My favourite possession as a child was a kaleidoscope. It had "jewels" inside and I loved to look through it. I also remember very fondly the swishy noise as the little pieces of glass moved position when you you turned the end of the tube. Simple pleasures!
Talking of toys do you remember “elastic”either with 2 chairs or 2 friends,I used to be so excited when my mum got out the knicker elastic to keep my socks up and the rest I could have,and yeah we always rented our telly from a shop called D.E.R,happy days 😊
We had S&H Green Stamps. When I was around 5 years old, I can remember my grandmother letting me put the stamps on th booklet. She would save them for me so that I would have lots to paste when I was there. She would wet a washcloth to wipe the stamps across to wet. I don’t remember what she eventually used the stamps to purchase, but we did sit many times together looking through the catalog to dream of what we could buy once we had saved enough. ❤
Little Vivi, with her love of life, sounds adorable! You are still much the same now, it seems to me - seeing or finding the fun and joy in everything. I loved just throwing a ball against the wall, by myself. For hours and hours!
Hi Vivi, i m 54. Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. I also had the rugby ball on two strings. I knew it as zoomball. We also spent hours skipping. Inside, my favourites were cards, mousetrap and mechano 😊
Omg, this was good timing, I was only just reminiscing to my friend about the days we rented our telly from Radio Rentals 😂 and I’ll never forget the very first programme I saw in colour was Rainbow! I jumped up and down clapping my hands saying “zippy is ORANGE!” And “George is PINK!” 😂😂
Oh my goodness Vivi the toy you were talking about at least in the US that you put on your foot, we called a lemon twist the ball was actually a plastic lemon. They actually have a newer version that has a wheel that lights up as it's been around. My 8-year-old granddaughter just begged for one for her birthday and absolutely loves it. I always say everything old is New again😊
In my neighborhood, the kids all rollerskated with the skates that attached to your sneakers. We kept the skate key on a yarn "necklace" that we wore around our necks. The girls across the street had one pogo stick and one pair of stilts. We all took turns with the pogo stick and stilts. I also loved to fly kites. We would go down to the school yard where there were no trees or power lines, and fly our kites for hours! Such happy memories 😊
❤ We had co-op stamps! My mum would give us the full book as pocket money! I used mine to buy a pair of tights! In later years, when my boys where small, I had to use a full book to feed us when we were very short of pennies, think I got a bag of potatoes and a loaf of bread!
Great video Vivi, you seem to have got your bounce back ! I seem to remember there were also pink stamps which I think were from Safeway, and also blue stamps from the Co-op. Take care. xxx
I'm trying to remember the name of the shop where our GS stamps came from......ach, can't remember. I think that shop closed and became a Safeways.... It's funny how some memories are crystal clear and others coated in muddy fog!
I must've been privaliged growing up. I had a little black and white tv in my room when I was a teenager. Not a good idea because I was then able to stay up and watch the late, late, late shows and I did. Old movies and Don Kirshner's rock concert, the Midnight Special. I kept that tv for years, taking it with me to two duty stations when I went into the Air Force years later. I finally bought a color tv when I was stationed in Germany and the old black and white was still working great, I gave it to another airman.
We used to collect elastic bands to make a long elastic line we stretched around a couple of friends ankles ....then we could jump in and and out singing songs i can't remember. 😂
I loved playing with the Jack's , throwing the little ball in the air, and picking up the as many of the Jack's before the ball comes down, also my dad used to cut groves out of a wooden cotton reel, he then threaded an elastic band through it, and a matchstick the other end , wind up the stick and it would roll along the floor, little things we all enjoyed 😊 my sister rented her telly, washing machine and dvd player right up till she died to 2 years ago ,
My grandma would save her green shield stamps and coop stamps for me to stick in the book when I visited. I think there were vouchers from petrol stations too that you could save up to get sets of pretend cut glass wine glasses or other rubbishy stuff!
Great memories, Vivi. I vaguely remember the transition to color tv in our family...and the tvs were so big and bulky with no remote. They had a channel changing circle knob and a fine tuning circular knob. And some people put foil on their rabbit ears antennas to try and improve their reception. My grandparents had their color tv for years and years.. things got used and fixed and fixed... not disposable like today. And we went to an actual tv store when we wanted to buy a tv. I had a toy that I think was called a lemon drop, similar to what you describe -- it had a plastic hoop that went around your ankle and a plastic rope with a lemon on the end and you would whirl your leg and hop over it with your other leg as it turned. Do children even still play jacks, marbles, or hopscotch or sing childish songs like "Miss Mary Mack" or "London Bridges Falling Down" as they did little hand and body routines of clapping and turning.
