What item from your childhood/youth do you wish you still had?

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Something that maybe got lost in a house move, left behind when you left home, broken, or that you didn't realise how much you loved until years later. Something that when you think about it now fills you with nostalgia.

Mine is the sun/moon face watch (day/night as opposed to a classic moonphase) that my mum bought me for my 16th birthday in 1988. They were such a thing then and I loved them so much. She got it from the catalogue and was still paying for it by my next birthday bless her. DD bought me a version of it for Christmas and I absolutely love it, but I wish I had the original too.

Also my original Magic Faraway Tree books from the 70s.

What's yours?

I fear this may be the case. OK, not for DD who still draws on dolls!

I had a book of fairy tales called Once Upon a Time. It was beautifully illustrated and actually made it to our present house but has now disappeared. I'm a bit gutted. It had stories that were not in the usual books. I definitely keeping My Mother Goose book of nursery rhymes close. Though I need to go through it and do some redacting as some are definitely not pc at all.

My folks got rid of most of my books when they moved during my first year at uni. I was particularly upset about one, given to me when I was maybe 10 by a GF. At the time I was very keen on my aquarium - the book was from the late 1800s, entitled Freshwater Aquaria - written by a country clergyman whose hobby it was, full of his own line drawings of everything you could find in UK ponds and streams, whether they could be safely kept in an aquarium, and if so, how.

Many decades later my lovely dh found the exact same book for me on a 2nd hand book site!

I’m always so surprised that some parents are so unfeeling when binning their children’s childhood stuff! What a DH though eh? 👏🏻

My Star Wars paperback novel from 1977, with the full story and a load of photos from the film in it. I've got quite a few books from my childhood/teens but I have no idea what happened to that one.

On a more sombre note - my parents. Both long gone.

My Beautiful Sunday pencil case and my Victoria Plum stationery.

My 27inch waist

When i moved home for the first time with my other half he left a box of my belongings i asked him to pack .My god i was furious

It had ba ba in it a childhood toy my parents gave me ,my parents are dead and i dont have much left. I know it was just a stuffed elephant but it sucks .I dont have the home i grew up in and i had very few things left

I still have my original Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair hardback books from the early 60s. I saved up to buy them. They still have the non pc named characters so I’m not sure about giving them to my dgc.
I wish I had my dolls. I only have one. She’s worth quite a bit now.

My strawberry shortcake doll and victoria plum gift sets.

Huggy bear. Playdoh barber shop.
View finder. Tree house.

Our family bible. My older sister got given it and her DH threw it away at some point. I'd have loved that bible. It had all of the names of my ancestors in the front with their dates of birth, christening and deaths.