What is your earliest memory?

[CHIZZY]

Think back....waaayyyy back....

I vividly remember drinking chocolate milk from a bottle that was shaped like a yellow & brown puppy dog. It was summer afternoon,
and I was in a navy blue room. My moms sez that she threw that bottle out when I turned 3, and they changed the paint in that room
in september of \'74. (I was born in march of \'73) so I was a little over 2.

To this day, I can still taste that chocolate milk and remember how yummy it was...

i remember my dad beating the shit outta me for knocking over a  paint can in the basement.  i still have a scar

i might have been 3

[CHIZZY]

hmm.... your endless sarcasm and disdain for most other humans
makes a little more sense now...

*pulls out notepad and pulls up a chair...

"and how does this make you feel, mm?"

[MPTheory]

I was very young, probably a little over a year old. It was winter time. My parents and my grandparents were pulling me in a tabogin with a cardboard box on it (So I wouldn\'f fall off.)
My parents find it hard to believe I can remember that because of my age at the time.

Hmm, don\'t know the earliest memory for sure. The only thing I can date is looking at my big brother getting ready for his first schoolday. I must have been 3 or 4.

im quite comfortable with my relationship to my father

it\'s years of ignorant and stupid humans that have made me sarcastic and easily discouraged

[nO-One]

I have trouble remembering what I did yesterday

[Kurt Angle]

I can remember  back to about 1977/78 when I was 3 or 4 years old and I used to ride my bike around the kitchen table.

[GmanJoe]

Dinosaurs roaming the swamps.

Actually, my earliest memories were in an old wooden house. I remember the beaches and the palm trees and fisherman dragging nets of fish into the shore.

I always lived near an ocean.

Walking from my yard to a public pool near us with my parents.  This was at my old house in Cincinnati.  I was probably about 2 and a half.

Walking with my mom through a typical Spanish market in La Linea, Spain when I lived there for almost a year. I was maybe 2 years old, and I remember her buying an ice cream for me that was shaped like Mickey Mouse.

[videoholic]

I have three memories that haunt me actually quite often.

1)  I remember coming out of my room and my mom was on the floor crying.  I think she had been in a fight with my dad.  I remember this because I remember she was eating a cookie at the time.  One of those wafer sandwhich types with the cream in between.

2) I remember going out in search of my dad with my mom several times.  We\'d stop by all the bars and what not.  I actually remember one time with my dad looking for my mom one time too I think.

3) I remember (and I give my mom shit all of the time about it) having to throw away a belt.  It was well worn and probably didn\'t really fit any more, but she bought me a new belt.  I remember throwing it away outside in the store\'s dumpster balling my eyes out.  I ask her all the time, what would have been so bad to keep it?


I was born before my parents were married.  They were very young.   19 and 21..  I am very proud of them to have made it as long as they have.  They are still married.  During my college years they came close to a divorce several times, but they have worked through it and are actually better now than ever.

I say that only because with my 3 memories it looks like they hated each other.

Best guess is I was around 3 at the time of those memories.

Now a lot of times you think you remember things, but mainly you remember them because your parents bring them up.  You don\'t really remember, you just think you do.

I\'ve never spoken to my parents about this stuff (Other than the belt), so I know these memories are real.

Two memories come to mind. I think they were around the same time(as in 1984-ish when I was 4-ish).

1) I remember walking from a pre-school classroom to the nurse\'s office and being a little scared because the halls were SOOO big and so empty. I\'ve been back to the school a couple of times since then and I always wonder how small I had to be to remember the hallways so huge.

2) I also remember lying in the bed when I heard my mother crying and yelling at my dad. I think he came home drunk and was being a dick; but I don\'t know for sure. I\'ve never brought it up with either one of them. My parents were both pretty young at the time (about 25). In hindsight I think that may have been one of the last times my pops drank because I don\'t remember any drinking episodes other than that one.

[videoholic]

With my memories I definitely make sure that Lona and I watch what Logan absorbs.  Kids are EXTREMELY nosey.  Lona and I will be talking in one room and I can hear Logan repeating words we\'ve said in the other.

I just thought of one more long time memory.


I think I was a bit older.  Probably about 4 or so, but I had a bunk bed.  My dad made the top bunk either too high or the ceiling was pretty low.  Anyway, I could easily reach the ceiling on the top bunk.  We had a popcorn ceiling where you have the little bumps in paint.  Well in order to keep me from picking them off, they told me the roof would come down if I messed with them.

Evil...

[MPTheory]

yeah.. I just remembered a really bad one...

I was in 2nd grade. We were all given cubbies to put our luchboxes and hang our jackets.  I opened up mine, and a hanger fell down and landed in my eye.  Instead of pulling it out, I ran down the school hall screaming and ran into the main office.  They pulled it out, and I was crying, while hugging my bus driver.  I still have a weird little spot in my eye from that.