I was never allowed to have a nintendo or any gaming system...I am bitter to this day because do feel it has caused me pain and suffereing since now I am made fun of when I do get a chance to play because it is quite evident that I've had NO PRACTICE and I SUCK at video games !
but I suppose I can forgive because if nintendo is the only thing I was deprived of as a child I'm pretty well taken care of ;)

I cracked my head open on a windshield instead while I was on my rollerblades.

Seriously.

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I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted one of those too. But my mom thinks that kids should have to supply their own power (my parents were all about me being active as a kid; didn't want me being fat...and they wonder why I refuse to give up running now, despite being injured)

I wanted one of those dogs that you could walk on a leash that barked and stuff. It was white and fluffy. can't remember the name of it now though...

I always wanted a phone in my bedroom but my parents would never get one for me. :(

A personal telephone line!! I didn't get one until this year!

I wanted piano or violin lessons. My parents got me recorder lessons instead. Recorder = MOST BORING INSTRUMENT EVER. They told me that if I practiced, "maybe" I could get piano or violin lessons later on. After a few years of "maybe next year" I gave up trying to change their minds. But now I sing :)

I also wanted a kitty cat. My parents didn't want a cat around the house. I brought the cutest kitten home one day, in the hopes that they would fall in love with his sweet face, but they made me return him :(

When my parents got married, they planned to have two kids. They had two daughters, and my mom thought it would be nice to buy each of them a rocking chair that they could one day take and give to one of their children.


And then three years later, the surprise came along. Yep, me. And at that point, my parents didn't have as large an income as they had when they bought the other rocking chairs, so I never got one. And I personally think that sucks since I'm more into tradition and heirlooms than both of my sisters COMBINED.

I want my rocking chair.

I wanted a chimpanzee or an orangutang (sp?)... I had everything else BUT the monkey!

You should have asked for a gorilla. I bet that they would have gotten you that.

I wanted the barbie dream house and the barbie corvette and i wanted ice skates but my parents figured there was not much use for ice skates since no ice skating rink near by.

When I was younger I wanted a Quarter Horse sooooo bad...but of course any kind of horse would have sufficed. :p I never got it, but hey, my sister has one now so I can play catch-up.

There were the typical stupid kid things. My mom had this issue with the game Mousetrap. I thought it looked so cool and she had this aversion to buying it for me, probably because of all the tiny parts. I now have two young kids who want the same damn game and when I think of it all I can picture are a million little plastic pieces all over the house. I wanted a canopy bed and I never got one. Then I wanted a waterbed (hey it was the 70s) and I never got that either. I did get a brand-new set of "adult" furniture with a big bed when I was 12, so I guess they made up for that.

The one that really hurts even now is my VW Beetle. Right after I turned 15 I started campaigning for what kind of car I wanted. I had been obsessed with Beetles since childhood and I even had those VW magazines I had torn pinups out of with the really cool restored Bugs and the requisite bikini models all over my room. Well my dad never let on that he took it seriously so I didn't know what to expect. And then, as my birthday approached, the new model year cars came out and I remember the first time I laid eyes on the 1988 Camaro Iroc-Z.....it was the coolest thing I had ever seen! I talked about that car incessantly, not knowing that my dad had already found me a perfectly restored '67 Beetle in Miami....flawless paint, upgraded sound system, sunroof......he had put a deposit down to hold it and when I started going on about the Iroc-Z he thought I didn't want a VW anymore. So he cancelled!!!!!! I didn't find out about this until like a year later. Needless to say I didn't get the Iroc, he thought that was a little too much car for a 16 year-old. I ended up getting an '85 VW Golf that I drove until my 18th birthday, when he decided I was finally mature enough to handle a sporty new car. I've still never satisfied my desire for a VW Bug.

Re: What was the one thing you wanted but your parents didn't buy for you?
 

uhhh me too- were you that other kid drooling in toys r us too a few years back?? once my parents agreed to get one- i was too big for it.... i think it was just a mind game....;)

when i was a little girl....an american girl doll (samantha to be specific). they bought me all the books instead (and in retrospect it was a good idea....i only wanted one because a bunch of my friends had them, but i never really played with dolls as a kid)


for the past three years....a new bed. :(