I always had lots of luck offline. It's called 'bad luck'.
This saying got drilled into my head online 'If You Don't Play You Won't Win'.
I thought about that saying and realized it made sense. If you don't try, you are certainly beyond a shadow of a doubt not going to win. So, I started trying and I've won lots of cash and goodies online.
Just a few weeks ago, I won $50 in a program. I don't even know how I won it or what it was for or anything but I was paid. One year in a program, I won $500. The contest was you had to buy something from an ad and so I paid $0.02 cents for a newsletter subscription. I probably won because no one else had bought anything. Presently, I am in a contest that is a voice over contest....the winner will receive $30. I kind of doubt I will win it because my voice is probably a bit too southern for them. But hey, I gave it a shot anyway and the winner will be announced in a couple of days. I've won a lot of things online, primarily money, memberships, software, all that sort of thing. Would I had won if I had not participated? Of course not. Participation is the name of the game. If you try and try again, you'll surely eventually win. If you don't participate, one thing is for sure, you won't win.
I remember the light brite thingie too. I did not have one but a friend neighbor did.
I didn't have that surgery game thing either but that same friend had it. Operation! That was the name of the surgery game that buzz's when you tough anything you're not suppose to touch.
I was looking for something at amazon today when to my surprise, I came across something I entirely forgot about having as a kid. It's a metal potholder loom. I can remember having a red one (i think they were all red). The thing was actually a bit heavy. It was made from a durable metal. You could loop yard and make square pot holders. I thought it would be fun to list some toys that we played with as a child and many of the ones I played with, were in fact, invented in my day...some still popular today
-Jump rope
-Barbie dolls
-Mr Potato Head
-Scrabble
-Twister
-kick the can
-hide n seek
-spin the bottle (yuk)
-old maid and fish (cards)
-skate boards (invented in my day, by the way)
-Sketch it (sand)
-Easy Baker Oven (made terrible food by the way)
-roller skates and ice skates
-Slinky
-Doll house
-Gumby
-Ball and Paddle
-Clackers (no one could ever do this, clacking two balls together and almost all of us had black eyes from it)
-Comic Books (not a toy per se but they were a big part of my childhood, I had thousands of them)
-Clay, Paints, Crayons, Coloring Books, Coloring Pencils, Silly Putty
No doubt there is a lot more. Not to mention more activities like riding bikes.
I think that's why there was few fat kids in my day. Really. There were very few chubby kids and the ones that were chubby, so was their parents...mainly a gene trait.