I really hope kids do still play and do the singing/action games.....though I think probably only pre-schoolers..... Hahaha, I, too, remember the days of no remote control......not an issue in our house though as mum only allowed us to watch BBC. 😉
Qow what a trip down memory lane of toys from my youth. I loved hula hoops. I always wanted a space hopper. Never got one, sadly 😢 I did have a walkie-talkie doll. 😊 Loved the chatty catch-up. Xx ❤😊
Oh my goodness as you were speaking I was moving my right foot 😂 remembered trying to keep the hoop spinning with one foot whilst jumping over the ball with the other foot. French skipping with elastic around your ankles. Cats cradle with yarn making crazy shapes with a partner. Happy days 😊 love the linen top.
Hahaha.....I was sort of trying to do the hoop spinney thing too (from a seated position)......the muscle memory was sort of there......but, hahaha, I was never coordinated enough to do it properly first time round. 😉
It's a beautiful, positive thing to respect, learn and gain from how other cultures approach living, working, relating, eating and taking care of ourselves. (In so many respects, the western world has lost its way.)
Good afternoon ,Vivi ! The linen top is lovely . You are skilled enough to repair that . Your plans for it sound lovely as well . I think the work at the bottom is called hemstitch?? Love the idea of the ‘frock gardener’ ! Yes! Pogo sticks !! I remember those .I enjoyed your look back at old toys . Lately, as I age, I’m getting sentimental about things I grew up with . I have googled toys of the 1950s ( my formative years) and enjoy remembering . Wish my mom had saved some of them for me. I find I am smiling as you talk. We had ‘trading stamps’ too. S&H Green stamps and ‘Plaid’ stamps Each given by different grocery stores. Such fun to choose a gift from the catalog! Thank you for the reminiscing . I have always had an affinity for Great Britain as I have mentioned several times … I guess second and third choices would be France and Scandinavian countries…dream on Marilyn ! Have a restful weekend… Love Marilyn ❤️xx
I had a space hopper in the 70s,when young played ludo,snakes and ladders and elastics at primary school in the 70s,we had a black and white tv then colour tv 70s,good video
This was a lovely positive video. Thanks for the break in the crazy yhay is the world and to focus on childhood fun and the more deeply mindful traditions of Japanese historical culture etc. very much a breath of fresh air to me. ❤
That beautiful work at the bottom of your top is called fagotting. It is where two pieces of fabric are joined together with fancy needlework. I love it .
Another lovely trip down memory lane got me remembering some of those toys. Did you ever do what we called French Skipping? Basically we joined loads of rubber bands together to make it a big loop then 2 girls (not wishing to exclude boys but I went to all-girls schools 😃) stood facing each other with the loop round their ankles and another girl then had to do various "patterns" with the loop using their foot. Not a great explanation but basically it was like Cat's Cradle but with feet. When I think back we all went mad for a particular game or toy for a while then a new one would come along, but then we all went back to the old tried and tested ones. We did a lot of ring games ("in and out the dusty bluebells", "poor Mary sits a-weeping") and hopscotch - which was great because all you needed was some chalk and a stone. I once read about how some of these games originated many, many years ago. Oops - here I go down another research rabbit-hole!
We had a colour tv when i was 13, they must have come into a bit of money as we had a new sofa a carpet and a rented telly. My sister had an admin job in a place called radio rentals, which was a tv rental place. Great memories, Vivi, green shield stamps yes, I wasnt very good at getting them in the book, wonky. Great fun, though 😂
I had one of the blue ridged plastic whirly things too and loved it! I had a quick Google to find out what they were called. Apparently they were called Whirly Tubes “also known as the lasso d'amore, corruga tube, corrugaphone, sound tube, musical tube, or Bloogle Resonator, is a musical instrument that consists of a corrugated plastic tube that one "plays" by swinging in a circle. The sound is created by air moving through the tube.” I wish I’d known it was a Bloogle Resonator at the time! It only made a sound because of the ridges inside- I’m sure we tried other disappointing, unridged tubes at the time. 😀
Hahahah.....I think I also tried, with disappointment, regular tubes. Bloogle Resonator.....what a great name......wonder what the ad agency was drinking that day?! 😉
Great memories Vivi, I'm about the same age as you, I remember playing double ball, hula hoop, skipping, rounders, yes I had that toy with the rugby ball and the D rings , I had clackers too and they did my parents head in! Board games were good but they were for rainy days when the weather was too bad to play outside! Yes it was mainly about physical activity, I think I'm the last generation before the computer game generation and I am so glad of that, I think computer games are the spawn of the devil, kids nowadays are all sat in front of screens hypnotised and inactive, no wonder they are so unhealthy x
I had the ankle around and jump over. Mine was called lemon something bc the hall at the end was shaped like a plastic lemon. Super fun. I had a pogo stick. Clackers. Chinese jumprope, regular jumprope, string to play cats cradle, marbles, jacks, skates, bike, skateboard, was fortunate to have a backyard pool bc I lived in Florida and everyone had one. Many hours in the pool and riding bikes to friends houses to swim. The pogo stick was truly epic for a balance challenge.
