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my4beauties 
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 12:28am |
So I can't sleep, my mind is racing, so hopefully if I get these thoughts outta my head I might be able to get to sleep tonight!
Tell us about your childhood. We all have history. We've had good times, bad times, sad times, and funny times. No autobiographies please, just some "short stories" perhaps bullet-pointed .
Some of mine:
- Growing up by the beach, I was a beach babe. Every Sunday in summer, was family beach day, where my whole family would spend the day at the beach - awesome!
- Every Friday night was "Family Dining Out" night. Us kids (there's 4 of us) got to choose a restaurant (was either McDonalds or another family restaurant called Hatters). If we went to Hatters, I'd always get fries and a lime thickshake, that was my dinner.
- My dad used to take us kids fishing. We had wooden rods with no bait that I remember, and we would all hang off the wharf. Of course we never caught anything, having no bait 'n' all, but I never thought about that. I just loved dangling my line into the water and watching all the fish swim around.
- I don't have any bad or sad memories of my life from about age 10 down, but it wasn't always so good. My eldest sister used to be soo terribly mean to me. I'm sure she hated me with all her heart (we are good friends now!). She used to be the only one that made me cry. I remember one time she told me I belonged in a mental institution along with mum, in which I knew how much she hated our mum at that time, so it hurt so much she thought of me in that same category. She laughed about it, along with my dad. We were driving at the time and I just turned my head to look out the window and had tears streaming down my face. When we got home, I went straight to my room and bawled, but then something clicked inside. After a few years of her being soo cruel, I had had enough. I sat there thinking "there are worse off people out there" and from then on the tears stopped. Even to this day I can't cry, even over the saddest thing. I see others crying around me and I feel ashamed that no tears come from me. I'm starting to soften a little since having the kids, and tears well up, but it doesn't get more than that.
- When I was 16, we went on a family holiday to Hawaii and Fiji!!!! The most awesome family trip ever!
Think that's enough from me. Looking forward to reading yours.
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 12:38am |
I cant sleep either 
I will have to think about some things and then post them Seems a loooooooong time ago I was a child lol
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 7:44am |
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Awwww your childhood sounded so nice Anouska.
Apart from having a mean sister.
Mine..
Well every Sunday was baking day and we danced round to music. I think that is the only nice thing i can remember from mine.
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:22am |
A random collection:
We didn't have a lot of money growing up because Mum was usually the sole income earner and she's a teacher. But heaps of weekends she'd go down to the fishmongers and come back with a bag of whitebait and we'd have whitebait fritters.  (back when whitebait was cheap)
We had books everywhere in our house - under the window seat, in all of our bedrooms, filling up the hall cupboard and stacked in the office.
My sisters and I used to make 'obsticle courses' for us to ride our bikes over in the garden. We'd get old doors etc. from inorganic collections and make seesaw ramps and do these circuits for hours.
Thursday night was late night in Remuera when I was 5-7y.o. which was before weekend trading. We used to go shopping and then go to the library to choose more books for the week. It was a real adventure being out at night with everything lit up.
The bakery in Remuera had it's kitchen underneath and there was a little ornate grate at street level for ventilation. We kids could peer in the grate and watch the bakers busy working - we could kneel here entertained for a good 10 minutes while mum did the shopping in the nearby shops.
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:33am |
Love it Kandice, and Bobbie!
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 9:47am |
I had lots of great memories of my "At home" life, but primary school and intermediate/College was awful.
I got picked on and made fun of alot, my best friend was the "pretty" girl in the class and she would always get everyone to make fun of me (some great friend eh!) unfortunately she was in my class right up until college!
I specifically remember a boy getting me as his pretend girlfriend in a game and him yelling out "Ewwwwwww Yuck!" and everyone laughing. Poor me!
We were quite poor as kids, i remember mum forgeting to pay for one of our school trips, I rung her crying at the school office and she went and borrowed $2 from my aunty. Mum went without a lot, she paid for piano lessons for me and ballet. She always wanted the best for us.
Dad was a painter and he would take us to work with him in the holidays and we would help him scrape the walls down.
My favourite memory was sleeping in the bunks and talking with one of my brothers all night, every night, about how we would spend a million dollars and what we would buy with it 
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 10:24am |
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I have so many memories of my chidhood that I could be here all day but I will just add a few stand out ones.
We always went to Lynnmall on a Friday night when I was little and we were sometimes allowed to buy things I always bought books. I remember getting to an age where I refused to go as it would be to embarrassing to be seen out with my parents & sisters.
