Was there a Christmas present that you wanted but never got?

[redqueen]

I can't think of any. Then again all I remember asking for was Simon and Electronic Battleship. And Pente... I think.

Anyway for some reason I was thinking about that this morning. I know some movies have depicted adult characters who as kids had asked for toys for Christmas that they didn't get, and they still remembered that as adults.

So... anyone?

[Lyric]

1. Yeah. The My Little Pony Paradise Estate.

My folks just couldn't afford it with 3 kids to buy for and little money to go around. The girl next door made it a point to rub it in as viciously as she could when SHE got it that Christmas.

However, my Mom DID find the MLP Nursery at Goodwill, so I at least got that for my birthday.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

2. I didn't want a My Little Pony toy ... I wanted a REAL pony!

:bounce:

Sometimes I'd get up early on Xmas morning and look around the backyard and the garage just to make sure there wasn't a little four-hoofed present waiting for me to discover him/her. :rofl:

[Lyric]

8. LOL! I wanted one of those too, but I was a pretty practical kid, and

the chance of me getting a real pony while living in a trailer park was pretty much zero, lol. We had about five square feet of grass--that's hardly enough for a real pony to lay down on, much less eat!

I'll have my real horse someday, though. I'd like to breed champion Arabians someday, if I manage to make my fortune.

:hi:

[redqueen]

11. My youngest wanted either a horse or a pony for her birthday.

Wasn't that kind of her to give me an option?

[Arugula Latte]

21. So thoughtful.

She's just being practical.

:)

[redqueen]

4. Awww... my little one loves My Little Ponies.

:hi:

[Lyric]

6. So do I. Shhh!

Someday when I'm filthy rich, I'm going to find and buy all of the MLPs that I had as a little girl, and then some! lol

[MissMillie]

3. last year I asked for a set of 4 brandy snifters

didn't get 'em.

[redqueen]

5. Are those those huge glasses?

I asked for slippers and a photo frame last year. I always ask for the same things, but I don't think my kids mind. :)

[MissMillie]

25. you can get the big ones, but I didn't necessarily want them big

:shrug:

I always get slippers... thank goodness. I wear the heck out of my slippers every year.

[supernova]

7. Easy Bake Oven

I was the last child, so by the time I came along my mom had reached a state of unbreachable practicality. "If you're big enough to use an Easy Bake Oven, you're big enough to use the real thing!" So I didn't get one.

*sigh*

I couldn't make her understand that it was the idea of cooking with a light bulb that amused me.

No, I have a toaster oven. So there. ;-)

[redqueen]

9. Oh yeah...

that's a popular one. One of my girls asked for one, and used it maybe 3x. The fun wore out fast after they realized how not-tasty the snacks were. :)

[AwakeAtLast]

48. That was mine, too

Well, that and the Barbie Dream House.

Now I just get to cook every day for sustenance, not fun. x(

[DS1]

10. I get them for myself

sometimes it takes a few years, but I get them.

[redqueen]

13. Not gonna share any details?

I'm very nosy curious, see.

[Symarip]

12. 6 years ago

I asked Santa to give back Joe Strummer and take G.W. instead.

...Still waiting.

[redqueen]

15. Seeing as how you do not now nor have you ever believed in Santa...

that's kinda nervy of you to expect anything at all, you know.

[Symarip]

17. I was pretty desperate

It was worth a shot.

[redqueen]

19. Aw...

you're making me sad. :(

Why you do me this way?

[MorningGlow]

14. Oh hell yeah

I never got an Easy-Bake Oven, nor did I ever get a Barbie Dream House.

Some wounds never heal...
:rofl:

[redqueen]

18. One of my aunts (a year younger than I) got that.

My sisters and cousins and the neighbor girls were all soooo jealous. Me, I don't get the Barbie thing at all. I don't even know how to play with those things.

But it sure was impressively huge!

[lizziegrace]

16. Porcelain doll

Every year, the Sears catalog had these beautiful dolls with stands in beautiful gowns and winter coats. I asked for one every year but never got one.

Oh, and a horse. :)

[redqueen]

20. Oh yeah, the dolls you can't play with.

:P

What is it with horses? Kids don't think about the poop factor when they ask for those things.

[lizziegrace]

24. Yep

I had plenty I could play with. I wanted one to keep on a shelf. ;)

I think the horse thing is part of being a kid in the 'burbs.

[bikebloke]

22. James Bond road racing set

But I probably got more enjoyment looking at it in the Sears catalogue and dreaming, than if I ever possessed it.

[redqueen]

23. Ah... yessss...

I like the way you think. :)

[ogneopasno]

26. A horse.

[kentauros]

27. only this one:

By kentauros at 2006-10-15

I managed to get the signed and numbered litho of her, tho

[redqueen]

28. Oooh, Olivia.

I like some of her stuff. :)

[kentauros]

29. I actually bought that litho with Christmas gift money

So in a way I got the gift, just not the genie ;)

I prefer her older style, which this one comes from. When she switched styles, it wasn't as appealing. I still have some of that work, too. Someday it will all get framed :)

[trackfan]

30. I don't remember any one toy in particular,

but it seems I always got the generic knock-off of something that everone else got the popularly advertised on TV version.

