What do you still have from childhood?

[yvr girl]

I have some wicker baskets that my friend's mom gave me when I was about 8 or 9.

I have a few other things, but they are packed away. The baskets are on my bookshelf.

[astonamous]

1. I still have a doll that was given to me for my first Christmas...

I was born in December, so this doll is as old as I am. I have it packed away for my grandbabies.

[scarlet_owl]

2. I have a copy of "The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas"

that I got for my first Christmas. My mother even wrote a little note inside of it for me. It is one of my most cherished possessions.

[JohnnyBoots]

3. Asthma.

[WCGreen]

4. Nada.....

Except my hair......

And the family pics....

Somehow I inhereted them all when the folks passed on......

[mainegreen]

5. About 10,000 lego blocks...

2 giant bins of matchbox cars and hotwheels, back when they were metal, all my childhood hardcovers, comix galore! I couldn't bare to get rid of the stuff. It would be like throwing away my childhood!

[ironflange]

6. Most of my hang-ups

:(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My baby book.......and I got the same ones for my girls.....

Some children's books......Photos, stuff like that......:shrug:

[WCGreen]

8. I forgot I had some comic books and baseball cards.....

About 100 of each.....

[Squatch]

9. Legos...

about 20 pounds worth.

And a briefcase full of Star Wars figurines (the originals)

[bliss_eternal]

10. a few emotional scars...

:eyes:

[Capn Sunshine]

11. my chair

Its a fine old chair with a leather seat and I have a pic somewhere of me leaning on it when I was learning to walk over 50 years ago.... It's in my BR now a suitable accompaniment to an old desk I have.

[SOteric]

12. The emotional scars of watching my 4 brothers do perverse things

to Barbie, and a teddy bear given me by my Uncle Primo when I was 3.

[dxstone]

14. A really fine bee-hind!

Or so I've been told...

[SOteric]

15. Really? -Who's telling you about my behind?

Oh. I see. You've just posted this in the wrong place.


Nevermind.

[dxstone]

18. MY bee-hind... MINE!

Does it ALWAYS have to be about YOUR bee-hind?
Oh brother!
d :silly:

[Tallison]

13. Fisher Price airport

Came with a Scotch and Little People Stewardess.

Also the FP barn with the doors that mooed when they opened. And the red and green cars from the Circus Train.

[Elidor]

16. My circumcision scar

Still looking for my lost foreskin after all these years.

[Left Is Write]

17. Clothes, books, games and toys, and more...

Some of the dresses my mother made for me were also worn by my own daughters. I have receiving blankets that were made for me and my older sisters when we were born. I have the doll my mother sewed for me while she was still pregnant; my brother ripped it to shreds when he was two, but I saved the remnants anyway (mostly her head and the muslin my mother used to stuff her with). I also have my squeaky baby doll that I slept with from age one to well into my teens.

I have some books that are between 30-40 years old; some were mine, some were my older sisters'. My copy of Hop On Pop says inside, "For Cathy, Christmas 1969".

I also have many of my Fisher Price toys: the house, the schoolhouse, the school bus, the castle, the garage, and the camper with boat. I have assorted old Little People and furniture to go with them; some may or may not be the originals. We had so much Fisher Price stuff that my siblings' accessories and mine inevitably got mixed up.

I have all the diaries that I wrote in from 7th grade through high school graduation. I have the papers I wrote for all of my junior high and high school comp classes.

Also: my Campfire vest and scarf, the diamond earrings my mother gave me when I was 16, the Donald Duck watch I wore in 3rd grade, the watch that had been my grandfather's that he gave me shortly before he got sick, some wood carvings my grandfather gave me when I was small (two horses, an elephant and a duck), the Christmas stocking that we used only at my out-of-town grandmother's house, and also the Christmas stocking my aunt made in 1976 or so (she made all of us matching stockings with our names sewn on in sequins) that I still use today (my sister took up my aunt's traditions and made matching ones for all the spouses and children).

Some more very special things: four dolls my grandmother made for me, two of the large "life size" kids and two smaller ones. Her dolls were absolutely beautiful. She had a real talent for it. My mother still has the doll Gramma made for *her* when she was a girl. From the same grandmother, I also have some ceramic items (a flower pot, a bud vase, and a Christmas bell tree ornament).

Speaking of Christmas ornaments, I have lots of ornaments from my childhood, some of which I made in school or Campfire, and some of which were given to me as gifts. I have an elf ornament my Grampa and Gramma gave me for my first Christmas in 1966; it's the first ornament that was mine, and it's the first one to go on our Christmas tree every year.

[kid a]

19. my hank aaron homerun ball - 1972

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. A little plastic figurine of Flash Gordon's girlfriend Dale

I had a Flash Gordon action figure set when I was about four years old. All of the other figurines have disappeared except for Dale. She was the object of this little four-year-old boy's secret lust. I had no idea what sex was all about, but I remember that I felt very excited when I handled that little action figure of her.

[MissB]

21. A very worn pillowcase

It is pink and orange and has a dog on one side and a cat on the other side. Very 70s.

I also have a tole-painted mirror that my grandma made me. It is uglier than sin, but I keep it for the sentimental reasons.

Then there is my first real piggy bank - proudly obtained when I opened my first savings account. It is made from wood and has carvings of animals on the sides.

Odd stuff, really. I'm sure someday my kids will go through it and wonder why the fuck I kept any of it. :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. How could I have forgotten my little hand-carved fawn?

It's one of the earliest Christmas tree ornaments that I have....just exquisite......

[LeftyMom]

23. A dresser, my baby book, a blanket my Grandmother made,

a handmade doll made to look like me and some school things. I'm a bit of a packrat.

[CornField]

24. A bookcase & a button with my picture on it (Astroworld)

We had the button made during a trip to Astroworld, circa 1972. :) God, I was an adorable child!

The bookcase was built by my grandfather from redwood he brought back from California (to Oklahoma)

[samplegirl]

25. My Barbie's

Im glad i kept them

[seaglass]

26. Bobbsey Twins and Cherry Ames books. I think I still have a

Caroline Kennedy baby doll (can you imagine?) at my mom's house.

[hippywife]

27. A copy

of "Little Women" that my grandmother gave me when I was about 10. No toys left. There were five of us girls born one right after the other. When you don't have much money, things get passed down and worn out.

[raptor_rider]

28. An Afghan that my mom made

when I was 7 years old (I am now 29.) It is still just like new, except where the washer put a hole through a couple of stitching. It is now sitting on the back on my couch, it was made for a full sized bed and I now have a queen. I am now making one for my daughter's bed and she has a queen :scared: . Been working on it for a couple of year now. I will get it done eventually :-) !

[Gildor Inglorion]

29. A blanket with American Indian designs on it..

I got it when I was 7 years old.

[Ksec]

30. I dont have a thing from my childhood

I was surprised when I read your question and then realized I had nothing from then.

The only thing I have is a few perfect attendance certificates from grade school.

[Enraged_Ape]

31. My Mattel Football II game

I still play it, too.

That's the one that allows passing.

I saw a new one in a toy shop the other day for about 10 bucks. They're re-releasing a lot of these old Mattel LED games, but they don't have the "heft" that the old ones had.