Just WHY can’t you get those any more? I even had much more exciting ones with fish and baskets and all sorts of amazing scenery inside.

These things are still being used in schools in South Africa...

I still have a couple of those...

still used this way in our country

Apparently, whatever your first choice was, it was never a mine. Never realised that. Just thought I was always lucky.

I could never fold my notes like some of my friends did

The front piece is removable to discourage thieves from breaking into the car to steal it. Classic!

Hell yeah still have mine!

Some ppl have mad skills on these things! It blows my mind. I could barely make anything recognizable! haha

Yes, and do you remember when you had to play Final Fantasy 8 on 5 separate CDs? (The 5th was the installation disc, PC version)

People used to make these out of tin cans.

i loved walking on these in p.e. :D

Those are still used at my school

Romper Stompers!!

Ankle busters!

Never try to go down 3 flights of stairs in them.... I know from personal experience lmao

They still have these in my towns winter festival!

I'm sixteen and know what these are. Never seen and never used them before, but I read a lot more than is healthy, particularly fiction, to the point where it is considered an obsession, as it interferes with school, exercise, and social life (what's that? Literally, I have only ever had one best friend, who wasn't really a good friend. I'd rather make friends through fanfiction. Bonus points to those that know what that is.) I believe I probably read about these in Ramona's books. And I feel like I know more through reading than you elderly ever will, so to my parents that say that my time is spent better outside or socializing: I know more about any given trivial topic than you do. Particularly mythology (Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Viking, points to anyone that can connect the dots and figure out why I like all of these in particular.)

oh those things

We have some of these at the daycare center where I work! I sometimes walk on them to make the kids laugh.

We still have them in Norway

Can you hear me now????

OMG I love those

String to phones? Or stilts you step on and hold the strings to keep them on?

They were fun to walk with

I liked them cuz they made me a bit taller!

Omg where can i get these! I loved them

Don't know what you are missing ! Its fun outdoors or in !

Fez toy(The red ones)

I do I do kids form of stilts

Face masks?

I always wanted some 😁

What a load of c**p ... kids still play with those.

Walking kids put them on their feet and held the strings while they walked.

i loved these

I dubbed them..."ankle breakers"!!!

You can still buy these at most toy stores and my kids preschool has a bunch of them for playtime - great for balance.

We had them made from coffee tins. They were called "Romper Stompers" after the TV show Romper Room. I'm old af

I'm too old to recognize these.

I think this never became a thing in Finland. Or we just made our own cause we poor af xD

We have this still in the kindergarden

I bought some for my son and he loves them. When I was a kid we used to make them with cans and string.

What you use when you refuse to pay the evil phone company: two Dixie cups and a string. They really work as long as you’re in earshot of the other person...

This was also useful for old and almost broken cassette players to play mp3 files on.

Almost forgot about this.

Laser pointer with different tips to create different looks. High tech. 😉

I had one with a loaded spring in it so when you reached to get one and pull it out, metal snapped down onto the victims finger or thumb. It was actually quite painful.