[IndianaJones]

31. Commodore 64. nt.

[Mojambo]

81. One of the greatest Christmases of my childhood.

I got my C=64, and two games. The original John Madden Football and the Interplay masterpiece, Wasteland.

I still play the Madden series to this day and Wasteland remains the best computer game experience of my life.

Plus, my dad got dozens and dozens of floppy disks with copies of just about every great c=64 game ever made (and there were so so many.)

What a great Christmas that was!

[Solly Mack]

32. a pool table

my brother got one instead that year...I was pissed...to see it standing there..all set up..in the room it would remain in...big red ribbon on it..and to find out it wasn't mine. I was 10.

I got science kits(chemistry, hydro-power/water turbines, electronic boards,radio, etc..) and a projector/learn to make slides kit

I was heavy into that kind of stuff, yes...and once I got over my anger (and it was well into the new year before that happened) I did explore my kits...the kits remained untouched and most of them remained unwrapped until my anger subsided though.

I really wanted that pool table.

Really.Wanted.It.

but I'm over it now...sorta. :)

[redqueen]

33. Hahahaha...

I'm glad you're mostly over it. :)

[Solly Mack]

35. Sadly..that's a true story. My mom was right though. I enjoyed my stuff more

I learned to play pool (once I was tall enough..I'm a shortie) and play occassionally...but I still tinker with gadgets almost daily.

I think my mom being right chapped my arse the most. :)

[JVS]

77. You're crazy. If my brother had gotten a pool table (actually he did have a junk $40 one once)...

I would have been pumped. I'd get to play anyway (who else is he going to ask at just any old time?), and I also get would get my own presents. I could even use it later when trying to get my parents to get me a big ticket item. Of course, my parents were smart, When they got the nintendo, it was to both of us so that they wouldn't hear one of us asking for a TV or VCR the next year because "you got him a nintendo"

[Solly Mack]

82. I did use it....once I was tall enough. :)

That's one of the reasons she didn't get me one. I wasn't tall enough to play at the time. When you can't get the cue over the table properly, there isn't much to be pumped about really.

[edbermac]

34. Model rockets.

Had to be 21. x(

[redqueen]

40. Well you could have put your eye out. (nt)

[JVS]

78. 21? You're fucking shitting me. My brother got into those around the age of 9...

and I got to play along too. He even took me to the hobby shop and for $3 I got the kit for the smallest rocket.

[MilesColtrane]

36. I always wanted these guys, but never got them...until last year.

I finally scored them at the ripe age of 45. My older brother gave them to me.

[redqueen]

41. Hahaha...

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, right?

Like Potato Head, that'll never go out of style.

[MilesColtrane]

45. Unfortunately they're made out of plastic now.

The old metal ones were somehow more satisfying to punch.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

37. Hot Wheels cars and track.

I really really really wanted a Hot Wheels set-up of my own -- I was stuck with fighting over my next door neighbor's set when I would play over there.

It was during an age when there were "girl toys" and "boy toys" -- and she was a bit stressed that I wanted so many "boy toys". :D

[redqueen]

42. Were? There still are "girl toys" and "boy toys".

My older daughter likes "boy toys". I have to explain to her why that's BS, and it's fine for her to like the stuff. :)

[Hell Hath No Fury]

47. Really? I had hoped we'd really moved a bit beyond that. :(

My Mom has learned to appreciate my interest in "boys toys" -- especially when I am repairing her toilet, replacing her old thermastat, or laying her new laminate flooring. :D

Now, if I can only find a guy who think a woman with power tools is sexy. :D

[tigereye]

38. Easy Bake Oven and a REAL Barbie -I always got the Penny Bright or something

I have more empathy for my parents now since I've had a few fruitless searches for things my son had on his list....

[redqueen]

43. My friend got those too...

Darcy or something, instead of Barbie. I didn't know why she was upset. It's the same thing, right?

(Yes, I was clueless even then. :P)

[tigereye]

72. it was the proto- feminist doll!

defying sexist consumer perceptions of women even then! that's it! :rofl:

[undeterred]

39. Barbie Dream House

[redqueen]

44. I thought that thing had a lot more rooms.

Funny how things looked so much bigger and more impressive when we were kids. :)

[undeterred]

51. I got a Barbie Theatre instead

which was actually much better because I could write plays and make costumes and have the dolls act them out. But I think it was really just a bunch of cardboard covered with paper.

[RobinA]

46. Ice Skates

Every freakin' year I asked for ice skates. "You will just grow out of them," "It doesn't freeze that often around here." Was all I ever heard. Of course, my mother would tell stories of how much fun she had with HER ice skates, but it was colder then and I guess her feet never grew. Needless to say, I never got them. One of the first things I ever bought with my own money (of any value) was - you guessed it, a pair of ice skates. Bought them used off a friend in 9th grade. Used to stare at them and put them where I could see them. They finally fell apart, the leather dried out, but I still have them. Now that I'm middle-aged I have myself a nice $400 pair of white figure skates and I took skating lessons for a number of years. I can skate backwards now!

