had a particularly nice French girl as one who would send perfumed letters

 

[fly high]

Making ice slides on the pavement on a hill (West Blatchington estate), in front of the old people's houses. (I'm really sorry ).

Made our ice slides on the sloping playground at school, a bit less cruel.

 

[happypig]

"Penny for the guy"
Getting (breaking) in to abandoned houses which were, WITHOUT FAIL, called the Haunted House.
Playing on building sites
Getting told off by the Parkie for some misdemeanour (usually calling the aforementioned Parkie "wanker")

 

[timbha]

Being cuffed on the side of your head by a copper/teacher

Playing “splits” (with a pen knife)

Using a neighbour’s phone (we didn’t have one)

Sending postcards and buying gifts from holiday

Getting a verruca (from school swimming pool)

Finding out the football scores from the NoTW on a Sunday morning

 

[papachris]

millennials are mostly well into their/our 30's now. We were outside a lot as kids

I'm glad to hear it. Maybe I am thinking a bit younger than you then. But from what I can see my grandchildren's generation are playing on computer games etc

 

[The Clamp]

"Penny for the guy"
Getting (breaking) in to abandoned houses which were, WITHOUT FAIL, called the Haunted House.
Playing on building sites
Getting told off by the Parkie for some misdemeanour (usually calling the aforementioned Parkie "wanker")

Youths still break into abandoned buildings and get onto roofs etc .

It’s quite a problem .

 

[Arthur]

Fingering

Took 28 posts but we got there.....

 

[BBassic]

Oddly enough the thing I did a lot as a kid which was considered nerdy, playing an unhealthy amount of video games, is now very popular.

 

[Titanic]

Standing on a milk crate to watch the football.

 

[Titanic]

Buying single cigarettes from the news agents outside the school gates.

 

[GT49er]

Farthings (but not able to spend them because the corner shop wouldn't take them).
Post Office savings stamps (and Post Office savings book for that matter!)
Encyclopaedias.
The Beano, Dandy, Topper, Eagle, Lion, Tiger..................

 

[Coldeanseagull]

It's really depressing the amount of times I've said 'oh, yeah' whilst reading this thread, knowing that the old people on here who remember this stuff are probably the same age as me!

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Setting light to paper using a magnifying glass

 

[raymondo]

Having to watch whatever depressing crap your parents were watching on telly.

Shops being closed on Sunday and on Wednesday afternoons. A good thing that should be brought back.

Going and picking up the take-away rather than commanding an asian teenager on an unlicensed moped to bring it to your door.

Comic subscriptions

Only having McDonalds on birthdays rather than every day after school.

Bullying that didn’t leave kids a mental wreck for the rest of their lives.

"Comic subscriptions"... Soccer Star

 

[chip]

French cricket
Playing in building sites and derelict buildings
Bashing tomatoes and apples over walls with a tennis racquet
Swingball and getting bashed in the head

 

[HankSkorpio]

Hot Rice (Ball game).
Finding golf balls in the bushes of the nearby golfcourse.
Playing out on the Downs all day with mates.
Catching the bus to the seaside (Hove) to swim in the sea with mates.
Playing in the new houses they were building over the road.

 

[The Clamp]

Pubs being places for adults only. Dark, foreboding, smoke filled rooms that daylight barely reached and there wasn’t colouring book and crayons within a hundred miles.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Hedge hopping