I got spankings. They never used belts or any inanimate objects. It was just their hand on my butt.
With me, it was more of an instantaneous thing. If I was doing something bad, my parents would swat me a few times on the butt and then send me to my room.
If we were in public, they would bring somewhere secluded to give me a spanking. If there was no private place, they would use the infamous line of, "Wait until we get home....".
I never really got spankings for being bad in public or not putting my toys away. I was just scolded and thrown in my room for that. I mostly got spankings for talking back. I had a real defiant streak in me when I was little and I would mouth off to my parents or whoever if I didn't like what they were saying to me. It seems like my parents' spankings didn't end up changing me.
