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Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

What Was Your Favorite Toy as a Kid?

Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

Barbies and dolls. And I never got the memo that Barbie gave you body images.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

See, I was a tomboy. I had Evil Knievel and his van!

Fort Worth Mom · Mod/Penguin lover/Princess!

My bike.

I liked my Barbies.

But, I loved riding my bike. smile

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

I never played with a Barbie. I liked plastic toy animals. I was more of an "animal" kid.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

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Nobody Just Nobody · Rib-it! Rrrib-it!

I also played with lego's and matchbox cars because I had nasty old BROTHERS!

Lexxy · My dog name is Sasha, too!

My first favorite toy when I was really young was a stuffed blue rabbit I creatively named Bunny Blue. I loved that animal. Being the 70s the ears were made of some coat hanger like metal & I caught him on fire when I stuck one of his ears in an outlet. My neighbor found me walking down the road pretty far from home. I was taking him to the hospital.

Later I liked Barbies, the Barbie head that you put makeup on, etch a sketch, Spirograph, light bright (my brother's), Simon, bike.......

Divine Geek · Guru

I had all the Volron stuff. I even had two castles. I got one from Santa and my Aunt & Uncle got me one for my birthday. Being a few days apart, I ended up with two.

Then when I was a little older, my sister and I were all about our Nintendo. Super Mario Brothers. Tetris. Legend of Zelda. We spent hours playing those games. They were da bomb

burns07 · Guru

Tonka trucks--the serious metal ones--had a whole slough of them--dumptrucks, tanktrucks, pickups, cementmixer trucks, etc.

still have them--they're damn near indestructible

JPT · Senior Member

It was a toss up between my toy weaving loom and my Shirley Temple doll

jlbear71 · Guru

Whatever toy my older brother had!

We did not have too may toys. Those that we had, we played hard with so most did not last.

We played outside a lot. I was not a big fan of dolls but I had some to play with some neighbors and cousins. Tonka trucks, matchbox cars, rope swing, bicycles, tree fort, cap guns (paper strips and the plastic circle kind).

Parents also had a permanent campsite. Fishing and hiking were often on the daily agenda for DB and me and other friends from the campground. Monopoly or other games at night. Campfires.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

I loved my dolls.

But I would use the old cardboard boxes from the coca-cola company and make my own doll houses.

I loved my kitchen set too.

Lady Gaga Snerd · Guru

I never liked dolls.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

It looked like that. The sink really worked too. And I had a kitchen table set to match.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:
I never liked dolls.

I saw that up thread.

I played outside a lot too.

I had lots of space to ride bikes, run, and play.

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

I almost forgot my peddle car.

It was a white open top race car.

I have a picture around here somewhere.

Lindley · Guru

I loved my barbies, roller skates, paper dolls and my bike.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

Books

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

Mellow Momma wrote:
Books

When I was a kid, the nearest library had a limit of SIX books per check out.

Mom would not take me often enough...

flan

Lawyerlady · On the bright side...... Christmas is coming! (Mod)

Mellow Momma wrote:
Books

Yep.

Mellow Momma · Sniff...sniff, sniff. Yay! A Bum!

flan327 wrote:
Mellow Momma wrote:
Books

When I was a kid, the nearest library had a limit of SIX books per check out.
Mom would not take me often enough...
flan

Once in the summer, I spent the whole day engrossed in a book. My mom made me go outside, saying it wasn't right to spend a summer day indoors reading. I took the book, climbed a tree, and read the book up in the tree. When my dad got home from work I was up there reading and he asked my why. I think they had a good "discussion" about it that night. Pretty sure Dad won, as Mom never made me put down a book to go outside again.

flan327 · Itty bitty's Grammy

The funny thing is, I do not remember Mom ever reading to me.

flan

lilyofcourse · My spirit animal is a pink flamingo.

Our library was too far away To go weekly.

We bought books when we went to town.

A book was never refused. We would come home from school and find books in our room. Mom and dad bought books that were delivered to the house.

I am the same. Books were and are always welcome.

Probably why I have so many gathering dust.

JPT · Senior Member

I remember how popular you were if you still had a skate key...

We did play a lot outside, group games mostly. Heck in summer, we'd be out the door after breakfast, wherever we were at lunch time, the mom would poke a sack of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out the door, and if she was in good mood, a pitcher of Koolaid with dixie cups. Otherwise, we drank out of the hose.

I had lots of books, plus the bookmobile came to our school once a week. I would climb up the big maple behind our house, where the branches made a really good seat and read.