How far back can you remember?

[swee'pea99]

terrible short term memory though. Where are my keys/wallet/sun-glasses/car?

I have many childhood memories.....its what i did at work this week i struggle with..not good

Reminds me of the birthday card I gave my sis - bright cheerful pic featuring: "You've reached the Wonder Years!", then inside: Wonder where my glasses are...Wonder what day it is...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Seriously?

Saying Winston Churchill's funeral and the introduction of decimalisation gets a bit boring sometimes.

 

[numbnuts]

Falling down the cellar at my parents pub aged 3

 

[jefmcg]

Falling down the cellar at my parents pub aged 3

No, it's "first thing you can remember" not "last thing you can remember"

 

[gbb]

I have a few unconnected memories etched into my brain from when I was a nipper.
Stood in front of a fireplace in my first school, so maybe 5 years old,quite unhappy and unsure and probably bawling my eyes out .
Sitting at the kerb side of the road, feet on the road, looking at the top dressing which was purple coloured and sparkly, watching an occasional car go past, smelling the exhaust and wondering if the sky would ever get full of exhaust fumes. I may have been between 5 and 8 I suspect...a very vivid memory for me.
Going to the matinee at the cinema on a Saturday afternoon with my brothers and sisters. We lived on RAF bases so there was lots and lots of grass to walk over to get there...and flowers....and bees. I'm always ashamed to remember how many bees I used to kill by spearing them with a cricket stump, so so many, so so pointless when you think afterwards.

Funny how some things really are etched into your mind, some apparently completely mundane, others perhaps because they had a bigger impact on you without you realising at the time.

 

[marshmella]

Falling down the cellar at my parents pub aged 3

Had you had a few?

 

[Dayvo]

I've had Alzheimer's for as long as I can remember.

 

[iateyoubutler]

I think my earliest was me being sat in a wheelbarrow and my dad pushing it along the garden, got a photo of it too, I must have been about three. Then the next, and very vivid was my first day at school - shock, horror, all those scary faces, and constant cries of "mummy don`t leave me!"

Got very vague recollections of my grandparents having a kitchen fire but got no clue how old I was, it was all very patchy.

As a toddler I always loved Christmas with a passion, it was magical, I can remember that too

 

[cyberknight]

Nothing before i was 10 when my mum died.

 

[raleighnut]

My Uncle taking us on holiday to Mablethorpe in one of these in 1966,



Dad didn't drive at the time but my Uncle Jack loved driving, as fast as possible and these were quite quick (2.0L V4)

You don't see many around these days though, they were rust-buckets after a few years sadly.

 

[Vantage]

Back in the dark ages insulin dependent diabetics used big glass syringes with needles that had to be sterilized.
I remember seeing mine in it's plastic foam padded case but not my mum sticking it into me. Thankfully.

 

[DaveReading]

We moved around a bit when I was young, so that helps to date my memories.

In no particular order, but all from the same era:

Grabbing my baby brother's pram when Mum slipped at the top of the steep slope that led down to our road. I'm two years older than him, so I must have been about 3 at the time

Putting a ball through my neighbour's garage window and being hauled in front of him by my Dad

Being severely told off for going paddling in the local river

 

[Markymark]

I remember when the OP wasn't a miserable old sod but it could just be my imagination....

 

[iateyoubutler]

We moved around a bit when I was young, so that helps to date my memories.

In no particular order, but all from the same era:

Grabbing my baby brother's pram when Mum slipped at the top of the steep slope that led down to our road. I'm two years older than him, so I must have been about 3 at the time

Putting a ball through my neighbour's garage window and being hauled in front of him by my Dad

Being severely told off for going paddling in the local river

Haha you mention getting up to mischief, I was very good at that! I do remember, being about 6 or 7 I found swearing a good source of fun and games, everybody got a performance - grandparents, parents, teachers etc etc. I stopped at nobody

Took a lot of being kept in, sent to bed early without tea, my mum belting me with her slipper, etc etc to put pay to it! I didn`t do that again...................

 

[byegad]

Falling down the cellar at my parents pub aged 3

That explains a lot Numbnuts!