To have bought myself.........

[Seeleyboo]

50 years old, and i bought a Sindy house.
I was desperate for a Sindy house as a child and never had one. I saw an immaculate one on Ebay with every wonder you can imagine inside it.
Oh, the joy of the tiny salt and pepper. The detail in the teeny knives, etc.
What toy were you desperate for, and did you ever get it.

I wanted one of them little slushie makers that was always advertised on tv and a Raleigh chopper.

When I was six, I longed for a Sindy house, but my dad was appalled at the price—so he made me one. With wallpaper and carpets just like our house. I loved it so much. I don’t have children, so a few years ago I gave it to my friend’s little girl. It’s amazing playing with it with her. Look at the hostess trolley! I think you can find them on eBay?

That’s amazing Sproutlady.

Mine should have a lift but it never worked well so I didn’t attach it when I set it up again for DD.

That's awesome!

I had a Mobo rocking horse - the one with springs that would trap your fingers. I passed it on to my much younger cousins who kept it outside and it rusted then got flattened by a car reversing up the drive. When I was 35 DH bought me one for Christmas. My kids loved it. When I was expecting my 5th baby I had everything I needed left over from previous pregnancies. My aunt and uncle and my parents clubbed together and bought a massive Mamas and Papas rocking horse with wooden rockers. It belongs to my youngest but of course lives in our house! I still hanker for a dapple grey wooden horse though!

I collect vintage bears and soft toys but one buy last year brought me to tears. When I was 6 my DF who had been away in Hong Kong with work brought me an amazing toy dog. It was about the size of a chihuahua, possibly a bit bigger, and was startlingly realistic. I loved it so much. When I was approaching my teens my DM cleared my room and the dog went into a box in the shed. Sadly it was attacked by moths/mice and had to be thrown away. Then, last summer, I saw an almost identical dog on Ebay and had to have it. When it arrived it looked, felt and even had the same smell as my "Patch". It was like having a bit of my dad back again.

I adored my Simon, I played with it endlessly. I had a PacMan as well.

Awwww that's so awesome! That's just the sort of thing I'd love to do but wouldn't ever do, so I'm 'proud' of you OP (for want of a better, less patronising term!)

Enjoy it! 🌸

My daughter is getting rid of hers. You can have it if you want.

I had that dining table and a sideboard with silver cutlery.

You could save Sindy love heart tokens to get free items like Sindy's friend June. I did this. It seemed to take months to arrive.

I loved my Sindy doll. Had her bf Paul, little sister Patch and best friend Mitzi from France. Had the red sports car also. Loved Sindy so much I named my dog after, she's now 8.

Probably outing my location but my dad worked in the factory that made SIndy and every time anything new came on the line all the workers were given one so I had everything the dream house, a car, a little apartment that opened up. Plus he would often bring home extra furniture.
I was living my best 7 year old life!

sounds perfect! We had a Sindy hospital which I loved as a child. What I always wanted though was He-Man figure’s especially Skeletor.

A horse and now i have two :)

Yes! Me and my sisters have some of these. I’ve still got my two.

For some reason I wanted a Lego petrol station. God knows why!

My parents weren’t buying into stereotypes for boys and girls, but they bought me a Lego castle instead. For some reason I really wanted that petrol station 😂😂 Which may well shave been cheaper!

So I guess the moral is that kids want what they want even if it makes no sense

I really wanted a chopper bike like my dbro, never got one, but as an adult I have motorbikes.
Also wanted sticker books got loads now.
And years ago DH bought me one of those dogs that bark and do a somersault because I kept going on about how much I wanted one as a child.

Toys I never got....

Girls World ( not at all interested in make up -ever)

Cadbury 2p choc dispenser

Mr Frosty - have heard others say its rubbish

Mousetrap- mam said it would take to long to setup so I was 25+ when I realised setting it up WAS the game!

Etcha sketch -with the maze insert!

Dragster - where you flicked a ball bearing round a course , which would push your cars down the course to win.

Now singing 'the get-along gang, get along!' Classic!

My mum tipped my Victorian Playmobil Mansion (with an extra storey). It was worth a lot. Still fuming. I had wanted to restore it.

As for PP mentioning Mr Frosty, I bought one as an Xmas present for DD a couple of years ago. It broke internally the first time we tried to use it 🤬
It worked great back in the 90s!

Nintendo Gameboy. And yes I got one. And I still have it.

My Pippa doll had the most fantastic purple flares - I wrote to Jim'll Fix It asking him to fix it for me to have the same outfit

He didn't reply! (Luckily!)

I’ve been browsing eBay for all of my old favourites..

MLP stable
Poochie
Secret Keypers
Glow worm
Care Bears
Cabbage Patch Kid
Fold up post office

I used to have a little round compact with a jewel in the middle and when you opened it, the arms and legs popped out. Any ideas what they were called?

I really wanted the Sindy boutique. It was £35 in the Argos catalogue in 1987ish. There were clothes rails and tiny plastic carrier bags.

Mr Frosty never worked!!

I had a Simon as well as a Munchman (my parents got that instead of Pac-Man as it was cheaper); my brother had a silver Space Invaders electronic game and, when I was in my late 20’s or early 30’s, I found them in the cupboard at my parents house. Munchman still worked and I kept it going for a few years before it disappeared (I think my brother took it!). I also, over the years had Speak & Spell, My Little Professor and another ‘educational’ electronic game thing (can’t for the life of me remember what it was!) as they were allowed because you could learn with them!

Like so many others, I wanted Mr Frosty but my parents wouldn’t buy it despite going on my Christmas list for years - so glad now when I hear how crap it was!!

As an adult in my late 20’s, I bought all the Chalet School books published by Armada, in an attempt to relive my childhood. They were still available in Waterstones and WHSmith then and, each month, I would buy 1-2 titles. Later on my brother chucked out the box that they were in not realising they had been my precious stash. So, now I’m in my 50’s and I’m slowly
collecting them all again - I started
off with the Armada paperbacks again but, this time, I’m aiming to get all the unabridged titles so am buying the original 1950’s/60’s Chamber hardbacks and the reprints by GGBP. I think I’m probably 1/2 way there but have to be careful as, instead of paying £2-£5 per book for the Armada collection (except some of the rarer titles that cost up to £25 each), you can end up paying £50-60 for the original Chambers hardbacks even in poor condition😱

Not a toy but I desperately wanted a birthday cake with my name on in icing like everyone else got. I was 42 when I finally got one.