Unbelievable Childhood Memories you believed were true 😆

I notice there is more than one on here about chewing gum. My dad told me it was made from horses hooves

biglouis what a dreadful thing for parents to do to you. So sorry.

biglouis

When my sister was born I (age 7) was very jealous and made it quite clear that I did not want a sister. My parents told me that "naughty! children like me could be sent to a home because their parents did not want them any more. One day my mother posted a card in the postbox and told me she was sending for the "man with the van" to take me away that week. On the saturday they played out the pretence that I was going to be collected and taken off to a home that day. I was utterly convinced and spent the day sobbing and in terror.

It was only later when I found one of the cards with the very distinctive logo that I realised it was for the football pools. If this kind of emotional abuse happened to a child today social workers would (rightly) become involved. I just had to tough it out and get on with the fact that I was the "black sheep" of the family and responsible for ALL the domestic ills which beset us.

Later on my parents throught I was cold and heartless because I was semi estranged from them much of the time.

That is a special kind of sadism.

I had lots of aunts and uncles and cousins while I was growing up.
In reality, I had one uncle on my dad's side, and 4 aunties on my mums side, the rest were all friends of either or both of my parents!!
I'm in my 50s and still call one my aunty, which amuses her no end!

When I was a kid, in the 1960s, someone told me that if you saved every letter of the alphabet on Smartie lids you could send away for a puppy! I believed them and was so disappointed when I discovered it wasn't true