ooh I remember a lot of those toys, we also had homemade stilts and a go cart made out of wood. I used to love playing with glass marbles on the metal grates on the ground. I also had the metal roller skates followed by black roller blades. Lovely memories thanks Vivi x
A couple of my friends had pogo sticks and the one thing I remember of that phase was that no one was any good at pogo-ing 😂 Did you ever play elastics? It was a long piece of elastic tied in a big loop and two girls stood about 4 feet apart with the elastic around their lower calves while a third girl jumped in and out of the elastic between them, making patterns with the elastic only using her feet.
We loved the game with the elastics which we made from loads of coloured elastic bands joined together,daisy chain style. It was always known as german jumps here (in Belfast)
The toy with the ankle circle and ball was called Skip Bo here in the US. And that blue tube thingy was a big fad at the Olympics one year if I remember correctly.
I remember all those toys and games in the 80s too. I remember lasses used to have the swing jump leg attached ball thing, I used to pinch my cousins and have a go 😅. There also used to be these other things that were a cheap alternative to a pogo stick back in the 80s when everything that could possibly be made of plastic pumped full of artificial colours and preservatives was lol, it consisted of an inflatable ball with a plastic disc around like the planet saturn and a plastic cord attached with a handle and you were supposed to stand on the plastic disc and hold the handle and hop about pogo style, they were lethal. We had an old ferguson television from Norweb that you paid for through topping the electric meter up. I thought I was the bees knees when eventually my grandmother gave me a tiny old cream bakelite dial in portable with a coat hanger in the back for an aerial 😅. The only supermarket in our nearest town was the CoOp until eventually one called Prestos opened which I think was a north west England based chain. I also remember my aunty Annesley getting a very cheap and garish looking 4ft silver tinsel Christmas tree with green shield stamps 😂. X
Never had a pogo stick but mom made the boys broomstick horses. Old broom stick stuffing an old workbook and crocheted bridle and reins. Yes we girls would sneak them and "ride with the wind" 😂
I had a toy similar to one of the toys you described. I had to Google to figure out the name. It was called the Lemon Twist. It had a loop on one end and a plastic lemon on the other and you would put it on one leg and whip it around and jump over it. The lemon had some sort of beads inside it so it made a rattling noise. Good times!
I remember the family rented their first colour tv back in 1969. We would put 50ps in the slot in the back. It was annoying if you got to a crucial bit in a programme and the tv went off. People were shouting hurry up hurry up get the money in. The first thing I watched in colour was Love Thy Neighbour. Not very PC by todays standards, but then again it just showed up the silly English man for what he was. I remember green shield stamps. Collecting them for something in the catalogue. Annoying if the pages stuck together. Prising them apart.
I remember my parents renting our tv first one black and white, i didn't understand when they announced a programme would be in colour and ours wasn't lol i was only little lol xx
One of the longest-lived groups of people was apparently a Japanese tribe that had a diet high in sweet potatoes! And Japanese people tend to avoid dairy which, despite what many believe, has benefits for health.
Thanks Vivi, I found this old commercial (of the Touchwood SH-08C phone, 2011) with a long xylophone in the forest, This melody is part of the 147th cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach "Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben" OR "Jesu , Joy of Man's Desiring". It's just wonderful! I enjoy watching your videos from Moscow) Kate
I love the linen top. A beautiful find. Mending can be pretty. I have discovered the Japanese art of visible mending called Sashiko, it is amazing to see some of the work. I never had a pogo stick, but I do remember the Space hoppers.
Love the linen top Vivi, what I call a 'little win'. My daughter went to Japan last year and fell in love with the country and culture. Another fab video , I could listen to you chat all day❤
I expect you'll probably want to mend your lovely linen shirt as invisibly as possible, Vivi; but have you seen Japanese mending i.e. Sashiko? It's beautiful! A real art form.
