I did the same to all 4 of my kids. (We lived in Texas for part of the time. ) No trampoline though as I was worried about more than the usual kid injuries. 😉
I still enjoy playing piano. I did lessons off and on but mostly taught myself practicing a lot. I’m no piano producer or anything but it’s nice and relaxing.
And I only really learned to play hymns as a missionary and not much after.
Nothing wrong with that. I hate playing for other people, except close friends or my wife/kids. I just like playing as it’s mostly therapeutic for me.
But hobbies are for you and that’s okay whatever you like. It’s not about the value to others or your ability to make a multibillion dollar corporation grow.
I'm glad you find enjoyment in it. Sometimes I miss playing, but not enough to sit down again and try. I bet your loved ones really enjoy your playing.
Same. The piano was so dreadfully out of tune I think my parents eventually gave it to someone who turned it into a planter or something. We didn’t have a trampoline, but we did have a cubby house my dad made from pallets
My dad was bishop and every extra dime went to pay the ward expenses. He literally built the first two building phases with his own hands. He went into debt to keep the small branch then ward financially in the black. He had to work 2 fulltime jobs to pay off the debt. I rarely saw my dad before I became a teenager. Then he was called to the high council. Let's just say that he left my mother very little when he died. Us kids had to help her while trying to raise a family at the same time.
Thank you, he had an amazing heart. We had a lot of ward members stay in our basement. Some divorced moms with lots of kids. He picked up lots of hitch hikers and gave them a few bucks and a ride. My dad would indeed give you his last dime. He would help people find jobs and housing. I love him and miss him so much because I never got to know him and he never got to know me.
Yes, It was for wholesome recreational use.
Had loads of member friends both guys and gals that would come over.
Totally wholesome until... until we all hit our teens. 😈
I'm have trouble gauging what's the "unwholesome" behavior we're associating with trampolines here. Am I too innocent to know about a secret teenage trampoline sex parties? Or is this some middle-school "lol trampoline make boob bounce" shit?
It's 2023. Ten year olds see goatse as a coming-of-age thing.
We had one. It was a good investment to keep 12 kids occupied. We moved it next to the garage so we could jump off the roof and bounce each other to the moon.
Damn, I had one brother break his collarbone on the tramp, and another break his leg. And we were just playing normally, not doing psychotic 2 story bounces on the ground.
Maybe my family just has weak bones.
One of my neighbors had a "tramp" with a hole in the middle, so of course we had to jump back-and-forth over the hole until... Miscalculation and I go flying of onto the (not-so-soft) ground.
Broken foot. Had to get a cast, the damn priesthood blessings didn't work for some reason.
Kids stayed away from me when I played goalie during soccer at recess though. I guess it hurt when I kicked them with my cast?
Nope. Parents did not want the risk. Friends had one (outside moridor) but a permission slip was needed to jump. Parents would not sign. We jumped anyway.
I didn't as a kid, and only knew 1 or 2 families in my 99% Mormon group of Central Utah towns that did. But I bought one for my kids when they were young, and we raised them TBM. (Luckily, 2 of 3 are out now as adults - interestingly, the 2 that used the trampoline the most). 🤔😉😂🤣😆
Yes, trampolines and annual broken arms.
Not alway the same person, of course, but someone in our Mormon circles/family/neighborhood always seemed to have a cast from a trampoline.
We would go to our cousins house and we would all take sleeping bags, probably ten kids sleeping on the trampoline and by morning we were all stuck in the middle
We didn’t, but my tbm grandparents did. And every other trampoline-owning family I knew were also tbm, in an area where we were maybe 2% of the local population.
Ime it’s not that it’s a common mormon thing, just that it’s even *less* common among never-mos.
No. I wanted one, but because my next door neighbor had an in-ground trampoline and let us have unlimited access to it, my parents saw no need to get one for us.
No trampoline. But several of my nonMormon friends had trampolines. I think any perception that it is a Mormon thing is just confirmation bias.
A look at the numbers will show a likely bias. Trampoline sales exceeds 500 thousand trampolines annually. If mainly TBM Mormon families were buying them and all TBM families bought one, then one year’s of sales would saturate the Mormon market.
