Im coming in wayyyy late on this thread but it is a great one. I love remembering all of the great things that were a part of my childhood. I especially love the good old toys of yesteryear. When I bought toys for my son and for my kindergarten class (when I was a teacher) I always looked for things that were tried and true favorites of my childhood that required imagination and not batteries. My son is 21 years old now but I still have his HotWheels collection, his wooden train set and an enormous plastic tote full of Lego pieces. My class was stocked with etch-a-sketches, Spirograph, lincoln logs, jacks, puzzles and other great low tech toys. I love going to garage sales and finding old fisher price toys.

As a teacher in the 90's I relied on an old crank type ditto machine because our district was poor and would only allow each teacher to make 200 copies per month on the copy machine. So we all chipped in and bought an old ditto machine and the fluid for it and made our copies old school style! And yes, the kids always sniffed the fresh damp ditto sheets, lol!