I almost never did and the few times that I did, I hated it. So BORING. I could never see the point in it! Same thing goes for playing with dolls.

It was much more fun to go out and play in the mud, go hiking on trails nearby, play Frisbee with my Dad, Play kickball with the boys in the neighborhood, ride my bike............you get the idea.

My sister and I loved play house and dolls. We had so much fun and were so creative too. I also participated in other types of dramtic plat with my male cousins and other neighborhood kids. We pretended we were the super friends and other things like that.

My sisters and I had unique way of playing dolls. When we played barbied we used the action fugures and star wars people as part of the family too. We were so attached to our dolls too. To use they were like real kids.

There was one time when we left our dolls out in the yard over night after my mother told us to bring them in. When we got up the next morning to get our dolls they were all torn apart. The next door neighbors puppy came into the yard and had a chew fest. It was so awful my sister and I could not stop crying. My mother really didn't get the how upset were were and pretty much said "I told you so"...

I never played house.....

or with dolls....

Legos and doing things outside, like skateboarding were my thing.

-Anty

Hmmmm, I played other things more, like played school, or played like I was a rock star. LOL

Lets see. Didn't play house as far as I remember. I liked barbies but I would only play Cinderella(My poor half-sisters guess what parts I gave them) I played school with my sister also. I'm the oldest. Outside I played swamp monster on the swingset.

Other than that I don't really remember. My mom says I spent most of my time alone "reading" funny I don't remember finishing too many books.

OH yeah and I was a HUGE barbie freak!

One time....when I was really young...maybe 3 or 4, my aunt bought me this HUGE doll, apparently it was a very expensive one at that...and I looked at it, and told my mom to give it back!

God I was a horrible kid! LOL!

-Anty

Oh also I wrote a letter to santa from when I was about 4 askiong Santa to NOT bring me toys LOL.

I think I asked for roller skates instead - I loved roller skating as a kid. I also asked for clothes but it was because I didn't like the second hand stuff that I had or the stuff my mom made for me. It was not because I was girly LOL

I never played house.....

or with dolls....

Legos and doing things outside, like skateboarding were my thing.

-Anty
Oh ya. I forgot about that.

I'm from the slightly pre-lego era, but we had the styrofoam blocks (similar to legos-- really big though). I would build castles and houses for my cats to sleep in. I remember making them an apartment house once. They really liked it. I made a little house, put a rectangular basket on top, and then made the upper apartment inside the basket. I think there was another basket just like the first which made the roof. I hated tearing that one down. My parents took pictures of the cats in it.

I used to like creative things too......like etch-a-sketch and light bright. I still have fun on etch-a-sketches every once in a while.

Light-brite was the BOMB!!!!

Man I haven't thought about that in years.....

-Anty

When I was little my version of playing house was going out in the woods alone starting at like 6 or 7. When fall came I used to go in the woods and make believe I was living alone out in the boonys and had to hunt and chop wood. I made bows and arrows and slingshots. I would make a "cabin" out of fall leaves and make separate rooms. I used to take paper cups with me and pluck the wheat in the field and add a little salt and eat it raw. After shucking it of course! I would pretend it was my rations. The raw wheat was really good! I couldn't find any friends to share this with so it was just me and my dog. Everybody thought I was a weirdo anyway. Once or twice my brother or sister's went out there with me. We would always end up getting into a fight and someone would mess up our camp.

I played house when I had to...normally I played army. Heck I still play army. I still have toy guns, etc. Now though instead of running around in the most military looking clothes I had in my neighborhood shooting Nazis (or Iraqis a lot of times. Being 6 during Gulf War I was awesome. I could watch GI Joe in the mornings, and then turn the channel and watch the war footage. It was tight!), I hike around in the woods in Camo BDUs with military sticks and radios with friends, heh.

When I played house with neighbors, I was usually a hired assassin or a soldier of some sort, and we'd always be attacked...now my neighbors didn't like that too much, so I normally got kicked out...