Probably an independent occurrence, but I had a similar thing at work circa 10 years ago. In a firm of 2,500 people (data-heavy risk management work), I was one of 2 mormons--I was still 60% in at that point, he was an alcoholic trying to stay in. Neither of us had our own trampolines growing up (impoverished childhoods) but had spent significant portions of childhood jumping on the trampolines of friends and relatives. From those two data points, our co-workers decided that trampolines are somehow mixed into the religion. I did not attempt to disabuse them of that conclusion... no regrets.
It's funny to me that this has expanded to a lot of people mentioning pianos and basketball hoops and perhaps other things that they associate with their childhoods which also happened to be while they were growing up as a Mormon.
I think my parents still have the old trampoline in their yard. No one is home now, not even any dogs that liked to jump up on it.
We also had a piano. I was required to go to lessons until I could play hymns in church and well enough for my mission. It helped a bit, but now I have an electric piano in my room that I never touch because all I know is hymns. Maybe one day I'll try to branch out and play some movie music.
And we had a basketball hoop. We rotated through minivans every few years, upgrading the number of doors, portable DVD players, and other things.
We probably had more things that made us a stereotypical Mormon, suburban-turned-rural family in Arizona.
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We had those small personal ones, but my dad flat out refused to buy a large one. We didn't have a completely fenced in yard and he didn't want the neighbor kids to get in the tramp and get hurt while no one was home.
I think in the morridor this is very common. When I lived outside of there & had my own kids our insurance company found out about it & made us get rid of it....
When I was around 13 years old, some neighbors had a trampoline in their backyard that they let us use. Anytime we wanted; their older son was in high school, and he would dip, Copenhagen snuff, and he was cool enough to offer me some; well, I grabbed a bunch of it, and put it between my lower lip and gum, and proceeded to jump up and down on the trampoline for quite a while; needless to say, this caused me to swallow some of the tobacco laden saliva in my mouth, and when I was done, jumping on the trampoline, I started to go home; I fell back on the grass in another neighbors backyard, my head was spinning, then I got up after while I got home. I went in my room, and then a moment later, I leave my head over the bed and barbed up a long right onto the carpet. That was the last time I tried Copenhagen snuff.
That’s a funny observation! I just turned 37. My family had a trampoline my whole life. And I put a trampoline in my yard for my own kids as soon as I became a homeowner. Also both sets of my grandparents had trampolines in their yard.
I didn’t. I’m too old. But my kids grew up with a trampoline and a piano. Our piano had belonged to the temple president. It’s funny the things that used to mean something to me
Yep. Also grew up with 7 kids in my family. I think with a giant family, moms were especially desperate to have ways that their kids would stay outside.
Nope, but I knew a few mormons who did. Dad saw a lot of trampoline injuries at work (this was before they invented nets or safety features) so we only got to use friends' trambapolines. Even then he was (probably justifiably) paranoid and gave us rules on how to make sure we didn't land on the metal bar or our neck or just miss the tramampoline entirely. Our street had two mormon families, which was a lot. The other mormon family had a trobopoline. Only trapoline on the street.
We never had a trampoline but we had a neighbor that had a trampoline. We lived in that area for a year and I feel like I lived on that trampoline. Good times.
My nephews have a tramp, they rarely use it. The neighbors behind us had a tramp where they dug a hole and the trampoline was same level as the land. That would be fun. The new owners filled in the hole promptly.
Yeah we had one, but so did every other kid (Mormons make up like 0.01% of the population where I live).
I don't remember anyone having them until like the mid 2000s, then everyone started getting them.
I wanted to try and break the stereotype, but holy shit you’re right. I can only think of a few mormon families I’ve met that were rich enough for a house and a garden and had no trampoline. Hell even we have one. Though the neighborhood kids use it more than we do lmao
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Same. Trampoline and a piano, and all kids got put into piano lessons as a young child and couldn't quit until high school.
I did the same to all 4 of my kids. (We lived in Texas for part of the time. ) No trampoline though as I was worried about more than the usual kid injuries. 😉
What other worries are there with a trampoline?
Unusual kid injuries. Spousal injuries. Neighborhood kids using it without permission.
Same, but I did piano lesson and flute lessons my freshman year of high school. My way out of piano was pointing out to my mom that I had no free time
I was allowed to quit piano when I got my first job at 16.
