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Things from your childhood you are still salty over?

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MyCheeryPearlTraybake · 25/05/2025 15:29

Not winning a running race

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skyeisthelimit · 28/05/2025 13:23

definitely not getting Mr Frosty Grin
my mum said it was a waste of money Sad

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 28/05/2025 14:04

yeesh · 25/05/2025 15:35

Not getting a mr frosty ☃️

Believe me, you didn’t miss much

SantiagoShaming · 28/05/2025 14:13

All of mine are entitled but seeing as this is in good fun:

Being the only one of my friends not to go to the Take That concert last year of Juniors.

Being the only one out of my friend group who wasn’t allowed to go horse riding.

Giving my best friend one of my favourite things from my toy box for her birthday and her chucking it back at me in disgust because she knew it wasn’t new.

Now I know it’s because DM bought the house she could afford in the best area so I could go to a better school but it did mean I was socioeconomically different to my peers, which was tough at the time when you don’t understand it.

UnctuousUnicorns · 28/05/2025 14:35

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 28/05/2025 14:04

Believe me, you didn’t miss much

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Yep!

PollyCreo · 28/05/2025 17:04

My parents never bought me Easter eggs (grandparents did) because they were bad value - they preferred to give me and my brother big bars of Dairy Milk. I just wanted the big Easter Eggs FFS 😭😡

Deathraystare · 29/05/2025 09:05

ThePussy · 27/05/2025 11:48

I won a short story competition when I was 11. Was very excited, told my Mum, and she said “Don’t boast, no-one’s interested.” This was a bit of a childhood theme, being told not to boast and not to show off. Our neighbour said to my Mum “But you should celebrate, she’s done really well.” My Mum just said “I don’t want her getting too big for her boots.”

Oh, and was constantly being told I should be more like my extrovert, exhibitionist cousin. Until the day she died, my Mum always described my cousin as “the daughter she never had.”

How bloody appalling! Most mums would take the opportunity to brag about their kids achievements. God knows if I had any Mum would have done so!!!!

Deathraystare · 29/05/2025 09:11

Comedycook · 26/05/2025 10:47

What is it with all the mums who didn't let their daughters have long hair? I wasn't allowed it because my hair was thick and wavy/frizzy... actually having it long would have helped I think, some weight in it would have made it look better...instead I had it short like a boy and then shoulder length with stupid layers. I've been growing out these sodding layers for over thirty years FFS. I suspect my mum thought long hair was tacky looking.

I used to get cross at having short hair but I guess the upkeep is easier. I think it was very much in. I seem to remember having a style like Cilla Black I think. Of course as I got older I wanted long hair.. I remember looking at a photo of my lovely wavy hair on my 21st and a few years back grew my hair long again. My hair was a luxuriant dry, frizzy rats nest! I have a shorter bob now but really could do with it being a bit shorter and more shaped (like my hair as a young girl - you were right, Mum!).

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