Anyone can set up a charity shop. Here in Ireland....you only have to donate 200e a month to selected charity you have chosen. Charity shop here closed yesterday. They were charging 1e more for second hand, I could have bought new in penny's. They've lost the run of themselves. Personally I prefer to buy from Facebook market place. Let the people make the money. While cash is still king. If we lose cash, its game over for anyone doing a side huzzle
That's sad to hear. Fortunately the ones near me are recognised charities and my favourite one does wonderful fund raising for our local hospice so I am more than happy to support them.
Hello dear Vivi, just up to the part where you are showing the rip in your lovely linen top. As soon as I saw it I thought about a tab top style repair to cover the rip? Just a helpful suggestion. XXX
Like everyone, I have learned that a budget must have a little "fun" or "play" money to make day-to-day existence more enjoyable. Otherwise, we give up on budgeting, and can worse our financial position in life. I build that money into each monthly budget as a bill to myself, and call it "misc. expenses," around $100/month = $1200 a year, for JOY in LIFE. If the existing income got too tight to do that, I would quickly find a way to earn the money to fund it. Having the knowledge that I can spend $5 on something other than rice or beans, or eggs, protects my mental health and decreases my stress. There is a scripture that says, "See good for all of your hard work." Fun money comes under "see the good," for me.
My favourite possession as a child was a kaleidoscope. It had "jewels" inside and I loved to look through it. I also remember very fondly the swishy noise as the little pieces of glass moved position when you you turned the end of the tube. Simple pleasures!
Absolutely. 😊
I love kaleidoscopes Xx
Yes it is what made me appreciate light thru glass, later stained glass and film arts.
Loved mine I had one at my grandma's house would sit hours looking through it .
There's probably enough "stuff" in the world to meet all our needs forever!
I think so!
Talking of toys do you remember “elastic”either with 2 chairs or 2 friends,I used to be so excited when my mum got out the knicker elastic to keep my socks up and the rest I could have,and yeah we always rented our telly from a shop called D.E.R,happy days 😊
Hahahah....yes, so much fun with elastic! 😊
@@WhatVivididnext we called it French skipping in Namibia at my Convent school.
Yes, French skipping.
@@melsmith2887 Of course that was what it was called,I totally forgot
We had S&H Green Stamps. When I was around 5 years old, I can remember my grandmother letting me put the stamps on th booklet. She would save them for me so that I would have lots to paste when I was there. She would wet a washcloth to wipe the stamps across to wet. I don’t remember what she eventually used the stamps to purchase, but we did sit many times together looking through the catalog to dream of what we could buy once we had saved enough. ❤
Awww, such a happy memory. 😊
I'd forgotten the catalogue 🙏💚!
So close to 20k followers!
Ah yes Radio rentals. Mum and dad thought they were so posh !. They splurged on a colour one in 77. The neighbours would come round to watch lol
Ooooh, very fancy! 😉
My folks still have it ( please don't blame me , I've tried) . It's called box clever now 😢
@@donnastacey7227never. My great aunt rents her washing machine 😢
£30 a month !. She loves it as only a few years ago gave up the twin tub !. I offered to buy her one but she is stubborn and refused!.
The background with your books and furniture is so aesthetically pleasing! 😍
Thank you. 😊
Little Vivi, with her love of life, sounds adorable! You are still much the same now, it seems to me - seeing or finding the fun and joy in everything.
I loved just throwing a ball against the wall, by myself. For hours and hours!
Yay to that! So simple....such fun. 😊
Hi Vivi, i m 54. Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. I also had the rugby ball on two strings. I knew it as zoomball. We also spent hours skipping. Inside, my favourites were cards, mousetrap and mechano 😊
Yay for so much fun from such simple toys. 😊
Omg, this was good timing, I was only just reminiscing to my friend about the days we rented our telly from Radio Rentals 😂 and I’ll never forget the very first programme I saw in colour was Rainbow! I jumped up and down clapping my hands saying “zippy is ORANGE!” And “George is PINK!” 😂😂
Oh that's adorable! ❤️
Oh my goodness Vivi the toy you were talking about at least in the US that you put on your foot, we called a lemon twist the ball was actually a plastic lemon. They actually have a newer version that has a wheel that lights up as it's been around. My 8-year-old granddaughter just begged for one for her birthday and absolutely loves it. I always say everything old is New again😊
Oh that's so sweet that they're still around and being played with. 😊
“You cannot be serious! “ lol. Do you remember when everyone used to go around saying the John McEnroe catchphrase lol?!