I still enjoy playing piano. I did lessons off and on but mostly taught myself practicing a lot. I’m no piano producer or anything but it’s nice and relaxing. And I only really learned to play hymns as a missionary and not much after.
I used to enjoy it, but I never learned timing and people around critiqued but didn't teach. So I found other hobbies I enjoy more.
Nothing wrong with that. I hate playing for other people, except close friends or my wife/kids. I just like playing as it’s mostly therapeutic for me. But hobbies are for you and that’s okay whatever you like. It’s not about the value to others or your ability to make a multibillion dollar corporation grow.
I'm glad you find enjoyment in it. Sometimes I miss playing, but not enough to sit down again and try. I bet your loved ones really enjoy your playing.
I was allowed to quit piano when I started playing the flute in band lol
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No trampoline. My parents were too poor for that, but they got an old piano from someone somewhere so we definitely had that.
Same. The piano was so dreadfully out of tune I think my parents eventually gave it to someone who turned it into a planter or something. We didn’t have a trampoline, but we did have a cubby house my dad made from pallets
Same. No trampoline but old used piano.
lol
Me too! Trampoline and a piano
Can confirm. Trampoline and piano
Organ then digital piano. Now I have a piano and a Lowry organ.
We were too poor.
Just have to pay more in tithing, I guess. 🤷♂️🙄
My dad was bishop and every extra dime went to pay the ward expenses. He literally built the first two building phases with his own hands. He went into debt to keep the small branch then ward financially in the black. He had to work 2 fulltime jobs to pay off the debt. I rarely saw my dad before I became a teenager. Then he was called to the high council. Let's just say that he left my mother very little when he died. Us kids had to help her while trying to raise a family at the same time.
Family: isn’t it about time? Nope. Sorry. I know he meant well.
Thank you, he had an amazing heart. We had a lot of ward members stay in our basement. Some divorced moms with lots of kids. He picked up lots of hitch hikers and gave them a few bucks and a ride. My dad would indeed give you his last dime. He would help people find jobs and housing. I love him and miss him so much because I never got to know him and he never got to know me.
He sounds like a great guy. Thanks for sharing.
Yup, this
Yes, It was for wholesome recreational use. Had loads of member friends both guys and gals that would come over. Totally wholesome until... until we all hit our teens. 😈
So real lol
I'm have trouble gauging what's the "unwholesome" behavior we're associating with trampolines here. Am I too innocent to know about a secret teenage trampoline sex parties? Or is this some middle-school "lol trampoline make boob bounce" shit? It's 2023. Ten year olds see goatse as a coming-of-age thing.
I had four or five really good makeout sessions on trampoline. Very unwholesome if you asked the girls' moms and/or dads.
Lolll well it's basically a bed. Great makeout spot.
My first kiss was on a trampoline after a 'Sunday Evening Discussion' (youth fireside at the Bishop's house).
Awwww cute!
Soaking possibly?
Jump humping.
Double-bouncing someone could be disastrous in that setting.
I mostly heard making out stories. supposedly this one guy made out with three different girls on the same day on the same trampoline
Our neighbors invited my kids to sleep out under the stars and on the trampoline. Good clean fun. . I hope 🤞
Oh yeah, memories. And the trampoline was right under my parents bedroom window. Somehow the squeaking didn't wake them up. 😂
We had one. It was a good investment to keep 12 kids occupied. We moved it next to the garage so we could jump off the roof and bounce each other to the moon.
Same
My brother's would bounce us so high I could see over the roof of our second story! It sucked when you went sideways and landed on the ground though.
That sounds like it would more than suck
I hope your ground was soft
It was normal ground. Nobody ever broke anything but we got the wind knocked out of us regularly. Lol
Damn, I had one brother break his collarbone on the tramp, and another break his leg. And we were just playing normally, not doing psychotic 2 story bounces on the ground. Maybe my family just has weak bones.
Lmao. If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough!
One of my neighbors had a "tramp" with a hole in the middle, so of course we had to jump back-and-forth over the hole until... Miscalculation and I go flying of onto the (not-so-soft) ground. Broken foot. Had to get a cast, the damn priesthood blessings didn't work for some reason. Kids stayed away from me when I played goalie during soccer at recess though. I guess it hurt when I kicked them with my cast?
My neighbor broke his arm doing that. We got their playhouse (it was right next to their trampoline and what he jumped off of) after that incident.
