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You said: The most fun I ever had as a young kid was with a plain old piece of cardboard. Rub that sucker with grass to get it slick and down the hill you go!

The best toys were always the home made stuff. We played for DAYS on an old mattress we dragged over to a swing set and jumped out of the swings onto it. That was so great!! One store-bought toy I remember consisted of two cardboard tubes, one barely smaller than the other. You attached a rubber "rocket" to the top of one tube, then inserted the tube into the end of the other tube, pushed down hard, and off flew the rocket. If that wasn't enough fun, the water rockets were fantastic, AND got you wet!! We only got in trouble when we started aiming them horizontally instead of into the air..... OH!! and how about those plastic parachute men!! The parachutes usually tore up pretty quickly so we would get handkerchiefs out of dad's drawers.... As Bob Hope would say, thanks for the memories!!!