Sunday, December 7, 2008

All I Want For Christmas...

What were some of your most memorable Christmas presents growing up? These are some of my favorite toys that are sure to give you children of the 70's/80's the weird feeling! (ps. I totally stole this idea from Devri)

Woodsies- These were probably my favorite toy of childhood. I played with these until it was really just inappropriate. Squeakity Squeak
Star Wars and my Star Wars figures- Although I never got the original Princess Leia in white, only the Empire Strikes back Leia... the one in the brown. Not as cool.

Holy Panasonic tape player!- Did I rock out to my Sesame Street tapes and record myself for hours singing Disco Duck and Smokey the Bear?... Yes I did.










Barbie Townhouse with elevator-, the creme de la creme of Christmas gifts! I had one, and it was my most favorite thing in the whole world. Then my sister got mad and crushed it.

10 comments:

Jen said...

I totally got that Barbie dream house! It was so cool, but my cousin sat on the elevator and broke it. Thanks for the blast from the past.

Janine said...

I really, really, really wanted that Barbie townhouse. And her car. And I ended up with hand-me-down Barbies from a neighbour and clothes sewn by my mom.

Tinker Toys were big with us (maybe that's why we are all engineers).

And the big item - an Atari game system. Hours of entertainment

Mia said...

I remember one year that I got a beautiful and extremely breakable porcelain doll that I sooo wanted to play with but I was terrified of breaking her. It was a horrible dilemma for a girl.

Devri said...

Steal all you want woman..Do you need help with the curling method chelsea told you about, it is too easy peasy pumkin pie. let me know.

Thanks for the love..Tutu's are in the mail

You know which were my fav growing up..

Anonymous said...

Oh my goodness,,, I totally forgot about disc duck! I skated to that song for to long!

The Millers said...
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Unknown said...

You were on of the cool girl's who got the dream house with the elevator. I always wanted that, but my friend down the street got it. One of the toys I remember is the Barbie head that you could do the make-up and hair on. Yeah, I chop her hair off.

The Millers said...

That Townhouse had it coming.

a wynn wynn situation said...

Serious flashback! Holy cow! How did we survive back in the day??

Mindi said...

oh. my. GOSH. my friend TOTALLY had the barbie dream house and i was green with envy! although looking back, i shouldn't have been as my mom and dad made me one that was so much better and hand made and lovingly crafted--ahhh, youth.

and that tape cassette recorder just made me SNORT.

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