Things Midwest Kids Grew Up With 

"It teaches us to lower our expectations” 10000% truth

Proper Midwest parents design the Halloween costumes to fit over the snowsuit

I STILL have an old yellow blue bonnet margarine bowl that's over 30 years old that we use as a cereal bowl 😂

Don't forget a bag full of bags.

Growing up, the cool whip containers were in the garage on the tool bench holding random nuts, bolts, screws, and reused nails

I was born in south Alabama. If you think the butter container has butter in it, you’re wrong virtually every single time.

The puke bucket brought back so many memories! 😂

We don't call them "hot dishes" here in my part of Iowa. We call them "casseroles."

My husband was excited to see a Sweet Martha's cookie container in the fridge, only to be massively let down when he discovered left-over broccoli in it. 😀

My mom always made my costume so my winter jacket could fit underneath it. The 91 blizzard was the only time I wore my coat over my costume. My dad and I went home 4 times for more clothes. I started the night in a hoodie and jeans and ended it in boots, snowpants, winter jacket, 2 sweat shirts, stocking cap, and mittens. Still my most favorite haloween ever. Plus, school was canceled the next day, which made it super amazing.

1000% agree, a Midwest childhood is the best childhood!!!

Roller skating in the basement was definitely one of my favorite memories of my 80s midwest childhood!❤️

I grew up in the Midwest and we never went to Mt. Rushmore or the Wisconsin Dells. However, we did go many times to Cedar Point as well as sea world in Ohio.

Yes the spagetti stains in the container 😂

We always threw up into the left over ice cream buckets lol, and showering in the unfinished basement!

Midwest childhood BEFORE cell phones, social media, internet even is what it's all about. 80s and 90s FTW!

Last month I was given Snickers salad in a Cool Whip container to take home from a get-together. Gotta love Wisconsin grandmas. The "salad" table at potlucks is always half-filled with sweet things chopped up and mixed with Cool Whip.

I am from Wisconsin and I approve this message!

We had an unfinished basement and would roller skate all day long - steel skates with leather straps, concrete floors, steel support poles, ping pong table, workbench, thick 2x4 wooden shelves, etc., it is a wonder any of us survived. Then my parents got it 3/4 finished (1/4 was unfinished backroom with W&D, cast iron sink, work bench, water softener, half finished toilet and shower), carpet without padding, fake wood paneling, 2x4 fiberglass ceiling tiles, can lights, and pool table. Hide and seek became the new pastime. Spent hours upon hours with my brother and sister - love them dearly.

BLIZZARD OF 91 GANG

As someone born and raised in Wisconsin - this is 100% correct.

From Minnesota and 100% did EVERYTHING you talk about

1. It's a casserole 2. They're scotcheroos I'd fight to the death over the first one.

Michigan here, Miles described the good ol days to the T

The only recipe you need is "this will probably taste good together".

The halloween one hits hard

We always had rice Krispies My mom's big thing is using zip loc bags for like 5-10 years and washing them over and over. I told her we would bury her with her collection someday.

The unfinished basement! 😂

My brother and I ate cereal out of those emptied butter and Cool Whip containers. Those "bowls" were only thrown out after they'd eventually crack and fail to retain milk.

Oh my gosh my boyfriend grew up in California and I told him about how jealous I was of kids who lived in California or Florida because here in Michigan it was either you wear your costume over your coat or yes wore it under your coat 😂😂

The butter containers 😂 specifically country crock

As a 42 year old male from Winnipeg MB, this hit home hard!

I'm a born & raised Minnesotan and this video is very true.

@youbetcha…. I hope you and your families are all ok after the outbreak yesterday. God be with the people of Iowa and Nebraska!!!! 🌪️💔 was one of the most incredible things Ive ever seen.

