What was the gift you never got as a child and STILL complain about?

Mine would be an Easy Bake Oven!! My mom always told me that I was a big enough girl that I could use the oven with her help and that the light bulb inside was burn me!! This is funny though since I never have bought one for my daughter. (She never wanted one.)

I did buy her a rock tumbler since I never got one of those either.

The only other thing I fumed over for about 16 years was a Light Brite. For my 22nd birthday my friends bought me one since I complained to them enough about never getting one. My older cousin got one for Chirstmas and she, my mom and aunt went into the bedroom shutting the door on me since "Robin will break it" and I cried and felt so bad. To this day I bring that up to my cousin and it really scared me!!

I have a friend that bought her child a rock tumber, clay pottery wheel, metal detector and something else ONLY becuase her parents would not buy them for her!!

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After we went to the San Diego zoo, I asked for an Elephant for Christmas...and didn't get it Man my parents were mean

I can't think of any particular gift for christmas that I still regret not getting, HOWEVER, there is a particular prom dress that I will never get over not getting. It was the prettiest dress I'd ever seen --and not terribly expensive but my mom made me "wait and see" and then made me get something else. I've never gotten passed it and think of it quite often.

I also wanted an Easy Bake oven and never got one. I was told it was too messy. Have you seen recently how expensive those little baking kits are for it? It's like $10 for a package of 3 items to make. That is one of the most outrageously prices items I have seen!

I'd tell my kid no these days just because it'd be too expensive for the kid to ever play w/ the Easy Bake oven.

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We did not have television and lived in the boonies... but I had a horse!!!!

My parents had it figured out. LOL. And look at me now sitting here in my house in town with my laptop and big screen TV. Who would have known! We joke about it a lot now.

I can't think of anything that I wanted and didn't get (probably because we didn't have a TV!!!! no commercials!!!!)

I wanted a 10 speed bike back when they were really popular..with the curved ram handlebars. Never got it...Also wanted a what were they called ? You poured plastic goop in a heating tray and made like little rubber scorpions or whatver..They even came out with one set that you could eat the creatures. I think they were called incredible edibles..but forget what the non edible ones were called. I also wanted a mini bike of course..I had a lot of siblings growing up so of course didn't get too much.

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I had one of those things where you poured the goop into the metal trays and made the bugs, I think it was called a Creepy Crawler Machine or something, I loved that thing it was so much fun, I always liked making stuff. I never got an Easy Bake Oven, so I had to go to my friends to play with hers, LOL. I got my first DD an Easy Bake oven years ago when she was little, LOL.

For at least 4 consecutive Christmases, I asked both my parents and Santa for a telescope. I wasn't picky - an inexpensive model would've been just fine. My parents both said that I really didn't want one and wouldn't really use it - well I never had the chance to prove them wrong! But I can't really complain - Santa has been good to me most of my life.

My list is pretty similar to all that's been posted but I had to add a sad little story about the rock tumbler we actually did get. When my dad found out that you had to run water through it for so long, he wouldn't let us use it!! Cheap, cheap cheap! Imagine getting this really cool thing for Christmas and the Scrooge says, sorry can't use it. That stupid thing is still in their basement 35 years later - never used once.

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I can't think of anything I really wanted that I never got. I was an only child on both sides of my family so I was pretty spoiled. Infact Xhausted mentioned she wanted a horse for Christmas. While I didnt get one for Christmas the Easter Bunny brought me a real live horse when I was about 10 or 11. I still remember that to this day. He had a silly easter bonnet on his head with a bow.

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I can't think of anything I really wanted that I never got. I was an only child on both sides of my family so I was pretty spoiled. Infact Xhausted mentioned she wanted a horse for Christmas. While I didnt get one for Christmas the Easter Bunny brought me a real live horse when I was about 10 or 11. I still remember that to this day. He had a silly easter bonnet on his head with a bow.


So I was asking the wrong one huh?----
Should've been hitting up the ole Easter Bunny?
NOW YOU TELL ME!!---
Why am I always the ~l~a~s~t~ one to know these things?


Guess I owe the jolly man an apology.
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I never got the pony I asked for but when I turned 13 I got a horse for my birthday. BEST GIFT EVER.

I can't recall anything I asked for that I didn't get. Santa always told us to keep our lists short, just a couple things, and he usually came thru for us.

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a puppy. My sister is allergic to dogs and cats and I can remember trying my best to give her to anyone who would take her. ( the oil man, the mail man,) didnt matter as long as she was gone so I could get a puppy!

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An Easy Bake Oven too. I had 7 brothers and sisters so that was too expensive. But I did get Barbie when it first came out. My dad's company had a Christmas party for the children every year. It was at a movie theatre. We saw a movie and Santa. Each child was given 2 fullsize bags of candy (which my mom collected and put away 8 kids = 16 bags) But the best part was that each child got a toy. These were the latest toys. Since my dad was a foreman, we got first choice. I was in 6th grade and it was one of the first years Barbie came out (it could have been the first year) They only got 2 dozen but my dad made sure I got one. My brother got a Rifle man gun that year.

They sure were!!

If you had gotten one I bet they would have let you take it with you when you moved out I think they live a long time and now you would have an unusual pet now.

I didn't know that either!!
I bet we missed out on a bunch of good stuff!

