You just described, with perfect clarity, my childhood. Thank you. ♥

"... some McGyvery s**t that we're going to do later ..." - LMAO! Classic line.

I love how our parents were totally fine with us being outside unsupervised all damn day. Climbing every tree and rock I could find. We had Atari but that shit was for rainy days being stuck inside. Being sent to the corner store by my moms friend across the street with a note that said, the cigarettes are for me, thanks 😂 keep the change and get yourself some candy or a slush puppy 💖

I think the near total unsupervised freedom is the key point here. You learned real quick about making good decisions. Fine-tuned your common sense. Really made us gen xers who we are today: brave, reliable, determined, efficient, fun-loving, street smart and social.

I miss those days. ❤ Thanks for the memories.

Born in 1971 & I grew up in a city. Saturday morning was get up early, pour very sugary cereal into a cleaned out repurposed & family size butter container, then watch cartoons all morning. Have peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. After lunch go outside & play outside with the neighborhood kids until sunset. Outdoor activities included using bushes as forts & sticks as guns to fight "alien" invasion, climbing every tree , hunting wasps with squirt guns, riding bicycles as if they were motorcycles & buying Ice-cream from a truck that just showed up in warm weather.

This one hits close to home. Seriously, you just described a world that no longer exists. The world I grew up in.

We rode our bikes to the mall. We had to cross 3 major streets and go over the freeway. Our mom's told us to remember to look both ways before crossing. No helmets, pads or adults. We all lived and had a great time.

She really took me back in time. Remembering all those things that she indicated. Those were the good old days. 😌.

Even tho I grew up in a very small town, pop about 200, my grad class was 8 in the Northern California Redwoods my childhood was just like this! School House Rock "I am only a Bill & I'm sitting on Capitol Hill...) Romper Room, Sesame St, Capt Kangaroo and The Love Boat & Fantasy Island... " Those were the days..."

Growing up back then was such a joy, parents today seem to love being helicopter parents and cannot work out why their kids end up rebelling. Its because your suffocating them, take a step back you'll be surprised at just how well they can handle things.

Awesome thoughts... so thankful I grew up in this time... these kids today and missing life...glued to a phone and scared to do anything outside. See no bikes on the roads, playgrounds empty, no one fishing, playing in the woods..building forts..... just heartbreaking. Millions of kids whose whole identity is meaningless upvotes on a meaningless website on their meaningless phones.

This might sound like an outrageous idea, but you should totally make a short illlustrated book from this short video (it would be like a children's book).

We took old leftover lumber from a construction site to build our treehouse. I accidentally stepped on an old rusty nail, damn near went through my foot. Went home limping, put some iodine on it because that’s all we had, then went back out to finish working on the treehouse. Life was great.

I was born in 1963, so technically I'm suppose to be a boomer, but my childhood in the 60s/70s is so Gen X. Everything you described, was my life and I weep when I see how children today have such limited life experiences. And we wonder why we want to go back and live in the past. ❤

and what I'd give to have just one more day like that as a kid. It seems like Heaven

Boomer here..and thanks for the wonderful childhood memories. Wouldn't trade them for the world.

Thank you 😊. Gen-X dude born in 1969, Class of 1987. age 54. You just described my childhood perfectly. I truly miss those days being a boy in the 1970's.

I was born in 86, so I'm technically a millennial, but you described my childhood perfectly. My parents had to pry my fingers off my bike. I miss those days.

YES! Cartoons, meeting up with friends in the woods in our spot by the river, stealing Mom's towels to earn tips at the car wash, and with the cash, buying hot dogs and chips at Aldi's and then making a fire (at our spot in the woods) to cook those dogs on sticks. Neighborhood-wide games of hide and seek, roller skating and riding bikes, jumping and running through random neighbor's sprinklers. We had no A/C, so waiting in bed at night till the fan turned towards my bed for those few glorious seconds till it turned back towards my sister's bed... I love these memories.💕💕

I'm a 1970 model. Yep,this sounds about right, we also had the absolute best toys, Mego , Steve Austin, green plastic soldiers and don't forget Star Wars figures. We were in the dirt making roads and jumps for our Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars or indoors racing slot cars.

