Back in the day, the only way you could be cool girl was if you could make friendship
bracelets or had a Skip It.
Although I was mediocre at best when it came to weaving that embroidery thread, I was the Skip It champion on my block.
Skip It was definitely
one of my favorite childhood toys, and I’m sure plenty of other kids of the ‘90s would agree.
They were a much cooler and all-around better version of old fashioned jump ropes; they revived that dead horse like nobody’s business.
No longer did you have to count your jumps aloud:
complete with a silly, but obligatory song at the beginning
that also forcibly named your boyfriend.
Nor did you have to anxiously
await your turn in a long line of kids trying to learn Double-Dutch.
Most of all, you didn’t have to rely on your friends to competently twirl the rope and not trip you in the midst of it.
If you didn’t have a Skip It, then you were jealous of everyone
who did. Especially the ones that lit up.
Skip Its were a revolutionary toy that rocked my generation, and hopefully it will do the same for those to come.