What was your "Red Ryder BB Gun" gotta-have-it gift?

[jbeany]

Like the movie, was there a gift you "just couldn't live without" when you were little?  Did you get it?

When I was nine, I wanted a dollhouse, and got a fabulous one with working electric lights.  My dad handmade most of the furniture.  I used to love playing with it.  I had everything for it, right down to individual pieces of silverware, and plates of homemade clay food, like milk and oreo cookies.  It had a little stereo that actually had tiny headphones that plugged into it, and teensy little albums with records in them.

I kept it until two years ago, when I passed it on to my best friend's little girl when she turned 9.  Now she and her little sister play with it all the time.

[kitkatz]

My bicycle- Mercury.  I had that bike until I was thirteen years old and rode it everyhere.  I named it Mercury and treated it like it was my friend.

[Sara]

I never did get my pony.     ( )

[vandie]

Mine was a Holly Hobbie dollhouse with several small dolls.  It was a plastic house that folded up with a handle.  I loved that thing.

[tubes]

i would have to say those big yellow metal tonka trucks.   i loved those things.  i think i had about 6 of em.
i wish i would of kept them.  they dont make em like that anymore.

[Fox_nc]

I didn't really have one as a kid, but this year it's a Wii . .. it looks like so much fun!

[Joe Paul]

Mine, as I mentioned in a previous thread, was a "Johnny Express", a battery powered tractor, with a flatbed trailer.That thing was HUGE, about 4 feet long (tractor & trailer).

[Sluff]

A chestnut brown colored 10 speed scwhinn bicycle. And I got one.

[angela515]

I basically got everything I ever wanted as a kid I was very fortunate.. however right now, I want a Wii also, like Foxie... I am going to start saving and buy me one... looks like loads of fun!

[goofynina]

Every year it was something different and every year i always got what i wanted, i was very Blessed by all my family (a little spoiled too)  But there was the one year when cabbage patch kids came out, i was older already and i wanted one just to have it, and low and behold i got an official cabbage patch doll,  my mom said she stood in line for 3 hours and she had to take an oath in front of everyone in line (they all did)  that doll was $150.00, and i still have her, she is beautiful

[Joe Paul]

Every year it was something different and every year i always got what i wanted, i was very Blessed by all my family (a little spoiled too)  But there was the one year when cabbage patch kids came out, i was older already and i wanted one just to have it, and low and behold i got an official cabbage patch doll,  my mom said she stood in line for 3 hours and she had to take an oath in front of everyone in line (they all did)  that doll was $150.00, and i still have her, she is beautiful

Lots like her "Mom" I bet 

[goofynina]

*awwww* thank you Joe Paul,  hey, i wonder how HER kidneys are??  hmmmmm,  Baby, mama has a favor to ask...

[Foxys-Boy-Toy]

As hard as this may be to believe, mine was a red rider BB gun. My Mom said I couldn't have one because I might put my eye out. I swear I'm telling the truth!

[Hawkeye]

We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up.  We always had what we needed, and were thankfull for it.  One year my parents got my brother and me a Nintendo for x-mas, that at the time was the coolest thing ever.

[mallory]

My Grandpa used to have a horse named Bourbon.  I loved that horse and that's what I wanted for Christmas.  My Mom took me to see Santa at the mall and I told him I wanted Bourbon for Christmas.  My poor Mom was trying to explain to Santa that Bourbon was a horse, I wasn't a four year old drinker!

Also, I always loved flashlights.  Still do, can't explain it, I love flashlights.

[Sluff]

Did you get it this year?

[kitkatz]

I got my super duper paper shredder. I will try not to shred my cat or shred a finger off!

[meadowlandsnj]

Like the movie, was there a gift you "just couldn't live without" when you were little?  Did you get it?

I remember when I was little there was this huge doll head that you can put make-up on--like a Barbie type head with perfect features and blond hair.  It came with make-up and hair rollers.  I wanted this so bad......I did end up getting it but I got bored with it real fast.  It didn't really do anything and putting lipstick on a doll head gets old real quick.  Then I wanted to wear make-up, and of course my mother put an end to that. 

[Foxys-Boy-Toy]

I never got a BB gun, but after some talking and whining and conniving, and convincing with the wife my 14 year old son just got his first BB gun. I am happy to report after his first day of shooting, he still has both eyes!

Live vicariously through your children!!!!!

[mallory]

I did get my horse, Bourbon, sort of.  My Grandpa told me the horse was mine after Christmas, but that it still had to live at his house since I lived in the city.  That was fine with me. 

And, I got two flashlights this year.  So it was a good year for me!