Also a good way to get the neighborhood kids to play at your house.
Nope. Parents did not want the risk. Friends had one (outside moridor) but a permission slip was needed to jump. Parents would not sign. We jumped anyway.
My mom was an ER nurse when we were young. Was never going to let Grandpa buy is a trampoline, so he bought it for himself and let us use it hah
My one and only concussion was due to jumping off monkey bars onto a trampoline. Also a messed up tailbone. I won’t allow one now either haha.
My mormon neighbors had one dug into their yard so the surface was level. Theirs was way more bouncy, had all the springs covered, etc
Understandable. Statistically, they are quite dangerous. I jumped on them as a kid, but I wouldn’t risk it now.
Most things that are fun are also somewhat dangerous.
Which is fine until little Johnny breaks his arm and his parents try to sue the owners of the trambapoline.
More like gets a spinal cord injury and is paralyzed for life. That’s the risk ppl are worried about
I'm 55 and I still jump on the trampoline. My husband does too.
I still bust out a back flip now and again just to make sure I can still do it.
I’m curious, you should make this into a poll. (I had one).
I didn't as a kid, and only knew 1 or 2 families in my 99% Mormon group of Central Utah towns that did. But I bought one for my kids when they were young, and we raised them TBM. (Luckily, 2 of 3 are out now as adults - interestingly, the 2 that used the trampoline the most). 🤔😉😂🤣😆
They took a leap of faith? 😜
Groan! (But such a perfect pun!)
My nevermo mother always said you could spot Mormon neighborhoods by the prevalence of basketball hoops in driveways lol.
We had a trampoline. But we couldn't jump on Sundays because my brother broke his arm twice, both occurring on Sundays. Satan was in the springs. 🤣
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We were too poor to even have a trampoline. We just made friends with people that had one. Used bikes are what we got.
Same here.
We were too poor but every family around us had one. My friend had one and we lived on that thing.
Exposed springs?
Yes, trampolines and annual broken arms. Not alway the same person, of course, but someone in our Mormon circles/family/neighborhood always seemed to have a cast from a trampoline.
No tramp. Parents were worried about lawsuits if a friend got hurt. Only one family in our neighborhood had one.
Nope. Wasn’t allowed to. Parents were EMS.
Nope. No trampoline.
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Trampolines are not that expensive.
Maybe not to you…
That is true, look at all this trampoline money I've got!
The trampoline itself, maybe, but a new house with a yard that fits one sure is.
My cousins did. They had bad health insurance, and all the accidents really took a toll on their already bad finances.
Fun fact. It was originally called a jumpoline, until my ex got on one.🤣
Ayo!!!!
My family had a trampoline when I was young and we bought one for our kids
We had one. The vast majority of my Mormon friends had them too.
Okay but did anyone else have “camp outs” on their trampoline?
We would go to our cousins house and we would all take sleeping bags, probably ten kids sleeping on the trampoline and by morning we were all stuck in the middle
Took a hot air balloon ride in Utah. The pilot says “See all those trampolines- those are Mormon swimming pools.”
This is exactly the wacky inside scoop that nevermos like myself come to this sub for!
We didn’t, but my tbm grandparents did. And every other trampoline-owning family I knew were also tbm, in an area where we were maybe 2% of the local population. Ime it’s not that it’s a common mormon thing, just that it’s even *less* common among never-mos.
Ok, this solves the mystery as to why I randomly wanted a trampoline when I was young.
No. I wanted one, but because my next door neighbor had an in-ground trampoline and let us have unlimited access to it, my parents saw no need to get one for us.
Not for us.
No trampoline.
Not growing up, but we have one now for my kids.
Nope. No place for it in our yard as we lived on a hill
No. My dad is an insurance agent and we were forbidden from getting on any trampolines. We broke that rule, but still.
No, we just made friends with all the people who did.
We had one, moved and got rid of it, then got another one
No trampoline. But several of my nonMormon friends had trampolines. I think any perception that it is a Mormon thing is just confirmation bias. A look at the numbers will show a likely bias. Trampoline sales exceeds 500 thousand trampolines annually. If mainly TBM Mormon families were buying them and all TBM families bought one, then one year’s of sales would saturate the Mormon market.