Remember when kids would cry if it was raining outside. They were so mad & upset that they couldn't play! I miss the old days!! Best memories ever!! ❤❤

It’s 1977 and my friend and I, age 6, were always walking around our city (Hermosa/Manhattan/Redondo Beach) unsupervised AF and ripe pickin’s for, well you know 😕 We went digging in the Body Glove factory dumpster for material for clothes for our Barbies 😂, picking flowers for our moms from neighbors’ yards (sorry), playing at the beach (never drowned!) and staying out til dusk. Seems like a fever dream nowadays. Times do change for sure!

I am the last cohort of baby boomers, 1959. I rollerskated, flew kites, swam in pools, had Frosted flakes, enjoyed mexican tv dinners, watched the Herculoids, Johnny Quest and Space Ghost. Went to the library on my bike, had bubble gum sheets and collected the wacky car cards. Sat in the balcony at the movie theater. Recorded songs on the cassette player from the radio. Life was a free range and things to do. And yes eventually High school sucked but boy did I like Junior high school where I had my first kiss. No Std but had to worry about mono. 😅

Sweet memories. I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. I feel so sorry for kids today. They're not even allowed to BE kids.

Amen!! Man you took me back to such fun, simpler, golden time. "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."

Saturday morning cartoons started at 6am, went till noon. We got up before our parents, got our cereal, watched till they were over, had lunch, then outside

Holy moly, so true. Where ever yard the bikes were piled in that’s where it was happening.

I cried so hard!😂😂😂 If this wasn't my childhood. Awesome delivery!🎉

My brother was 14 years older than I. I was a surprise. When the Smurfs made their Saturday morning debut, I had spent the night at his house. I watched the Smurfs eating a fried egg sandwich he'd made me, then I jumped onto the bed with him and his wife and gave them a full review of the cartoon. I can still see the blanket on the bed, taste the sandwich, and hear their voices. My whole family has passed now. I'm the only one. I moved from Florida, where I spent most of my life with them and your videos help me remember things from the past because they aren't here to do it. Thanks, Sherri. It's nice to have a childhood friend around, even though we've never met.

Oh my goodness did I know you when I was a kid!!! Exactly old school!! That's exactly how my brother's and I would spend Saturdays!!! We were all born in the best time ever!! We are the champions of the world!!😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤, beautiful memories. Thank you ❤😂😂😂

YES!!! ALL OF IT! Our generation had it so good and didn't even know it! My son will never know how free we were back then.

Latchkey kids. I had a key to my house at 5, walked to school from an empty house and back home to an empty house afterwards. My parents worked their ass's off. Saturday morning cartoons were over when soul train came on, then outside until 10 pm, when my parents would see on TV. "It's 10 pm, do you know where your children are?"

I loved playing by the railroad tracks. That’s where the best berries were and they were wild so we couldn’t get in trouble for picking and eating them.

I remember I had a friend with a prosthetic leg who brought me all the way to the top of the hill to get in a grocery cart and have me push her and ride with her down the sidewalk with cars looking at us. We both tipped over in the middle of the street her leg fell off ...she knew what to do. I just laughed😅

Born in 79 and you described what it was like growing up in the 80s perfectly.

You don't know how lucky we all were all I am a boomer 1954 and how much I miss those days. We lived in a small self contained development nothing but miles of woods dirt roads everywhere. Miles to explore and I still live in the area. Nowadays it is nothing but housing development and shopping centers. Boy sure miss the old Florida 😢

Facts.. Our generatuon was the best.... We were born tough..

Pillow Forts: 1 Better...A fort made from an Electric Box Fan & a bedsheet. Enjoying Saturday Supercade, Blackstar, Fat Albert with your bowl of Cap'n Crunch & staring at a pic of some missing kids face on a milk carton. Fun. Gen X from '72 btw.

