When I was a kid I wanted but never got ..

RBrigzy
RBrigzy Posts: 152 Member
When I was a kid I wanted but never got the ITT Combat Radio

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In the 1970s I would look into the radio shop window on my way home from school and drool over this!

What did you want but never got as a kid?
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  • Maidofmer
    Maidofmer Posts: 908 Member
    American magees alice.

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    :sad:
  • StripedSmoker
    StripedSmoker Posts: 104 Member
    Ballet and riding classes, lol :) Also I always wanted to see the boars in the woods close to us but never got to see any. There was an old man in the woods whose hobby it was to observe the wildlife there. He told me so much about boars that I still have this weird huge love for them. Oh, and these bad boys:
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  • Faery_Dust
    Faery_Dust Posts: 246 Member
    I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty... they looked so cool..... but it was never to be....

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  • BeccaBollons
    BeccaBollons Posts: 652 Member
    Dance classes, hair crimpers and boobies. And to ride a bike, an ambition finally fulfilled at 30 :)
    Don't think the others are going to happen now!
  • Prettymisssparkles
    Prettymisssparkles Posts: 1,274 Member
    A pony. :sad:

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  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    I wanted a baby elephant when I was six years old, and boy did my dad have a time explaining me that yes of course he loved me, but wanting an elephant is a ridiculous request. I actually still want one, but I am obviously not equipped or qualified to own a pet elephant and realize how crazy that dream is. Lol
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    I really can't think of anything.
  • Athena53
    Athena53 Posts: 717 Member
    I REALLY wanted to go to Europe. I was enchanted when my father went there on business a couple of times. I almost asked him to bring me back a handful of foreign soil. (Yeah, I know- Customs wouldn't allow that.) But it was the 1960s/1970s, we lived in Ohio, I was one of 5 kids, and my parents were saving to put us through college. Europe was not even in the budget, even when a group from my HS went there and rented a camper. (Two teachers, married to each other, chaperoned.) but, I grew up, I got an education and a good job, and I've lost track of how many times I've crossed that Atlantic, both business and vacation. I've joked that I've spent my whole life making up for not going to Europe as a kid. Sometimes when you don't give your kids everything they're motivated to get it themselves.

    I also wanted a makeup station that consisted of a large doll's face, with hair you could style and a bunch of cosmetics you could apply. I was about 10. My mother said heck no. Now I haven't worn makeup for decades- don't like the way it feels on my face, DH thinks I'm fine without it- and my mother keeps trying to encourage me to wear it!
  • Yep me too lol!!! I sooo wanted this and never got, so glad i had kids, they soon got one pmsl!

    I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty... they looked so cool..... but it was never to be....

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  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    I always wanted to break my leg so I could have a cast and crutches.
  • Cal28
    Cal28 Posts: 514 Member
    I desperately wanted a Mr Frosty... they looked so cool..... but it was never to be....
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    Me three!
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    I always wanted to break my leg so I could have a cast and crutches.

    lol, #would sign cast
  • Dauntlessness
    Dauntlessness Posts: 1,489 Member
    Ballet and riding classes, lol :) Also I always wanted to see the boars in the woods close to us but never got to see any. There was an old man in the woods whose hobby it was to observe the wildlife there. He told me so much about boars that I still have this weird huge love for them. Oh, and these bad boys:
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    They are super easy to build. I made some in middle school.
  • RBrigzy
    RBrigzy Posts: 152 Member
    I really can't think of anything.
    Must have been spoilt kid! ;)
  • RBrigzy
    RBrigzy Posts: 152 Member
    A pony. :sad:

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    Poor love I cry with you :sad:
  • miss_jessiejane
    miss_jessiejane Posts: 2,819 Member
    To be a fire engine. Seriously.
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    One of those motorized cars (a Barbie one), a pogo ball (too klutzy for this), and a Popple. I had a mini one, but I wanted a regular-sized one.
  • RBrigzy
    RBrigzy Posts: 152 Member
    To be a fire engine. Seriously.
    To own one?
    Oh I had one - we could have shared toys, sometimes I played with sisters dollies - thank god no one knows me here from the real world!!.
  • Lochlyn_D
    Lochlyn_D Posts: 492 Member
    When I was a kid I prayed every day for a bike, but then I realized god doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
  • RBrigzy
    RBrigzy Posts: 152 Member
    When I was a kid I prayed every day for a bike, but then I realized god doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
    LOL :laugh:
  • latenitelucy
    latenitelucy Posts: 1,314 Member
    When I was 12 I wanted a Rainbow Boa. My step father said no pets of any kind
    My stepmother said no snakes in her house. I then asked for a lizard and she said that was just a snake with legs. :(

    Also, when the movie, Purple Rain, came out my mom said I could see it. Then she went to see it and said that I was no longer allowed. She bought the soundtrack (on vinyl) as a consolation prize... I was mad for months.
  • smesche
    smesche Posts: 234 Member
    A power wheel. The Barbie Jeep to be exact.

    That was the only thing I wanted that I never got. Growing up, my husband wanted a Jeep power wheel as well and never got it. Needless to say, our son now has 2 of them. :laugh:
  • Ivey05131980
    Ivey05131980 Posts: 1,118 Member
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  • WhatAnAss
    WhatAnAss Posts: 1,598 Member
    I wanted an original Nintendo. Never got one until I started working at 15 and bought my own....it was bye bye Atari lol. And to think we thought those graphics were so bad *kitten* back in the day.
  • WhatAnAss
    WhatAnAss Posts: 1,598 Member
    double post
  • nicole060308
    nicole060308 Posts: 13 Member
    i always wanted a horse. typical girl dream...im 28...i still dont have a horse :sad:
  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    N64.
  • ruth3698
    ruth3698 Posts: 305 Member
    Barbies and a Xmas tree! My parents were fundamentalist christians who didn't allow much lol.My bf thinks it's weird when I get so excited for the xmas tree lol.I can't wait for my daughters to be old enough for barbies.
  • caroldot
    caroldot Posts: 388 Member
    The Barbie Dream House & pink Corvette! Instead I had to put my barbies in a shoe and push them around pretending it was a car. My friend had the house so we used hers.