Does Anyone Remember Clackers?

Oh yes I loved them and they were banned from our school for the same reason Fairycakes as were conkers, but I don't think anyone ever broke their wrist playing with them.

Mine were pale blue.i loved them.
Also banned from school!

I wonder how my post ended up down here 😳. Very odd 🤔😀

I think I must have changed something on the settings bc my post which. Should show at the top of the page, isn't 😜. Still getting used to how to work things 🥴

I've managed to rectify the problem. I had ticked a box for last messages to show at the top, instead of the bottom of the page. Time for a cuppa, I think 😁

Banned at my school too.
I seem to remember it was quite easy to get them going, it was stopping that caused the problem!

Sorry, folks - just having a Fairycakes moment 😜🥴

Remember hurting my wrist with them, but I was a typical kid, I wasn't going to give up.

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still sell them

My daughters had them, along with the bruises!
I once had a coupling chain to attach to a dog lead for two dogs. It worked in a similar way in that when I pulled the lead they knocked their heads together!

shysal oh no! 🫢

Yes and I remember the chap who lived two doors down, practising them in the garden. The howl of agony when he banged his wrists with them .

I loved them.

I remember that there was something about the shape and even the pastel colours (of the various sets of clackers I had) that my brain associated with those hard, two-coloured Swizzles lollies.
Even now, I am picturing clackers but am 'smelling' and 'tasting' those lollies - I must have a very weird brain!

I remember the pain!

First saw them when on holiday in Italy - I think 1973? The pleasant sounds of the evening passeggiata were drowned out by a cacophony of LOUD clacking wherever we went, happy days

Some DGC have asked for them for Christmas. I have asked them to sign an acknowledgement that I won’t be held responsible for any damage.
They are now being marketed as:
Children's and Adults' Pressure reducing Balls, Used for Training Balance Ability, Concentration and stress reducing.

I remember Clackers. My son aged about 7 kept on and on about having them I was busy with a new born so didn’t really know about them but gave him and his pal the money to buy them from the corner shop I soon learned when I heard the noise and then the cry of pain as the swinging ball hit my lad full on the face he had a mighty bruise and the clackers went in the bin. To this day DH doesn’t know the truth of how the black eye really happened !!

Oh I remember them! I had a pastel green pair. I also remember the pain when they hit your wrist 🤣

It seemed that the boys in our school had them, and the craze for the girls were the ankle skip toys similar to below. At the end was more of a bell shape rather than a ball.

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Mine were pastel green - and I think I've still got the bruises!

We had the ankle-skip toys too. I used one at my Junior school but we were far too grown-up to have one at high school. It was fun.

My sons had them. I seem to remember bright green with orange string. Definitely remember the bruises on my arms!

I remember them but never had any. They always looked a bit vicious!

Mine were red. My brother bought them for me using his petrol round earnings. After I bashed my wrists a few times he made me ‘wrist protectors’ using a cereal box and sellotape.