Have I shown these before? They are my marbles from when I was a kid. We found them when we cleaned out my moms garage (let the lost marbles jokes flow). I mentioned them to a friend a few years ago before they resurfaced sight unseen he said,"I'll give you a hundred bucks for them." Then I thought,"How can you put a dollar value on priceless memories? Now I think "Where's that dudes phone number?"Not really, they are too cool to have around and I really did play with them a lot. Many of them were old when I won them, making them probably 70+ years old.
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Those are great! Is that an old superball tossed in there?
Never had them but I remember kids on the playground with their bags of marbles. Neat find.
gia- good question i'll have to look it up and see. the steely and iron ones i still remember winning though- crazy huh? the iron looking ones were from a kids uncle? and he ended up with them and we played marbles out beside our old house.
my queen- i know what to get you for your birthday now!
Well if and when you eventually go insane... you can say 'Ive lost me marbles' :)
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When my daughter was in the 4th grade she went to a new school where the playground equipment had yet to arrive. At the same time her teacher was reading them a book called A Time of Andrew.. in which the character played marbles.
The kids decided that they wanted to learn to play marbles during recess and there was such a run on marbles at the stores! They really don't carry them much anymore.
Me? I still play a mean game of jack.... METAL jacks not those awful rubber or plastic ones! You WANT them to HURT when you step pn them at 3 am! lol
My dad has a jar of his marbles that he played with when he was a kid. Super cool.
Ah, the memories.
Yeah, I'll bet none of those marbles were made in China.
What'd be the odds of finding non-Chinese marbles today?
I guess I really have a soft spot for the nostalgia of marbles. Imagine that a bunch of kids could get together on a sidewalk or wherever, with just a piece of chalk, some cat's eyes and shooters, and socially interact without the benefit of an X-box or PSP or such.
Amazing concept.
Detritus - that's an excellent word that I'm not often able to work into a day's vocabulary.
Kudos!
I have not thought about my marbles in a very long while. I usually keep them in a glass jug rather than spread out on my favourite turtleneck.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
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