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?

WTF is Mr Frosty?

Heads off to Google...

Riding lessons
Someone to give my lovely DF a job after he was made redundant.

Outdoor Fireworks

Ballet lessons- I really really wanted them!! Thankfully my DD loves her ballet class

Oh.

Channel 5!

Mr Frosty and a speak and spell. My mum said it speak and spell would have been too easy for me, but I didn’t care I really wanted one.

A my little pony stable - poor applejack

A VCR player. I don't think we were particularly bothered.

Pretty girlie shoes. My feet were always too big.

Sweets - my mum was determined to save our teeth. Grateful for that now but at the time not so chuffed.

Mr Frosty
My Little Pony
Barbie or Sindy
Magic Key shoes from Clarkes. I had to have a special corrective heel in my shoes as a kid so could only wear Start Right T bar sandals.
As a tween a branded shell suit, I had a no make one from Littlewoods
Ditto branded trainers, mine were knock offs from the market
Finally a Game Boy

Timely thread. I was only telling my children today how we never got Happy Meals. We still, very occasionally, went to McDonald's, but it was always for cheeseburger and fries, never a happy meal. It wasn't a cost thing. In fact I still don't know what it was. My kids get the plastic tat happy meal when we treat them to McDonald's.

I remember really really wanting an A La Carte kitchen because the little girl in the advert cooked real baked beans in her saucepan, and I thought I'd be able to do that too

I also wanted my own pony and couldn't understand why dm always said no. We also didn't have either a Sega or a Nintendo, whereas all my friends had one or the other.

A play doh fuzzy pumper barber shop. I really really wanted one of those but never got one, second on my list was a cabbage patch doll (specifically a bald one). Never got one of those either as my mum said I was too old, which I probably was to be fair i was 18

Dance lessons (thanks to my mother trying to prove a point with the local dance school )
Piano lessons (lots of promises no delivery)
Gymnastics classes

Central heating. I know a few of us on this thread were in the same boat. I used to strip wash in the sink before bed then I'd have my school uniform by my bed so I could get dressed under the covers in the morning. Brrr

I didn’t need very much as a kid. I loved my Barbies, and I had a trampoline once I turned nine, but are used to come up with some great games on my own. I don’t usually get bored, even now, it’s the same way. I’ve always been able to entertain myself. I will say though, I grew up in Florida and lived in some very back water type areas. I am severely visually impaired, and I was able to ride a bicycle on the main roads, there were no cars and it was great. There were also rattlesnakes and alligators and huge bugs, but who cared? Not me ha ha Ha. I loved gymnastics and less I put my hand or foot on some giant cockroach the size of your dinner table, I really didn’t mind.

I don’t know, I really can’t think of anything.

@LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood - i too wasn't allowed barbies had to have Sindy! Wasn't fussed - i was a strange child. I cut all their hair and coloured their lips blue and pretended the had bubonic plague

A horse - i wanted a horse. Never got one

A car
Central heating
Siblings

Pierced ears. All my friends had it done, but my dad wouldn't let me until I was 16!

Central heating (we had open fires downstairs and nothing upstairs)
Findus crispy pancakes. Still haven't eaten one because I'm sure the dream won't live up to the reality.

I wasn’t allowed a barbie either or allowed to watch Eastenders.
Wasn’t bothered about Barbie, even as a small child I could see she was ridiculous and I thought the girls who played with her her a bit sad really. I did really want to watch Eastenders though as I felt left out at school with everyone talking about it.
Now as a grown up with my own primary age child, I won’t let her watch it either. It’s bloody awful and I don’t want her thinking that is how people live or an acceptable way to behave. DH and I always laugh and say if we lived in Albert Square there is no one we would be friends with.
Corrie on the other hand. I can well imagine sharing a pint and a hot pot with Fizz and Tyrone and getting Amy hair cut in Audrey’s salon 😁

Mr Frosty.

I was SO desperate for one!

OP your post has just about broken my heart! I had a tamagotchi (sorry to rub it in) called a nano pet. And our teacher used to bring her daughter's into school with her to keep it alive!

This monstrosity

My real Dad
A smidgen of affection or encouragement
A bike
A birthday party

In about that order.