Hahaha....yes.....much to the annoyance of every grown-up. 😉
👍❤️🙏how nice of her and something you needed
Absolutely. 😊
In my neighborhood, the kids all rollerskated with the skates that attached to your sneakers. We kept the skate key on a yarn "necklace" that we wore around our necks. The girls across the street had one pogo stick and one pair of stilts. We all took turns with the pogo stick and stilts. I also loved to fly kites. We would go down to the school yard where there were no trees or power lines, and fly our kites for hours! Such happy memories 😊
Aww, lovely. 😊
Oh! I loved the ankle hoop skip balls too xx
❤ We had co-op stamps! My mum would give us the full book as pocket money! I used mine to buy a pair of tights! In later years, when my boys where small, I had to use a full book to feed us when we were very short of pennies, think I got a bag of potatoes and a loaf of bread!
Great video Vivi, you seem to have got your bounce back ! I seem to remember there were also pink stamps which I think were from Safeway, and also blue stamps from the Co-op. Take care. xxx
I'm trying to remember the name of the shop where our GS stamps came from......ach, can't remember. I think that shop closed and became a Safeways.... It's funny how some memories are crystal clear and others coated in muddy fog!
@@WhatVivididnext Ours was the Home and Colonial. Yes, I am older than dirt! :)
Great buy on the linen blouse even if it needs a little repair!
Hiya Vivi ohh just watched the advert truly amazing!🇨🇦🐝
So glad you gave it a look......stunning isn't it....and somehow rather moving. I was delighted to find it again. ❤️
I must've been privaliged growing up. I had a little black and white tv in my room when I was a teenager. Not a good idea because I was then able to stay up and watch the late, late, late shows and I did. Old movies and Don Kirshner's rock concert, the Midnight Special. I kept that tv for years, taking it with me to two duty stations when I went into the Air Force years later. I finally bought a color tv when I was stationed in Germany and the old black and white was still working great, I gave it to another airman.
We used to collect elastic bands to make a long elastic line we stretched around a couple of friends ankles ....then we could jump in and and out singing songs i can't remember. 😂
We did this, too. We called it Chinese jump rope (hope that’s not bad to say these days)
Yes! We used to call it French skipping x
I loved playing marbles and elastic stretched between two chair or human legs.. In, out, over, out, etc.
Hahaha....you must have been more dextrous with your feet than me.....I always ended up in a heap on the floor. 😉
Yes.. the elastic bands, 'French skipping'
I loved playing with the Jack's , throwing the little ball in the air, and picking up the as many of the Jack's before the ball comes down, also my dad used to cut groves out of a wooden cotton reel, he then threaded an elastic band through it, and a matchstick the other end , wind up the stick and it would roll along the floor, little things we all enjoyed 😊 my sister rented her telly, washing machine and dvd player right up till she died to 2 years ago ,
Lol TV rental I remember my mum had to put 50p in the back and the radio rental man used to come empty the box lol
It seems bonkers now doesn't it! 😊
I remember that as well! I was only allowed 50p worth of watching per day!
Yes really like some aspects of Japanese culture, especially gardens and the appreciation of the broken and repair kintsugi.
My grandma would save her green shield stamps and coop stamps for me to stick in the book when I visited.
I think there were vouchers from petrol stations too that you could save up to get sets of pretend cut glass wine glasses or other rubbishy stuff!
Hiya Vivi,nice visit with this evening. I will check out the advert you spoke of . Blessings luv southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
Great memories, Vivi. I vaguely remember the transition to color tv in our family...and the tvs were so big and bulky with no remote. They had a channel changing circle knob and a fine tuning circular knob. And some people put foil on their rabbit ears antennas to try and improve their reception. My grandparents had their color tv for years and years.. things got used and fixed and fixed... not disposable like today. And we went to an actual tv store when we wanted to buy a tv. I had a toy that I think was called a lemon drop, similar to what you describe -- it had a plastic hoop that went around your ankle and a plastic rope with a lemon on the end and you would whirl your leg and hop over it with your other leg as it turned. Do children even still play jacks, marbles, or hopscotch or sing childish songs like "Miss Mary Mack" or "London Bridges Falling Down" as they did little hand and body routines of clapping and turning.
I really hope kids do still play and do the singing/action games.....though I think probably only pre-schoolers..... Hahaha, I, too, remember the days of no remote control......not an issue in our house though as mum only allowed us to watch BBC. 😉
Qow what a trip down memory lane of toys from my youth.
