Spaw, you had a NEWSPAPER??!! We had a discarded gum wrapper that had landed in our ditch. Wouldn't have been too bad except there was a hunk of used gum in it and our family's pet fly kept getting stuck. Ah, how I miss ol' Stumpy.

Creepy Crawlers made out of Plastigoop and trolls (the first-run trolls, not the remake whatever-they-were-called ones.) Since John of Hull mentioned cardboard boxes: one Christmas, my parents didn't have enough money to buy presents and I was too young (maybe around 3 years old?) to be influenced by monetary value or social acceptabilty of Stuff. They got a whole bunch of different sized boxes - real big refrigerator boxes and smaller ones. I had a ball with them, and I actually remember that Christmas.