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NCshopper · Hermes

What did you ask for as a kid?

shopgirl82 · Chanel

i remember one year i asked for a phone and my parents gave me a phone that opens up and is a house to play with mini-dolls. i was soooooooo disappointed. they also gave me a pink bike that year. all my friends were getting phones for their rooms (i was about 10!). that same year my little sister (she was 5) got a pink motorized barbie corvette!! i was super jealous! yes, i was too big for it, but while i got stuck with a hand me down big wheels (the boy version, not the cabbage patch girl version) when i was her age, she got a pink brand new motorized corvette. what a brat.

i don't know why, but i don't really remember any other gifts that i got. i know my parents always got one big gift for santa (usually electronics). my birthday is in january, so i never was tooo upset if i didn't get what i wanted for christmas, cuz i would get it for my birthday (i never got the phone though).

jj · Kate Spade

A Mercedes is awesome! I am impressed that you knew what one was!

I always asked for a Barbie and never got one, because my mom thought she was a little trampy. I did get Skipper instead and I loved her and her many outfits. Looking back, I agree with her decision. But I still love Barbie.

NCshopper · Hermes

Haha...I was just reminiscing and remembered a story my parents always tell. I don't remember it myself, but it totally sounds like me and my parents to do this:

So, I was like 3 or 4 and obsessed with all things Strawberry Shortcake. I really wanted a Strawberry Shortcake tennis racquet for Christmas. I was set on it. The problem was that they didn't exist. (Typical for me to ask for something totally unrealistic.) But my parents didn't want to disappoint me, and after searching high and low, the bought a badmitton (sp?) racquet the day before Christmas. It was just a normal badmitton racquet, so to make it a Strawberry Shortcake racquet, they spray painted it pink and decorated it with Strawberry Shortcake stickers. And voila! I had a Strawberry Shortcake tennis racquet. How cute is that???

P.S. I swear I'm not/was not spoiled rotten!

Edited because I just drove by a racquet club today and on the sign I realized it was spelled "racquet" and not "racket" like I had previously spelled it.

-- Edited by NCshopper at 20:43, 2005-12-22

needsfashionadvice · Kate Spade

I loved barbies and cabbage patch dolls so I mainly asked for that. I also always asked for an easy bake oven. I finally got it when I was like 12 and too old to really enjoy it. I was already old enough to use the real oven by that time!

blink · Coach

the only things I remember asking for was a Casio piano keyboard, which I did get. But for several years in a row I know I asked for a specific Barbie Dream House and my parents finally ended up just getting me the next version down, just don't remember what it was called.

Collette · Chanel

I remember asking for a Cabbage Patch Kid one year. I don't really remember ever asking for anything in particular. Honestly I don't remember my parents ever asking either. weird.

bumblebee · Coach

lol on the mercedes--that's hilarious. what did you think you were going to do with it?

i used to also ask for the easy bake oven every single year. i never did get one. i think my mom was afraid i would get some kind of illness from eating cakes that were insufficiently baked by the lightbulb inside the oven. and really, i think she may have been right!

bex · Chanel

I remember one Christmas (after 2 close family deaths), my parents completely overcompensated on gifts and got me:

talking Computron

Pound Puppies (one big one with about 8 little ones)

Cabbage Patch Doll

and for my birthday the next spring i got a pony...

i was super pysched then... but now looking back on it, it makes me sad

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

I always wanted some extravagant Barbie accessory (house, car, etc.), or cool clothes/accessories for my Cabbage Patch Doll

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I really never asked for anything. Man, was I an easy kid!

When I was in first grade, I really, really, wanted a motorized Barbie big wheels thing to ride in. My friend in kindergarten had one and I thought it was so cool. I never got one. Those were too expensive for my family when you have four kids to buy for! Though I once got a pink Barbie Corvette that at least my Barbie got to ride in! My sister was so jealous! Of course I got Barbie's and once a Ken doll.

Cabbage patch kid. It came with a really dumb name, so I renamed it.

Easy bake oven. I had a friend over and she ruined it by putting marshmallows in it. I would NEVER buy one of these if I had kids. These can be a fire hazzard!

