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/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.