CONFESS!!!!!! Do you have a childhood relic that you hang on to??

[LynneSin]

Like your old baby blanket or favorite stuffed animal?

I do!!

Mine is a stuff, um, we think it was a stuffed pink dog that was wearing plaid pants. His name was Lobo. I had won him at a carnival and didn't think much of the stuffed animal until I was away at a camp and ended up in the emergency room with a concussion. My dad brought that stuffed animal along to help cheer me up.

Lobo has been to every camp I've gone to since, college, various trips and vacations including Acapulco and Costa Rica. He's getting kinda tattered so he is now sitting on top of my bookcase with another stuffed animal that isn't quite as endearing to me. (He use to sit on my grandmother's old chair I have in my bed room, but my cat uses that to jump up on the window sill. So Lobo had to move).

What childhood relics do you hold on to???

Edit Note:

I also have 2 dolls that my father gave me when I was really young (display dolls, not play dolls). One was this girl in an orange knit outfit and I have no clue where he got it from (he was on a business trip). The other one is a little native american girl dressed in costume that my father got me from somewhere up in Canada

[BOSSHOG]

1. I believe you'll love this LynneSin

A bobble head doll of the 1960 NFL Champion Philadelphia Eagles. I also have a Phillies Bobble Head Doll which is at least 40 years old.

[gator_in_Ontario]

2. The stuffed dog my mom gave me the day I was born.

his name is Horsey, and he has been more places than Johnny Cash.

[quispquake]

3. Absolutely!!!

When my father was in the Marines, he bought his parents a stuffed Skunk in the Philippines...

Everytime I visited, I played with the skunk, and slept with it at night...

When my grandfather passed away a few years back, all I asked for was the skunk...My Dad happily made sure I got it!!!

It's sitting on top of my TV now!!!

[GOPisEvil]

4. I have a few of my old toys. I have my old G.I. Joe!

He used to talk when his string was pulled, but he lost his voice. Poor Joe. :-( He still has his St. Louis Cardinals jeresy though!

[TheBlob]

5. I still have all my

Star Wars action figures from when I was 9 years old.
I'll be 36 next month.

[jimbo fett]

6. A t-shirt with "Star Wars 77", C3P0 and R2D2 on it from when I was 10.

[Faygo Kid]

7. My teddy bear, Christmas 1951

I was three months old then, and still have it in a place of honor. Sometime in the '50s, its eyes were gone (probably me as a child ripped them off), and Mom replaced them with buttons. She's gone now, but the bear is still honored and respected. And the buttons are better, anyway, and a reminder of Mom. Also, my Tonka fire truck, 1957. Honored places for both.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Lesney Matchbox die-cast cars from the 60s and 70s

By no means complete... I have about 30-40 of those:

http://www.angelfire.com/de3/toys/matchboxdissf.html
http://www.angelfire.com/de3/toys/matchboxdiecast.html

Edit: typo.

[GOPisEvil]

9. I've got a bunch of those too!

Mine are all beat up though. :D

Mmmmm...the AMX Javelin and the ISO Grifo - my two favorites. :-)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. That's the way they should be

Beat up but in one piece. Toys are to be played with. Call me a Toy Story sentimental.

I had the AMX Javelin, but I'm pretty sure I never had an ISO Grifo.

My favorite was the Lamborghini Countach.

[terrya]

10. Do you have them in their original boxes? If so, they can be worth

quite a bit of money.

I sold my collection of Matchbox cars from the 60's a while back. About 100 of them. I had a carrying case from Lesne that was used to store them, but not the original boxes. I still got $200 for them.

That is, IF you ever wanted to sell them.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Sell? I'll BUY!

And, no, they're far from mint condition. I played with them, like the kid I was. Nothing broken, but the paint suffered a little, and I made racing numbers for them (sometimes cut from magazines).

The "races" went like that: I put the cars on a starting grid on the floor. Then, with a shoebox cover, I slowly pushed them forward, from the last row. They would mix and pile on one another. Then I looked up at the finish line who finished 1st, 2nd and so on. Like in a real race, the cars that started from front would have a better chance at winning, but it was by no means certain. Some cars would DNF when they fell from the sides of the shoebox cover.

Then I'd run championships with them, the starting grid for each race being the results of the previous one. F1 system of course.