I loved hula hoops. I always wanted a space hopper. Never got one, sadly 😢
I did have a walkie-talkie doll. 😊
Loved the chatty catch-up. Xx ❤😊
I didn't have a space hopper either......I still have a secret hankering for one. 😉 Oooh, a walkie-talkie doll.....how wonderful! ❤️
I remember my mum collected Green Shield Stamps 💚
This brought back alot of happy memories of my childhood. How time has changed over the years ,sadly not always for the better 😊
Ker-plunk ? Hours of fun 😊
Loved it. 😁
Oh my goodness as you were speaking I was moving my right foot 😂 remembered trying to keep the hoop spinning with one foot whilst jumping over the ball with the other foot. French skipping with elastic around your ankles. Cats cradle with yarn making crazy shapes with a partner. Happy days 😊 love the linen top.
Hahaha.....I was sort of trying to do the hoop spinney thing too (from a seated position)......the muscle memory was sort of there......but, hahaha, I was never coordinated enough to do it properly first time round. 😉
It's a beautiful, positive thing to respect, learn and gain from how other cultures approach living, working, relating, eating and taking care of ourselves. (In so many respects, the western world has lost its way.)
Absolutely. 😊
Good afternoon ,Vivi !
The linen top is lovely . You are skilled enough to repair that . Your plans for it sound lovely as well . I think the work at the bottom is called hemstitch?? Love the idea of the ‘frock gardener’ !
Yes! Pogo sticks !! I remember those .I enjoyed your look back at old toys . Lately, as I age, I’m getting sentimental about things I grew up with . I have googled toys of the 1950s ( my formative years) and enjoy remembering . Wish my mom had saved some of them for me.
I find I am smiling as you talk. We had ‘trading stamps’ too. S&H Green stamps and ‘Plaid’ stamps Each given by different grocery stores. Such fun to choose a gift from the catalog!
Thank you for the reminiscing .
I have always had an affinity for Great Britain as I have mentioned several times … I guess second and third choices would be France and Scandinavian countries…dream on Marilyn !
Have a restful weekend…
Love
Marilyn ❤️xx
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on'......keep dreaming lovely.....you never know.... 😊
Fuzzy felt, Plastersene, lego on a rainy day..
I had a space hopper in the 70s,when young played ludo,snakes and ladders and elastics at primary school in the 70s,we had a black and white tv then colour tv 70s,good video
Yay for our fab toys. 😊
Enjoyed the video today. The ad you shared was fun to watch. Hard to believe it's 13 years old.
This was a lovely positive video. Thanks for the break in the crazy yhay is the world and to focus on childhood fun and the more deeply mindful traditions of Japanese historical culture etc. very much a breath of fresh air to me. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it. 😊
I am just mending my Japanese gardening case now my favourite gardening tool ❤
Aww, lovely. Some care and love to keep it going.....and respecting the work that went into it in the first place. ❤️
That beautiful work at the bottom of your top is called fagotting. It is where two pieces of fabric are joined together with fancy needlework. I love it .
Ahhh, thank you! 😊
Another lovely trip down memory lane got me remembering some of those toys. Did you ever do what we called French Skipping? Basically we joined loads of rubber bands together to make it a big loop then 2 girls (not wishing to exclude boys but I went to all-girls schools 😃) stood facing each other with the loop round their ankles and another girl then had to do various "patterns" with the loop using their foot. Not a great explanation but basically it was like Cat's Cradle but with feet. When I think back we all went mad for a particular game or toy for a while then a new one would come along, but then we all went back to the old tried and tested ones. We did a lot of ring games ("in and out the dusty bluebells", "poor Mary sits a-weeping") and hopscotch - which was great because all you needed was some chalk and a stone. I once read about how some of these games originated many, many years ago. Oops - here I go down another research rabbit-hole!
Yes, we called it French Skipping too.......I was useless at it.....too tangly for me! 😉 Enjoy your trip down the rabbit hole. 😁
We had a colour tv when i was 13, they must have come into a bit of money as we had a new sofa a carpet and a rented telly. My sister had an admin job in a place called radio rentals, which was a tv rental place. Great memories, Vivi, green shield stamps yes, I wasnt very good at getting them in the book, wonky. Great fun, though 😂
I had one of the blue ridged plastic whirly things too and loved it! I had a quick Google to find out what they were called. Apparently they were called Whirly Tubes “also known as the lasso d'amore, corruga tube, corrugaphone, sound tube, musical tube, or Bloogle Resonator, is a musical instrument that consists of a corrugated plastic tube that one "plays" by swinging in a circle. The sound is created by air moving through the tube.” I wish I’d known it was a Bloogle Resonator at the time! It only made a sound because of the ridges inside- I’m sure we tried other disappointing, unridged tubes at the time. 😀
Hahahah.....I think I also tried, with disappointment, regular tubes. Bloogle Resonator.....what a great name......wonder what the ad agency was drinking that day?! 😉
Sounds like the kind of thing I wouldn't have been allowed on the grounds that it was too perilous! No wonder I grew up so risk averse 😢
Great memories Vivi, I'm about the same age as you, I remember playing double ball, hula hoop, skipping, rounders, yes I had that toy with the rugby ball and the D rings , I had clackers too and they did my parents head in! Board games were good but they were for rainy days when the weather was too bad to play outside! Yes it was mainly about physical activity, I think I'm the last generation before the computer game generation and I am so glad of that, I think computer games are the spawn of the devil, kids nowadays are all sat in front of screens hypnotised and inactive, no wonder they are so unhealthy x
Hahaha....I, too, am glad that I just missed being part of the computer games gen......playing outside is much more fun! 😉
I had the ankle around and jump over. Mine was called lemon something bc the hall at the end was shaped like a plastic lemon. Super fun. I had a pogo stick. Clackers. Chinese jumprope, regular jumprope, string to play cats cradle, marbles, jacks, skates, bike, skateboard, was fortunate to have a backyard pool bc I lived in Florida and everyone had one. Many hours in the pool and riding bikes to friends houses to swim. The pogo stick was truly epic for a balance challenge.