You just reminded me why I used to love being outdoors. I look up and I think back... "come on guys, lets go outside." Ahh, good times.. good times... Born April 1980. My birthday is less then a week away. I'm turning 44. I am among the last of my generation. we had the best music, the best TV and the best saturday morning cartoons.

I was born 1953 & had gen x & millenial kids. Ur Description was Awesome!!! But I have a memory: I thought I lived in the garden of Eden - pear tree & rhubarb in backyard, apple trees, berry bushes. All were welcome in the neighborhood. Waiting on front porch top step for milkman driving Clydesdale horses carrying black wire containers of milk in glass jars. Didn't matter our age - 3 years & up - Countryside was our playground. Ran & climbed for miles. Grateful for neighbor giving us peanut butter & jelly (p & j) sandwiches. If we cut our knees or scraped a leg - put dirt on it to stop the bleeding (cos dogs roll in the dirt & do that). Chasing butterflies & later fireflies. Playing cowboys & indians among tree roots. Building houses out of stones. Picking up turtles with yellow bellys, arrowheads, & indian beads in rocks, & snails. Riding a May Pole with stirrups on it - large long chains with leather straps so ur hands could hold on. Bigger kids kept it going FAST & when you started to come down - you tapped ur toe & flew up in the air like an angel or a plane. Carried marbles plus a rubber ball & jacks in my pockets. School raisins - you could go back for seconds - always in my pockets. Parents sat outside on porches & you better be back when ur street lights came on OR your full name was yelled. ☆ I was proud when my 4 year old stood up 3 pieces of wood, threw bed spread over it, & nailed it to the grass, then dug hole with a shovel, & threw brother's sleeping bag under it. It worked!!! Unfortunately it was a brand new bed spread LOL. Now I take grandkids to parks, on nature walks, by the lake chasing & feeding seagulls, finding fossils, fishing- watching the fish jump up in the air to catch a bug among lily pads. Grandson caught a huge fish with chicken nuggets lol. Happy Memories - trying to keep em coming thru the Generations 😂❤

Circa 1970 hear, great job describing my childhood but you left one small part out. In the summer time staying up all night, sneaking out and meeting up with friends for a late night ride through the dark neighborhood. Great times.

Born in ‘73. I grew up in the city…. This was my childhood ❤❤❤

Hi neighbor! 😇 Out here in Nebraska, kids were even allowed to blow off fireworks for a week leading up to July 4th. These days, you don't dare give a kid a sparkler or even a glow-stick without a year of warnings not to drink what's inside.

LMAO!!! I would be gone for HOURS, riding my bike in the park by myself. Took my dog to the beach for half the day. No one ever asked where I was or what I did.

Usually on a Saturday night we were at a friends house having dinner and an overnight. We might watch Friday night videos we taped on the VCR from the night before. Don’t forget Creature Feature or Tails from the Crypt late Saturday night. Or stopping by the VHS store to rent a movie.

70s baby here….. The best times for me were the summers! Every year on the last day of school, I looked forward to going to my Grandma’s house to be with my cousins! Playing OUTSIDE was something we enjoyed! You only stayed in if you were sick or if you were grounded! Plus, Grandma kept her pantry stocked & fridge full of food! Home cooked breakfast, good sandwiches for lunch, & home cooked dinners! Then we would go to church on Sunday (it was a MUST at Mary’s house) & then have fun there! I’d give anything to rewind the clock & spend my summers at Grandma’s house ☺️♥️♥️♥️

I always stared out the window when I was a kid in the 80's before I got out of bed thinking what plan I had for the day, saying I miss the old days is an under statement, I hate modern lifestyle and this odd world we all created, I'm born 1980 the last of Gen X and damn proud to be

Just perfect view of my childhood. My best friend next door and I made our own "village" in her back yard which included an incredible dogwood tree. Great memories.

Exactly how I grew up born 1967 great memories thanks for sharing

Wow.....born 1970 !!!!!! That was excellent 👏

"Choose your own adventure " is exactly what Gen X was about.

Absolutely fantastic I'm crying through a smile with a coffee and a fatty!

