Odd/ strange things you did as a child?

[Thecatistheboss]

My mum found an old picture of me, around 6 - in the picture I had a piece of wool fastened as a necklace! I apparently insisted on doing it all the time, I used to walk around with various colours of wool around my neck 😂😂 I’ve no clue why!! I also used to write in colouring books, I’d never colour them in but used to write on the pages, no idea to that one either

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As a toddler I used to eat the carpet underlay. It was black and a bit crumbly. Mum or dad would see me chewing knowing they hadn't given me anything to eat and ask what I was eating. I'd say nothing, so they'd get me to open my mouth and there it would be. They would remove it and ask me if I had any more in my mouth. No definitely not, few seconds later they'd catch me chewing again. I hadn't eaten another lot I apparently retained it a bit like a hamster does.

I used to pick the gloss paint off the door with my toenails as I sat on the toilet.

Lots of odd things and one was playing Nazis in the woods with friends. Don’t think we knew what Nazis really were

Talked to the lady ghost upstairs

Sellotaping up the dining room door so other kids that were round couldn’t get in. Didn’t give a thought to the fact it’d take all the paint off
Throwing wet flannels at a kid standing in the bath fully clothed
Pouring water on the toilet seat when we had visitors so it looked like they had wee’d on the seat
Cutting the hair off of dolls and poking their eyes in

I used to sit astride a fence with a skipping rope (reins) attached to the post, which became the horses head!

There was a ledge underneath our kitchen table, and any food I didn't like, like crusts, and chewy meat were put on it. I wasn’t allowed to have my pudding until I’d had my dinner! Wonder what happened to that table and the “ remains” !

I used to drink glasses of juice by dipping the horn of a soft-toy goat into it and sucking the juice out.

I also used to fabricate whole autograph books with fake celeb signatures.

I used to make potions with thing like nail varnish remover and shampoo and keep them ready for if I ever came across somebody I didn't like I'd have my special potion so I could poison them.
When Mum annoyed me I'd fantasize about pouring it in her drink- I never did though.

I ate grass regularly. My favourite way to do that was to sprinkle it on top of ice cream from the ice cream van.

On car journeys I would pretend that I had been kidnapped and my parents were, in fact, kidnappers. In reality that would've been my worst nightmare!

And (I'm not proud of this) but I remember making 'worm paste' with a friend in her back garden. Poor worms :(

I used to make pretend candy floss in bathroom sink using my dad's shaving foam and my toothbrush, no did not eat it.

I put pebbles up my nose as a kid and my mum had to get out with tweezers.

Just remembered another one, laying in bed and digging my heels into the wall and making holes in it.

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You win MN today, that should say.

i used to eat our dogs biscuits to wind her up … feel like I was quite a sadistic child at times lol! I also used my nans hairdressing scissors to play hair dressers with my neighbours son and cut a chunk out of the front of his hair 😅😅

Loving this thread, SecondStart1001 that's soo funny... did the neighbour complain haha

Remember when we all got sunburned every year (especially 1976) and proudly showed off our peeling backs/shoulders/noses?
I used to eat my peeling 😶‍🌫️

I used to chew up daisies and then spit them out on my neighbour's path, pretending it was puke.

And similar to the spaghetti thing but I had long hair, used to pull strands out, knot the end and then swallow it and pull it back up.

I was a delightful child.

The carpet sucking bit cracked me up! The sensation was really familiar to me reading that. Then the memory came back - child me sucking bath water out of flannels! 😆

I had a candle wick bed spread which wouldn’t lie flat. So I snipped them with scissors. Of course they weren’t snipped evenly so I had to keep snipping like a mad thing until there wasn’t anything left.

It's crazy how many things I'm reading on this thread and thinking "I did that too!"

The mushed up hula hoop thing being one of them and I thought it was just me haha.

I used to pretend I had my own tv show. I used to narrate everything I did in my day as if I was on a tv show....Kind of reminds me of my DC now who narrate everything like they're on some YouTube channel!

I really wanted pierced ears but mum wouldn't let me so I used to draw on pretend earring studs with pen.

I also liked to pretend someone was phoning me on the landline and would "talk" to the dial tone or talking clock. Sometimes for quite some time pretending there was someone on the other end of the phone.

I used to dig up earthworms and put them down my vest as I liked the wriggly feeling.

I would then lift my vest up and let them all fall onto floor. I think they were dead at that point

I was about 6 and had other strange habits.

I don't remember being told off, but I don't think anyone noticed me.

I also aged 2 used to play in the gutter in the street and picked up chewing gum and ate it.

I also used to climb a tree at the front of house and throw stones at people going past .

Again I was unsupervised.

I would open my bedroom window in winter and push my duvet off until I got really cold, pretending I was a homeless girl. I would then meet a prince and he would take me to live in the castle and I would put my duvet back on and get really warm and snuggly. And repeat, and repeat. I'm still weird

I used to sit in school and think I was controlling the weather.