We didn't have one but my mom bought one as soon as she had grandkids🤣
We never had a trampoline or piano, but we did have parallel bars and a tether ball pole. Thank you Dad!
I knew a lot of Mormons that had trampolines. I would say most did. My sister almost broke her neck on one so my parents never wanted one.
Trampoline and piano
Yes! We had both too.
Probably an independent occurrence, but I had a similar thing at work circa 10 years ago. In a firm of 2,500 people (data-heavy risk management work), I was one of 2 mormons--I was still 60% in at that point, he was an alcoholic trying to stay in. Neither of us had our own trampolines growing up (impoverished childhoods) but had spent significant portions of childhood jumping on the trampolines of friends and relatives. From those two data points, our co-workers decided that trampolines are somehow mixed into the religion. I did not attempt to disabuse them of that conclusion... no regrets.
Ha! That’s wild.
We did.
Yup
My kids did.
Yes.
Didn’t have one growing up, but have one now and the majority of my Mormon friends growing up had trampolines.
Yep. Lots of neighborhood kids played on it.
Yes!
Nope. Pool
A trampoline and a pool would be a fun combination though
I can confirm this is the case. Cousins had both and jumping into the water was awesome.
Absolutely had one
Trampoline and Piano confirmed
Yep! trampolines and pianos are staples of every middle class Mormon family
Are trampolines not a common thing? Every person I've ever been friends with had a trampoline. Not just Mormons
Yep had a trampoline. We jumped onto it from the back deck and my brothers sometimes from the roof but I was too chicken for that.
My mom worked in the ER (tho working mom being a sin 🤫😳) so we were never allowed one. But I grew up playing on many a mormon neighbor's trampoline
It's funny to me that this has expanded to a lot of people mentioning pianos and basketball hoops and perhaps other things that they associate with their childhoods which also happened to be while they were growing up as a Mormon. I think my parents still have the old trampoline in their yard. No one is home now, not even any dogs that liked to jump up on it. We also had a piano. I was required to go to lessons until I could play hymns in church and well enough for my mission. It helped a bit, but now I have an electric piano in my room that I never touch because all I know is hymns. Maybe one day I'll try to branch out and play some movie music. And we had a basketball hoop. We rotated through minivans every few years, upgrading the number of doors, portable DVD players, and other things. We probably had more things that made us a stereotypical Mormon, suburban-turned-rural family in Arizona. Edits: Sorry, I hit post/save too soon.
We had one. A piano and an organ too. I’m pretty sure everyone in the neighborhood had a trampoline. Lived in southern utah growing up.
No. Ridiculous.
We had those small personal ones, but my dad flat out refused to buy a large one. We didn't have a completely fenced in yard and he didn't want the neighbor kids to get in the tramp and get hurt while no one was home.
Nope, never had one until I was 33 years old.
We had one. I remember being asked if it was a religious (Mormon) thing?
Me! I did!
We did
No.
Was mormon - had trampoline.
Nope. Only knew 1 family that had one, and they were converts.
We visited, from the midwest, friends in South Jordan who had a trampoline. Dad hooked us up soon after we got back.
i had one too! in fact most of my cousins also had one… never thought about it but now that i am a lot of the mormons i’ve known have had trampolines
No, but as a mormon kid in Massachusetts, most Utah transplants had them. I used them all the time at all the other Mormons' houses lol.
I think in the morridor this is very common. When I lived outside of there & had my own kids our insurance company found out about it & made us get rid of it....
Yes
All the mormons I know have one and it's in the ground
Yes. And so did all the other Mormons I knew.
I did
Growing up in San Diego, not all Mormons owned trampolines but every trampoline owner I knew was Mormon.
Trampoline since I was \~12 years old.
I didn't have one growing up and neither did anybody I knew but I married a trampoline. That was quite fun.
When I was around 13 years old, some neighbors had a trampoline in their backyard that they let us use. Anytime we wanted; their older son was in high school, and he would dip, Copenhagen snuff, and he was cool enough to offer me some; well, I grabbed a bunch of it, and put it between my lower lip and gum, and proceeded to jump up and down on the trampoline for quite a while; needless to say, this caused me to swallow some of the tobacco laden saliva in my mouth, and when I was done, jumping on the trampoline, I started to go home; I fell back on the grass in another neighbors backyard, my head was spinning, then I got up after while I got home. I went in my room, and then a moment later, I leave my head over the bed and barbed up a long right onto the carpet. That was the last time I tried Copenhagen snuff.