Oh how fab to have a pool to play in. 😊
Great find on the linen blouse.
ooh I remember a lot of those toys, we also had homemade stilts and a go cart made out of wood. I used to love playing with glass marbles on the metal grates on the ground. I also had the metal roller skates followed by black roller blades. Lovely memories thanks Vivi x
I'm jealous of your go-cart! I never did get to build one. 😉
A couple of my friends had pogo sticks and the one thing I remember of that phase was that no one was any good at pogo-ing 😂
Did you ever play elastics? It was a long piece of elastic tied in a big loop and two girls stood about 4 feet apart with the elastic around their lower calves while a third girl jumped in and out of the elastic between them, making patterns with the elastic only using her feet.
Yes to elastics.......and it's funny how no-one seemed to be able to master the pogo stick. 😉
In London we played the elastic jump game, we called it French Skipping .
Yes we called it french skipping , I never got the hang of it I just used to get my legs tangled up in it! 😁
We loved the game with the elastics which we made from loads of coloured elastic bands joined together,daisy chain style. It was always known as german jumps here (in Belfast)
Thanks Vivi. Hope you have had a chance to rest up.❤
Haha....not quite. Just dropped you an email. X
The toy with the ankle circle and ball was called Skip Bo here in the US. And that blue tube thingy was a big fad at the Olympics one year if I remember correctly.
I remember all those toys and games in the 80s too. I remember lasses used to have the swing jump leg attached ball thing, I used to pinch my cousins and have a go 😅. There also used to be these other things that were a cheap alternative to a pogo stick back in the 80s when everything that could possibly be made of plastic pumped full of artificial colours and preservatives was lol, it consisted of an inflatable ball with a plastic disc around like the planet saturn and a plastic cord attached with a handle and you were supposed to stand on the plastic disc and hold the handle and hop about pogo style, they were lethal.
We had an old ferguson television from Norweb that you paid for through topping the electric meter up. I thought I was the bees knees when eventually my grandmother gave me a tiny old cream bakelite dial in portable with a coat hanger in the back for an aerial 😅.
The only supermarket in our nearest town was the CoOp until eventually one called Prestos opened which I think was a north west England based chain. I also remember my aunty Annesley getting a very cheap and garish looking 4ft silver tinsel Christmas tree with green shield stamps 😂. X
Hahaha......I think the entire 70s and 80s were garish.......and I totally agree re the lethality of our toys......hahaha, great times! 😉
My daughter had a swing ball attached to her leg in the 90s xx
Never had a pogo stick but mom made the boys broomstick horses. Old broom stick stuffing an old workbook and crocheted bridle and reins. Yes we girls would sneak them and "ride with the wind" 😂
Not workbook work sock!
Awwww, love this! 😊
I had a toy similar to one of the toys you described. I had to Google to figure out the name. It was called the Lemon Twist. It had a loop on one end and a plastic lemon on the other and you would put it on one leg and whip it around and jump over it. The lemon had some sort of beads inside it so it made a rattling noise. Good times!
Hahaha......in my case not so much the lemon twist as the twisted ankle. 😉
Hi Vivi. The ankle hoop with the ball attached to it we called a “skip-it” in the US.
I remember the family rented their first colour tv back in 1969. We would put 50ps in the slot in the back. It was annoying if you got to a crucial bit in a programme and the tv went off. People were shouting hurry up hurry up get the money in. The first thing I watched in colour was Love Thy Neighbour. Not very PC by todays standards, but then again it just showed up the silly English man for what he was.