My Canadian childhood sure had a lot in common with your Midwestern one. 👍

My goodness, that ending "I turned out fine" is peak MN parent/grandparent

The ping-pong table is so true haha spot on as usual Miles😅

Floor hockey, Nerf wars and PS1 in our Michigan basement......take me back

My grandfather owned Arrow Plastics for decades, the maker of the "puke bowl" you have... LMAO. Let me know if you need a care package with extras! I have the hook up.

I love the popcorn-vomit bucket

I'm from the Detroit area but my dad is a Yooper so our vacations were either long drives up there to visit my grandparents, or camping. 😁

What else are you supposed to do with empty food containers, put them in the recycling? Blasphemy 😂

So I thought the midwest side dish was green jello mold with shaved carrots on a bed of lettuce. Ever church function had at least 5 growing up.

Took me three tries to find the butter at Mom's house the other day. Not bad considering I had 7 choices of butter tubs to choose from.

Man. That Halloween weather still makes me sad to think about.

You gotta get an extra big Halloween costume to go OVER the coat and snow pants

After I met my wife, I learned to line your puke bowl with a plastic bag or two. That way, it's not "quite" as gross when you're eating pasta salad out of it next week. Blew my mind

You'd think that growing up here and experiencing all those halloweens would have taught me to buy my kids a size larger costume, but to no avail.

That's pretty much spot on. Our MN unfinished basement was awesome. We played soccer indoors during the winter for decades and I remember my road trip to the Dells fondly.

Being from Montana we would have our Halloween costumes 2 to 3 times the size just because we could where the winter gear under the costumes

3:35 this was my parents basement. It was unfinished and had a toilet in the middle of it. Right above it was the hole in the upstairs linen closet where they would drop dirty clothes. So if you were sitting on the toilet and they opened the door they could see you 😂 In one section we had an old area rug with an old living room set with an old 70’s console tv. On the right side was a 8 track under the lid and the left had a record player. If we weren’t playing a video game we were watching mtv videos. I spent most of the 80’s down there with my friends.

You forgot two road trip spots that pretty much every Midwestern goes to Mall of America and Valley fair

Basement at my house had a poker table, a full kitchen(with cabinets) because my house was constantly under “construction,” a water bed(used for folding clothes on,) the washer and dryer, and a make shift roller rink obstacle course(for rainy days and the long Midwest winters.) Naturally mold and mildew smell, and the classic urinal that is the ejector pit. Can’t wait to teach my boys that last one.

Don’t remember snicker salad but everything else is spot on

Those nights where you and the friends go in the basement and clear out a spot to do whatever shenanigans we had planned.. memories

Rhode Island here. That Snickers situation sounds scrumptious.

northern indiana here, that halloween one hit on such a personal level lol

It was usually the gallon ice cream buckets my dad still insists on saving to this day that was the upchuck bucket. Although there were definitely a few times the popcorn bowl got used 😂 why lol why are we like this 😭

This is completely accurate 😅 -Our do it all bowls were the big ice cream tubs -Asside from the regular pilgrimage to Florida, our big family trip was to the Grand Canyon. 25 hours from central Indiana to Arizona in the back of a Chevy Silverado with my two siblings made a man out of me. -Our basement had a model train set and the fun activity to do was to look in the bottom of the chimney shoot to see if there was a dead bird in there.

I can still feel the wind, snow, cold sleet that came down every Halloween. It goes right through ya and the memory is forever.

Grew up in Wisconsin and still here. My dad would save Dannon yogurt cups for regular drinking cups. 🙄

Dude, your weight loss is awesome. Great job!

Dude had a midwesterner give me scotcheroos and now i make them every year for my birthday. Im just now realizing im a grown ass man i can make scotcheroos whenever the hell i want them.... im going to the store for beer and scotcheroo ingredients!

whenever the bowl wasn't used for puke or measuring it was 24/7 used as a fruit bowl. I remember the fruit laying strewn across the counter because we finally bothered to make a cake or one of my siblings bothered with the cake threw it up. lol

Oh hell yeah Scotcheroos

Family vacations - 10-hour drive to the Northwoods, and watching the Min-Aqua-Bats!