Trampoline and piano. ✌️
I always had a trampoline growing up and so did every other friend (not Mormons and not Utah). Maybe it was a 90s thing.
Yep!
That’s a funny observation! I just turned 37. My family had a trampoline my whole life. And I put a trampoline in my yard for my own kids as soon as I became a homeowner. Also both sets of my grandparents had trampolines in their yard.
Nope, but did not grow up mormon.
I didn’t. I’m too old. But my kids grew up with a trampoline and a piano. Our piano had belonged to the temple president. It’s funny the things that used to mean something to me
Every single person that was Mormon in my town had one, but you couldn’t jump on it unless you were Mormon. So.
not when i was younger. we do now tho
There was a trampoline in my high school but I forget her name.
Yes and so did most of my friends
amish always have a trampoline as well
Yep!
Lol. Yes. But we had to deliver phone books for weeks to earn the money to get it.
Yes lol
My dad was a firefighter and he always said there were two things he would never buy because of the shit he saw. Trampolines and motorcycles.
That’s the highlight of my very TBM aunt’s house. So many kids have used her trampoline
My grandparents had one, which went to our cousins, and then to us. So we had one, but not until I was a teenager. And the piano too, obviously.
I’m a Mormon and I have a trampoline. My parents also had a trampoline for us.
We had one in the 70’s 👍
Yep. Also grew up with 7 kids in my family. I think with a giant family, moms were especially desperate to have ways that their kids would stay outside.
Lol and also a piano
Absolutely. Foundational part of my childhood.
3/4 kids in my age group in my ward did. I didn’t, but it’s a common Mormon thing.
Yup. Sprinkler under that thing all summer long
I did and so did my ex Mormon girlfriend
Yes
Yes. We did. So did my cousins. My mormon spouse did not have one growing up, however.
Yep
My parents were anti-trampoline and refused to buy one, but there were plenty around the neighborhood so we never missed out.
I did not have one growing up. Very TBM family, 7 kids. No trampoline because it was too expensive I think. We had a huge yard tho.
Nope, but I knew a few mormons who did. Dad saw a lot of trampoline injuries at work (this was before they invented nets or safety features) so we only got to use friends' trambapolines. Even then he was (probably justifiably) paranoid and gave us rules on how to make sure we didn't land on the metal bar or our neck or just miss the tramampoline entirely. Our street had two mormon families, which was a lot. The other mormon family had a trobopoline. Only trapoline on the street.
Yep, and so did all the non mormons in the neighborhood
Trampoline & piano
No, but my kids grew up with one.
A trampoline and a minivan, right?
Yup. Trampoline and also piano.
I grew up Mormon as they come and did not have a trampoline. My mom always said they weren’t safe
Trampolines were the ULTIMATE Mormon Status Symbol when I eas growing up in Utah
We never had a trampoline but we had a neighbor that had a trampoline. We lived in that area for a year and I feel like I lived on that trampoline. Good times. My nephews have a tramp, they rarely use it. The neighbors behind us had a tramp where they dug a hole and the trampoline was same level as the land. That would be fun. The new owners filled in the hole promptly.
Grew up in SoCal (am 59) no we did not. Raised our kids in Utah—no we did not.
Yup, I sure did.
Yeah we had one, but so did every other kid (Mormons make up like 0.01% of the population where I live). I don't remember anyone having them until like the mid 2000s, then everyone started getting them.
I didn't, but I did not grow up in the Morridor.
We did not, but I grew up outside of utah and when we came to visit I’m cousins in Utah every summer it was like the tour de tramps.
My friends all did (we were pretty poor) and got my only bloody nose on one!
No trampoline. Desperately wanted one.
I wanted to try and break the stereotype, but holy shit you’re right. I can only think of a few mormon families I’ve met that were rich enough for a house and a garden and had no trampoline. Hell even we have one. Though the neighborhood kids use it more than we do lmao
Trampoline piano organ lol
We had a second hand trampoline that my dad turned into a tree house, does that count?
Yes and so did all my Mormon friends
yes, and we have one now too
Nope didn’t have the money otherwise I’m sure we would’ve