Kept any of your childhood toys?

I still have my bean bag frog which I so creatively named “Froggy” I still love that thing. It does bring back memories though. I had some good times with that frog.

@reacting_acid how big is it? How do you clean it?

An Easy Bake Oven, and Strawberry Shortcake dolls are stored up in a closet at my Pop’s place.

I have a stuffed teddy bear. It is quite big. Sentimental reasons only. I also have several books from my childhood. These are for hand-me-downs. My mother kept our “barbies” although I’m not sure how to tell her I don’t think I want my kids playing with those…

I have a few toys, but pretty much everything I had from when I was a child is gone.

I have my baby doll Patty from when I got my tonsils out when I was 8 years old. She’s sitting here beside me in a little rocking chair. I’d never let her go. I must have loved her very gently. She still looks good.

@jbfletcherfan ; i thought that said you kept your tonsils!

Anyway, my Arthur and DW dolls, my two American Girl Dolls (with the piano, trundle bed, dining room and armoire) and legos. The clothes for the dolls and the furniture all together would be a lot of money, actually. About 50 outfits… $20 + SH. Hm. I could’ve had that money now! I mean, I paid for it all over time.

I should probably donate them.

Its only the size of my hand and I don’t really do stuff with it so all I have to do to clean it is wipe the dust off.

Oh, yes. We kept the most special toys. I still have all my stuffed cats, my favorite blanket with the Disney babies on it, and my baby doll Christopher. There are other stuffed animals as well and a really old keyboard-type toy. I’m sure there’s some other stuff too, but it’s in boxes in the garage.

My mom and I went to a garage sale when I was five years old. I wanted this old monkey that had no hands. My mom said no, but the lady running the sale was like, oh she can have it for free. We went to the craft store and bought him some hands. I still have him, my daughter plays with him and loves him almost as much as I did.

My siblings inherited them and now I don’t know where they are.

Pokemon cards. Thousands of Pokemon cards. Should have sold them….

@absalom Hell, I’ll buy them!

I still have my Rubik’s cube that I got at 13.

My mother insists on holding on to my old toys from when I was a baby. I personally have no attatchment to them and would rather see them donated somewhere. The only thing I’d want to keep is my white polar bear which I named “Bear”. I’ve had it since I was an infant and I just can’t seem to pack it away, there was a time where I refused to go anywhere without it. I hold on to it because of fond memories, I don’t care about the value it may have, I could never sell it. Some people may hold onto things for that reason but the only reason I wouldn’t donate an old toy of mine to the local charity is if it had strong sentimental value like bear does. Otherwise regardless of retail value it would be donated to someone who needs it more than I do.

Can’t say I’ve kept any from childhood, however I have developed a rather unhealthy obsession with Lego, Meccanno and Airfix again in the last few weeks. :-) I’m such a child.

@osullivanbr But really, who doesn’t have an unhealthy obsession with Lego? :)

I have my favorite Teddy Bear, Ted. He sits on my bed. I guess when I was about 2 I saw him in the store, took him off the shelf and told my grandma “I’m having this!” she thought that was soi cute that she had to buy him even though he cost about $10. That was a lot for a stuffed bear in the late 70s. I also still have my copy of The Monster at the End of this Book featuring Grover my most favorite Muppet ever!

@osullivanbr
Oh, and Lego. Thanks for reminding me. I would get so upset if my friends touched what I’d built.

@reacting_acid
But after all this time of holding onto them and occasionally revisiting the old boxes and decks and plastic sleeves and folders, I think I am more attached to them now than I was as a kid. I mean, I once traded like a holographic Zapdos and a holographic Venusaur for some silly Japanese Snorlax. I couldn’t have cared that much back then. And I still play the games….

@troubleinharlem LOLLLLLL…nope. They’re gone.

Well since I’m 13, I don’t really have that much time between then and now. But I have this one stuffed bear that I’ve had since I was like 3. I think it’s vacuum packed in a bag that’s inside a box under my sister’s bed.

@absalom I still have a treasure trove of pokemon cards. I never use them or even look at them, but I sure hope that my first-edition holographic Blastoise is worth a handful of money some day!

I have my Teddy, and a 1965 Barbie in her box, original swimsuit-never played with. She cost $3.99 at the Bay.

I still have my Light Bright and I will NEVER be getting rid of it. Also, stuffed animals I have a hard time parting with. My brother won me this white monkey in a claw machine at an amusement park when I was 4 or 5 and he was 12…I loved monkeys. I named it Silky because it was so silky and my mother always told me how silky my hair was…anyhow, now its a bit nappy but I still have it and love it and on more than one occassion when I’ve been in a total shit mood and nothing is going right, I look at Silky and it makes me cry. Because it reminds me of such innocent and happy carefree times. :)

@osullivanbr @reacting_acid There is no such thing as an unhealthy obsession with Lego. It is quite healthy.

All my toys went to my cousins who were 7 -12 years younger than me. I have all of my daughter’s AG dolls and accessories packed away, as well as their Legos. They did not have a lot of variety in toys, but it went deep. Most of the things to play house with went to friends with young children. I will probably regret that, because they were wooden furniture, but there was no place to store it all.

@NewZen Would it be an unhealthy obsession if I was to build a lego wife for myself?? I’m not asking for myself you understand, um eh, a friend, yeah a friend, asked me to find out.

@osullivanbr When it’s ready, we’ll work on the AI part together.

* sigh * A man needs a maid, seriously.

I still have some of my toys, including my 1960 “bubble hair” Barbie in her original bathing suit, my favorite teddy bear and stuffed dog, my plastic horses, and all my Nancy Drew books.

The “shared” toys, such as our solid maple building blocks, the Lincoln Logs, and the dollhouse all went to my brother as he started having children before I did, and is now raising a granddaughter.

However, I also have my mother’s Patsy dolls, my grandfather’s Buddy L dump truck, and my mother’s babysitter’s doll house furniture, including the Tootsie Toy bathroom set in an unforgettably ugle shade of mauve..

I kept all of my Elmo stuff animals which includes a rock ‘n’ roll elmo, a puppet elmo (which was my very first elmo toy), walk ‘n’ talk elmo, and some others. I’ve kept my Spongebob stuff animal and my Spongebob pillow toy.I have a couple of Beanie Babies(I still buy them till this day).And the rest really are just some stuff animals along with Valentine and holiday animals I got as gifts.The childhood toys I have,well, I didn’t want to sell them off and just want to keep them because not only that they’re cute but I just sometimes miss my childhood so much that I want to be a kid again when I didn’t have to worry about anything and don’t have to work.The Beanie Babies,when I was younger I wanted to have some type of zoologist, I loved going to the zoo a lot, and I have an interest of learning about animals.Most of all I like collecting them in different editions and they always have some description about them on their tags.