And, at the end of each "season", the champion would switch numbers with whatever car had #1 previously. So I often redid the numbers. I'd spend days and days playing alone in my room.

Two years ago, I bought five more Superfasts I didn't have, from mercadolivre (Brazilian E-Bay-like site).

[populistmom]

11. My Raggedy Ann doll

My godmother made her for me when I was 5 and I slept with her for years. Still up on a shelf in my room. At my dad's house, I have tons more- Barbies (and my Princess Leia and Bionic Woman dolls), Weebles, and a zillion stuffed animals.

[grannylib]

12. Yes, quite a bit of stuff; I am a packrat! Favorite is a Japanese geisha

doll in a glass case that my brother sent me when he was on leave while serving in Thailand during the final years of the Viet Nam war. I was about 10 at the time. He is always surprised that I still have and display her; she is one of my most cherished things!

[hippiechick]

13. "Bobby Bear" -- Christmas 1981

Well, the day after Christmas, actually ...

I had a crush on a dude named Bobby who had fuzzy brown hair and my best friend went shopping & found a few teddy bears on a store shelf, and this one in particular had a little scrunched up facial expression like he was half worried/half amused about something - which 'my Bobby' had most of the time too.
She surprised me with him and we 'dressed him up' in a baseball cap and hockey towel/kerchief ... and he's been 'my son' ever since.

Hey - he's old enough to drink now !!!


:hippie:

[ronnykmarshall]

14. My old stuffed rabbit

my old teddy (panda) and my toy chest.

[rbnyc]

15. I only own 3 things more than 10 years old:

My B.A.
My classical guitar
One of my electric guitars, Haufner form 1963, given to me by my dad in 1986.

[Lestat de Lioncourt]

18. I still have my blanket mom gave me the day I was born.

I don't carry it around with me, though. I think it's in storage somewhere at home. :shrug:

[arwalden]

19. I'm Keeping My Virginity In A Felt-Lined Cigar Box

[SOteric]

21. *snicker*

[latebloomer]

20. Darlin, I'm so old

that if I had a stuffed animal left it would be a hank of tattered rag by now.

[djeseru]

22. Maybe too many?

I have a number of items I can't seem to let go of, maybe 'cause of my only-child status?

My grey stuffed kitty that has no fur and a "sci-fi" figure are my two favorites. The "sci-fi" figure is about 11 inches, released probably a good six to seven years before Star Wars, is pink-skinned with a purple plastic suit. Used to squirt water from a light-green blaster. Has pink antennae too!

[SOteric]

23. I still have the much-loved

Teddy Bear my uncle Primo gave me when I was 2 or 3 years old. And just between you, me and the fence-post, there've been a few hard times in my life when I still needed his support.

[LynneSin]

27. I've cuddled to sleep with Lobo at nights every once in awhile...

course now I have a cat to cuddle with.

Somehow Lobo can still make everything better

Go figure

:shrug:

[markus]

24. An illustrated, abriged Illiad and Odessey

which once belonged by my two Great Aunts Gert and Sadie. I loved that book so much they gave it to me.


We have, in our toy pile, what my mom and sister swear is a perfect replica of the little dog I had when I was an infant/toddler, given to my son when he was born. He never took to it the way I did. But I find myself picking it up every now and then and running its ears between my finger the way i did when I wa a child.

[11 Bravo]

25. My first baseball glove.

A Roger Maris 1960 signature model.

[MountainLaurel]

26. Paula Polar Bear

A stuffed animal I received as a gift more than 25 years ago for having good marks on my first report card. For years she was my protector and confidante. She had to have a nose replacement after being mangled by a stuffed-animal-loving retriever, she's seen the inside of a washer more times than I can count, and she's even been accidentally fornicated upon. But I still reach for her when I wake up screaming in the middle of the night all alone.

[Snow]

28. My knees!

talk about relics. and the things they went through, especially when I was a stupid teenager. (sure, tackle is more fun than tag football any day). Not to mention, let's see, 30 years of taekwondo practice...that's probably good for them, though.

There's also my teeth, but I don't want to totally disgust the younger readers here. The old prostate's still okay, though.......

[bif]

29. I have the teddy bear from when I was born

given to me by my Godmother. It's approaching 50!