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

[ConfusedPixie]

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

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?

[mymummademelistentoshitmusic]

How did I miss this thread first time round? Another page corner water here - I can't believe other people did it.
Also ate raw mince. Can still remember loving the texture.

[MummyPidge]

I probably had loads but reading a pp comment about ice cream I remember that myself and my sister used to have a bowl of Ice cream and sprinkles and used to spit it back in the bowl until it was a grey ice cream soup!

Also our nan used to buy us chicken roll which we had in sandwiches, we'd then squash the sandwiches down flat, and to this day chicken roll is flat chicken!

[QOD]

I had a candlewick bedspread .... My room was odd. You had to unlatch my door, small landing, latch door into sisters room, thru hers, unlatch door, downstairs, clicky ball door, thru kitchen, thru bathroom to toilet.

So I crumpled up the candlewick bedspread and wee'd on that .... My room got smellier and smellier

Mum finally noticed and I was given a potty ... Aged 8 .... And I remember I had to empty it myself which was MEAN

[LemonDrizzleTwunt]

I used to collect dead bees. I would then put them in the dolls house arranged on the furniture like some apian Sylvanian Families.

Yes. I know.

[riverboat1]

I used to bite pieces off the sponge while in the bath, then chew them up for a while and spit them out. I notice at least one pp did the same!

[flanjabelle]

I used to rub my legs/feet up and down the radiator next to my bed, for hours.

I remember getting up out of my bed again and again to talk to my parents because I was bored. they weren't too pleased.

My best friend and I used to draw pictures of naked people in a special secret notebook that we had (age about 8/9). Our parents found the notebook and had to have a talk about it.

I used to bite and run my teeth along my wooden headboard and any wooden furniture because I liked the way the varnish squashed down.

[bullinthesea]

I used to eat heaped spoonfuls of sugar when my Mum wasn't looking.
It's a wonder I have any teeth left!

[feelingmellow]

So many.......... There used to be a home dry cleaning fluid called dabbitoff which I liked to sniff until my ears started ringing. I doubt you can buy the stuff now and I'm amazed I never suffered serious damage!

I used to get undressed for bed in the living room and used to dive behind the sofa if the news came on as I thought the news reader would be able to see my naked body.

When sitting on the loo I used to pick my nose and smear it on the wall. Yuck. I think my mum must have cleaned it all off from time to time as it all disappeared every so often

[PamShoo]

Not odd but - I can still remember playing a 'basketball' game every day after school (and it HAD to be every day after school, I had to stick to schedule) in the house. It wasn't basketball even - just me throwing the ball at the door and catching it, occasionally spinning it. I used to 'teach' it to imaginary people, and would write lists and lists of random names of my 'pupils'..

Also used to eat cupcakes AND the cupcake cases they came in - would try and 'squeeze' out the last morsels of cake greedy

Oh - and used to such on chewy cola bottle sweets for ages, convinced that I was actually sucking the cola out of it. I swore to people I saw the sort of cola 'level' dropping - alas I never seemed to suck all of the cola out of the sweet, I wonder why??!

[katheroo]

I drew tiny little 'x's' on every item I owned (including sheets,curtains etc) so that robbers would know not to take them if they burgled our house. I still remember my mums face when I explained this to her when she clocked one of my pillowcases with an X in biro on it during a bedtime story

[icanmakeyouicecream]

I used to eat talcum powder ... Weirdo

[rach89]

I used to pinch frozen green beans out of the freezer. My dad caught me once and the only excuse I could come up with is that there were some boys outside and I was going to throw them out my window at them!!! Xx

[BathildaBagshot]

I ate Opal Fruits with the wrappers on. Still get the urge to do it!

[mummyandmidwife]

Honeydragon

I was scared of him too. I used to hide my face till he was gone

[DaisyFitz]

OMG. I was a book eater too! The bottom corner. What is that about?

[BorisJohnsonsHair]

I used to have tin next to my bed (the kind that you get set squares and protractors in) and every night would take the skin off my hot milky drink and put it in the tin. My mum was disgusted when she opened it one day and found the stinking green goo inside. In my defence, skin on hot drinks IS vile and it was better than putting it under the bed or something.

[YoniGetAnOohWithTyphoo]

oh and Kateandme I also did the walking on toes thing still do it now never hurt though. Am slightly worried it might have stuffed up my skeleton slightly... but I do have calves of steel

[YoniGetAnOohWithTyphoo]

strip my barbies and line them up so I could laugh at their bottoms.
I did this quite often. clearly, I knew how to have fun as a kid!

[RafaellaNhaKyria]

I used to drive needles through the top layer of skin on my palms, weaving it up and down so that it looked like it had been sewn into my skin.

I also used to light a taper candle and drip wax onto my hand, the longer I was uninterrupted the better as I could get a cast of my thumb or a couple of fingers. I had a box filled with little wax casts of parts of my hand. I don't know why I did it either, it hurt like hell!

[nouvellevag]

I used to have school dinner one day a week and take packed lunch the rest of the time. On school dinner day I would take an extra little paper packet of salt, stash it in my skirt pocket, go off to lunchtime choir after clearing my plate and then secretly eat the salt packet, paper and all, while pretending to sing. God, it was delicious.

I also used to do an elaborate ritual with books where I'd tear a bit out of eavery page in the same place each time (low down so it didn't spoil the words), making a little tunnel through the book, and chewing the torn-out bits of paper as I went. I didn't swallow them, though. I have a feeling I kept them in a box, because in my mind books were precious (!) and it was unthinkable to throw a piece of a book in the bin.

[MrsHoolie]

I used to suck the end of my cat's tail

[Owhatfuckeryisthis]

Oh vitamin c tablets, the really really sour ones.my mouth is watering now.iwas a hair pulling (one at a time to get the root) scab eating freak.i also used to scrape the first of the walls of the freezer and eat it.i will still eat snow. (blush)

[ShinyBauble]

I used to pour the salt shaker directly into my mouth. My parents also had to hide the vitamin c tablets because they once caught me polishing off a full bottle (they were gorgeous, like really nice orange sweets, not the chalky crap you get now.)

[PipkinsPal]

I used to rip off and eat the corner of newspapers and also chewed on tissues. My mother said I would poo toilet roll if I continued. Also loved to melt candle wax in a teaspoon over a candle and drip it on my arm and pick off the hardened wax. Used to eat Garibaldi biscuits so it would look like I had fillings, just like my friends . Also a flannel sucker and sponge eater and a candlewick bedspread and teddy bear plucker. Used to squash caterpillars with my Dad's vice.