What did you not have growing up?

[littlemisscomper]

That 'everybody else in the world!' had? For me it was a tamagotchi. My mum was afraid of it waking me up at night because she heard you couldn't switch them off. I desperately wanted a 101 dalmatians one. I have a lump in my throat thinking about it now! It felt so lonely to be the only one in the playground without one. I even looped a Christmas cracker keyring over my finger and held it in my hand so I could pretend to myself I was like the others.

What about you guys?

So many of these things are 'possessions' for me growing up I didn't have....

A home with any heating upstairs - in Winter we would wear wooly hat, socks and gloves to bed.
Ain inside toilet - it was in the garden.
Hot water in the bathroom - we had to wash in the kitchen.

And it was only the 1970's!

Baths.
Proper deep bubbly baths. They were deemed wasteful and self
Indulgent. Guess what I do every night now!?

A TV

I used to get an approximation of what I wanted but never the exact version. In the early 70's my friends all had afghan coats, I had a suede coat with a hood. I wanted leather knee high boots with a heel, I got given patent crinkly ones with a low flared heel. I still remember how ridiculous I felt.

Wonder if they ever sold that many Mr Frosties - seem to be lots of people who wanted one & never had one (me too!), although maybe we only remember them because we didn't get one?

I wanted a ra-ra skirt but wasn't allowed, no idea why!

And now they no longer sell Ricicles!

I loved Ricicles. They were indeed twicicles* as nice! For once the advert did not lie.

*The autocorrect and I had a war to the very knife over the word "twicicles". For once, I WON!

MWhahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!

I used to get an approximation of what I wanted but never the exact version. In the early 70's my friends all had afghan coats, I had a suede coat with a hood. I wanted leather knee high boots with a heel, I got given patent crinkly ones with a low flared heel. I still remember how ridiculous I felt.

This was me StaySafe. My parents always insisted that the one they got me was "better" (often it had cost more - but it wasn't what I'd asked for and wanted, and I spent all of my early life feeling crap because I didn't fit in.)

I remember I wanted a duffel coat - everybody had them - you could get about 50 colours. My mother thought they were "common" and spent umpteen times the price on a "smart" mac with detachable lining.

I refused to wear it (my first and pretty much only rebellion). I was told I wouldn't get another coat until it was worn out, and I didn't. For four years I went out in all weathers without a coat. Sometimes I was so cold and wet I cried all the way to school (walked 3 miles to school - just like on Monty Python, but I am real), but I never wore that fucking coat. She gave it away in the end when I was working and BOUGHT MYSELF A COAT I LIKED.

A Cabbage patch kid. Mum didn't let me have one as they were ugly. As an adult, I agreed with her but teased her about how deprived I was because if it until she passed away. It was our in joke.

Oh and a Mr Frosty, an A La Carte Kitchen and that plastic pram shaped like a ladybird.

Like pp, I was another one who always wanted a Mr Frosty and never got one! Ditto Mousetrap.

I did have the big Sindy house though, the one with the lift 

Central heating. We lived in a Victorian house, so it was usually pretty cold, and we just got used to it. To this day, I rarely put the heating on in my house and feel like I'm going to suffocate when I go to stay at MIL's.

Holidays, branded clothes and ready meals/takeaways/McDonalds etc were the ones which really stuck out as a child, when it felt like absolutely everyone around me had them. But, with not much money and four children to look after, there was just no way my parents could afford them. But both parents spent quality time with all of us, we were properly clothed and well fed with home cooked meals. Definitely feel like I got the better end of the deal there.

Sugary cereal wr always got a muslie called "Country Store" (which was actually very nice fyll of nuts and Sultanas etc) or occasionally Cornflakes or Bran Flakes i always wanted those little individual boxes of cereal , too expensivd apparently

I asked for a Stretch armstrong, chopper bike and Mr Frosty every Christmas for at least three years but never got one. I also really wanted a mini fridge for no real reason, I’d have had nothing to put in it!

My DP had a Mr Frosty and said it was shit so I don’t think I missed out on much .

My DC are going to be on here complaining that their parents never bought them Mousetrap .

OP my friend had a tamagotchi and I had to look after it when she went on holiday. As well as her cat. We were both in our thirties!

(She actually wrote to the Guinness Book of Records because her tamagotchi lasted months. Unfortunately she had no evidence of when it had been "hatched")

A TV and a home phone.

Oh, and ABBA The Album; my mum thought Boney M’s Nightflight to Venus would do just as well.

I cried most of Christmas Day.

A chemistry set. I yearned for one and put it on my Christmas list every year. Years later dm said that she and df discussed it but thought it might be dangerous. Who knows? I may have taken the Nobel prize for chemistry had I had a bit of litmus paper (doubt it...).

Dh is very much in the camp of never having been given the right thing . The pil were comfortably off, but if they could get a cheaper version of something, they would. Dh wanted a chopper, but fil bought a second-hand bike from the Co op that was too small for dh so he was trying to ride with his knees up by his chin. Meanwhile mil had a weekly trip to the hairdresser's, lots of jewellery, fur coat etc etc.

I had a chemistry set,

Instead of the much yearned for Spirograph.

I didn't have a Spirograph either! I bought myself one some decades later. It was a bit disappointing.

Sort of unrelated but when it was on tv in the 80s, I thought that girl on the a la Carter kitchen advert was a fucking monster for putting jam Swiss roll with baked beans.

We didn't have central heating, double glazing or a phone BUT all of that pales into insignificance beside the fact that i never got a MR FROSTY! It was all i ever wanted.

I had a Spirograph though.

No Mr Frosty here (dp said is was so shit Outpinked ha ha!)
Spirograph here also you had to have one at the time; later, no good

I was too old for a Mr Frosty but DS had one in the 90s and it was shit. I wanted to buy him a Spirograph but he didn’t want one . DS also had a tamagotchi

I want as a small child the teapot playhouse thing. Classic 80's toy!!

Wanted a Mr Frosty. Always. Got one for DD, and it really is a bit crap.

But it was a pint. Oh lordy, I pined for one. I was horse MAD for years. Still am, really. I just need to win the lottery....

My parents clearly have up lots for us, they weren't that well-off but I had my riding lessons once a week. I remember really wanting to enter shows, to have cream jodhpurs and a proper jacket.....first pair of jodhs I bought were beige.