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Childhood present spinoff: what did you want that your parents wouldn't buy you?
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Anonymous
| Whirled Peas. |
Anonymous
You know who else like big, black German Warmbloods ? That's right... |
Anonymous
| Girbaud jeans. |
Anonymous
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A businesswoman kit (toy briefcase, cellphone, beeper, etc.)
I asked for it year after year and never got it. |
Anonymous
This made me laugh, and then cry a little, because I got the exact same BS from my parents. They wouldn't let me have coloring books, because in the 70s, we were supposed to be discouraged from "coloring inside the lines". I just had a roll of butcher paper, and whatever assortment of blobby pens, highlighters, and half-crayons my mother could scrounge up. |
Anonymous
How old are you? People weren't using cell phones until I was in at least college, and it was way later until they were widespread enough to be a toy. And I'm not that old. |
Anonymous
In my 20s. I don't remember clearly if there was a cellphone or not, but I think there was. |
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For years I wanted an American Girl doll, back when there were only 3 (and even $100 then). There was a a family across the street with 3 girls and they had one of each. I begged for it every year and each year my mom would try to give me a cheap baby doll disappointing me to no end. Then after about 4 years of asking for it, she got me one and I was honestly too old for it, which almost makes me more mad. Why not have spent the money the first Christmas and given me 4 years of joy?!
Power wheels, skip-it and a cat. My mom was allergic to cats so instead she bought me cat things. My room was basically decorated like a crazy cat lady's house minus real live cats. Cat rugs, cat pictures, cat books, blankets, etc... |
Anonymous
| a puppy...now I have four! |
Anonymous
| Thank you to the PP that mentioned the Barbie Fashion Plates -- I had totally forgotten about those and ADORED them. I wonder if they are still in my parent's house somewhere.... |
Anonymous
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Barbie doll (my parents were anit barbie)
Cabbage Patch Doll (too expensive) Rainbow Bright Doll (who knows why. . .) Actually, my parents never got us any "popular" toy so we quit asking. One awesome gift that I DID get and asked for was a camera when I was 9. My dad was a photographer and got his first camera (a Kodak Brownie) when he was 12 so it was totally his doing  I'm sure my mom didn't want to spend the money - she never does. . .
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Anonymous
| No cabbage patch doll for me either. Although my younger sister got one two years later -- of course! |
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I got an Easy Bake Oven! I used up all the mixes and fed them to my brother, then put it back in the box and up in my closet............ where it still sits, 20+ years later, probably with the light bulb from 198whatever still in it.
Things that I wanted and didn't get? A miniature doll house: Instead Santa bought me a Barbie Dream House. Super Star Wars for Super Nintendo: Instead Santa gave me Star Fox. I guess he figured they both had Star in the title so it was good enough. The best part? Santa ended up playing Star Fox more than I did. |
Anonymous
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Well I had the fashion plates, but I would have traded them for the Snoopy Sno-Kone Maker in a heartbeat.
Did ya'll have the Sears (I think?) Wishbook catalog? I would spend HOURS poring over that thing and circling the things I wanted. |
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I don't remember a Sears catalog, but I remember the JC Penney catalog. I would flip from page to page and write down what I wanted.
I'd forgotten about Cabbage Patch Kids! I wanted one, too, and instead I got a "Cabbage Patch Kid" that my grandmother's neighbor had made for me. I was so disappointed...her face was cloth instead of plastic. It was so big, it could wear my old baby clothes. I named it Elizabeth Anne and it's still in my old room at my parents' house. |