I remember green shield stamps. Collecting them for something in the catalogue. Annoying if the pages stuck together. Prising them apart.
What great memories! 😊
Lovely visit. I was cleaning out my bookshelf-cupboard during the talk.
I remember my parents renting our tv first one black and white, i didn't understand when they announced a programme would be in colour and ours wasn't lol i was only little lol xx
Oh my goodness....I had forgotten about the announcements to say the upcoming show would be in colour!
One of the longest-lived groups of people was apparently a Japanese tribe that had a diet high in sweet potatoes! And Japanese people tend to avoid dairy which, despite what many believe, has benefits for health.
Thanks Vivi, I found this old commercial (of the Touchwood SH-08C phone, 2011) with a long xylophone in the forest, This melody is part of the 147th cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach "Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben" OR "Jesu , Joy of Man's Desiring". It's just wonderful! I enjoy watching your videos from Moscow) Kate
Thank you Kate. Yes, I put a link to the ad in my description box. It's so lovely. 😊
I love the linen top. A beautiful find. Mending can be pretty. I have discovered the Japanese art of visible mending called Sashiko, it is amazing to see some of the work. I never had a pogo stick, but I do remember the Space hoppers.
Ah, yes, Sashiko.....it can be so beautiful in its own right. 😊
Vivi, a natural wabi sabi & ikigai master and didn’t know it. ❤️it.
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Love the linen top Vivi, what I call a 'little win'. My daughter went to Japan last year and fell in love with the country and culture. Another fab video , I could listen to you chat all day❤
Aww, thank you lovely. 😊
Your sewing is great 🦋🥰🐝
Yes hours of fun with various cheap games in the 60s & 70s 😄
I remember record breakers I also had a pogo stick and was useless on it .
Hahaha......it seems like we were all hopeless at pogo! 😉
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Loved playing Balls in scotland, Big Ben strikes 10 in the middle of London.
We rented our tele too, couldn't afford to buy one!! Lovely chat Vivi xxx
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We call them pop tubes. My son loves playing with them as a fidget.😊
I expect you'll probably want to mend your lovely linen shirt as invisibly as possible, Vivi; but have you seen Japanese mending i.e. Sashiko? It's beautiful! A real art form.
... and that was while you were talking about toys, before you started speaking of Ikigai, LOL.
Brilliant top Vivi love Sally
Cheers lovely. 😊
I think we called it footsie😅
I had the game with the 2 d-rings either end with the ball in the middle i think it was called zoom ball xx
Yay. 😁
Omg i had all of those toys....I'm googling 😂 and...i was also the one with a pogo stick...the trick was to keep it well oiled...! R x
Omg....I would pay money to see you on a pogo stick now! Hahaha. 😁
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Lady gardener 😂, innuendo bingo, I have an idiot’s sense of humour x
Hahaha....go straight to the top of the naughty class. 😉
@@WhatVivididnext that’s usually where I can be found!! Have a fab weekend x
Anyone can set up a charity shop. Here in Ireland....you only have to donate 200e a month to selected charity you have chosen. Charity shop here closed yesterday. They were charging 1e more for second hand, I could have bought new in penny's. They've lost the run of themselves. Personally I prefer to buy from Facebook market place. Let the people make the money. While cash is still king. If we lose cash, its game over for anyone doing a side huzzle
That's sad to hear. Fortunately the ones near me are recognised charities and my favourite one does wonderful fund raising for our local hospice so I am more than happy to support them.
Hello dear Vivi, just up to the part where you are showing the rip in your lovely linen top. As soon as I saw it I thought about a tab top style repair to cover the rip? Just a helpful suggestion. XXX
Or turn it into a short sleeve blouse perhaps?
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Chinese rubber bands cant remember whats its called, we used to jump in and out of them,
We called it Chinese jump rope.
Was the whistling tub a 'boomwacker'?
I can't remember if we ever had a name for it.... 😊
Like everyone, I have learned that a budget must have a little "fun" or "play" money to make day-to-day existence more enjoyable. Otherwise, we give up on budgeting, and can worse our financial position in life. I build that money into each monthly budget as a bill to myself, and call it "misc. expenses," around $100/month = $1200 a year, for JOY in LIFE. If the existing income got too tight to do that, I would quickly find a way to earn the money to fund it. Having the knowledge that I can spend $5 on something other than rice or beans, or eggs, protects my mental health and decreases my stress. There is a scripture that says, "See good for all of your hard work." Fun money comes under "see the good," for me.
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It was wooden and mum polished it within an inch of its life !.
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