Submitted and Written by Charles H

The glass Skippy Peanut Butter jars were an essential part of my childhood. They had a million uses ranging from where dad held screws, nail and other various items on the workbench in the garage to providing a terrarium for all the bugs I hunted as a child. They were way bigger (and more useful) jars than the other brands used. There was nothing that sounded quite like that metal lid being unscrewed from the jar…it was just so satisfying.

Charles H is tapping into something big here (great write up too!). More than a win for the Skippy jars themselves, every kid had a secret container to hold their valuables. What did you use to hold your precious things — a Skippy jar, a shoebox, an ammo box from the Army Surplus Store? What’d you keep inside of it?

When I was a kid, I used a hollowed out book. I glued the pages together, then cut the middle out. That’s where I hid my basketball cards.

Submitted by Eric M

I never had a subscription to Highlights, but I did get to read it at the dentist’s office, making it the only good part of visiting the dentist. Anyway, Highlights was super popular and featured great stories (and mediocre jokes) every month.

Anybody remember Goofus and Gallant?

Submitted and Written by Rachael G

Who didn’t love these? The best part was figuring out how to make them dance and completely collapse. These seem to be pretty hard to find. I found some at a drug store recently but they aren’t very responsive and don’t dance or collapse.

Submitted by Lisa A

Boy Meets World’s seven-season run was classic from beginning to end. Cory Matthews represented the awkward adolescent in all of us, and Mr. Feeney represented the weird teacher that stalked us from middle school through college.

But seriously, is Topanga even a real name?

Submitted by WerewolfCyote

Apparently, after checking the Wikipedia article, we discovered that there are a lot of different ways to play Wall Ball. Some people have no bounce rules and some have rules that you must bounce before it hits the wall. Reading comments on the above YouTube reveal that it seems to change from school to school and there’s a lot of contention over who’s game is the purest. We don’t care if you played a classic set of rules or you had a crazy home-court set, we want you to post them below so we can try them out. Our spankin’ new red rubber ball just came in the mail and want to try them all out.