"It Ruined The Necklace, Burned My Fingers, And Killed My Interior Designer Dreams" – 17 Hilariously Silly Stories From Childhood

"I obviously survived but would not recommend it."

Doing silly things is part of growing up – well, it was for me anyway! Now we're older, it's okay to look back and laugh at the ridiculous things we did, things that must've been a nightmare for our parents, teachers, and guardians to deal with.

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So, with people seemingly happy to share their childhood stories on our previous post, here are another 17 of the silliest things people did when they were kids:

1. "I was playing with those strong magnet earrings in school by putting them on the inside and outside of my nostril and moving them up."

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"I had two on the outside of my nose that were magnetised to two on the inside, but I stupidly pulled the two on the outside away. Of course, the two on the inside were drawn together and got stuck to each other inside both of my nostrils. They were so high up that my nose began to bleed and I was swiftly taken to the hospital. My teacher called me 'Magneto' from then on..."

– casualgem30

2. "I used to sleepwalk a lot, but I usually ended up in pretty easy-to-find spots."

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"One night, my mom couldn't find me so she called the police. They searched our home and had no luck either, so they called in additional support in the form of the K9 unit. As they were leaving, to give them more light, my mom opened up my blinds and there I was! Dead asleep on the windowsill. I still sleepwalk like this from time to time."

— meaganhibbert1

3. "When I was about eight, I decided it would be fun to place a big stone (like 20/30cm big) on the handle end of a spade, then jump on the other end to catapult it."

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"The stone sure did catapult, right onto my mum's car..."

— crystalmoonlight

4. "When I was five, I figured I should just shave off my fingerprints in case I got in trouble with the law."

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"I can still remember my thumb and the red in the water (I was in the bath)."

— brittanydominic

5. "We used to play laser tag in the house running from my brother's room back to my room and jumping over the bed."

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"One day, while we were running from room to room, we knocked over the glass stereo case with the big TV on the top, and it fell onto my head. That's how we learned about concussions. My mom made my brother and the neighbour boy stay up all night entertaining me so I didn't die in my sleep".

— cheyanneclark

6. "I did the worst thing you could possibly do to a college student, who also happened to be my mother."

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"I was four, and it was my mother's last paper before getting her degree in teaching. Bear in mind this was Windows 98 era, in which you had the tower always plugged into the wall. Apparently I wanted my mom's attention, so I yanked the power cord out of the wall when she hadn't saved her work yet."

— cristiandelgado

7. "My sister tried to cartwheel down the stairs as a kid."

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— mab6644

8. "My brother and I decided to put plastic Tesco bags over each shoulder and parachute jump off of our bunk bed."

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"We learned about gravity that day."

— zoomies842

9. "In elementary school, I had to do a science fair experiment."

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"I ended up boiling an egg in water in a glass container covered with a lid in a microwave. After seven minutes, the pressure caused a massive explosion that blew the microwave door off its hinges and took out the power to my family's kitchen. I got second place."

— arkansastraveller

10. "I was 12 and my brother was nine when my mom let me and him come home after school without a babysitter for the first time."

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"We had some friends over and we all thought it was a great idea to climb up on the roof of our house. To get off the roof, of course, you had to jump. I sat down on the lowest part of the roof and safely jumped to the ground. My brother, on the other hand, jumped from a standing position, landed really hard on his foot, and immediately started crying. 

Not wanting to get in trouble, I didn't call my mother. She came home about an hour later to find him still crying, and then took him to the hospital to find out he had broken his foot!"

— carag4f7c24f61

11. "I decided to see how far up my nose I could insert a cherry stone. Turns out, too far".

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— juliaw1

12. "I put some garlic knots in the microwave, but I was too young to know how things like time and numbers worked, so I put them in for 99 minutes and set the microwave on fire."

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— hailcthulhu

13. "I decided to chew on a glow stick and break it open so my teeth would be shiny."

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"My teeth and entire mouth were shiny alright. I instantly barfed and thankfully none of it was swallowed."

— duckiegirl21

14. "When I was three or four, I wanted to decorate the house and make it pretty because my parents were having people over."

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"I found my mom's wedding necklace and decided to hang it on a plug that was half sticking out of the outlet. As soon as the metal clasp hit the exposed plug ZAP. It ruined the necklace, burned my fingers, and killed my interior designer dreams."

— michelleleanne

15. "I ran under a moving train."

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"Sometimes, for fun, I would put coins on the train tracks so that they would get crushed. One day I got caught out late, and needed to cross in order get home. I obviously survived but would not recommend it."

— zemt

16. "My mom told me I had to eat all my green beans in order to get dessert, so I decided to hide one... up my nostril. That was an ER visit."

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— battlecat24

17. "My little sis – who was like three – locked me, my brother, and our babysitter in my bedroom (it was the '90s, and our bedrooms locked out in the hall)."

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"My brother had to climb out on an actual sheet rope to go open it. We also had to call poison control when she drank liquid potpourri… I love her to death, but she was a HANDFUL."

— misstarrynj

What's a silly thing that you've done? Let us know in the comments below!