Yep.... Ahhhhhh good times... Swimming flooded roads, roller skating in random parking lots. It was the best time ever. But just like every gen we couldnt wait to grow up for 1 reason or another....

I approve of this message. Gen X and proud!

Born in 73, inner city in Bridgeport CT. Cartoons and cereal, then the roller skates came on. Skates, then double dutch, corner store for penny candy and quarter juices. Then back to play tag, running through most of the yards on our block. When a little older, we Walked about 5 blocks to get chinese food or pizza, no delivery at the time. You were fine as long as you were in your front yard when the street lights came on. OH WHAT I WOULDN'T GIVE TO RELIVE THOSE DAYS. 😢❤

Yep did all that and went fishing, Dug our own worms, caught a bunch of fish. We would bring them home and mom actually cooked them. Or we would spend all summer on the river with our parents fishing , hunting playing on the river. I learned how to repair fishing nets from my dad, and how to sew from my mom. I still live in the woods, make my own soap, can my own food, make my own booze and grown my own food. I had respect for my parents, they worked hard for what they got, They didn't know it but I was listening, and I do remember things they taught me. I was listening Mom and Dad I love you guys and miss you everyday. You taught me to be self sufficient. Yes I had a full time job at age 15, went to school, did home work. I still had time for friends but they had jobs and home work too. If and when we all had a day off together we would go to the beach or a picnic, a fishing trip anything to get the hell away from the house. I raised my kids to someday be adults. I taught them just like my parents taught me. My kids can cook, fish, hunt, sew there fucking pockets back on. They work hard and play hard. Nothing wrong with that. My kids didn't have cell phones, they didn't have video games until they were old enough to earn enough money to buy their own shit.

I would do it all again in a minute. I wish my kids could have had these same types of experiences

We weren’t lucky enough to have lightning bugs, but the rest is pretty accurate for my childhood.

Well said Slim Sherri, well said indeed. Keep thoughts, content and whimsical memories of us Gen-Xers coming, and alive. I'll keep watching😁

A+ video! It's funny and poetic, beautiful and epic. I LOVE IT!

Poured a bowl of kaboom cereal. Watched cartoons an HR Puffnstuff then outside for the day . Rollerskated at the roller rink every weekend . Best memories .

Everything is exactly my life growing up. Saturdays oh Saturday's!!!!

Im coming up on 60 years real fast and I find myself thinking about days like that as a kid and it makes me smile but at the same it makes me sad that they are gone forever. During the summer we could play out side well after dark and summer weekends camp out in someones back yard listening to someone transistor radio. One kid had a little black and white 13 inch TV we would run a extension cord to our makeshift tent and watch the late night horror movies local stations played back then. With the host dressed up as Dracula or some such. We would eat stuff like cold hot dogs or bolony with a jug of Kool Aid or sweet tea someones mom mad for us. We would talk about how we would couldnt wait to grow up......if we only knew what was ahead we would have held on to our youth for as long as we could.

Born in 81 and this was my life and I sure do miss these days!

This brought a tear to my eye. Our childhoods were so much better than what kids do today. You described it perfectly.

Wow, this makes me happy and sad. I'm happy because this just took me back in time, exactly the way my friends and I lived in the 80s. I'm sad because those days are long gone and will never be back. I'm very grateful to have lived in a period of time that was the most exciting,fun, and adventurous time of my life. I just turned 46, and I'm still a kid at heart and always will be😎 GenX forever!

For us, Saturday was the one morning we could have a cooked big breakfast, so usually pancakes and eggs. Then watch all the kids shows; The Secrets of Isis was one of my favorites. Have a quick snack and head outside to play all day. Only came back in for lunch, bathroom breaks and get money for the ice cream truck. We would stay on the block , ride bikes, roller skate, freeze tag, red light green light, hopscotch, jump rope, etc…and when the street lights would come on, it was time to go inside for dinner ,more TV or a board game. Then drift off to sleep listening to my little transistor radio.

