Have We Lost Our Marbles?:-)

I am 22, and when we were younger, we did have marbles. We also played POGS, which nobody plays anymore either......

Maybe cos' parents are so concerned that it can become a choking hazzard? But I did grow up playing with marbles. I still have marbles in the home but only use it for decoration. I use them in my vases and in small bowls on the windowsill so it catches the sunlight. I like having them in the house cos' it reminds me of my childhood.

I do remember playing marbles with my brother - most of all though I remember the beautiful colours and patterns on the marbles themselves and how they were all unique. Thanks for the memories.

I played marbles when I was a kid. I am approaching 50 years old this summer. I still have my marbles. I store them in a special ceramic bean pot. My children are not allowed to play with my marbles. They are not even allowed to look at them very often. I suppose that comes from when I was a kid. Marbles were special pieces of art that you could hold in your hand. If you lost one in a game, you might never be able to recover it. Those were the rules and you learned to live by them. So if you had a marble you did not want to part with, you did not put it in the ring and put it at risk of being lost to another player. Now I am just plain overprotective with my marbles. They are a piece of my childhood that my children will have to wait to inherit.

I suppose they are not in demand for games now due to the safety nature if there are very young children about that might swallow them. They used to be a very good game to pass the breaktime away at school and also going home to win a few more before teatime.
I used to break up bearings so that we had 'steelies' that would smash the competition with lol. Those were the days.

I use to love playing with marble when l was a child. I carried mine around in a crown royal bag,l loved all different sizes and colors. I think there is so many electronic toys and video game out there,that makes marbles look boring. Kids would have to go outside to play with marbles, and it seems a lot of kids are stuck inside the house attached at the hip to these video games.

Come to think of it, yes I have lost my marbles! I used to have 1 gallon jars full of them from my winnings on the schoolyard. But I remember now what happened to them and I will share it in a topic of my own!

Alas, I keep having to replace my marbles..

My whole family plays with 'em still..young, old..we don't care. We've always liked 'em.

We tend to get them at flea markets. At one of ym favorite's, there's a vendor who only sells glass items..and one or two tables in his booth are completely marbles. All different kinds too.

Sadly, we only know one game with marbles that we overplay when we do have them..but I like simply looking at marbles, even if I'm not playing.

i once had a large collection of marbles, where they go i know not. However, i suspect they are recycled. A few months ago i went on a shopping expidition with my two young children and rapidly gravitated to a local toy shop. Endless fascination to my kids. Well, they both wanted their spending money so they could get rid of it as quickly as possible and armed with it, they procededed to view the vast array of toys on display. Imagine my shock when they emerged a good 20 minits later armed with nothing more than a bag of marbles each. They have had hours of fun simply playing old games that have been part of childhood for thousands of years
blessed be

My daughters came home from school one day asking about marbles. As the missus and I were explaining how to play (neither one of us played "keepers"), the younger daughter went into an old junk box and dug up a small bag full. In it were some of the old polished clay ones that my wife used to find in the garden. Also, were some of the colored ones like you mentioned. Then the oldest decided we could actually play.

It sounds strange, but playing marbles has become a little of a family pastime. Each kid (including the boy) has a small bag. And on Friday night, we all play for the right to pick the events for that night. We've been doing this on and off now for three years. BTW: The girls are now 12 and 11 and the boy is 6.

When I was growing up, marbles wasn't played, but using the same concept we used to flip baseball cards. Same concept though...