My sisters and I always made obstacle courses to ride our bikes through and I remember one day my sister sticking her finger in the chain of my bike and it had to be cut apart to get her finger out, I was scared for my sister but more upset about my bike!
My Mum worked nights and I always cried when she left and would continue crying for ages after she had gone, my poor Dad!
I loved having a baby sister when I was 8 but was so gutted that one of the boys from my class told everyone that I had a new baby sister and her name before I got a chance to.
When we would play pretend I always wanted to be poor??? and my sisters always said they would not play with me if I was going to be poor because I just wanted people to feel sorry for me.
I always thought I would be a punk when I grew up and that I would wear a short white leather wedding dress with tassles and my pink hair in a mohawk. Hmmmmm can't say that happened and my wedding dress was the furtherest thing from white leather LOL!!!
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 10:42am |
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I was horrible to my brother. I was jealous that he had G.I.Joe's and I didn't, so I'd wait until mum was busy and go to the toybox, get one out, and twist it around and around until the rubberband in the middle snapped.
I loved growing up on the farm, in the school holidays we would go out the back block and build huts in the bush, and eat the packet of biscuits we swiped from the cupboard in there. And I loved being allowed to walk to the shop! It was 3kms each way, so it gave mum a real break.
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 2:27pm |
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Of all my friends, I was one of the only ones who had a solo parent. These days, it seems more common the other way around (more solo parents).. We lived in a state house for about 15 years. I have never had any other family in NZ apart from my mum and my brothers.
I used to LOVE spending holidays with my friends and their families.. They always seemed to have great camping trips etc with their mum, dad and sometimes extended family..whereas my own family never did anything like that! I appreciate now how lucky I was for them to let me tag along :)
I was always the tomboy and played with bugs as a child. I'd spend hours outside collecting them and caring for the ones I had made homes for in little containers.
I went to Japan twice as a child to visit family.. The last time was in 1988 and I was lucky enough to go to Tokyo Disneyland (which, as it turns out, is the same as Disneyland in the US).. although I still think it was cleaner somehow..
I'm the youngest of 3 and the only girl. My eldest brother was always a bully and used to constantly make me cry..either by being mean or hurting me (and my other brother). We hated each other so much that when he was 21 and moved overseas I told him I hoped his plane would crash and that he would die! Yikes! This may be why I turned out to be the hardass I am today and can stick up for myself! haha
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 3:04pm |
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My mum used to make our clothes, we would always wake up on our birthday to a new outfit she had made. Sometimes they were great, sometimes I didn't like them but I always wore them at least once.
My brother and I used to have a fort up the backgarden and would spend hours in there playing. We also used to create a slippery slide in the backgarden and have our friends come over in the summer to play with it.
I remember we would go on all day trips down to the tadpole pond which is now a subdivision covered in houses. We would catch the tadpoles and keep them until they turned into frogs then let them go again. The trip there and back was through bush and quite difficult but we loved it!
We grew up with 2 really good friends just over the fence from us and our parents all got on well too. In the summer our Mums would pack us all into the car and take us down to Scorching Bay and we would spend the day playing in the water. That was when summer days seemed so warm and lovely and went on for months. I remember looking back and seeing Mum and Kay lying on the beach reading and talking together and having a blast. It must have been wonderful for them too.
Every year we had a family holiday, whether it be overseas or even just camping up at Himitangi or down in Christchurch. It went on forever (probably only about 2 weeks) but we loved the adventure. We would go 'missing' for hours but our parents apparently always knew where we were (Mum told me that recently).
I also remember one year when our good friends father worked for Farm Products and they were dumping a whole pile of icecream that was coming up to its best before date. He filled both his and our deep freeze with icecreams and iceblocks. Man, it lasted for MONTHS. And they were way better than what you get these days....well I think so!!!
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 3:19pm |
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When I was about 4, me and my twin sister had tshirts that said 'USA'. We would jump around the room singing "Booooorrrrnnnn in the USA!!!"
I loved having a twin sister, always a playmate and she would be nice to me even when my other siblings weren't. I remember having Chicken Pox and not being left outside to play. She came in and played with me. awwww.
We went on holidays to the same place, Mosney ( aka Irish Butlins), for 16 years.
I loved growing up on a farm.
We had vienetta for dessert every Sunday for years.
One winter, we put dishwashing liquid on the driveway to make the ice more slippy and we could slide down it in barrels cut in half.
