clackers!

[debster]

well that got your attention, I have decided to give my sister a retro hamper for christmas full of things she had as a child, the sweets around, socks which were multi-coloured stripes with toes in, gobs (dibs or fivestones as they are sometimes called) etc etc but what i remember most was her having a pair of clackers (not sure if thats the true name) im not talking the silly plastic ones with handles they have these days but the real wrist busting, jaw smashing skull cracking ones we had as kids, they were two solid balls on string with a little plastic bit to hold and were banned in almost every school. does anyone know where i can get some either new or second hand
thanks

[debster]

[Fork]

Who are you calling clackers!?  ;D

You could try Ebay......some on there but not sure if its what you want.

[debster]

someone gave me this link and i managed to get some on e bay thanks must be the same ones
http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/cat.php?p=1&s=&catID=21&alpha=
i remember a lot of these things and its given me a lot more ideas for her present too

[Lauren S]

Ha Ha  ;D. Oh had to google for them on Evil Bay to make sure they were what I remembered them to be. Yep that's them. Banned as I recall due to allsorts of injuries. Being girls who didn't want to waste them, we decided to braid them into our hair instead. Made the teachers laugh for a while until they totally banned them from school premises  :'(
Spoil sports  :(

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bright-Orange-Klik-Klaks-Clackers-Clacker-Balls-NEW_W0QQitemZ180165001305QQihZ008QQcategoryZ30QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Lauren

P.S. What a great idea for a Chrissy prezzie

[elvis2003]

hiya,lovely idea for a present!! you could also try hawkins bazaar for more retro stuff,in fact its a good place for anyone buying pressies in general xx

[Heldi]

Ooh all the "grown up" girls had clackers. I think I was about five when I remember seeing the big girls with them. My big brother had a friend who was a girl and she let me have a go...wow  8)  ;D. Scared the living daylights out of me !

There was a craze for band sticks at the time too...or maybe that was just up here in the North where all the girls wanted to be in a band. Can't remember what you called the bands...they had a lot of kazoos...remember them? Oh it's just popped into my head..."Jazz bands", that's what they were called,weren't they?

I second Hawkin's Bazaar for retro stuff.

There was book out all about Jackie a couple of years ago. Remember "Jackie" the magazine and "My Guy"?  Snigger!  ;D I moved onto to those two magazines after growing out of Bunty.

What sweets are you choosing Debster?

[debster]

sweets will have to include fruit salads, black jacks, sweet tobacco and white chocolate fish and chips

[Heldi]

I lurve fruit salads and black jacks  ;D Can't remember the white choc fish n chips.

It's going to be a fab pressie!

[debster]

other ideas to go in at the moment include mr potato head, space hopper, rubiks cube, spirograph, stickle bricks, also gonna put some photos of her at that age too

[Doris_Pinks]

Oh Debs, great pressie! I remember clackers, probably still have the bruises on my wrists to prove it! ;D ;D ;D (and mine were bright orange!)

Other sweets I remember were those pink spongey shrimp things, and chocolate covered spongey yellow bananas, oh and white chocolate mice and sherbet dips. (hated the licorice tho!)

We also spent hours playing jacks, and a game that involved a tennis ball in the toe of my Mum's tights against a wall!

Ahhhh those were the computer free days! ;D

[Bluey]

Have you tried this website for the sweets:

http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

Never actually bought anything from them myself but its always fun to look and it might remind you of a few favourites you'd forgotten!

[debster]

oh doris what an excellent idea the ball in the tights i had forgotten that one thank you

[Oldhippy]

Jazz bands! Oh yes - my daughter was in one many years ago - called `The Rascals` if memory serves me right.
Her ambition was to `play the stick`. All the girls practised twirling bits of broomstick and throwing them up in the air -  and landing them on their heads! ;D

[PaulaH]

I could never get the hang of clackers, I had bruises for weeks :-[ 

Now yo-yo's were my sort of thing, I could do all the tricks like walking the dog, those were the days

Paula xx