Oh, did I mention that my sister got the horse she wanted? And riding lessons. I got riding lessons, too, which I never ever wanted. And a riding hat and riding boots, which I grew out of. None of this had any effect on me whatsoever. None.

[redqueen]

57. I feel like I'm missing out

There were five kids in my family. I should have a story like this durnit.

[flvegan]

49. A visit from a naked, horny Alyssa Milano.

[LeftyMom]

56. Moral highground: still mine.

Now to figure out how to translate that into something useful...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

50. Air conditioning.

I'm serious. It is brutally hot and humid in the south. We had a couple of inadequate window units so we suffered for about 6 months out of the year.

Mom bought fabric and sewing supplies instead. :banghead: That she didn't use.

[redqueen]

58. We had a window unit in one room.

We were only allowed to turn it on at night to sleep. We all slept in that room. Most of us on the floor of course.

Lovely!

[mvd]

52. My grandparents on my mother's side always got things my parents didn't

I think the only time I didn't get what I wanted is when I asked for something ridiculous because I thought Santa could do anything. It was aftet that I found out there was no Santa in the traditional sense.

[redqueen]

59. I don't ever remember asking for anything ridiculous...

I may have... I just don't remember.

[mvd]

66. I did because I was old enough (7) to say..

why can't Santa bring something like a million dollars if you are good? And when my parents of course hesitated, I deduced there was no Santa. :hi:

[redqueen]

67. Heh... yep.

I'm pretty sure mine have sussed it out as well.

But we all pretend anyway just for the fun of it. :)

[pitohui]

53. as a child i pretty much never got anything i wanted

trying to think back but no, pretty much we just didn't have the $$$

[redqueen]

60. Did your parents set limits on what you could ask for?

I think my parents did. I know something must have stopped us fro asking for wild things.

I think we were only allowed to ask for 3 things... and they all had to be pretty inexpensive.

For perspective, my Simon game as really high tech and cool. One of the fancier gifts I got.

[Zavulon]

54. A table hockey game.

I spent a lot of time playing on the neighbor's set, and my father was convinced that if I had one of my own I'd never open a schoolbook again.

[redqueen]

61. I've never even heard of table hockey.

I'm picturing it as something like foosball, but with hockey players.

[Zavulon]

64. That's what it is. Take a look:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=table+hockey+game&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

Very popular in Canada, where I spent a lot of my youth.

[mtnester]

55. Yep

and I could kick ass on either color...I got it for my B-Day in February, and remember this was the first time I was really disappointed, because it was the only thing I wanted.

Now, can we talk about the BEST Xmas present ever?



Only mine was blue

[redqueen]

62. Nice bike...

can't ride the handlebars though, with that reflector there. Ow.

[sakabatou]

63. No

[musette_sf]

65. piano

i asked year after year.

i even used to leave out the monthly Highlights For Children, open to the sheet music page they used to have every month, as a big hint.

eventually they got me a guitar via trading stamps. that turned out okay. but to this day, i still want to learn piano. one of these days i will get one of those fairly decent electronic 88s they have. Costco had a keyboard on sale the other day, but it was 76 keys, i want the whole thing, 88 or bust.

[redqueen]

68. I would hold out as well. 76 keys is not the same.

Especially if you like playing classical.

[JVS]

79. Please, 97 keys or 92 in a pinch is the only way to go

[HEyHEY]

69. My entire family dead.

[redqueen]

70. You don't ask Santa for that.

Gotta jumble the letters around a little... and learn to speak some made-up "dead" language. Or something.

[JVS]

80. I'm going to arrange it so that someday when you're sitting in the old folks home...

at the ripe old age of 98, Santa will come up to you, say "You finally got what you wanted, punk" Then he'll take your dentures out and smash them on the table before running off.

[Wapsie B]

71. Locking

No sex threads.










:P

[regnaD kciN]

73. Vac-U-Form...

The molding device that would let you make your own toys! Christmas, 1963. I'd been seeing ads all year, and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Sadly, my father's company was transferring him to Europe for three years, and the rule was that I couldn't have anything large that would have cost a lot to move...not to mention something designed to run on 110 volt current.

So, I never got it. By the time we returned to the U.S., it was out of production. I did, however, have a friend who owned one, so I got to see it working. After a few minutes, I came to the realization: "Wow...this thing is really boring!" ;-)

[Lucian]

74. I'm still waiting on world peace.

[Broken_Hero]

75. The USS Flagg....always wanted it, never got it...

with the new live action GI Joe movie coming out next year, perhaps they will re-release the Flagg.

[SeattleGirl]

76. When I read your question, all I could think of was

the movie "The Santa Claus", where the woman was lamenting that she never got the Mystery Date game she wanted, and the guy was sad that he never got an Oscar Meyer Weiner whistle that he wanted.

:7

[Heidi]

83. Menopause.

It's at the top of my list every year.