To ask what weird/stupid stuff you did as a kid

[Bantameggs]

I think I was a bit of a strange child although maybe I’m not the only one.

One of my favourite things to do aged about 5/6 was to steal a bar of soap and some scissors, find a corner to hide in and shave wafer thin slices of soap off until there was nothing but a big pile of soap flakes. I got into trouble every time but it didn’t stop me.

Our family car had two rear facing seats at the back and if I was sitting there I used sit dead still and make blank-faced unblinking eye contact with the people behind for as long as possible. I think I managed it for about an hour once.

Once aged about 10 I set out to drink as much water as possible just to see how much I could drink. I managed a few litres (I’m aware now that I could have killed myself)

I brought a large dehydrated dead fish I’d found on the beach to show and tell at school when I was 7. Unfortunately it was the last day before the summer holidays and I accidentally left it behind. I think they had to get someone to come in in the end to deal with the terrible smell.

When I was 12 I coloured my entire face in with bright pink lipstick. It took about two days to get rid of completely.

Was anyone else a little weirdo? I think I’m pretty normal now btw!

[DrBuckles]

The water biscuit spread has really made me feel sick

Although I once made my mums dinner for her when I was about 9- I put some beef crisps in a bowl with marmite and golden syrup- I thought it would be lovely for her. I was wrong.

Although looking at the sweet and salty trend nowadays perhaps I was just ahead of my time!

[KelvinHelmholtz]

We had to trace round the UK in geography class, I got it the wrong way round and went over it. I cried and laughed hysterically both at the same time for ages - a skill I've only replicated once or twice since.

We used to put crisp packets in the oven and shrink them. We were talking about that the other day. Immensely satisying.

[SamanthaJayne4]

I played the fainting game when I was 9. Me and two other girls went into a shed and locked our younger siblings out in case they told. I went first. You had to breathe in and out very deeply then she pushed me in under the ribs to stop me breathing. I fainted. When I came round we went outside and just carried on playing. We never played that game again!

[DaftWeeBun]

Lick my knees and sniff them. Just tried it, still lovely.

[Poppy43]

Oh god yes MISSLADYM!!!
SIDEORDEROFCHIPS making families from the catalogue is so sweet!

[SheeshKebab]

I'd fill empty tic tac boxes with squash so I could have a little drink incase I got thirsty 🤨

[Poppy43]

When mum popped out to shops me and my siblings would test ourselves to see how clean and tidy we could get the place before she got back, it was a game that obviously benefitted our mother mostly but we loved to see her reaction

[ZippyBungleandGeorge]

DB and I would get up sneakily super early on a Saturday morning pile the sofa cushions at the foot of the stairs and jump from higher and higher up, my parents' stairs are very steep and very narrow with a wall each side, which back in the eighties was fully artexed, with the spiky kind of artex! It was a danger sport. DF found out but promised not to tell DM, he told us he and his six brothers used to throw a mattress out into the garden and jump from a bedroom window on to it!

[ZippyBungleandGeorge]

And we used to put all the liquids we could think of through the sodastream (don’t try milk, it explodes)
It does it really does and the soda stream will forever smell a bit funky

[bugeyedbarber]

I used to make weird concoctions out of various food stuffs: mix and egg with some flour and heap of salt, bicarbonate and cocoa and some vinegar (anything really) and then leave the mixture in an odd place like behind a wardrobe in the hallway.

Then I'd check i how it would develop over next few days. Sometimes it would go mouldy, sometimes it would solidify, either way I got a kick out of the secrecy of my little experiment.

[brizzlemint]

How do you force ants to do anything?

I used to check inside the toilet for spiders every single time. I'd also always count, if I was walking anywhere I'd count my steps and on the bus I'd be counting the change in my pocket or the number of people on the bus

[Monsterdogs]

I would sit upside down on the sofa.
Burn stuff with a magnifying glass 😳
Make nests from cut grass and decorate them with stones and flowers.
Collect and race snails (and leave them in my grans garden).

[cheesenpickles]

Hi reading this has brought back some memories. Christ, I was a weird child.

Another Milk Teeth lover
Was the only person in my household - at age 3 - who could open child safe caps on medicine. I'd have to open the calpol for my mum.
Walked only on my tip toes for years, still do it when I climb stairs.
Used to do "experiments" where I'd basically take a poor My Little Pony/Care Bears beaker and stick it over the lightbulb in my lamp. My childhood comes flooding back whoever I smell burning plastic.
I had a bedroom overlooking a road that was very quiet but I'd get scared when cars went past so had to have the tv on.
One of the worst was if I ever got a pack of Squares in my lunchbox (can't believe I'm writing this) I would chew one square then get another two and spit (...yep) the chewed square between non-chewed squares to make a sandwich. Would also do similar to wheat crunchies.
I'd lay on my back in the bath and crouch down and push off the bottom of the tub (like you do when swimming) and pretty much flood the 80s carpeted of course!) bathroom.

[Hippychick78]

Ohhhh I've never known anyone else to do the crisp packet thing. E used to make little badges out of them. The radiators In school were hot Enough to use also

I used to collect rubber shavings in little tubs 🤷‍♂️ id spend hours rubbing it against the table and carefully collect the results, all filled by Colour.

I used to play post offices and made mini cheques with perforated stubs with all the detail to be written in then signed and ripped satisfyingly. Spent a lot of time making those cheques exactly like a real one. The stubbs would be filed on a pencil stuck vertically into a big blob of blue tack

I don't like certain foods touching, it's a thing. Don't like food getting wet

[cheesenpickles]

Ohhhh and we had a gas fire with glass on it. I would sneak bread out and hold it against the A's to make toast because I had been reading about toasting forks and thought this would make better toad than the toaster.

