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

toys

and grass aids bringing up fur balls!

This is hilarious!

I recognise a few oddities.

I loved a wee dram of malt....vinegar!

Have now been reminded of the deliciousness of sucking on a wet flannel.

Bogie wall galleries too.

I used to sit in bed awake for hours during the summer months when it was light out till late, one of my favourite passtimes was to make 'potions' my best recipe consisted of body lotion and talc, Id mix it in an old ice cream tub and by morning it would have set, then Id make something from that. Hours of fun.

I think some people would argue that at least it's creative

all the people who complain about today's youngsters watching too much tv or playing Minecraft should read this thread.

I think informative tv and creative games are way better use of time than lying under a moving train or eating grass.
or sewing your fingers together!

I told DH last night about the skin sewing.

he said he used to actually sew his fingers together!
who is a weirdo now?

Many if my weird habits have already been mentioned but anyway... My parents had an open coal fire with a mesh fire guard. I used to enjoy licking patterns on the mesh and then watching the heat if the fire dry my saliva. Like stained glass, only it was baked on encrusted spit. Some of my designs lasted quite a while!

I also (and maybe still do ) collect skin from blisters and leave it to dry out. I like(d) to then inspect all the lines in it. I usually kept it for a few days until it totally shrivelled up.

alltoomuch - me too. I also imagined that I was really a princess, and that one day my royal parents would find me and it was all a terrible mistake that I was living in a semi detached in Sheffield.

retrohippy - I did that Milky Way thing too! Can't help you with the frottage though.

I used to have a very long walk to school and to pass time on the way, would imagine what would happen if i became homeless/ orphaned ( i used to get Jinty and Tammy comics and there were always sob stories about orphaned kids) . I would always be on the lookout for places to potentially build dens for my 'new home' if the worst were to happen, eg bushes, old sheds, .. i read a lot of Enid Blyton's and always wanted to find a hollow tree big enough, so i could live on wild mushrooms, nuts and berries! but i did worry how i'd keep my school uniform clean

Ffs, those were not confessions I wanted immortalising twice

Thought if some more well now we're in classics it'd be rude not to

Used to eat all the chocolate from around Milky Way bars, then roll up the nougat bit into a ball and suck on it.

Plaited everything. The fringing on the rug, the sofa, my rocking horse's tail and mane. Not just normal plaits, each strand had to have the same number of threads in it. If I had time on my hands the poor horse would have single wool strand plaits, plaited together, then those plaited together. It was a work of art.

Genuinely believed in fairies and left out skirts made of flower petals that I had sewn together. If it had gone in the morning, well, that was proof.

I knew about sex from a friend at a relatively early age (6/7) and used to #ahem# abuse my stuffed toy cat. Only externally you understand. Poor thing. I'll bet frottage wasn't on the job description for 'small child's comforter'.

I can't remember eating anything gross though. You crisp paste munchers make me feel a bit

Buswanker

I will confess one on behalf on my son when he was younger, probably about 4 years old. We noticed a funny smell in his room, after a few days we decided to investigate it.
After sniffing everything in his room we found the source, his pillow.
He had been doing a poo in the loo just before bed but instead of wiping his arse on loo roll he wiped on his pillow, from the arse shaped smudge patterns we guessed he'd been doing it for at least 3/4 days.

willsingforcake - am crying laughing at you cooking bacon on a lightbulb.

I too used to sew my fingers and am a child of the 70s.

I also used to use scissors to cut the dry skin off my feet and this was when I was a teenager, I would cut great chunks off and bleed all over the floor.

Oh and at Brownies I always wanted to blow the candle out so I could dip my fingertips in the hot wax, wait for the wax to cool, and peel it off!

My sister and I used to eat jelly and pass it through our teeth until it was sort of liquified, then spit it out onto the spoon, call it 'medicine' and 'drink' it. WTF?

I still sleep with my feet tucked up in the duvet - it started when I was young, not to protect me from spiders like someone above but from lions

I too used to bite wood, my bead head especially. I used to like to run my teeth along it for some reason.

used to eat snow and wash my face in the first snow (apparently that makes your skin beautiful )

I still do both.
the first one - because I like the taste
the 2nd - I can't stop now, can I?

I used to lay on my bed, put the biggest book under my chin and 'tap dance' my fingers in sync with each other, getting quicker and quicker,, used to tap songs and make my sister guess what song.

We used to 'paint' the shed with snails! Poor snails they used to make loads of gooey bright green bubbles.

I used to make daisy chains and then eat them.

I used still do to sit and twist sections of my hair all over and tuck the end bits in and then shake it all out and start again and I wonder why my hair is so shit now

not sure, but it seems to be an international thing (I'm Hungarian! )

we also used to cut our toenails with pinking shears so our nails were spikey, like crocs teeth!

gosh, all these things I remember doing!

we used to pee in the bath, standing up like boys - got very annoyed that the pee would just trickle down our legs.
and we'd sing The Final Countdown as background music.
I don't know why

Sitting at home, watching TV....Why Don't You..... go out and do something less boring instead...like sew your fingers.

Yes, just the top layer of skin ZingWantsCake. I remember being fascinated by the small flaps of skin left, when I'd pulled the cotton off.

Why on earth would any child think of doing that in the first place? Was it a '70's thing?

I used to eat raw bacon rind wouldn't dream of doing that now though...ugh!
I also used to screw up sheets of paper from notebooks/diaries etc and shove them behind my headboard for no apparent reason.
I only got found out when I realised there was a mouse rustling round in all the paper at night and I had to call my mum in to get rid of it as the noise was keeping me awake!

I keep laughing at eating hamster food "to spite my mother"