So true😂 I think my mom still has most of those same cool whip containers! She'd always bring in those huge ice cream buckets to put next to your bed if you were puking. Lol. And yes, I can't count the many times traveling to Wisconsin Dells, Mt Rushmore, out west. Never planes. Midwest kids traveled by road trips only. 😂

We called them toffee bars, is that okay? And we were about 3 hours from the Dells if you took 94/90 but my dad took the county highways so it took for-frickin-EVER.

As an Iowan, we have officially done the Mt. Rushmore and Wisconsin Dells vacations. Will be going to the Dells this summer, hopefully....after we already went on Spring Break. It's a great place, what can I say?

Grew up in the very most mid-west place of Kansas. We vacationed in Roaring River to fish every year despite there being five daughters. Right on target about Scotcheroos and reusing butter tubs. But the red vomit bucket is new-/you know how I know? We bought this same one at dollar tree last year. And yes wasn’t need to back to being a mixing bowl.

Any child hood in the 50's, 60's and 70's was great in the USA!

I had cousins in Kenosha, so even though I grew up in California, I still experienced most of these a time or two.

You could exchange Midwest for Pacific Northwest here and everything would be just as accurate, except trick or treating because here you also needed am umbrella as well as a winter coat!

Northeast New England can relate. Rhode Island native here

You could not have described my childhood any better. Scotcharoos are gluten-free and dairy-free! I became that aunt who now brings them to every family holiday 😂

My puke bowl, whenever my mom thought I was going to puke, she brought it up. When we had popcorn she gave me same bowl. I don't know where that bowl went but I miss it.

Puke bowl is the mixing bowl.....1000% true.

Never been more accurate

This really made my day better 😄So relatable and funny! Thank you 😃

The mixing bowl for vomit too… ALSO the trick or treat candy bowl!

We also use containers for left overs in Australia! It's always a lucky dip what you're gonna find in my Mum's fridge!!

Those kids that got to go to Wisconsin Dells sure were lucky. The only place we went to for vacation was Duluth. Not that there’s anything wrong with Duluth. I love going there, but it sure would have been nice to go somewhere else at least once.

I rollerskated in our MN basement! It was great. If there's peanut allergy friends coming to your party you can be nice and make Special K bars with Tahini and sprinkle sesame seeds on top so everyone can tell the peanut from the sesame flavored bars.

I felt that "depends on who you ask" bit...

OMG! I grew up in MN, so a jacket on Halloween, YES! Saving plastic tubs, I still do that. My dad was a biker, and we took a couple road trips with the family to Sturgis, because he never missed the rally. I have pictures at Mount Rushmore as a kid 😂😂😂.

I’m old and I’ve lived in Detroit nearly my whole life, and yes, the love of containers is 100% real. It hurts my soul to put a container in the recycle bin.

This is so true. Love it!

The containers is a southern thing also.

The second I saw the red bowl, I was like, PUKE BOWL!!!

Nothing beats spending thanksgiving day in an indoor water park and having pizza for supper

The Halloween one was too real

2:26 The license plate game and the horse game were also prevalent.

Hell yeah growing up in Texas my mom used butter containers for everything from leftover gumbo to baked chicken

Yup. Wisconson Dells and ALL the rest of it!

Yes!! The basement! Dead on!

I’m not even from the midwest but I’m always watching these videos 😂

NE Ohio here. All same except for vacation destinations. Hilton Head or the outer banks. I’ve never lived in a house that didn’t have a terlit in the middle of the basement with no walls around it.

I swear he knows everything

Yes! grew up in Louisville, Ky (pronounced looeyville for those not from round there) and K-bars were a coveted dessert.

It’s not a bowl, it’s a reused ice cream pail!! Reduce, reuse, and recycle, Amiright!