Fond Childhood memories thread

[turtlefanforever]

I wanted to great a thread about fond memories from our childhood and growing up. For everyone to share in the happiness and take themselves back for a bit. It can be anything from waking up every morning to a certain cartoon or going to a park, family meals, ect.

One fond memory for me was going yo the video store every week. My family and I would go to the video store about a town over and I was allowed to pick one video. The place is gone now, and we're in the streaming world now but I sometimes pass it and it takes me back and its always nice.

Share yours.

[Prowler]

I'll second the going to the local video store almost every Saturday morning. I'd rent an animated flick or a VHS tape with a few Disney or Looney Tunes episodes while my parents would rent a live action movie.

I also fondly remember the first times playing classic games from the SNES, Genesis, Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64. Like seeing 3D Zelda and Mario for the first time as little kid was like "WOAH! "

Travelling was fun, too. I loved going to the airport and flying to a new country where the language, the food, the streets, the people, the culture, etc. were all different.

As a kid, you're a lot more impressionable, so it's easy to get nostalgia goggles as an adult looking back at your childhood. I don't miss those days exactly and don't want to relive them, but I kinda miss being a kid without any worries and everything looking exciting and new.

[Katie]

I loved going fishing with my dad and all the summers at the beach collecting shells and watching Dolphins.

Also Saturdays in the fall for college football, chili, and ribs.

Christmas and Thanksgiving meals and just being together as a family

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Katie

I loved going fishing with my dad and all the summers at the beach collecting shells and watching Dolphins.

Also Saturdays in the fall for college football, chili, and ribs.

Christmas and Thanksgiving meals and just being together as a family

I liked Advent better. Christmas is too much people running around the departement store.

[Mew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPA8ZJg6QbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTSgLz9J9eY

[senpai]

Going fishing at the lake outside my mom's old apartment. Also, visiting my dad and friends every summer in Tennessee. Meeemoriiiees~!

[Powder]

Not having to pay for my own stuff...

I dunno! Barbecues were always nice. Feeding ducks, going to local fairs. Typical kid stuff, I guess.

It's little things that I look back on fondly. Like being with my two best friends for a backyard tent sleepover, losing our minds & throwing stuff at each other after having too much candy.

[sdp]

Posting in the Technodrome forums.

[Jephael]

I've got a lot of fond memories spending time with my cousin Amy. We were really close back then.

[ProactiveMan]

Playing on the carpet with my sisters. 'Barbie Land' had a strict 'no He-Man or Turtles' policy for a while there, so I've wielded more fashion dolls than I care to admit.

[AT-Man]

[senpai]

Originally Posted by Powder

Feeding ducks

Basically, lol! At the lake I fished at, there were so many ducks to feed and ducklings to run down and catch.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Katie

I loved going fishing with my dad and all the summers at the beach collecting shells and watching Dolphins.

Also Saturdays in the fall for college football, chili, and ribs.

Christmas and Thanksgiving meals and just being together as a family

Yea your parents taking you to a place like the mall, the zoo, the city carnival, the movies, etc. always felt like a big deal as a kid. Like some sort of epic adventure. As did Christmas, which felt like an eternity to get there.

Originally Posted by senpai

Basically, lol! At the lake I fished at, there were so many ducks to feed and ducklings to run down and catch.

My mother used to take me to this park in the city once a month or so that was full of ducks and had small lakes. She'd buy me some bread for me to feed it to the ducks. It was pretty fun.

I notice there's two types of people who feed ducks at the park: little children and old people.

[senpai]

Originally Posted by Prowler

I notice there's two types of people who feed ducks at the park: little children and old people.

But but but! I'm in my late-20s and I was totally feeding ducks yesterday at the lake! I saw that a momma ducky had babies and I was all... =_= "I'm gonna catch me a duckling today!" So I fed them some air-popped popcorn and scooped one up. It freaked out so I put him back down but he was still running at me trying to get to some more treats. Ducks are aggressive! Even the mom was stealing popcorn from her babies' mouths like "This is adult food; you're too little for this. Yoink!"