Hmm, cant really think of anything. Btw. my aunts and my gram (and mom), i always got a lot. But i do remember, it was what they thought I should have, not what I asked for. I do remember being older and wanting a black leather jacket. Mom got me this really thick brown one because "it looks better with your complexion."
My daughter is asking for a horse this year. *sigh* At the mall, she was sitting on Santa's lap, and he called me over. She had asked for a horse and a barn and hay. LMAO. he told me that he was very sorry but didnt think that would be possible. I told him, very gratefully, that i understood and it was probably for the best. All the other years she had begged for a dog, She got one last year and then got another one (so the kid has two dogs- which, for a six year old, she does take VERY good care of and helps us out immensely with them). She had started asking for a little brother or sister but we squashed that one pretty quick.
For years, I asked DH for a karoake machine and he alwys said no. Said I'd never use it. Finally, I think it was two christmases ago, he got me one. My DD and I used the heck out of it.
This year all I asked for was the DVD The Devil Wears Prada. We'll see.

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If you do a Google search Easy Bake Oven recipes there are several sites with recipes.


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When I was about 5 all I wanted was the game Hungry, Hungry Hippos. Never got it. It's so silly, but I can't wait until my daughter is old enough so I can buy it for her - she's only 4 1/2 months now. With my luck, she'll have no interest in it. LOL

I really can't complain....got about everything I wanted most of the time. But I desperately wanted a leather jacket for a few years and never got one.

God I got everything except a brand new corvette when I got my licensce JUST KIDDIN. Actually I didn't get Easy Bake Oven and Lite Brite. I have made sure my girls got both to put an end to that chapter.

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Add me to the Easy Bake oven list. My Aunt even bought me a huge cake mix set so I thought for sure I must be getting an oven . I didn't . Guess what I have bought every one of my nieces and now my 2 grandaughters over the years yep easy Bake ovens. I bought Baily the new one for Christmas this year it looks likea real stove and they no longer bake from a lightbulb. I can't wait to try it LOL!

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I really wanted a Spirograph, but I was always told no. I had plenty of horses, but I wanted to draw something.

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Wow - the memories. I really wanted "go go boots" (the shiny white knee-length boots; think circa 1974). I also really wished for our family to have a station wagon (I loved the look of the wood paneling ), but we never got that either.

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I always wanted Legos! They weren't a "girl" toy, so I never got any. Now that I have a son that loves Legos, I never refuse to add to the collection. We literally have 3 under the bed rolling storage containers crammed so full we can barely put the lids on! Ha Ha Mom, got my Legos after all! DS and I spend hours creating with them.

Cabbage Patch Doll
My mom sewed and made us some "homemade" cabbage patch dolls. Not like the real thing though.

This year my two little girls 3 1/2 and 1 1/2 are each getting a cabbage patch newborn.

I am still waiting for the "Peace and Quiet" that I have been asking for repeatedly for Christmas....

I am going to sound like the biggest b----, but when I was young I got things like a Barbie doll, but it was the Dollar Store brand. I never got any fancy dress from a store - my mom would make them all - and her sewing skills left somethings to be desired. Now, this sounds fine, but my father was chief engineer of a steel company. There was money - when my dad died ten years ago he left my mom over 1/2 mil. My mother is bipolar and money was her only security so the more she accumulated , the closer to happy she became. Each time she had to spend money the worst she was. I remember driving home from the grocery store and her putting the gas pedal to the floor and yelling she just wanted to drive off a cliff and kill us all. When we were adults my dad said when he would go to work in the morning he would never know if when he came home at night if he would find us alive or not. I was not ALLOWED to go away to college or live outside the house. I worked and had to give 1/2 to my mother to live there, 1/3 to pay for college, and 1/3 to buy my clothes, maintain my car, and spend as I wish(ha, ha!). My mom is still bipolar with passive/aggressive defiance disorder and alsheimers. Yes, my sisters and I care for herand she receives good care. We take her to get her hair done twice a week, her nails done weekly, and out to activities everyday. When she can no longer live with us and needs nursing care whe will go to the nicest facility. Why, because that's the way all people should be treated. My dad felt guilty about our lives, but we reassured him that his staying with her kept us alive - and no judge during our childhood wold grant custody of three little girs to a man. Oh, the money, we've decided it will all be devided among our favorite charities if there is any after she is gone. The money would never bring any of us any happiness.

A strawberry short cake doll.
My mom took me shopping to "help her pick out a doll for my sister". I picked out the blueberry one for my sister because I wanted Strawberry shortcake and knew they wouldn't get us the same doll. I thought I had it all worked out and was all excited when I seen my present wrapped up because it was the same size box that the blueberry doll was in that I helped pick out for my sister. When I opened it, it was the stupid blueberry one I pick out for my sister and she ended up getting Strawberry Short cake.

I won't ask one of my kids to help me pick out a gift for the other one unless the gift is going to be from them.

Me too! And guess what my parents bought their first granddaughter- the Inchworm!

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My sister got my son one of these for xmas this year. Although it's not the girly one, it's the blue one called the "real meal" oven. I've seen the mixes and they are so expensive!! BUT, you can always buy regular boxes of cake mix, etc. and just portion it out. I've seen some websites with the recipes as well.