What is this?

[Karl_K]

If you did not have one of these as a kid you were deprived of a lot of fun.
What is it?

 

[winnietucker]

Idk I was deprived of a lot of fun...

 

[kenny]

Idk I was deprived of a lot of fun...

Me too.

 

[kenny]

Was a red tool box as much fun as a pink one?

 

[Ibrakeforpossums]

Karl, you strike me as having been a kid whose parents went to investigate when he was too quiet. Is this how you stored your gunpowder?

 

[Karl_K]

Karl, you strike me as having been a kid whose parents went to investigate when he was too quiet. Is this how you stored your gunpowder?

Not really, I was pretty much let to roam where I wanted as long as I told my mom where I was going from a young age.
During the summer I would often leave the house at 8am and come back at 9pm without checking in.
Sometimes spend the night out in the woods but more often in tents in our backyard or occasionally friends back yards. All I had to do was let my mom know.
Me and a couple friends rode our bikes all over up to 20+ miles away.
I was seen as the responsible one(ha had them fooled :} so as long as my friends were with me they got to roam also.

No, that was in the locked powder cabinet

 

[Mekp]

I think that makes snow blocks to make a fort.
We had something similar

 

[Karl_K]

I think that makes snow blocks to make a fort.
We had something similar

Bingo!
It was/is sold as a snow and sand block maker but it didn't work well for sand unless you put cardboard in the top to cover the hole.

 

[YadaYadaYada]

I don’t think I had one. If I did it was full of Barbies so I could carry them around with all their clothes and stuff.

 

[chroman]

Totally built snow forts with these as a kid, but haven’t thought about them in years. Thanks for the throwback!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

We got snow most winters but it was only about 1/2 deep if that, was slushy and melted by lunchtime

Every year mum would find our frozen snow balls we had saved when she defrosted the freezer

 

[missy]

That looks pretty cool. We never had one and until you shared here I didn't even know it existed.

 

[rainydaze]

I had one as a kid, and my kids had one when they were younger! I still have a memory of building my first snow fort with my dad, using it.