Clinging onto your childhood toys

[Trickyvee]

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do you regret selling these old things you had tricky.
maybe you where not so attached to things like me and others here are mate.

I've never regretted selling them and I've never bought back anything that I had. I guess I wasn't so attached. I loved my stuff but I feel like it belonged to then and that's enough for me.

[Austin Maxi]

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There are a few old toys and games I had as a kid still knocking about, although several have gone via boot fairs or skips when moving house. I still have all of my old toy cars and still occasionally collect new models of old cars I would like to have had toys of when I was younger (although there weren't toys of them when I was young), such as the Corgi Vanguards Hillman Avenger and Ford Cortina Mk3, or the Oxford Diecast Reliant Scimitar.

I have recently powered up my old Tomytronic 3D 'Thundering Turbo' game from the '80s, to find it still works perfectly.

[darren]

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The only things I still have from my childhood are my lego and a couple of cuddly toys. Everything else got sold in one of my front gate jumble sales.

do you regret selling these old things you had tricky.
maybe you where not so attached to things like me and others here are mate.

[Jacqueline]

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I've got a lot of books and annuals from my childhood. Apart from that, it's just Action Girl, Sindy & Paul, one baby doll and my teddy bear. Oh and a few board games including my favourite ever - "Moviemaker."

[HG]

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It's more books than toys I have kept from my childhood, all my toys got chucked away after I gave them to my nephew. I do look at things and think oooh I had that but havent bought any, I have bought books though.

[Trickyvee]

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The only things I still have from my childhood are my lego and a couple of cuddly toys. Everything else got sold in one of my front gate jumble sales.

[Emettman]

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Most of my childhood toys vanished due to being played to death, or several house moves, including abroad.

I have re-acquired a few of the most evocative. And a couple my cousin had that I was always jealous of.
Toy fairs and latterly eBay.

[darren]

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for example i know someine in there fifties and he still has every toy,book,comic,record he ever got for christmas and birthday.
and i know from seeing his stuff its far more that mere toys to him.
its something that has real meaning to him as mine do to for me.
these toys etc are a part of my childhood and id be so upset if i lost them or something happened to them.
some people are to quick to get rid of things from there childhood
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for example i have a small table i made in school back in 1990 ad this one thing id never part withmas well as all the other stuff.
some people say get rid of it its time to grow up.
is there a law that says we must grow ip.

im 35 and im still a big kid i can be seen watching bananaman,superted etc in the morning and loving it.

[Palazzo]

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there is no harm in keeping these toys etc.
u actually think its a very good idea.
after all they are a big part of your younger days.
they hold special memories.
i have bought old toys i used to have when i was younger.
and ill never part with them.
they are more than just toys.

people tell me grow up and your to old t o have them etc.
but why should we grow up i never will.
im a kid at heart and always will be.

I say good for you mate, I think people are far too quick to grow up these days I really do. I have managed to keep hold of a few bits and bobs, the stuff that really meant something to me. whether it be old figures, games or magazines or even playground fad items like Pogs or sticker albums. Keeping hold of stuff for nostalgic value is all good in my book and I think it's great that there are so many people who do just that.

[kazboot]

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Yes I still have my Barbies and accessories, Tiny Tears, Kiddle Kologne amongst a few other things, but a lot of things have sadly gone one way or another over the years.

[darren]

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I too have very little toys from my childhood, a lot of them I actually sold myself when I was a kid by putting them in my parents shop window!
The one thing I still have is my big metal tonka tractor that my 3 yr old son now has in his toy chest, it's lovely to see it being used like that again!

I've bought a couple of items on ebay, but this website has un-earted loads of stuff I had that I'd completely forgotten about and so now I haven't got the real things (or the space for them with all my kids toys in the house) but do have a nice collection of pictures of some of the things I had as a memory.

hi mate.
hawkins bazarr that is advertsed here would have some of toys you had.
if you really want to buy them go to hawkins bazarr.

[Paulos]

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I too have very little toys from my childhood, a lot of them I actually sold myself when I was a kid by putting them in my parents shop window!
The one thing I still have is my big metal tonka tractor that my 3 yr old son now has in his toy chest, it's lovely to see it being used like that again!

I've bought a couple of items on ebay, but this website has un-earted loads of stuff I had that I'd completely forgotten about and so now I haven't got the real things (or the space for them with all my kids toys in the house) but do have a nice collection of pictures of some of the things I had as a memory.

[memoman]

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My parents sold ALL my toys as soon as i reached 11 years old.Plus i used to collect old comics they all got burned on the fire.I Had the lovely job of doing my own laundry and stuff like that instead.

[branny]

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I wasn't allowed to keep any toys when I grew out of them down to lack of space. The majority went to our next door neighbours kids. I toyed with the idea of collecting Dinky and Corgi again but the prices are just ridiculous. I did buy a load of 40th anniversary Action Man stuff a couple of years back but most of it is just stuck on top of a cupboard unopened.

[darren]

I could never give up some of my childhood toys, they all hold a special memory to me. Kept lots of my cuddly toys which are kept in an old suitcase in the attic, although my daughter has a couple in her room. My husband is always on at me to get rid of them, said it just yesterday when we were putting the xmas decs back up. When I was pregnant, I got rid of a few things I wish I hadn't, like my Cabbage Patch doll, a Sindy doll. I've even put alot of my daughter's toys up the attic, kept the boxes for things she plays with now, along with some Argos catalogues for her to look at when she's older. My OH thinks I'm nuts and just complains how full the attic is lol.

Like you Darren, I've bought a few replacements of toys I used to have - My Little Ponies, Care Bears. Think my Mum would have a clear out, while I was at school, of the toys she thought I was done with. I remember her giving away my Sindy house and all the dolls, I was gutted, even though I had grown out of them.

this is for sandie.
http://www.cabbagepatchkids.com/shop/ -

and this also for you sandie.

i even liked it myself.
and im not ashamed to say so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8