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

I used to toast bread and stuff on the electric fire. But one time I stuck a metal skewer thing I had been using for toasting into the actual element and gave myself a really painful, violent shock. Never told my parents.

Our stairs had solid walls on both sides and the skirting board at the top went across the walls on either side, sticking out of the wall by at the most an inch, I used to walk out over the full drop of the stairs with a foot wedged on either side, pretending I was in the circus. Very dangerous and never got caught. I used to also climb out of my window onto the extension roof and climb down the side of the house. Was about 8 or 9.

Why was I surprised when I discovered my daughter climbing her wardrobe?

I also used to run down the road to my friends house, but had to jump from various bits of the pavement, drain covers etc in a particular way, if I got it wrong I had to go back and start again.

I also made potions out of the various products in the bathroom cabinet.

Slight variation on the Milkyway thing - I too used to eat all the chocolate off first, but I would then roll in in to a ball in talcum powder as if it was Turkish delight. I also did this with the caramel off Twix's or anything similar. Oh and always in private sat on my bedroom floor - I would have been mortified if I had been caught .
Only used baby talc though, other stuff just tasted wrong!

Also remember the sucking water through the flannel in the bath and lying on my front in the bath letting the water just flow in and out of my mouth, weird.

Also used to love eating butter when we had jacket potatoes, would cut off and eat lumps as if it was cheese. My favorite meal is still sausages and Jacket potatoes with cheese, mmmm.

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queen turnoffthetv I did the crisp thing too!! Used to to it with hooka hoops! I've never admitted that to ANYONE before lol

Am crying with laughter at these!

Another key-licking glue-peeling bogey-wiping finger-sewer here!

And yy to picking all the chocolate off a milky way and rolling the insides into a ball!

But the weirdest one I remember, from when I was about four, is that I would empty all the toy cars out of their bucket, put the bucket on my head, pretend to be Princess Diana, and say the word "actually" over and over again. I think it was because the bucket made everything sound so nice and echoey. No idea what the princess Diana thing was though.

What an absolutely amazingly wonderful amount of time we all had in our hands... I miss that :(

I did so many of these DH thinks I'm a total freak now!

Used to tear off & eat corners of paper, sook on a flannel, peel paint off of the staircase, lick batteries (!!!), peel lips and skin round fingers (still do - at one point I peeled so much skin from my lips that I tore the skin off a big patch of my chin!), narrated everything in my head, had to count my steps, had to check which page I was on every time I turned a page in a book (still catch myself doing this sometimes actually)

I still peel glue off my hands, I have a special bottle just for me! Haven't been doing it for a while as cant move my fingers properly anymore

I also did the cleaning if the bathroom tiles

I used to melt candles on the lightbulb of my desk lamp.

then wait for the wax to drop on a paper to make interesting patterns.

or onto my hand as a test to see if I can stand the heat.

This thread is absolutely amazing

I did do the PVA glue on the fingers (didn't everyone) and the eating all the chocolate off the Club (or whatever) biscuit before eating the biscuit, but none of the other stuff ever occurred to me

I did suck my thumb. And DS ate chalk, sand and licked paintbrushes at the one o'clock club!

Oh my god at attempted murder of cute little girl neighbour!

I've remembered something, and it's really, really bad! It was a favourite game for a while with myself and friend six doors down. We gave the game a name, but I shall change the girl's name! It was called.. Poisoning Susan. 'Susan' lived next door to my friend. I should point out she had done nothing to us at all! She was a really sweet, slightly younger girl! We used to get penny sweets and ..well..poison them. With things from the shed. Unwrap them, squirt stuff on then wrap them up again..Fruit Salads, BlackJacks and the like. And leave them on the garden wall for her. I don't think we ever wanted her to eat them! I don't know why we did it really It was just the thrill of her taking them and then seeing they were in edible. She came out one day and said 'my mummy says I'm not to eat any of your sweets' . We could've killed her :-((( I'm deeply sorry 'Susan', wherever you may be! and so glad you never swallowed any!

annie

why? just why?
I can't stop laughing! did you ever catch a bus?

I used to put my two legs in one leg of my pyjamas and pretend I was running for a bus .never ever done this with trousers only my pjs

This thread has made me cry with laughter! DP keeps looking at me with a quizzical look on his face. Might share some of these with him.

I used to suck the water out of my wet hair. And pee in the bath before my brother got in! Some of these are hilarious. Am loving the poo sticks game! My friends and I used to play a game called spit where we could play it and spit at each other. We still laugh about this now. Oh, and making up alternative lyrics to popular songs. I remember "I saw the sign" by ace of base becoming "I saw your mum". And I still remember the words.....

I used to do that thing of pretending I was in a novel and mentally adding "she said" after everything I said or narrating what was happening in my head: "And then she opened the door and went into the room." I once heard an interview with Ruth Rendell where she said she did this as a child, and George Orwell did too, apparently, so I feel like I'm in good company.

Remembered as well I went through a phase for a couple of years or so where every car I saw, I had to think of a word which used every letter on the number plate. The best was when you didn't need to add any letters, the more letters you had to add the worse it was.

I got really obsessive about it, it took real effort to stop myself from doing it.

Oh and if we had chip's I'd put vinegar in my tea.

I used to poke my nails into my grans wallpaper too, I thought it would pop like bubble wrap. You have thought I would catch on that it didn't after the first few tries, but no I did it for years .
Fannel sucking sponge chewing, furniture biter, plug water drinking, crisp paste did them all .

I also used to do a thing with my eyebrows where I imagined I had a pencil on my forehead and they had to jump over it . I used to spend hours pulling faces to get the feeling right

mama & fay

now you are talking!
I used to eat butter like you eat a piece of raw carrot!
I still bite into butter sometimes with my bread instead of spreading it on.

For no reason whatsoever, whenever I was given a pear to eat, I would take it out to our porch and pretend I was a seal, barking and slapping my hands together, and be fed the pear by my imaginary zoo keeper.

Coz seals eat pears. Obviously.

I have no idea WTF I was up to....

I love eating lumps of butter. In fact, I did so yesterday. DP insists there is no such thing as a butter sandwich, but he is wrong!

For some reason, I used to get up in the middle of the night and hang my legs out the window

I used to eat butter in lumps from the dish too and I loved tomato ketchup sandwiches.

i used to eat pages of my books too. i still eat the bubbles in a bubble bath.