One of those dogs that came on a leash and you pressed the button to make it walk and bark. I was very tempted to skin it to see what was underneath!

A cheapie electric piano. I got a really good one which I still have when I was about 14.

jen · Kate Spade

Real power tool shop to make stuff with

A white rocking horse with purple hair and a pink saddle. I used this to test if Santa was real and I got it. It still confuses me because those are odd color combos and I don't know where my parents would have found it.

Barbie houses and cars

miss t · Dooney & Bourke

Barbie Dream House & Easy Bake Oven

I never got them

FashionPrincess · Hermes

Well, I always said the blessing over dinner every night, so for like 5 months before Christmas I started adding "Oh, and please God, let me get a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas", talk about subtle, hehe! It turns out that God does answer prayers, cause that year I got not one, but two Cabbage Patch dolls for Christmas. A premie one from my grandpa and a toddler one from my parents, who started saving for it when I started praying for it (sweet, I know). It seems like those dolls were much more expensive back then. I was probably about 6 years old. And I totally still have both of those dolls

erin · Chanel

i remember wanting cabbage patch and rainbow brite.

i remember when i got my cp premie (i was maybe 5 or 6?), my sister told me it was really a boy premie, and my mom just changed the name tag! i was REALLY upset. (what a blue meanie, huh!)

lilyann · Dooney & Bourke

Do you remember Baby Alive- well, this would probably best be remembered by people in their late thirties. Well, this doll you could feed, water, and it its mouth went up and down like it was really eating. I remember being so excited to get this- it was something that has stayed with me so it had to of been a defining moment. I remeber my first bike, my first record player { my mom bought me Michael Jackson Thriller, Love and Spoonful, and Evis records- sounds like they were records for her... Ha!} . I also loved to read and my mom bought me Watership Down one year and I remember feeling this was the best book I had read and would ever read- it continues to be one of my favorites of all time.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

lilyann wrote:

Do you remember Baby Alive- well, this would probably best be remembered by people in their late thirties. Well, this doll you could feed, water, and it its mouth went up and down like it was really eating.

I wanted one of those so bad! But Mom called them Baby burp and Fart and wouldn't buy me one.

I remember asking for a toolbox (and then being mad that I got a screwdriver but no screws...i was such a weird kid) and American Girls dolls. I asked for Molly like 4 years straight and never got it cause Mom didn't like that one. Then I got smart and asked for Felicity and got her the first year I asked.

ejc423 · Coach

I used to want a waterbed real bad. REAL bad. So I asked for it for bday and Christmas for at least 3 years straight. I don't remember how old I was--probably 7-9 or so.

My parents kept telling me that since we live in a century-old house, the second-story floors were not sturdy enough to support the waterbed. Right.

I still kinda want one.

NCshopper · Hermes

These are so great! I love how fixated kids get on that one certain thing, like a waterbed or a toolbox, or a pink and purple rocking horse. I love how particular kids can be and just utterly relentless in their pursuit of what they want.

To clarify, I did not actually ever think that I was going to get a Mercedes. The Mercedes/pony combo was always just a ploy. I knew they weren't going to get me either, but I figured they'd feel guilty and get me something just totally beyond cool so they wouldn't disappoint me. Like "okay, well if you can't get me a Mercedes or a pony, I guess you can get me the American girl doll that I've been asking for. *sigh*" Hehe...I was so manipulative.

bex · Chanel

ILoveChoo wrote:

lilyann wrote: Do you remember Baby Alive- well, this would probably best be remembered by people in their late thirties. Well, this doll you could feed, water, and it its mouth went up and down like it was really eating. I wanted one of those so bad! But Mom called them Baby burp and Fart and wouldn't buy me one. I remember asking for a toolbox (and then being mad that I got a screwdriver but no screws...i was such a weird kid) and American Girls dolls. I asked for Molly like 4 years straight and never got it cause Mom didn't like that one. Then I got smart and asked for Felicity and got her the first year I asked.

omg! i completely forgot about my American Girl doll! I had Samantha and all the crap that came along with her. :) i still remember that her favorite christmas song was "O Christmas Tree" and she loved Peppermint Ice Cream! I am suck a dork!!!