The Toy Hall of Fame Needs to Add a New Wing

Hey, it's waters from the waters wake up call had a lot of fun this morning talking about a new section We could add to the toy Hall of Fame to include some things that were never really marketed as toys But as kids that's exactly how we use them like for instance

empty boxes.

Yeah, what would you do with the

boxes?

where we would just call under him and hide from mom and

dad.

Right.

My brother, for Christmas, he would never open his presents.

I'd open my presents and he would play with my boxes.

He was not a bright little kid, my brother.

So you got his

soccer.

No, the parents wouldn't let that happen.

They'd say, oh, hey, you know, you've got some presents over here.

Why don't you open these and see, and he'd discover he had his own boxes.

He'd dump out the boxes and play with the boxes.

Yep,

and

then mom and dad think, oh, what am I doing spending all this money?

Right, just like go to a liquor store and get a bunch of boxes.

Yeah, rubber band.

Oh, man.

I didn't even think of that, but God, that's perfect.

And you just, you'd shoot people with the rubber band.

Is that what you use it for?

I

was the target.

How about a butterfly net?

Yeah, and what other purpose would you use that net for?

You know, bugs and that, but we did graduate from butterflies like frogs and toads and little critters and that, and that kept you hopefully out of trouble.

Sure, yeah, you'd catch the bugs with the net and then you'd use the magnifying glass to burn them alive, of course.

Well, I did mount them.

My dad made me a glass case.

Yeah.

But after a couple of years, the little bugs on them, they end up eating up all the bodies of the butterflies.

What you should have done was like you do

with the big game, you put like the head of the bug on your wall.

And

then you'd use that magnifying glass to give to company when they came over so they could see the bug.

I've

never heard of that, but that's

perfect.

Oh, yeah, I remember me and my brother one time There were some kids who lived down the street who just made these elaborate forts with tarps and tents and wood and all of this stuff And then they'd make fun of us because we couldn't make forts all that well So what me and my brother did was we took the family car and used it as a battering ram And we just tore down their fort needless to say we got in a lot of trouble and boy did we hear the

Hey, that car is not a toy lecture.

Yeah, parents don't understand that.

Good morning, Mike.

Well, good morning, Iron Man.

Tell me about your non-toy toys.

Mom made a lot of quills.

Oh, did

she?

And so did my aunt.

And so they'd give us kids the old wooden spools.

Oh, sure.

And we'd use them for blocks.

and put a small string on him and use like a yo-yo or drag him around the house.

That's great.

That's great.

I never had those as toys.

That's kind of unique.

But we would use them for

blocks or just lay them on a floor and take your finger and just roll them across the floor, you

know?

Here I am in my 50s and that sounds like fun.

I'm gonna go home and see if I can find any of that kind of thing and see if they work.

The wooden spools from back in the day.

Wooden spools.

from and what was it knitting sewing sewing so okay yeah you know my mom sewed all the time and kids now are going what is sewing mean yeah nobody shows anymore

yeah I got a little answer for your toys

all right what do you got I

got a couple

Playing cards and a couple clothespins.

Oh, I know exactly what you did with those.

Yeah, I put them on your forks, and you had a bicycle with headers.

There you go.

Go.

Then when you got old enough, you didn't need the playing cards anymore.

You ain't got a hot rod or something.

Yeah, you got a hot rod

and a Harley.

And a

Harley,

yes.

I don't think there was any boy in the whole world that didn't put playing cards on the spokes.

Yeah, they probably wasn't back in our day, but they wouldn't even know what it is

now.

Talk about things that weren't toys, use as toys.

Now it's just phone.

Phone.

That's it.

That's all there is.

Downfall in society, my friend.

A big giant, like, appliance

box.

Yeah, it was always good to get a cardboard box and there are so many things you could do with it.

But man, if your parents got a new refrigerator, that box was a castle.

It was.

It really was.

So what did you do with your giant box?

Well, I'm one of six kids and we tried to just see if we could fit all this in it.

Did it work?

Did it work?

We grew.

No, well, no, of course not.

Eventually, I'm sure you would just break the box open.

But at first, first try, I'll bet you got everybody in.

You just take it outside.

And if you're lucky enough to have a hill and roll around in it.

Yeah.

And I was thinking somebody would say hill earlier, because that's a heck of a toy.

How many things can you do on a hill or with a hill?

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