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Childhood present spinoff: what did you want that your parents wouldn't buy you?
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Anonymous
| A fluffy, gray kitten. Not a full-grown cat, though, which is probably why I didn't get one. |
Anonymous
| I wanted the lite brite desperately. I've thought about buying it now that it's come back in the stores, but have come around to Santa's way of thinking about little pieces. |
Anonymous
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Atari.
A pinball machine (clearly I had no concept of money). Transformers. I don't know why--my parents are very liberal and encouraged crossing gender stereotypes. I think they didn't like that they were action figures, maybe? |
Anonymous
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A donation to charity.
Ha! Just yanking your chain. No, I also wanted, and never got, an easy bake oven and the snoopy sno-cone maker. Mom said I was "welcome to use the big kitchen", as long as I cleaned up after myself. Uh huh. And the fun in that is where? My folks were also anti-Barbie, and pretty much anything girly. So no makeup, either. |
Anonymous
| Guess jeans. I got Palmettos instead. Horrible. |
Anonymous
| I always wanted a styling head, but I never got it. one year, my mother used an old hot-rollers box to wrap another gift -- when I first opened it, I thought it was the styling head. Oh, the cruelty of it all! |
Anonymous
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Barbie Dream House
Snoopy Sno-Kone Maker One of those big Barbie heads to put makeup on... I guess it was a styling head like PP mentioned. Slime with worms... it came in a green plastic trash can container |
Anonymous
| Yet another foiled Easy Bake Oven recipient. |
Anonymous
| Lite brite and that toy that made swirly pictures and I forget the name. I did eventually get that one though, but only after YEARS of angst. |
Anonymous
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reading these posts makes me realize how lucky I was to have grandparents who didn't care whether my parents didn't want me to have certain things. my grandparents got me whatever I wanted. I had the lite brite, baby alive, easy bake oven. I loved them all!
now if my DC's grandparents did the same for DC, I'd probably go bonkers! |
Anonymous
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The easy bake oven was HORRIBLE. It took 2.5 hours to bake 1 cookie. My best friend had one that exploded on her.
Every year I asked for a cat or a dog. |
Anonymous
Spirograph! http://www.amazon.com/Hasbro-Spirograph-67009/dp/B00000DMD6 |
Anonymous
Was it called a spirograph? |
Anonymous
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You know what I wanted, but never got, and want to get my daughter, but can't find anymore?
Barbie Fashion Plates! Remember those? So easy to use for a 5 year old. The ones they make these days require tracing, which my daughter is not that good at. |
Anonymous
| oooh, remember Shrinky Dinks? My parents got me those, but I can't imagine why. A toy you need to put in the oven to play with? sounds kinda dangerous, eh? |