My childhood toys

[elize]

I still have some of the toys I played with as a child. Does anyone else out there have toys they played with? Picture 1)Peter Pan tea-set 2)Small dolls and my machine 3)"Barbies" 4)Big Dolls

[Andre007]

I still have my old legos.

[lapousmor]

hi!

I still have most of my toys, but they stayed at my parents' home in my childhood bedroom.

Some time after I left my parents' home to begin to live my life, my mother had some very bad ideas.
I used to pickk up some small stones as memories from places where we spent holidays and were keeping them preciously on my bedroom shelves. As i was no longer using my bedroom on a regular basis, my mom used to make the cleaning herself and eventualy got fed up cleaning my stones. So without asking my permission, one day she binned them! :mad2:
I cannot describe you how angry I was the day I sicovered they had all disappeared!!!!!:mad:

Another time, for a reason I ignore, she decided to to rid of some of my dollies. The problem is that I loved a loved each of them, which she obviously did not realise. She decided 3 of them were not beautiful enough to be kept (they were in very good condition, so I still do not understand!!!). so when i went back home and realised my dollies were gone I really felt bad and was very very angry. But it was to late to save them. So I told my mom I would not accept any of my belongings to disappear anymore! And i never noticed any other disappearance. I still check if they are there each time we visit my parents...:p

So i still have a few dollies, some plush toys too, and we kept all of our games too. I know my parents still have some toys we payed with when babies...

Sorry, i have no photo to share.

I may bring some of my fav toys to my actual home some day, when we get better organised (at least when the attic is ready to use : still the flooring to make).

Hugs,
Sophie.

[lapousmor]

Just an addition to my post.

I did not have as many toys as children have nowadays but never felt that i needed more.
When I was tired of playing with my dollies and plushes, I played with my brothers with legos and playmobils.

I had a total of 6 dolls in my childwood.
First a big girly with brown short curly hair I got very young : I named her Emily.
Later i had three other dolls : I named them Flora, Virginie and Pimprenelle (my mother obviously did not like Pimprenelle).
Then i had a cloth doll I named Julie (I do not remember her very well), whom my mother obviously did not love!!!
Finally i got a baby (able to drink and pee).

My plush toys : my all time fav ones are my yellow rabbit Lapine and my pink bear Moustique (I still wonder why I named him like that). i ued to sleep with these two. when i was around ten, maybe a little more, my father gave me a racoon mom with her baby be brought from Paris. i loved these two a lot too.
These were my only childhood plush toys.
I used to consider i have not enough of them, so i used to borrow one of my brother bears named Bouba (an orange bear)! I must have finally kept him for myself by the end because my brother eventualy forgot this bear was his!!!! :rolleye2::rolleye2::rolleye2:

I loved to play with my dollies together with my plush toys. Plus I was lucky my grandfather made me beautiful pieces of furnitures for my dolls (a buffet, a 4 poster bed, a table and two benches, plus a cupboard. Of course, i still have them at my parents' too.

My brother and I never had these big video games to play with. in the late we eventually had GameBoys with only a handfull of games.
We never had personal computers : well, this was only the beginning of computers, so not very surprising!

Hugs,
Sophie.

[elize]

The only games we had was the Atari games. We played outside a lot more and I think we were more creative as children. I can remember when we visited my aunt on the farm we use to play shop-shop, and our shop had meat(pieces of wood) tomatoes (red feld fruit) cabbage (green leaves) etc. and we had fun. :dance1:

[oldbearsandfriends]

What wonderful stories of your childhoods, this is my passion, I love studying, collecting and learning about childhoods past. :dance2:
Sophie; you poor love, loosing your things, mothers just done get it, I'm sure, I too went to visit my mother one day to find the shed had been cleaned out and all my toys taken to the dump, I was able only to rescue these little guys in the pic below and my dolls house...Very hard to forgive this, isnt it?

As for my childhood; as a very little girl I would play with my brother outside and with the kids next door, my fav' memories are playing down the river with my brother and some other kids in our gang, we had an old bath tub we used as a boat and we would catch yabbies (crawfish?) and take them home for dad to cook for us. I loved playing outside and making up adventures, riding out bikes with icecream boxes on our heads as helmits!! lol.

When my brother go older I would play on my own a lot, out side in the dirt with my toys, making farms and towns, I would take my dollies and teddies for trips to the back fence on my scateboard, lol and have picnics, play school and hospitals"happy6:.

I use to love riding my mother's mop like a horse too, oh what fun!!:very happy:

I was about 11/12 when computer games hit my town, I saved up $399 to buy my very first collecovision game consol!! wow, I was the best friend to all the kids in school!!!:laughing:

[Andre007]

I found more toys up in the attic, lots of plastic cars, my grader that loved the sand and my favorite yellow truck, and 2 little doggies I played with as a baby and my blue spade I took to the seaside:5::5:

[LadyEva]

I don't have any toys from my childhood. Too many moves and things just disappeared. I did make sure my daughter got to keep part of the dolls she had as a child.

As a child I grew up on a farm and in was in the 40's and 50's so there were never many toys anyway. I had a couple of dolls and a teddy bear but mostly my sister and I played outside and used anything we could find to play with. We had a sled for winter and the snow, roller skates for summer, our bikes to ride up and down the country roads but mostly we did farm work. It was a fun time even though we had to work.

[oldbearsandfriends]

Andre007: Great little toys! I bet you had lovely warm feelings finding them?!:very happy:

LadyEva: Wow, a I can't imagine a better child hood to have then to grow up on a farm, what kind of animals did you have?:)

[oldbearsandfriends]

For some reason I cant attach a picture, once I find out whats going wrong I shall add the pic of my old pals :confused:

[LadyEva]

I grew up on a 200 acre dairy farm. My grandparents raised my sister, who is 14 months younger, and me. My uncle was is only 7 years older than me so he was like a big brother. We raised corn, soybeans, and oats. We milked about 50 cows twice a day. We also had lots of pigs and chickens. It was fun but a lot of hard work.

[elize]

I must agree a child can not have a better childhood than to grow up on the farm. You can go barefoot, find or make your own toys and do things children are suppose to do - :rolleyes: too many toys for any child takes their imagination away.

[oldbearsandfriends]

Awww, it sounds like a very blessed childhood, one day we hope to move to a small farm, so we can grow all our own food and keep chickens etc...one day :rolleyes:

[Pieter]

I loved every minute on our farm, walking barefeet, no electricity and my moms wonderful food..."happy6:

[oldbearsandfriends]

It sounds like HEAVEN!!:love::love:

I wish all kids had the chance to take time out in the country, I think it builds character, I was lucky enough to spend most of my teen years in a little place called Boulder in Western Australia, there I would go camp for weeks out in the bush and ride my horses, Oh what wonderful memories!!! :cloud9:

[kitty]

Wow all these childhood stories and toys are fab!

I have a lot of my childhood toys still with me (actually in my bedroom in my parents' house). A few dolls that I didn't have, I replaced a couple of years back. :) But there was a parrot and bear I had which I lost, and I miss them a lot. The teddy bear was black and red and was named "Spotty". Someday I will find a bear identical to him and will bring him home! :)

[elize]

Kitty looking for a new "Spotty" is part of the fun of collecting.

I am unsure where this little fellow comes from as I had him forever. Is he a Golly :?: All I know is that he is very old and full of holes and for some reason I always had a feeling that he belonged to my late dad.