those bouncy ball things with the handle! I mean the really big bouncy ones!
GI Joe with kungfu grip - I wasn't into barbies and my cousins always had GIJ.
View master
slinky
ants in the pants
trouble
sorry
light bright
spirograph
battleship
(yeah operation!)
hula hoops!
hot wheels or slot car tracks
also - HO scale trains!
music records! HA talk about dating yourself!!
and every year my mom gave us a tree ornament or two.. so when we moved out, we'd have enough ornaments to fill our own tree. It worked!
One year, and I don't know what posessed my mother to buy these.. she got me and my sister matching PJs that had a target covering the chest.. it came with plastic balls wrapped with velcro....... needless to say, my male cousins had a blast with them....... the balls disappeared fast let me tell ya!