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 3:48pm |
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I remember being pony mad and for either my 4th or 5th bday I got my first pony and was obsessed with the thing. I used to go see her all the time and even if it was raining I would sit under her while she was eating. I'd go out and see her in the morning with my breakfast (weetbix) and feed it to her instead of eating it and then as soon as I was home I'd ride again and then again after dinner... poor pony haha
I remember me, brother and cousins used to make bows and arrows out of willow branchs and made a hut and a flying fox amongst all this bush and the flying fox broke with my cousin on it and he landed in the mud and we used to "hunt" sheep that were roaming in there lol
Me and my bestie would bike over to Ohakea and if the guard didn't let us through the bike entrance we would go hide our bikes and go jump the fence anyway and go for a swim in the pool lol
Ahhhh being a country kid was the shizzz
I remember my dad trying to force me into eating meat, bribing me to eat it and all sorts of tricks but it never worked. The more he tried the less I wanted to try it. Vego ever since
I also remember fighting alot with my bro. I hated him most of the time with his teasing and name calling which led to me moving out at 17
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Posted: 30 June 2009 at 4:39pm |
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Mmm okay for me.
* I grew up on a Farm in SA and that was just the best time ever. We had this small little hill at the back of our farmhouse and had lots of fun there. I remember it seemed like a huge mountain to us when we were little and now it literally is a small hill.
*I had lots of fun with my brother and sister in the caravan that we use to go on holiday with (closest beach was like 4 hours away but we use to go every 3 years for like 4 weeks) REst of the time it stood on the farm and we made as if we were on a camping ground.
*Working with sheep and helping my dad. I hated hated going out chasing sheep and getting them into different fields. Just because my Dad would yell. It is the only time as such he would yell at us. I loved my dad but during that times there is a few times that I literally swore at him. But the best was coming home all dusted late at night and then fighting about who gets to bath first.
*I wish I enjoyed being a teenager more. It was such a carefree time and all I wanted to do was grow up and do all the grow up stuff. Now I wish I could just be that carefree again.
*I was the kid in school that you would call the nerd in the class. Not that I was studying all the time but I never went out drinking, never smoked (not once) and would ask my dad permission for everything (and it was granted) but I never felt the desire to just rebel. (never saw the point to be quite honest) And I didnt like failing at anything. Still dont. But at the same time I would study just hard enough right before an exam to actually Ace through it.
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Posted: 01 July 2009 at 11:28am |
 kaiz231 wrote:
I had lots of great memories of my "At home" life, but primary school and intermediate/College was awful.
I got picked on and made fun of alot, my best friend was the "pretty" girl in the class and she would always get everyone to make fun of me (some great friend eh!) unfortunately she was in my class right up until college!
I specifically remember a boy getting me as his pretend girlfriend in a game and him yelling out "Ewwwwwww Yuck!" and everyone laughing. Poor me!
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OMG! same here!! to the T!!
i had a 50/50 childhood but anyway...
* Im the youngest of 2, have a sis 3 yrs older - we use to have walkie talkies so we could comunicate from our rooms at bedtime! lol it anoyed the crap out of mum!  .
* i remember riding down our culdesac street being doubled on a bike with my neighbour/friend singing as loud as possible "mother put the meatballs out, wer coming to a fork in the road!!"
* when i was 8 we went to oz at the beginning of year then raro in the middle and fiji on the way home from raro - was just me, mum and sis.
* when i was young i was sooooo over protective of my mum and would get super angry when people would stare at her or comment - to the point where i would snap at them "got eyes for xmas dick head"!! - my mum had a hand amputated (amoung other not so obvious things) before i was born.
* birthdays were always at cobb n co - gota love them
thats a few things
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Posted: 01 July 2009 at 7:57pm |
Ohh I am loving all these stories!!
As kids (oldest of 4) we/I would always come up with most elaborate games, once we turned the whole house upside down for weeks and would charge each other monopoly money to do anything, we each had our own 'businesses' like owning the car/computer/toilet and would charge everyone every time they used it.
I remember when ever it rained we would swim in the puddles, we sometimes even got the Kayak floating down the end of the street.
We went tenting at a small camp ground at Mangaweka every year and our favourite thing to do was swim across the river and cover ourselves from head to toe in mud.
Me and my cousins spent whole summers at my grandparents house right on the beach and built the craziest forts and would always try to camp out in them - infact I think we had built forts everywhere.
Every Christmas eve all us cousins got together and did a Christmas concert for the parents. These took months to prepare and I am still impressed looking back on videos the amount of detail we put into them. This is one thing I really hope I can pass down to my kids. Keira is already very keen.
Every year our family used to build sand sculptures at the beach and we always won. And I remember creating a dummy Guy Falkes and we won that too. It was too good to even burn.
