What are the things you really wanted as a child?

freshpopcorn · 14-11-2019 7:12pm #1

One are these Simpsons fridge magnets!
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I was also sort of craved having a strong father figure for some reason.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-11-2019 7:14pm

I always wanted an electric train set but it was never to be.

I survived though and think I'm over the disappointment.

ceadaoin. · 14-11-2019 7:16pm

A Mr. Frosty. I always asked for one but never got it:(

LirW · 14-11-2019 7:22pm

I always wanted to go to Disneyland Paris. Growing up with the VHS they had their propaganda videos on it and I was obsessed with it!

And you know what happened? My granny, the horrible bint she is didn't say no, you know, like normal people would, nope. She went all out to tell us in detail, me aged around 6, on how she went and how awful and overpriced it was.
Even though she was probably right, that still sticks with me and I just wanna go there now as an adult out of spite to have a great time because she was wrong and my dreams were right

Wibbs · 14-11-2019 7:26pm

dmc17 · 14-11-2019 7:29pm

One of these things the turtles used to communicate. Imagine being able to talk to and see somebody who was in a different place

JohnnyFlash · 14-11-2019 7:30pm

To see Galway win a hurling AI. Finally got to witness it as a spotty 15 year old in 1980.

Wibbs · 14-11-2019 7:30pm

I wanted the 1970's version of this.

The 70's version had a much longer wire going on though.

Bullocks · 14-11-2019 7:31pm

readyohyeah wrote: »

I wanted to fúck Sabrina the teenage witch.

I wanted her aunt, (the older one).

14-11-2019 7:34pm

Meccano. I was a true tomboy, and my parents indulged most of my desires including guns, airfix etc. Strangely my mother said “but that’s a boy’s toy” over the Meccano request;I think it must have been too expensive at the time, and her toy budget had run out.

14-11-2019 7:38pm

Katherine Long Newcomer wrote: »

I always wanted an electric train set but it was never to be.

I survived though and think I'm over the disappointment.

I got an electric train, with opening doors! However I was disappointed there were no seats in it, so I got dolls house furniture and stuck them in with plasticine, including the toilet. Always wanted a Hornby set, but way beyond my patents’ purse.

RhubarbCrumble · 14-11-2019 7:41pm

ceadaoin. wrote: »

A Mr. Frosty. I always asked for one but never got it:(

Ditto. I wanted a dolls house too but never got one.

GRACKEA · 14-11-2019 7:42pm

I begged for a trampoline every Christmas for about 4 years, obviously envisioning a big one out the back garden. My mam eventually "caved" and got me a little fitness trampoline. Joke was definitely on her when it indirectly caused my eventual eating disorder....

Day Lewin · 14-11-2019 7:42pm

A swimming pool, and I still do.

Trigger Happy · 14-11-2019 7:45pm

I wanted a scalextric set that was big enough to cover the bedroom floor.
Someone else's bedroom though because mine was tiny.

14-11-2019 7:45pm

Hungry hungry hippos. But my sister had it so my mum wouldn't let me get it even though my sister never once!..not once!!.. let me play it.

LuciX · 14-11-2019 7:46pm

Barbie dolls
Go to Disneyland

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-11-2019 7:54pm

a pair of shoes to cover my cold dirty feet

Paddy Cow · 14-11-2019 8:03pm

I wanted Clark's magic Princess shoes for my communion. My mother had 7 kids though, so I didn't get them

maudgonner · 14-11-2019 8:15pm

Poochie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOaUi_a4s94

Never got one. But the spoiled bitch over the road did and used to leave it sitting on her windowsill so I could see it every time I went past. Bet she didn't even play with it. :mad:

14-11-2019 8:29pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I wanted Clark's magic Princess shoes for my communion. My mother had 7 kids though, so I didn't get them

Omg the nostalgia!!!

Oink · 14-11-2019 8:33pm

Katherine Long Newcomer wrote: »

I always wanted an electric train set but it was never to be.

I survived though and think I'm over the disappointment.

I’m not over it. I may get one yet.
Did you read the article about Rod Stewart’s train set? I was green with envy.

