Question 8
What was your favorite toy/object from when you were a child?
Do you still have it?
posted by punky @ 10:15 AM
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Do you still have it?
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A stuffed turtle that my mom made for me out of some wacky printed fabrics.
I think it fell apart. :(
*reaches in pants*
Yep, still got it!
-cbol
Ha! Excellent.
I suppose after c-bol's comment, me saying my thumb is passe....
I guess as a small child I did have a blankie - but that's long since gone the way of the dodo.
My wife's favorite toy was a little stuffed elephant. Now minus his trunk, she still has it!
I had this little yellow macramé basket/purse thingy. It was a wicker basket that had a macramé top that cinched with long rope handles to form a purse ... but when you opened the macramé part and dropped it down over the sides of the basket, it formed a bassinet ... and I would keep a tiny little doll in there. When I got older, I introduced a boy doll and I named him John. I named the little girl Mary. And then I'd sing "John won't you Marry Merry Mary ... John won't you Marry Mary 'eh?"
Yeah. I was a quirky kid. Never really outgrew it.
I loved that toy.
That's just weird, b/c I called it "Baby Gonga" and sang that exact same John and marry merry Mary song when I...
Ok, probably not.
-cbol
btw ... Baby Gonga sounds like the monchichi I used to have.
Mon-chichi, Monchichi, oh so soft and cud-dle-ly, with his thumb in his mouth he's really neat, fun to fiddle with his little feet, yah yah yah..yah yah yah, Mon-chichi Monchichi!
G.I. Joes and Star Wars Figures.
As I got older I decided to take all the G.i. Joes apart (against my mothers wishes) and reconfigure them with different heads and torsos on different legs. I never did. I just took them all apart. They're still in a bucket somewhere at my mum's house, and she has never let me live it down, even to this day.
Oh, and I liked balls. Any and all shapes and sizes. I especially liked to hit and kick them.
Miraculously, I too still have them.
Just not in my pants.
I was given a brown bear for my first Christmas. He never left my side for long. My sister often threatened to throw him out car windows and set him on fire. She would threaten the bear hourly. I still have him. He is sewn together in places, but he still has all his parts and stuffing.
Hi Punky I haven't commented until today, but I just read through all the questions and answers. Great site.
Have a great weekend everyone
Apparently, I was too fickle to have a favorite toy, 'cause I can't think of any. Unless you count my little sister, 'cause tormenting her was FUN!
Thanks, Mad ... great to see you.
Sly ... hmmm ... well then ... did you have a favorite anything? Dress, game, pet, candy, torture device?
Being a little sister, I don't appreciate sibling-tying rope as much as kaf :-)
And I didn't have C-bol's favorite toy.
I had this wonderful toy clock when I was 3 or 4. It had a few beautiful brightly colored gears that I could take out and re-assemble. I did that a lot.
It probably got thrown away when we moved when I was 5.
I don't remember being traumatized by its disappearance but I'm very reluctant to throw out my kids' old toys.
OMG Punky! I had one of those bassinets too, except the "bottom" of mine was the bottom of a dishwashing soap bottle. And I'm strangly excited to remember this little toy 30 years later...
A friend of my Grandmother's made it for me. She gave it to me the night we caught fireflies in her backyard. My Mama was so busy playing with me outside that we both almost missed dinner.
Maybe memories are the best childhood remnants...
My macrame bassinet was yellow too, btw.
But I didn't sing about John and Merry Mary, unlike you and, apparently, Cbol.
Mine was a Raggedy Andy doll made for me by some relative. On his chest, under his shirt, is an embroidered heart with the words, "I love you."
He's filthy now. His face is all stained, his shirt is ripped, his red yarn hair is parted in back so it looks like he's balding. His feet are attached to his legs with sturdy masking-tape bandages. And he's sitting in the place of honor in the comfy chair in my office. Raggedy Anne is sitting there with him, but I somehow don't have the same attachment to her.
My sister and I had a game...I've never seen it since. There was a house...with a chimney. Each player got a plastic ginger bread man...there were plastic shapes dropped in the chimney. Each player took turns pulling a lever (shaped like a candy cane) on the side of the house...one piece would come out the front door. The idea was to fill in the ginger bread man...there were different shaped pieces...or different colored ones...some of the details are fuzzy but I loved that game. Just pulling the handle to release the pieces was fun.
My earliest favorite toy was my Zip Monkey. He's in the cedar chest at Mom's. Along with my baby blanket.
I also still have my Legos and Smurfs.
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