Household objects and other non-toys you loved to play with as a kid.
Pic related, I used to have a hankerchief like this but purple, with a knot on one corner that looked kinda like dragon's head. I would just swoosh his ethereal body arund the room, lay him flat on my bed and then pull on his head up to rise him like some kind of swamp wizard dragon.
Maybe more toy-ish but I think still counts; I had a Batmobile shampoo bottle, but for the life of me I can't find any images of it. It was a single piece of black plastic shampoo bottle shaped like Batman The Animated Series batmobile. Something like the first inch of its nose was the screw cap. I would play with it in the bath, rotate the nose 180 degrees to make it look more like a motorboat, with curve on the underside.
What are your memories of having something not be a toy, that didn't stop you from playing with it and loving it. Be them comfy or pathetic, tell what did you play with?
i played with you're mom when i was a kid
I used to pretend clothes hangers were space ships and have huge battles with them.
>>5729047
forgot image
NON STOP FUN.
I played with this 6 foot dowel tons as a kid.
That was my sword, my wizard staff, fishing rod.
I may have attempted to turn it into a hang glider.
Until it got thrown away during a move by an oblivious relative.
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I played a lot with photographic film cartridges, usually as characters, buildings or vehicles. Great for digging too.
Also made a ton of spaceship battles between fleets of non-comestible berries.
Being able to throw your kid in the garden must be comfy for parents; it reduces the need for toys a lot.
>>5729036
Oh man all kinds of things. My brother and I would pretend we were fishing with tension rods with string taped to them. We also would fire my mom's hairbands across the room and run and get them.
>>5729290
I stored sugar on them and pretend its drugs
put one handle under each armpit of an action figure = instant parachute
>>5729379
Was there supposed to be a plastic bag image on your post?
>>5729047
>>5729048
that is pretty cool for a McDonalds happy meal thing. you get a functional water bottle that doesn't really look like a bottle at all plus the mount to put it on a bike.
Man reading your post made me remember something non toy that I played with often, but now I am struggling to remember what it was again after typing that! I will probably remember as soon as I hit send, seems to be the case most of the time
>>5729406
now I remember what it was. Like your batmobile item, it was a functional item that easily doubled as a toy. It was a Jaws the Ride Pencil Sharpener I got from Universal Studios. Was more or less a jaws plastic toy with a sharpener built into it. Tried looking for images of it but cant seem to find it, did find a etsy page selling other merchandise I remember seeing there like a Jaws suction cup toy, split in half with a suction cup on each part so you could stick it on a window with one end inside and the other outside
>>5729382
put on handle under each armpit of your accidental child = instant freedom
I used to play with my gum and wrap it around my finger and style it into hair
>>5729036
ITT: Poor kids general
>>5729669
It's not about being poor. Have you never noticed how a child takes an expensive toys and plays with it for 5 minutes, then comes back to play with it's favourite stick?
We, adult toy-lovers want quality. But kids are bloody stupid/beautifully imaginitive (however you want to look at it) and we all were kids at one point, so most of us have similar memories.
They were cars, tanks, spaceships...
>>5729371
Damn, I was just about to post this
Used to make little people with these, place them all over the makeshift buildings I had, and smash and squash them like Godzilla when I was a kid.