Marhay70 · 14-11-2019 8:39pm

Katherine Long Newcomer wrote: »

I always wanted an electric train set but it was never to be.

I survived though and think I'm over the disappointment.

Me too, my older cousin had a great one all laid out on a sheet of plywood with stations, signals, animals etc. I used to play with it when we went to visit and I was promised I could have it when he grew out of it. That was sixty years ago and I'm still waiting. Maybe next year.

BalcombeSt4 · 15-11-2019 12:38am

I was more obsessed with Man United winning the Champions League than Alex Ferguson was. I remember crying my eyes out when they were knocked out of the European Cup semi-finals to Dortmund in May 1997, I also remember crying a fair bit when Belgium beat Ireland in the 1998 World Cup play-offs in November 1997.

Ted_YNWA · 15-11-2019 12:43am

I really wanted to find a secret tunnel growing up.

Too much time spent reading the Famous Five and the likes. With their fancy adventures the whole time. Never did find one.

RMAOK · 15-11-2019 12:46am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

To see Galway win a hurling AI. Finally got to witness it as a spotty 15 year old in 1980.

Same here, but I had to wait until September 2017.

Some things are worth waiting for, I guess.

dartboardio · 15-11-2019 12:47am

A brother or sister!

Only child.. Pretty boring. Although spoiled of course.. But still, would have and still would love a brother or sister

Other than that, a puppy!

Graces7 · 15-11-2019 12:59am

Deleted User wrote: »

I got an electric train, with opening doors! However I was disappointed there were no seats in it, so I got dolls house furniture and stuck them in with plasticine, including the toilet. Always wanted a Hornby set, but way beyond my parents’ purse.

My big brother was into model railways.. The new house had a hall with doors to main room and kitchen . so he laid tracks in a circle.. took over the house. Got away with it too, bless him,!

whodafunk · 15-11-2019 1:03am

A Raleigh Burner BMX

Motherof123 · 15-11-2019 1:04am

I had a MR frosty they weren't great 😂

Graces7 · 15-11-2019 1:04am

books!

My idea of heaven as we only had a visiting library one evening a week was a library that opened every day.

A neighbour's child had a whole bookcase filled with wonderful books. And once when she had a birthday party and I was anticipating a good read, I arrived to find the settee firmly blocking the bookcase and was told " so that you will join i the games and not read all the time." Need an emoticon for tears..

I have not changed; still rarely or never enough books! My heaven was the charity shops and a bagful from there!

Seeds sown in childhood..

Motherof123 · 15-11-2019 1:06am

I really wanted a dolls house I never got one I was promised a cousins one but that never happened !
I have two girls now and they have one each I got great pleasure in buying them for their birthdays!
Their little brother likes to play with them now he loves the little furniture and puts all the little people to bed.

Motherof123 · 15-11-2019 1:07am

I also wanted a chemistry set and got it and when my mother realised it was real glass she said it's broke. And returned it to the shop. I was Devo
She said those tubes were broken I had to return it!

AllForIt · 15-11-2019 1:11am

To get away

Richard Hillman · 15-11-2019 1:15am

Sky Sports. All I ever wanted to do was watch copious amounts of sport on Television. Now I do and I don't have to pay them a penny for it.

jos28 · 15-11-2019 1:37am

I dreamed of getting a 10 colour biro, my dreams came true on a holiday in Ballybunion. Some b1tch robbed it when I went back to school :mad:

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Junkyard Tom · 15-11-2019 1:42am

Military grade Walkie Talkies

Mobile Phones weren't a thing then so the idea of communicating with your friend, who lived a couple of housing estates away, was thrilling.

Cherry Blossom · 15-11-2019 1:52am

I always wanted a worm farm but didnt want to be greedy so asked Santa for an empty jampot. Imagine my disgust when he brought me a doll and pram :pac:

15-11-2019 2:04am

Katherine Long Newcomer wrote: »

I always wanted an electric train set but it was never to be.
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I had one of these but unfortunately the whole house was carpeted so it never worked properly haha.

I wanted a Furby, alas...

What are the things you really wanted as a child?

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