I really didn't get to have too many friends because nobody could stand me, I was a spaz. LOL

I played house different. We would get a bunch of blankets and drape them over furniture and make "houses". Yeah, mom wasn't too pleased.

I played house different. We would get a bunch of blankets and drape them over furniture and make "houses". Yeah, mom wasn't too pleased.
Oh been there done that too...actually for a long time, I did all my homework in a fort I made behind a chair by a heating duct. I did that right up until mom realized I wasn't doing homework in there, but reading books about fighting vehicles of WWII...

But the heating duct-blanket-chair fort worked awesomely in the dead of winter to keep me toasty, and I recommend it to anyone.

I did, but mostly we played outside riding bikes, playing ball games and stuff like that. I played with dolls and played house when it was raining......

But the heating duct-blanket-chair fort worked awesomely in the dead of winter to keep me toasty, and I recommend it to anyone.

Cool ! :D

I wonder if it was anything like the fort we had in the basement(we had a play room) just under where the heat that blew down from the heating duct ! ? It was always a bit cold down in the play room ...... :D

I'm from the slightly pre-lego era

I used to like creative things too......like etch-a-sketch and light bright. I still have fun on etch-a-sketches every once in a while.

I'm from that era also... ;) I loved my lite bright ! My brother got my kids one a few years ago. They didn't care for it, my kids thought I was so weird sitting in the darkened room poking little colored pieces of plastic in to black paper and enjoying myself.....

I hated playing with dolls. My grandparents gave me one every year in the hopes I'd finally behave like a real girl.

My passions were Hot Wheels and Matchbox, riding my bike, climbing trees, putting on plays with the other neighborhood kids, playing in the hay mow at my other grandparents, bows and arrows, and, after the 6th grade, reading, reading, reading.

Kim

I was never really interested in dolls. I was more drawn to books and to toy animals, especially dinosaurs and horses. (Sometimes I would bring the dolls into the game too ... the dinos gotta have something to eat! :D ) I remember really wanting some construction toys, but thinking I wouldn't get them if I asked, because they were "boy toys." I still don't know if I was right about that.

I also really enjoyed art, science, and nature. I got more mileage out of my butterfly net, my microscope, and my chemistry set than I ever got from the few dolls I had.

naw - i never did "play house"...

jigsaw puzzles, books, music, daydreaming...
aaaah, those were the days!
wait - that was *yesterday*, too!
:D

I used to go in the woods and make believe I was living alone out in the boonys and had to hunt and chop wood. I would make a "cabin" out of fall leaves and make separate rooms. I couldn't find any friends to share this with so it was just me and my dog.

Everybody thought I was a weirdo anyway.

WOW! We had the same childhood! My mother thought this was extreemely absurd for a "girl" to do. But she didn't really care that much because I was out of her hair. ;) Back in the woods was a really cool fallen tree that made the perfect shelter. I had it all fixed up. I made a fire ring and took out a blanket and other stuff to make it a home. (Please don't tell my mom where those things are). :p

I would spend hours in the barn, up in the hay loft pretending I was living there. I always got in trouble for breaking apart bales to make a "bed."

I would go out into the orchard (really big one) and play all day. I guess I was always building/creating something that never made sense to anyone in my family.

Oh, and I almost forgot about all the search parties . . . Seems I had no concept of time. :rolleyes: They only involved the police one time, but my aunts and uncles would search a lot. :cool: I think the only reason the police got involved is because I drug 5 of my cousins off on one of my "adventures" and we ended up about 3 miles from my grandmother's house along the railroad tracks near a state highway . . . hmmm . . . I guess if it was my kid I would be concerned too. But, that didn't occur to me then. :eek:

I would make little houses out of boxes.
Then draw and color paper dolls and clothes for them.
I would play house that way with the paper dolls.

