Stuff that you or your Mom threw away.. and you want BACK..

[SoCalDem]

We did this one a while back.. but for the benefit of our newbies.. Here we go again :):)

Want it back because it's cool, NOT necessarily because you could get $1000.00 on e-bay for that wonderful 1958 robot that chugged smoke and laughed diabolically (The Great Garloo)

[flamingyouth]

1. My hippie Barbie and Ken!

Ken had his own fringe-leather vest and medallion. Barbie had very cool, swirly bell bottoms and a halter top.

My mother was the sort who gave everything away if I hadn't used it in five minutes because there were other kids out there who needed toys. I really have nothing from my childhood, but I know she meant well!

[SoCalDem]

2. Mine saved stuff, but I never got any of it back

I never even got my wedding dress back.. I know that she saved it for years, but we had a falling out, and then she died, and my sister probably threw it all away.. ..

[flamingyouth]

5. I'm sorry to hear that

:-( Kind of puts my barbies in perspective.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. My husband goes on and on about this model Trans Am he had

as a kid. I think it was a '74. Anyway, his mother threw it out and he has never gotten over it, nor forgiven it. My parents? Well they have saved every minute of my childhood in a storage shed. Which is kind of freaky in it's own right. :hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. After leaving grad school, I camped out with my parents for a while

I brought all my books along, of course, and somehow my Norton Anthology of English Verse disappeared, as did my Penguin Book of Love Poetry. Not coincidentally, they were two books that an ex-boyfriend had inscribed to me, a boyfriend that my mother didn't like. They were the only two books that disappeared.

A sweater that she didn't like also disappeared.

This is why I was very happy to move out.

[bigwillq]

6. She threw away a lot of my baseball cards

one day. One, b/c she thought I had too many and I didn't have any more room for them and second b/c she was really pissed at me that day. I was so upset but got over it.

[Norton]

11. My Matchbox cars..

I loved them so much I never played with them. They were given to a friend of my mom's son. If I knew who he was I'd have them
back by the next rooster's crow!

[bigwillq]

13. If she ever threw those away

I would throw her away. Just jokes about the last part but I still have all of my and when I'm feeling down, I play with them. I'm 26 but they still make me feel better.

I feel your pain and I'm very sorry!

[OneBlueSky]

7. my baseball card collection!!!

I don't even know what happened to it, but I do know that if I had it today, I'd be retired with a lot of money in the bank . . . had all the greats of the late 50s and early 60s . . . Mantle, Maris, Snider, Mays, Koufax, you name it . . . even some rookie cards . . . not a huge collection, just several hundred, but what they'd be worth today! . . .

[bigwillq]

14. Ouch...

Same thing happened to me but my cards were from the mid to late 1980's. That pales in comparison to the collection you had.

[Kellanved]

8. my first computer

A custom made XT, inherited by my parents. I don't want the computer itself so much, but the case. With some custom work it would be one of the coolest cases for a geek like me. Especially the spring powered opening mechanism is something I really miss (you had to press two buttons and the "hood" would open up, powered by a spring.).

To her credit, I wasn't using the PC any more and one of my younger brothers had destroyed the computer with brute force. The destruction was very complete, he had even destroyed said spring-mechanism, as he wasn't smart enough to figure out what button to press (in order to wreak havoc in the interior).

[Lefta Dissenter]

9. My "Cat and Mouse" game

I've searched Ebay for it, and there's a different "Cat and Mouse" game, but not the one I had. Mine was from the early 60's, and had a box-like board with holes that the mice would have to drop into, given the wrong move... It was so cute and fun :cry:

[blondeatlast]

10. I had a brass "Monkees" logo guitar pin I begged my mom

to buy me at the CO state fair when I was about 6. It was very cool, NOW, not so much then!

Edit: How could I forget my "Poor, Pitiful Pearl" doll?

http://hometown.aol.com/lynnelb/pearl.html

She and I were inseparable.

My oldest sister had the first, and most stylish, Barbie; the first edition. My other sister had the first one with long hair, and I had the first "poseable" one. They were passed on to a neighbor (sigh).

I must have a PPP, though. MUST.

[VOX]

12. My Remco Bulldog Tank!

Okay, it *was* a war toy, but it's was so cool! It ran all over the lawn, up the patio, and down the driveway! :bounce:

[camero]

15. My trophies

From the sports I played. I still have a few of my ribbons but that's all. The dresser was full of trophies.

[analogman]

16. Wacky Packs!

Wacky Packs, or perhaps my X-wing fighter with the "Wedge" action figure.

[marigold20]

17. my Dave Brubeck Take Five album

and my nephew had some sort of giant lizard - maybe Godzilla - with a launching claw. It was very cool.