What wouldn't Mommy buy you when you were a kid?

For Xmas or otherwise? For me (in no particular order):

Chocolate cereal (Cocoa Puffs, Cocoa Krispies, etc.)
A trampoline
An Atari 2600 (even though every other kid my age had one)
Cable TV (ditto)

I begged for one for years. It never happened. :cry:

you have a pet brother, despite the fact that I he is older than me.

She said it wouldn't get along with our cows. :(

We were poor as hell.

Probably sensible on my mom's part.

You'll shoot your eye out! :rofl: :crazy:

How much did they cost back then? $10?

How I yearned for an easy-bake oven.

She says it's because my older sister had one and she was always stuck eating the horrible half-cooked 'cakes' that came out of it.

To this day I tease her about it and tell her that I turned into a big ole butch lesbian because she never bought me that Easy-Bake Oven for me to model proper femininity on... LOL. :evilgrin:

She said she preferred to teach us how to bake with the conventional oven, and so she did.

same here. Hi Left!

"If you want to cook, I'll teach you to use a real oven."
And that's just what she did :D

She never bought me shoes. Not once.











My gramma did that sort of thing instead.
Also, I wanted a computer for christmas when I was little but I got a "Computron" spelling/math fake computer instead. It kind of sucked, but I played with it anyway.

Fortunately, my Mother was smarter than me.

That was all I really wanted for Christmas, my first year of college. As a kid- not much; I wasn't a very demanding sort. Cable TV and crap cereal, I suppose. One year, she did buy me the *wrong* legwarmers, though.

I asked for that doll many a Christmas and birthdays. Seeing that I couldn't get it that way, I started saving my money for one...and mom emptied my bank so she could buy cigarettes. But she could not understand why I was a pissed off kid. After that I gave up on the ideas of dolls in general.

I had a Penny Bright, instead.

I think that's why I became a feminist! ;)

During the big craze in the 80's, she made me one instead. It just wasn't the same. I know now that making me one was pretty cool and took a lot of time and love and all that.

I did have a horse though, and that beat the crap out of a Cabbage Patch doll any day!

my mom made me a Cabbage Patch too. It was the year they came out and she said she couldn't get/find one so she bought the head and made the body and I think she even made a birth certificate for it. It wasn't the same but I did get the "real" doll later on, looking back I think it was better.

"You kids eat enough chocolate, you don't need it for breakfast".

She wouldn't even let me use my own money to buy a mood ring. "If everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you follow them?".

Of course, my little sister got everything but the college education, because my parents split up while she was in college. I'll take the free education over the mood ring.

in all its myriad variation.

:cry: I never got over it

:cry:

i actually had to save up my allowance and buy my own

it still hurts

And she worked at a western clothing store! Just cruel, I tell ya! :cry:

and I still want one!!

and they were probably right.

They were taboo in the house -- evil, the toy of the devil.

it for me.

Now I understand. Now I'm in agreement. I think you have to be rich to wear white. I try to avoid it or at least figure it's going to be a one shot deal. A little white, okay. Pure snow white anything. NAW. Not even underwear. Especially not underwear.

Turns out they don't actually exist

I wanted one like Sky King's "Songbird." :cry:

But I never really asked for much. A horse but I eventually wore them down on that one.

I bugged her and bugged her and bugged her for these things called Breakfast Squares - late 60's, early 70's - they were bar shaped, came in a package similar to pop tarts and the commercials made them look sooooo good.

She finally bought them and they were AWFUL - like wallpaper paste and cardboard. But I had to eat them because I was the only one who'd wanted them and I'd made such a fuss. I wound up acquiring a taste for them and for the six months that they were around, I couldn't get enough of them. Then they stopped making them - I was probably the only person in the world who ate the damn things.

I still crave them at times.... :cry:

Considering what I did on my bmx bike at that same age, probably a very wise decision on her part.

I wanted them SOOOOO bad.

But...........Now that I pay the bills, I run with scissors, leave the refrigerator door open, sit three inches from the television, and BUY FREAKING CHOCOLATE POP TARTS!!!

When we were kids, mom used to let us pick up one item when we were grocery shopping, but rather than run to the candy aisle like my brother, I had a penchant for picking up things like a can of sardines. Hey, I was curious! But my mom would always refuse because anything out of the ordinary was somehow bad (you should have seen the intense discussions we'd have when I wanted seaweed soup at a Chinese restaurant!).

It would seem my moms attempt at bringing me into line have failed because not only do I still like trying out of the way foodstuffs, I'm nor a republican either.

:rofl:

it took me until I was 11 to get my first cat.

I do remember after awhile that mom stopped buying me dolls and doll baby carriages. I pretty much had abandoned any I had owned previous to that point, including losing one rather expensive (at the time) carriage. Let's face it: a "mommy" I was not, and never would be. One of the BEST presents I ever got was from my uncle--believe it or not, it was a small boxed set of a dictionary and a thesaurus. Shows where my talents were!

When I was 14, I wanted to go to France, with my French class. My parents could afford it but they were sceeeeeerd :scared:. I was just ever-so pissed.

Redstone

I asked for one everyyear from 5 until I was old enough to steal one.

She was probably afraid I would look like a dork running around the neighborhood wearing it.

She was probably right, but I didn't care.

or a motorcycle.

Every single other girl in my school had one and they would all stand around on the playground and pass them around. I didn't have one so I had to stand over by the fence and watch.

I think this was the start of my less than stellar performance in the junior high popularity contest that followed a few years later.

(No, Mom, I'm not still BITTER at age 31 or ANYTHING! Why do you ask????)

maybe i should have said "Mom can i have a f*cking Easy bake oven?"

I was the last of 5, and always wore everyone's hand me downs, including my brothers.

I remember the first shirt OF MY OWN that I got. It was a bright teal velour sweater (this was the late 70's).

But my parents wouldn't let me buy DND rpg.
Comic Books
Or Beattle Tapes.
Funny we did have pong and knock em sock em robots go figure

I didn't get my own until college and boy was I proud of them!

To build forts with

The shark was only $350, I wonder why both my parents said no? :shrug:

I still want one, dammit!

For crying out loud, it was only a nickel! Geez. I'm still pissed about it.

We never got to stop at the Dairy Queen, either. If we did, it was because my dad decided to do it, not mom.