But the heating duct-blanket-chair fort worked awesomely in the dead of winter to keep me toasty, and I recommend it to anyone.
I actually built a fort outside on the side of the house in front of the basement window. The fort was made out of pallets and skids wrapped in plastic. It was the middle of winter, but all you had to do was open the basement window and instant heat. :D

Since I like in the country, I enjoyed getting bundled and going outside in the middle of snow storms at night. I would just lay down in a snow drift and listen to the wind blow. Kind of theraputic. :confused: I would still love to go to the North Pole.

i did stuff the othe rkids never wanted to do.

i ddnt play house, although i did like to play with my kitchen set (i was really cool, the stuff looked real and the fridge opened and closed and had pretend food etc).

i liked to play with my stuffed toys (bears etc) and i would always pretend to be their parent or, more commonly, line them all up on the bed or floor and pretend to be their teacher.

i made a swing in the tree from a huge piece of old fabric.

i played in the mud and leaves, and mixed mud in buckets.


i played by myself a lot.

I don't remember playing house so much as other things.
Across the street & down the dirt road from my parents was a drainage tunnel, maybe 100-150 ft or so. We would runthrough there and that would lead us to an abandoned house, complete with cars & an old panel van!.

Beyond that was a field with a bamboo "forrest" We played in there all the time!!! After that it was off to the park , we'd hop the fence & roll down the HUGE grass hill , climb trees, throw those spiney seed ball from the maple trees at each other.

I did play school ( something my son would never consider doing!), & with all the boys in my neiborhood we played cops& robbers, army men,etc...


I hadn't thought about all this in so long!! thanks for asking this question !!

Heck no, I played with trucks in the dirt, with the boys!:D

My friends had Barbie dolls...I'd go over to their houses, and they'd be like "You wanna play Barbies?" I never got the point...eventually they'd just get frustrated and give up...kind of sad, kind of funny, I guess!;)

Chrys

I almost never did and the few times that I did, I hated it. So BORING. I could never see the point in it! Same thing goes for playing with dolls.

It was much more fun to go out and play in the mud, go hiking on trails nearby, play Frisbee with my Dad, Play kickball with the boys in the neighborhood, ride my bike............you get the idea.
Wow, I'm glad you posted this question. No -- I hated dolls and playing house. We'd have been good buddies, because I love riding my bike or horses, playing football, kickball, socceer, etc with the neighborhood guys, hiking, swimming, you name it.

I'm a terrible house keeper now -- maybe there's a connection!;)

Scattered

maybe.... I only clean house when I absolutley hafta!

I liked boy stuff because I had an older brother but I loved my dolls too. Barbie dolls and strawberry shortcake dolls. I had all of them and I wish I would have kept them!

Since age 5 I think all I really wanted to do was to be married and have children. Now I am 31, married, with 3 children, and it's a lot harder than I thought it would be. Especially with ADD!

play house? no way. one time a friend of my parents gave me a doll for christmas. i can remember viscerally how misunderstood i was and how disappointed that anyone could ever ever think for even a second that i would be interested in playing with a doll. whatever happened to toy trucks, mechano sets, building blocks? i'm the kid who was outside galloping around being a horse. or climbing fences and running through private property that no body seemed to mind.....ah, just that kid.......etc.

what did i do with that doll? hung it upside from the top back of a chair naked by it's ankles and drowned it's head in a pot of hot water and stuck needles in it's bum. thrilling that was. yes, there were other issues in my family.

also eventually discovered that books provide an almost perfect escape. hence these days i've got my own library.

I did play house when I was little, but I never liked to admit it. I was suppose to be the totally tomboy kid. Playing house was to normal for me!

I was in by own make believe world. That is all I did was pretend. When I was in bed at night, I was Wendy Bird from Peter Pan. There were also bears in my closet and hobos under my bed! My Barbies, slept, ate, and watched tv with me. In the summer, they played in the garden and the inflatable pool. I was a trapeze artist on the swingset...Swiss Family Robinson and Gillgan's Island (MaryAnn) in the treehouse. They say ADHDers get bored easily, but I could always entertain myself if it ever became necessary!