[Alloftheboys]

Used to “clean” the big plastic duck we played with in the bath. We did this by dipping our toothbrushes in the bar of soap and scrubbing the duck. Could never work out why our toothbrushes tasted funny!

Took all the cushions off the sofa and pretend they were stepping stones and the carpet was the sea. If you fell off a shark would eat you.

[Sparklykittycat]

My siblings and I would put one another on our shoulders, dress up in our dads long coat and a hat, draw a mustache on our face and ring on the doorbell putting on a manly voice (proper convinced they believed we were a stranger as they would ALWAYS go along with it)

Our parents gave us £1 each at a fair when we were like 6/8yrs so we saw there was a stall selling snakes and reptiles which of course we wanted but obviously couldn’t afford so we bought a mouse each (not realizing it was to feed the snakes) bought them in to school for show and tell and the mouse ran down the teachers top when she went to hold him

We used to find frogs in our local park and bring them home and leave them in the bath (at one time there were 5 frogs swimming/hopping around the bath) until our parents would explain how they need to be outside to get food/be with their mother etc

We would see dandelions, weeds and Daisy’s and pick them for our mum and excitedly wait until she got home where she would act extremely greatful which obviously encouraged us to constantly bring home weeds to our parents thinking they were flowers

[OhMyDarling]

I was an odd one too...
-sucked the flannel in the bath
-ate the bubbles from the bubble bath- handfuls and handfuls! Oddly I craved this when pregnant too.
-used to steal my nans Rennie tablets then grind them to dust with my teeth
-had an imaginary family (mum, dad, baby etc)
-couldn’t have different foods on the same plate
-ate tissues daily
-I liked hiding... behind the sofa, in the wardrobe
-shut my eyes so tightly that I “saw stars” like I was on a space ship travelling through a galaxy
-tucked in all my teddies and dolls every night, I had so many I regularly would fall out of bed and end up freezing cold sleeping on the floor for the rest of the night. I thought they all had feelings and if I didn’t do this or if I left one out, they wouldn’t know I loved them
-so many weird food things (still have most of them today)
Infact so many other weird things I won’t bore you with the rest!

[heroineinahalfshell]

Oh I was such a weird kid.

• I'm another one who used to chew the wooden bed frame. I also used to conpulsively pull feathers out of my pillow, lick them (?!) and then throw them out my bedroom window to "hide" them (except my bedroom window was front, ground floor, so my dad went mad when he found a load of feathers in his flowerbed!)
• I sucked my thumb all through my childhood (still do sometimes). My mum used to paint this horrible tasting stuff on my thumb designed to make you stop and I would just suck it all off.
• Drank vinegar out of the little sachets
• ate crisps by sucking all the flavour off each side of the crisp, then eating the soggy remains
• had a very active imagination and used to talk to myself, making up all kinds of imaginary families & events
• fully believed that all my stuffed toys "woke up" at night and had their own lives. Arranged them all into families so they'd be together when they woke up. This was years before Toy Story.

[ToastMarketingBoard]

This is comforting! I was always a bit of a weird kid.

I had a few weird food ones... I would eat daisy petals, and paper. My mum tells me she would catch me taking bites out of a block of parmesan in the fridge! I used to make tea in a measuring jug, pour a little into a cup, add ten sugars and top up with milk. The sugar wouldn't dissolve properly, so I'd scoop it out with a finger to eat, then repeat until I'd finished the jug. It's a wonder I made it through childhood with any teeth!

I once went to my friend's house a few houses down dressed as a "reindeer." It was actually tights, a swimming costume and a teatowel tucked into the back as a tail. I was so proud of my costume... her mum told me off for walking around in a swimming costume in mid-December and sent me straight home to change 🤷

[amandacarnet]

I used to claim to have a pacemaker and every so often used to hold my hand to my chest and say, oh my pacemaker going again.
But my grandad had one and I was just fascinated with the idea of having a machine inside your body keeping you alive.

[Bleubell]

Me and my friends used to slide down a big grassy hill where we lived in bin bags, especially good when it had been raining and the grass was wet 😂

This one is really outing and quite embarrassing but when I was a young kid I used to think that the toilet would suck all my clothes down it when it flushed so I would strip completely naked before I would use the toilet, no matter where I was. Used to drive my mum bonkers 😂

I also loved eating the wee jars of baby food 🤢 my gran would give me money to go to the shops to buy them as my parents wouldn't get them for me 🙄

[managedmis]

I once ate all the buttons off the remote control and got an absolute bollocking.

^^

Sorry but

[managedmis]

When my mum used to introduce me i would be standing there cross eyed, and flinch dramatically when she would tell me to stop 😂


^^

Priceless

[TrianglesAreOddlyShapedSquares]

My brother, our friend and I were playing mam's and dad's and I decided to take things to the extreme because I thought the way they wanted to play the game was boring. Off I went downstairs to get myself a large beaker of blackcurrant juice, a bath towel and a football because I wanted us to replicate a dramatic scene I saw on Holby City a few nights prior of a woman having a complicated birth where she nearly died. I proceeded to put the towel over my head to serve as a wig once I got back upstairs, put the football up my top and then I poured the whole beaker of blackcurrant juice over myself to make it look like I was bleeding heavily before lying down on my bed.

The birth was now finally upon us! Cue me screaming like a rapid bashee, my flustered brother instantly holding up my legs whilst telling me how everything is going with the delivery and our poor friend elbow deep inside my top grappling with the ball. The next thing we all knew, our mam comes rushing into my bedroom like a bull in a China shop because she thought I seriously hurt myself only for her to see what was actually happening which was mortifying in itself especially as we were all in the same positions still. I would have loved to have known what exactly went through my mams head as her face was a proper picture. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I always did weird things like this as a child for some reason.