Anyone Who Remembers The Joy of Childhood Fads?

[Hous]

Originally Posted by Mohammedini

Kids to day sit in front of their computer and rot their brains out.
I feel bad for them.
They will never know the joy of truly being a child....
Of using their imagination to entertain them self, to play with other...


Haha same here, I never bought a single pokemon card(except those cheap gas station cards I used to scam kids with).

in a way trading cards are an amazing training tool for kids...
it teaches them business savvy, social skills, entrepreneurial skills and spirit....
it was almost like an economy .

Status came with accumulation of the cards/pogs/fad items.

No doubt. Did you ever play Diablo II? I got it for Christmas one year and used to play online and just trade items. We were still poor and had crappy 56k Internet connection so I wasn't able to do much else beside sit and town and trade, lol.

I would just start with crappy items and wait until people wanted them and get good deals. I became rich in the game by just waiting for the best possible deals.

[Hous]

Also, I used to sell acorns to the older kids because they would have acorn wars where they would throw them at each other. I would have a briefcase and just pile them up, lol.

[Mohammedini]

BTW! anyone here that played with marbles?

[Mohammedini]

Originally Posted by Hous

No doubt. Did you ever play Diablo II? I got it for Christmas one year and used to play online and just trade items. We were still poor and had crappy 56k Internet connection so I wasn't able to do much else beside sit and town and trade, lol.

I would just start with crappy items and wait until people wanted them and get good deals. I became rich in the game by just waiting for the best possible deals.

HAha yeah I remembered Diablo 2.
Too poor to have a computer at home but I used to play it with my friends.
Man was Diablo a awesome game .

Originally Posted by Hous

Also, I used to sell acorns to the older kids because they would have acorn wars where they would throw them at each other. I would have a briefcase and just pile them up, lol.

HAHAHA Young hustla!
That is what you call a entrepreneurial spirit .

I used to gather bottles and recycle them.
Used to knock on peoples houses and offer lawn moving or anything else they needed like apple picking...
I just to hustle hard as a kid.
Remember managing to amass 45$ by the age of 7 on my own.
Too bad my foster dad stole my money

[Sick/]

I used to collect crazy bones. Everyone wanted the shark one or king bones

[hayZ]

pogs/slammers I was into I actually got into a few fights as a kid over those haha, marbles i was also into just not as much, Pokemon cards I was into as well, collecting them but I remember I got scammed once...i had a rare electric bird card forgot the name but its moves had crap damage and two friends of mine swapped me their fire pokemon card which had good stats but was not rare at all, the sucker I was I thought I was being clever because I didn't really know much about what was rare and what wasn't and I got the fire card. Needless to say I was kind of pissed off at myself when I figured out what happened ages later, though I didn't really care because I stopped collecting them at the time. I collected quite a few Yu-Gi-Oh cards as well.

[Mohammedini]

Any former, young "hustlas" out there with a story to tell?
When I say young "hustlas" I'm talking about young entrepreneurs who had a knack for earning trading cards, marbles, pogs etc etc.
Any childhood trading-card schemes etc etc.

[Hous]

Originally Posted by hayZ

pogs/slammers I was into I actually got into a few fights as a kid over those haha, marbles i was also into just not as much, Pokemon cards I was into as well, collecting them but I remember I got scammed once...i had a rare electric bird card forgot the name but its moves had crap damage and two friends of mine swapped me their fire pokemon card which had good stats but was not rare at all, the sucker I was I thought I was being clever because I didn't really know much about what was rare and what wasn't and I got the fire card. Needless to say I was kind of pissed off at myself when I figured out what happened ages later, though I didn't really care because I stopped collecting them at the time. I collected quite a few Yu-Gi-Oh cards as well.

I did that to a few people. I would trade them a diamond card like arcanine for a star. Arcanine had like 120hp and a strong attack, but it was not a star card. Looking at the stats though you would think it was.

[Hous]

Originally Posted by Mohammedini

Any former, young "hustlas" out there with a story to tell?
When I say young "hustlas" I'm talking about young entrepreneurs who had a knack for earning trading cards, marbles, pogs etc etc.
Any childhood trading-card schemes etc etc.

In middle school we used to play pencil break. I was really bad because I had those eagle pencils that were the weakest and cheapest pencils in existence. I heard stories about kids using long peices of fiber glass, however noone would ever want to play against them because it was instant lose.

I started a fad where people would bring me pencil sized peices of fiber glass and I would trick it out to resemble an actual pencil. The way I did it was I would pick up broken pencils at school, take off the eraser peice and use my pocket knife to saw the sharpened part of the pencil off. I would super glue the two sharpened peice to the fiber glass. Then I would either take a coke bottle wrapper or a decorated peice of paper (sometimes I colored it myself) and glues it around the fiber glass and pencil peice. It would appear to be a fully functional pencil. Then I would secure the eraser to the top.

It actually was a fully functional pencil. Just the tip was an actual pencil and it threw everyone off. I sold them for $5 a pop.

Also, my friends and I started a pirated video game business at school. We really only sold one game, Starcraft, because this was around the time when the manufacturers started to put protections on the disk to prevent burning. I can't take a lot of credit for it because I didn't do the burning because I didn't have a computer. I would just solicit the game. LOL.

[New England]

i had a graceful style on the devilsticks that was frankly unmatched

i'd be focused entirely on those sticks and planning four and five moves ahead, surrounded on the schoolyard by scores of gawking fourth graders. a third grader in his prime. a man and his sticks.

tap tap, then spin.