OT another toy list

A short list of the five best toys of all time. Should give you some ideas for this years holidays, as well as your own list of virtuous admonitions for parents.

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NightMist agrees with the list

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NightMist
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Yup, I agree too!! Allison

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AllisonH

These are great and our boys had them all. Anna Belle in Palm Bay

e, 08 Mar 2011 17:48:32 +0000, NightMist wrote:

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Anna Belle

Me too, my girls used those toys every day. Wonderful things to pass on.

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DiMa

Didn't you just fall in love with that happy, grubby baby? I used to be really good at rubbing a bar of soap between wet hands and blowing big bubbles. . . and assorted other bath time entertainment. Ours surely did love playing with dirt. I'm thinking Alabama red clay was the most impossible to remove. Polly

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Polly Esther

We have had all of those in our time. As a small person I was never too taken with plain dirt, but sand on a beach with a stream running down it gave infinite possibilities for engineering works, building lagoons, and other interesting things. I was never interested in lying on it, on a towel. For just lying and lazing, cool shade and a good book are much the best.

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Kate XXXXXX

When I was about 8 I found an unabridged copy of Swiss Family Robinson in my dad's shop, of course I made off with it. It was one of those old books that was about 3 inches thick with a dozen or so illustrations that had been colored separately and pasted in. That whole summer I would take a basket of whatever fruit was in at the moment and that book, and climb high enough in the swing tree that my brother and sister couldn't find me, even when they were swinging. I would just stay there until my mom came looking for me for whatever it was needed done. Best summer I ever had as a kid.

NightMist

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NightMist

Some of these are good no matter how old you are.....gardening is just a grownup term for playing in dirt. At least the way that I do it! LOL

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AllisonH

The article mentions paper towel tubes. TP is now sold w/o tubes -- saves a lot of paper/cardboard. I would think they'd be working on doing the same for paper towels. The tubes have been gone from some rolled gift wrap (Hallmark).

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Nann

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Nann

In the comments under the blog article someone suggests using the tp tubes to store electrical cords......fold the cord up on itself several times and push it into the tube. Good idea!

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AllisonH

This is awesome. :) I forwarded the link to my Mom and Dad and brother. When we were kids, my brother and I used to build "houses" out of twigs and acorn caps and bits of moss and bark.. Fun times. :D

//Mary/mgl

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Mary //mgl

I agree, Swiss Family Robinson was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. I read it over and over and over . . . . . . .

Donna in Idaho

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Donna

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