Comments on: Favourite toys

By: Animal Lover

Animal Lover — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:41:17 +0000

My favorite toy was a stuffed Kola Bear – I received this from friends after our house burned down – Still have it today 30 years later- though it does need to be cleaned

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:48:56 +0000

Brothers! Yeah, selective memories, some of them. But good for him for apologising, even forty years late. I remember a conversation between OH and his brothers, talking about things they’d done to him (he was the youngest). One brother was apologising and cringing for the things he’d done, the other was laughing and not apologising, but justifying himself by saying that it did OH good. No prizes for guessing who the instigator was!

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:08:55 +0000

Yep – we learned pretty quickly!!

My brother doesn’t remember doing that… when I told him (’cause I remember like it was yesterday!), he said “I wouldn’t have done that!” and mom said ‘I’m afraid you DID do that…” … he DID apologize – about 40 years later!!

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:50:29 +0000

Jeni – Ah well, see, I didn’t have a garden till I was ten! Deprived, I tell you! But bedsheets and tents, yep, I loved to do that!
Jeannine – Good grief, I do believe your brother was worse than mine! LOL!
I’ve never heard of the Creepy Crawler sets, sounds FUN! And no, they’d never let them be sold now. But I bet you learned to be careful with hot stuff, huh?

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:06:16 +0000

I loved my stuffed animals & my plastic dinosaurs! I used to think my stuffed animals would come alive at night – I’d set them up very carefully & see if they’d moved any by morning! Which makes what my older brother did even worse!! I came home from somewhere with mom (I was probably 4 or so) and he had HUNG about 6 of them from nooses!!! What a very sick boy!! (PS I like him NOW!)

I also loved my Creepy Crawlers sets – had a very hot cooker part & lots of metal molds. You’d put goop in the molds, heat them to volcano heat in the cooker & pull them out with little metal tongs & put them in a water bath – SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! We burned ourselves about once a week – needless to say, these could NEVER be sold now!!

By: Jeni

Jeni — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:41:21 +0000

@ Coastal Aussie – Mud pies!! Yes. more than any toy, I loved to play in the garden with mud and twigs and beetles and worms. I have to confess to feeding the mud pies to my sister but she would eat anything and still does; we’re cool with it. She got me back when she ‘operated’ on my favourite teddy bear.I still have him and he still has the scars. She drew surprised eyebrows on him too. He’s almost 50 now, very bald and still looks startled.
Making camps with bedsheets and chairs was another fav. I don’t remember having much liking for actual toys though. I loved paint and crayons and also the plastecine. It did get stuck in the carpet though.What else? Oh yeah,I liked making clothes for my dolls and bouncing around on my space-hopper.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:05:11 +0000

Sit’n'spin, Natural? Mmmm – sounds fun!

By: Natural

Natural — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:29:37 +0000

i think my favorite was barbie or something called sit n spin. hmmm. uh er, big wheel.

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By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:49:56 +0000

Neutron – You didn’t like the bakolite building thingy? I loved it! And I loved Lego when my kids had it. I made up for lost time and wasted hours and hours sitting on the floor making models with it.

Aussie – your childhood sounds wonderful! Mud pies! And you were allowed the boys’ toys!! I’m so jealous!

Jenny – Ah, you also had the traumatic loss of a favourite stuffie to deal with. No wonder we get along!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:23:50 +0000

I remember! I rumember …

My fave toy of all the toys I ever had (which really wasn’t very many … we had lots of books) was a stuffed monkey with the white vinyl shoes and the vinyl banana that really went into his mouth. My sister threw it out of the car window onto the freeway one day and I have never been the same. Yes, I still hate her. Later I transferred some of the affection I’d had for the monkey to my homely but adored “iggy” trolls with the beady eyes and wild hair. We built houses for them out of shoeboxes.

I desperately wanted a pony, but Mum said we couldn’t keep a horse on the balcony and no, it wouldn’t like to ride in the lift, so tough luck, kid.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA! I loved that part.

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