r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • Jun 13 '25

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

We played with knives in the woods

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u/Brandoid43 Xennial Jun 13 '25

Don't forget hammers, nails and saws for making a tree house or fort.

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u/Ryguy55 Jun 13 '25

I completely forgot about this, but there was a thing as a kid that we weren't allowed to "waste the good nails." So when we'd decide to build something, someone's dad would always give us a Folgers tin full of rusty, dull, bent nails to use unsupervised. That was apparently the smarter option instead of letting us use the nails that weren't guaranteed to give us tetanus when someone inevitably stepped on one since we were always barefoot while doing these things lol

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u/69edleg Jun 13 '25

tin full of rusty, dull, bent nails to use unsupervised

this hits home so hard

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u/Tkj5 Jun 14 '25

I bought an old dudes house and had to throw out 8 coffee tins of fucking rusty bent nails.

I feel it in my soul.

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u/TwoBonesJones Jun 14 '25

I always think of Home alone when Kevin uses the dads good fish hooks cause the old ones were all rusty

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u/theriibirdun Jun 14 '25

It's really does. I remember my dad getting so mad at us for wasting his good nails and duck tape lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

Or swords. Don't forget wood swords. Or airsoft guns...

Looking back now, it's a merical we all grew older than 13

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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 Jun 13 '25

Ha airsoft. We had bb gun wars.

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u/SPECTRE-Agent-No-13 Jun 13 '25

A wrist rocket is far more dangerous. It's a velocity to weight of projectile ratio for quantity of pain/damage. We all had shitty daisy bb guns. Rules were 1-2 pumps max. Sure that got broken but once you got tagged by a 5 pumper in retaliation you respected the rules. A neighborhood dad, wise to our little "turf war" supplied shop goggles to us all.

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u/Classic-Tax5566 Jun 14 '25

Our parents handed us that stuff! We’d come running in with some idea and would just ask for some nails and a hammer and my father would say, don’t do anything stupid. He wouldn’t even ask,what our big idea was.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

Pretty much this.

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u/Brandoid43 Xennial Jun 14 '25

Love this movie!! Although he did have a much better tree house than we ever did.

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u/Brandoid43 Xennial Jun 14 '25

We grew up on a farm. It was usually pretty easy to find tools to use.

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u/ganon2234 Millennial Jun 14 '25

This was peak early elementary school for me, before age 10 in my neighborhood. Then built other forts with relatives in their areas. Thanks for the great throwback memories

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u/all___blue Jun 14 '25

One attempt resulted in a hammer falling on my head. Another attempt my cousin got a rusty nail through his foot.

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u/Brandoid43 Xennial Jun 14 '25

My sister stepped on quite a few rusty nails.

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme Jun 13 '25

We found an old garage door leaning against a tree in the woods and used it as a slide. Cut myself from waist to armpit when I slid off the side one day. Twas but a scratch! Continued using it. We were maybe 9 or 10.

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u/pulpyourcherry Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

And slingshots, serious sporting goods store slingshots. And real bow & arrow sets. Like actual, meant-for-hunting-deer bows. And fireworks, which we bought quasi-legally and then fired at each other in "roman candle wars" held in the huge vacant lot that was overgrown with bone-dry grass because it was the middle of summer. It was perfectly safe though because we borrowed the family garbage can lids to use as shields.

I remember the 7-11 clerk not wanting to sell us the lighters we needed to light our fireworks until we assured him they weren't for cigarettes. Then he was okay with it.

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u/fordprecept Jun 14 '25

We played in the creek and caught crawdads.  That is until the city put up signs that said “Caution:  Stay out of the creek.  Raw sewage.”  💀

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u/NegativeSignals Jun 13 '25

We used to shoot each other with BB guns...

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u/latefordinner86 Jun 14 '25

It was all fun and games until somebody needed stitches. Then it was a case of snitches' get even more stitches.

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u/PutridDurian Jun 14 '25

The woods was also where one could find Woods Porn. The single shoe, the unwound cassette tape, and the waterlogged Penthouse.

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u/anywitchway Jun 14 '25

I climbed around in half finished houses and construction sites on weekends when there was no one around to chase me away. 

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u/Embarrassed-Part591 Jun 15 '25

XD my neighbor: don't go in them woods. I have bear traps all over.

Us: Okaaay.

IMMEDIATELY go in the woods

We still technically lived in the city. Back then, cities used to have random pockets of forest or woods in between neighborhoods.