1945 kid here. I remember sidewalk skating all day, skate key on a string around my neck.❤

I just cried. You have such a way of describing "Childhood Of Days Gone By, American Style" My best friend visited yesterday. Friends since 1965. We were 9 years old and both, new in the neighborhood.

Mid-generation boomer here. Same life, only in arid climate. No streams, no fireflies, no woods. We had an unofficial contest to see who could catch the most interesting snake. We walked over canyons on suspended pipelines. We played many games after dark when the air cooled down. Loved the 60s rock and roll on the crackly tiny radio.

I did half of that. Don't forget we played with rubber bands and was mesmerized with bugs, crickets, and fire flies.

Spot on, wouldn't change those days for nothing. Freedom!!

I forgot Ghost in the Graveyard! Great trip down a road long gone, never to return. Thanks!

That was my childhood. To a tee! I love freedom...

Girl you are so right on. Sounds like my childhood . We lived in the country so we rode our horses no bikes and played cowboys and Indians and we took food out of the house and we would sleep in the hay loft and tell scary stories. Life was so much better than. Miss it.Thank you for the memories ❤

Them was the days. Now, they only live in our memories.

Wow! Talk about tripping down memory lane! 1967 here... ❤❤❤ fr CB NS 🇨🇦 🍁

Remember choose your own adventure books or adlibs? We were trained from a young age to use our imaginations. I can't imagine growing up any other way.

100% would choose Gen X childhood over any other. Lived it loved the freedom.

Best thing I heard all day sister, AMEN❤

Oh I love the way you described our childhood/ teen years!! I say it all the time that I want to go back to the uncomplication of the '80s when life was real and fun and do all those things you mentioned!!!!💜💜💜

So so true, the best days ever. Born in 1973 I'm glad I wasn't born any later

This was completely the past we lived in! Epic, fun, and always a thrill.

That is my favorite part of growing up. I hate that kids today don't have that advantage. We actually had a blast.

‘67 here ….you bring back so many memories….thank you !

Those were the days. I miss those days. My light was the front porch light if it flashed it was time to get inside and get ready for bed. The memories.

Sounds like Heaven to Me. When children were allowed to just be Children & grow up at their own pace.

I've followed your vids for a long time and I always feel like commenting (but I don't for some reason). You got me on this one. I'm finally leaving a comment because that was so beautiful. Born in 1974, I was instantly transported back to my childhood and the pre-Internet days of boundless imagination. Thank you for the bike ride down memory lane.

'75 you hit on every memory

Saturday morning as a kid, Gordon Johnson for social security would come on and I only remember his name because he came on before the first cartoons came on. Scooby, Superfriends, Space Ghost, Bullwinke and Rocky, Almighty Isis, the Banana Splits, Spiderman, Fantastic Four, Ark II, Kookla, Fran and Ollie, even a international movies series with Kookla, fran and Ollie. Kids have missed out so much and after 12 we would all head outside to play until it got dark. BOSS TIMES.

Although I am a late 'boomer' (b.1960), I had very similar Saturday experiences! Those were the days!

I’m 57, and I LOVE YOUR VIDEO…thank you.

"Killing me softly"! 🎼 That part, do I know you? That was my life until I found someone to give me a job. Hark, I hear the Gen X flute now! 🪈

56. Truly love these. You’re phenomenal at this. I share them with my GenX friends. You’re 💎, Slim Sherri!

We had the best childhood ❤ Thank you for the FLASHBACK!

They were some memorable moments. Laughs, smiles, fun. I can genuinely say they were some of the best moments.

Wow. Just... wow. And so beautifully and poetically. I'm just stunned. ❤

I know it wasn't your intention. But you made me cry with this video. I wish I was a kid again. And my mom and sister were still living

Born in 65, this is the truth of how it was, learned how to swim down at the river , not in the public pool. As long as you were home before the street lights came on you did not get your ass kicked....love the beautiful ladies voice and calmness.... If I were single 💗💗💗. Amazed at how beautiful ladies of gen X still are.....today's young women look old and wore out from all the drugs and getting around as they do nowadays.