When you were a kid...

[Ban my account ffs!]

Of course I did.  I think every kid does... at least all the cool kids do. 

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

LOL yeah, a few times.

[Tender Branson]

No, because I always had just 1 cereal box. And when it was empty it got thrown into the trash.

[Franzl]

No because I never liked cereal. (America hater)

[ilikeverin]

What?  You put the cereal boxes away after you're done pouring your cereal.  Silly.  Didn't your mother teach you to clean up after yourself?

[memphis]

Is this a Midwestern thing like mayo jello? I've never heard of a cereal box fort. Seems like you'd need a lot of boxes.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Maybe option 2 or 3 perhaps, because I wasn't much found of all those kellog's stuffs when I was a kid, and anyways we only had very big boxes not the small ones, I had to wait to be in England (well, in Cornwall...) to have some of those. I was in a family in which the mother sometimes played with her kids by throwing kleenex packages all over their suburbian home of the city of Bodmin, but they never did the fort stuff.

[dead0man]

I was learnt' that eating wasn't play time.  We built (hell, I still build) blanket forts.  Clearly there is a lack of discipline up there.

[Free Palestine]

I never ate at a table.

[courts]

Is this a Midwestern thing like mayo jello? I've never heard of a cereal box fort. Seems like you'd need a lot of boxes.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Does cutting up empty boxes and making things out of the cardboard count? Because that's what I mostly did.

[TJ in Oregon]

No, the box got put away after it was poured. Most of my forts were built out of yarn and sheets. My Mom would let me tie a bunch of year up on random things in the basement and throw sheets over the yarn. All of my best forts were built that way

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

No, because I always had just 1 cereal box. And when it was empty it got thrown into the trash.

[minionofmidas]

Some truth to answer three depending on the meaning of "cereals" (and anyhow they certainly never were the standard breakfast fare), but answer two is just so true that I had to vote it.

[Yelnoc]

No, all  my forts were blanket forts (or outside under hedges and whatnot).

[Lief 🗽]

We never had more than two or three cereal boxes in the house, and once the cereal had been poured the box went back in the pantry.

[memphis]

I was learnt' that eating wasn't play time. 

Kudos to your parents. Wish kids today knew that. Damn fast food places have completely merged the two.

[lowtech redneck]

No, but I did create a couple of forts out of cereal boxes for my G.I. Joes....and one time I made a baseball glove out of a cereal box after hearing about a major leaguer (Tony Fernandez) who played in front of scouts with a glove made out of a milk carton.

[greenforest32]

No but I did build forts out of cushions, pillows, and blankets and hide in them.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I don't think you guys quite understood what I meant.

When I was little, my mom would put the milk and bowls and cereal boxes on the table.. and we would pour our cereal, and then take 3 or 4 boxes of cereal and make an enclosure around our cereal bowl so you could look at all the boxes while nobody else could see you.

I'm not talking about like a huge fort made out of cereal boxes.. that's stilly.  Those forts are best made with sheets and blankets and expensive heavy glass items to hold them in place (and to make mommy really mad when you knock them on the floor and break them).

But the 5 other people who did do this know what I meant.

And to Memphis:  To this day, nobody really knows why people put mayonnaise in their jello.  It was only ever like that at potlucks.  If you want to add a creamy component to jello, it's best to use whipped cream that you add in before it sets, making a pale whitish/whatever color the jello is mould that tastes quite good, actually.

But mayonnaise doesn't have to be a savory thing.  A crap ton of fruit salad recipes have mayonnaise in them, and it makes it quite delicious, I assure you.  Perhaps you should try it before you knock it.

And any southerners complaining about it need to shut up..   Go eat your pickled pigs feet and watermelon rinds.

[dead0man]

I stand by my "eating isn't play time" position.

[AndrewTX]

Of course we did. Except we had to grab other things to complete it. Of course, this was only allowed on the weekends.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

But mayonnaise doesn't have to be a savory thing.

It has to.

[Torie]

Heavens no. I laid out cities and housing tracts on the carpet with toothpicks.  That was much more interesting.