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Things that you used to do as a child repetitively and now think "WTF?!"

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ConfusedPixie · 18/09/2013 20:40

The hot chocolate thread got me thinking about this. For some reason, I used to tip a full glass of water onto the carpet, the same patch of carpet, every single day. No clue why. I was asked to stop, but I just did it anyway Confused

I ate chalk too, like the chalk kids draw with. Both of these things happened until high school age?!

Anything utterly random and repetitive you may have done?

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TurnOffTheTv · 18/09/2013 21:25

Children are mental. Fact.

I watch mine doing strange things and think WTF? Then rembember that I used to,

-lick the tips of my fingers every time I went to my nans house so I could dip them straight in the sugar bowl that was located on the bench next to the back door

  • tip out a bag of crisps, find the biggest one, and put it aside. Chew as many crisps as I could until they made a soggy paste in my mouth. Spit crisp paste onto big crisp and spread it out like some kind of fois gras. Yum.

-put my folding desk chair on top of my bed, sit on it really carefully, bit tricky with a soft mattress, then wrap my duvet around me and the chair and watch tv.

Fucking bonkers.

HoneyDragon · 18/09/2013 21:25

C'mon Psammy, you know you want too.....

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 18/09/2013 21:24

This thread makes me feel so nice and normal. I am glad not to be the only book eater.

mmmneedsmustard · 18/09/2013 21:24

I used to pick the paint off the walls and skirting (spelling?) boards.

I used to wash the tiles with my bubble bath when I was in the bath and used to drink the bath water through flannel or sponge.

HoneyDragon · 18/09/2013 21:24

Sit behind the sofa and hide whenever Michael Burke read the lunch time news.

Smoorikins · 18/09/2013 21:23

I ate bits of books too...

I also wound rubber bands around my fingers till they were red and bulbous.

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 18/09/2013 21:23

I also used to tear corners off newspapers and eat it.

I used to switch my brother's bedroom light on and off over and over whenever I walked past. Somehow I thought he would get into trouble if his lightbulb blew Confused Unfathomably, I then told mum all about my evil plan. Bonkers.

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 18/09/2013 21:23

I've got a really gross one. I am ashamed to tell you.

peachmint · 18/09/2013 21:23

I ate the fruity bits in pot pourri.

VeeAndTea · 18/09/2013 21:22

I also used to pull clumps of hair out and roll it into little balls which I would store under my pillow. And used to sleep with my head inside the pillow case and at the bottom of the bed

itstheyearzero · 18/09/2013 21:22

I used to tear a little corner of the page of a book and chew it. Well more than one page normally. I did it to library books the most as they tasted better...

Titsalinabumsquash · 18/09/2013 21:19

I was a book eater! Blush

SelectAUserName · 18/09/2013 21:19

OverandAbove you've just reminded me I used to do something similar. I'd fill the basin with water, put my face into it and blow/breathe out so that it sounded as though as I was saying "EdwardWoodwardEdwardWoodward" over and over again.

VeeAndTea · 18/09/2013 21:16

I used to lick coal, eat paper and raw pasta.

LynetteScavo · 18/09/2013 21:16

My friend and I used to hunt dog poos and study them closely.

The bigger and sloppier the better.

I am absolutely appalled by this now.

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 18/09/2013 21:14

I used to tear little bits off book pages and eat them as I was reading. Wtf?

KneesoftheBee · 18/09/2013 21:12

I used to eat raw sausages and bite pieces out of the bathroom sponge.

Ew.

OverAndAbove · 18/09/2013 21:11

I used to run a basin full of really cold water (cold like it came from the icy bowels of an iceberg) and put my face in it. Hold my breath for as long as I could. Emerge and dry with towel, then repeat three or four times. Weird.

I do still love cold water, particularly swimming in it. I'd like to think it was good for my skin but I'm not sure!

lemonruggles · 18/09/2013 21:10

I used to go to the fridge and get small lumps of butter to eat (on their own). The idea makes me feel sick now.

CakesAreNotTheAnswer · 18/09/2013 21:10

I used to pick at raw beef mince abd frozen alphabites whenever they were available. The former, especially, seems like a risky game in hindsight add I was a child of the eighties and my chances of getting mad cow infected beef must have been high

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ConfusedPixie · 18/09/2013 21:08

leave I used to eat the yellow pages too, you just reminded me of that Grin

I like the sound of a candlewick, I want one now Grin

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KneesoftheBee · 18/09/2013 21:08

Yep. They were candlewick bedspreads. The tufts looked like the wicks off candles supposedly.

They were all the rage at Brentford Nylons.

ShatnersBassoon · 18/09/2013 21:05

I think they were called candlewicks, but that could have been my mum's weird naming habits in action. They were quite a thin blanket with short 'wicks' of soft tufty stuff punched through to create a pattern and texture.

MsJupiterJones · 18/09/2013 21:05

I used to suck my hair. The thought repels me now.

LeaveTheBastid · 18/09/2013 21:03

My sister used to eat fabric, bed sheets, clothes, towels.... The insulation on the boiler, her pocket money... Grin drove my parents barking mad. She has terrible problems using the loo now yet doesn't see to think it is at all linked to her cotton chomping past. I think her gut must look like a patchwork blanket.