We had a really close family which was cool. I was the oldest and came up with all the ideas - oh the things I used to make everyone else do. I am sure they loved it
I dont really have too many memories with freinds and school. Primary school was ok I think but I hated college - I didnt talk for years.
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Posted: 01 July 2009 at 7:57pm |
Awww, this takes me back!
I'm the oldest of four, one of my earliest memories is going to visit my mum in hospital when she was having my youngest brother, I was 5, and I ran into a wall and got a blood nose
We used to go to McDonalds or Georgie Pie for breakfast on Queens Birthday and Labour day, other than that they only time we went there was birthday parties, or if Dad had a mean hangover and needed greasies lol 
Birthdays at Cobb n Co (snap Amber! )
Mum making me a blue and white gingham dress for my birthday one year, I was in love with it
Being allowed to play out on the street all day long in the summer with the kids next door and up the road. Goes to show how much more laid back things were then!
My brother and I (13 mths apart) hated each other (seems to be a few of us with siblings we didn't enjoy much!) but now we get on OK
We didn't have much money either, but we never knew that till we were much older, Mum and Dad always made sure we had the things we needed and we didn't know that we missed out on anything
When I was 5 I got a doll for my birthday that was like an imitation Cabbage Patch and I was stoked coz I thought it was a CP (Mum and Dad couldn't afford the "real" one) until one of the kids at school told me it wasn't real. I was devastated - kids can be so mean!
Dad used to be away for work all week and we used to go in our PJ's to pick him up from the train station ever Friday night, the only time we went out at night.
Summer holidays in New Plymouth with my cousins every year, and my aunty letting us watch Dirty Dancing even tho Mum had said we weren't allowed to
Sooooo many more, but don't want to bore y'all. What a cool thread!
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Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:16pm |
Oh wow that is so cool reading everyone's replies!
I had a great childhood. A bit up & down with my parents separating when I was 10 and not having alot of money (as Dad spent it when Mum & Dad were together and then Mum was a solo Mum with no child support or government assistance!) but great anyway!
*I too remember Cobb n Co - yum cobb crunchies & pink panthers!!!
*I won a trip to Hawaii for my Mum & Dad when I was 9 - I went to Hauraki radio station on a school trip and got give a bumper sticker. Stuck it on Mums back window of her mini (which she was VERY upset about!). Hauraki drove around for a week taking down licence plates of cars that they saw bumper stickers on and picked Mums! They were forgiven for not taking me as they bought back loads of pressies.
*My older sister & I fought ALOT when we were young - she gave me bad haircuts, dead arms, played tricks on me but we are the best of friends today
*My Dad built my sis & I a wicked playhouse one year for xmas when I was about 6 or 7. We never even knew it was being built (no idea how!) and on xmas day they let us out the back and it was there!
*I got a 'My Child' doll for xmas one year - there were ads at the time that had a man in a shop full of them and when they were kissed on the nose they came to life. I was very disappointed when I opened it , kissed her on the nose and nothing happened :(
*So many fond memories of living opposite the beach twice - no chance of that now at these beaches, they are full of mansions!
*Getting stitches in my foot from standing on glass at the beach and then getting chicken pox one day later on xmas eve was interesting! We then went to Rotorua for a few days - what a great trip that was, sore foot and itching from head to toe!
Gosh I could put down so many more
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I was talking to DH about this just the other night.
*Every Sunday after Church we would buy a fresh loaf of uncut bread and we'd take it home and Dad would cut it up and we'd all eat it.
*Every time North Shore soccer team played a home game, my Dad would take me to watch.
*For every one in the family (Mum, Dad and six kids) for their birthday, we would have a big slap up home cooked celebration.
*Christmas was always full of traditional food, Christmas cake, relatives and loads of commotion.
*LOL at this, but one of the fondest memories I have is being taken to the TAB and the races with my Dad - any time with my Dad was awesome.
*Our home was always the 'half-way house' for all mine and my siblings friends. Anyone who had been kicked out of home, or had no where to go, always stayed with us.
*Roaming free with the neighbourhood kids. We had a 'club' and I was the president! We would take glass bottles back to the dairy for a refund and when we had enough we would buy a king size bar of chocolate and play the chocolate eating game.
Gosh so many fond memories of childhood!
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Posted: 01 July 2009 at 8:42pm |
Thinking about the ad for My Child I wrote about, I looked it up on youtube but couldn't find it - but did find other ads on popples, wuzzles and lots of other toys I hadn't thought about in years
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