Childhood Treasures

• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 11:51

  I believe most of us have some toys which we treasured during our childhood days. What are they and do you stil have them?
  
  Sad to say I have none left as they were either given away or thrown away as they were all worn out.
  
  Anyway these are a few of my so-called childhood treasures:
  
  1. Squeaky toy duck
  Loved it so much that my mum said it's the first word I learnt. 'Duck' (Btw I can't remember this but my mum had this journal of me growing up )
  
  2. Squeaky toy cat
  Not sure what happened to it. But, from what I know, I have this thing about squeaky toys and shoes when I was young
  
  3. Porcelain Cat piggy bank
  Really beautiful cat which I got for my birthday but kids being kids....broke it by accident and cried my eyes out
  
  4. Tiny rubber ball that can bounce really high
  
  5. Collection of shells and pebbles (still have them)
  
  6. A jewel My Little Pony (still have it)
  
  7. This Japanese toy doll (not sure what happened to it)
  
  8. A Pomar Swiss Made Wind-up watch given to me by my grand aunt.
  I still wear it but I had to change the stripe.
  
  
• laurence82

  2 Mar 06, 11:55

  Oh dear, toys no, other odds and ends yes
  
  My mum told me I demolished every toy i had way back then, even a box of toys my grandma bought for her notti grandkids
  
  To my grandmama in heaven, i am sorry...
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 11:56

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  Oh dear, toys no, other odds and ends yes
  
  My mum told me I demolished every toy i had way back then, even a box of toys my grandma bought for her notti grandkids
  
  To my grandmama in heaven, i am sorry...

  What kind of odds and ends?
  Dead lizard?
• Rhonda

  2 Mar 06, 12:01

  I have plenty of childhood treasures and a few of them are still around, thanks to grandma, who keeps the toys 'for my kids'.
  
  
  
  Anyways, here are a few of them :
  
  - Long-necked giraffe on wheels with different-coloured rings around its neck. The rings get larger around the base. I loved that toy, for some reason or other! As I grew up, I didn't play with the rings around its neck as much but still, I loved to have it around.
  
  - Kiddy plastic stool with a red top and beige base. I upturned it and it became my 'stove' for imitating the porridge lady! I even imitated how she would knock her scoop against the side of the saucepan just before she pours the porridge into bowls!
  
  - Kiddy Dim Sum Trolley with fake food, a teapot set and a fake birthday cake. My absolute favourite toy!! We weren't rich and mom had to save up for a few weeks then before she could afford to purchase that for me.
  
  - Giant Panda Soft Toy from uncle. I loved it to bits cause when I was a kiddo, it was taller than me! However, grandma wanted to keep it in pristine condition, , so she kept it in a large transparent plastic cover and only let me play with it on my birthdays! A few years back, she wanted to show how well-kept it still was but when she removed the cover, fur flew all over! She should've jus tlet me play with it when I was a kiddy !
  
  - Red and Yellow 'Tractor' that my brother and I would ride around the house. We used to fight over whose turn it was to ride the tractor. It was discarded years later when the wheels got so worn-out smooth, we'd try to pedal as hard as we could but still remain on the same spot!
  
  Hmm... can't remember the other toys for now. Will add another post in here as and when I can recall.
  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  2 Mar 06, 12:01

  Soft toys only.
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 12:04

  Haha, well my brother and I were kinda spolit when we were kids.
  
  We got all we wanted including those expensive battery operated MASK vehicles and all
  
  I guess when you have too many things to play with, you don't really treasure anything?
  
  Funny thing is that the toys I mentioned are nothing fancy.
• the Bear

  2 Mar 06, 12:05

  nothing left...
  
  not even that toy-truck of building blocks which i adored..
  
  i guess they're just things...
  
  besides, most of childhood spent catching stuff like bugs, spiders, fish, influenza, rashes and mosquito bites
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 12:07

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  nothing left...
  
  not even that toy-truck of building blocks which i adored..
  
  i guess they're just things...
  
  besides, most of childhood spent catching stuff like bugs, spiders, fish, influenza, rashes and mosquito bites

  Did those too. Caught grasshoppers, spiders, tadpoles, fish, bugs and attracting a whole coloney of ants as well (I did some awful things with a jar of honey)
• Rhonda

  2 Mar 06, 12:09

  Remember those tin toys that have patterns and what-not printed on them? I used to have plenty of those too!
  
  There was this creepy-looking clown that would ride a bike when you wound him up. He looks like Chucky's uncle like that!
  
  
  
  And then, there was this plastic green frog that would paddle with his hind legs if you wound him up. I used to bring that into the bath with me!
• coffeeortea

  2 Mar 06, 12:10

  every single plushie and soft toy that i have kept, named, and owned even until today.
• Rhonda

  2 Mar 06, 12:12

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  nothing left...
  
  not even that toy-truck of building blocks which i adored..
  
  i guess they're just things...
  
  besides, most of childhood spent catching stuff like bugs, spiders, fish, influenza, rashes and mosquito bites

  I was closely-watched and not allowed to venture out into the fields and climb trees and what-not, although I did try whenever grandma or mom wasn't watching, but then, would kena spanked later!
  
  Never got to torture insects, though I gave many cockles 'injections' with toothpicks when grandma dumped them into this huge enamel basin, waiting for the water to boil before she flash-boiled them to eat. I used to wait till the cockles opened up their shells, then pricked them until some of them bled, and closed their shells. Didn't occur to me back then that that was cruel.
  
  
• shinta

  2 Mar 06, 12:13

  thrown away.. all of them
  
  the only things mama kept was.... clothes we wore when we were still babies
  
  
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 12:13

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  Remember those tin toys that have patterns and what-not printed on them? I used to have plenty of those too!
  
  There was this creepy-looking clown that would ride a bike when you wound him up. He looks like Chucky's uncle like that!
  
  
  
  And then, there was this plastic green frog that would paddle with his hind legs if you wound him up. I used to bring that into the bath with me!

  OHHHH
  
  I forgot! I still have this wind-up toy of the Japanese River boy which I always placed in my bath. It's one of my brother's fav too and we used to fight over it when we were young!
  
  I think tin toys were not popular when it came to my time
• the Bear

  2 Mar 06, 12:14

  cult leader led a sheltered life
  
  

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  I was closely-watched and not allowed to venture out into the fields and climb trees and what-not, although I did try whenever grandma or mom wasn't watching, but then, would kena spanked later!
  
  Never got to torture insects, though I gave many cockles 'injections' with toothpicks when grandma dumped them into this huge enamel basin, waiting for the water to boil before she flash-boiled them to eat. I used to wait till the cockles opened up their shells, then pricked them until some of them bled, and closed their shells. Didn't occur to me back then that that was cruel.
  
  

• laurence82

  2 Mar 06, 12:16

  hmm, we dont have some of the ingredients pinky bear has listed out
  
  so we decided to bake the salmon with margarine
  
  by the way, Giant no longer sell Norweigian salmons, and the new salmot cuts they have this sickly orange colour
  
  
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 12:17

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

  I was closely-watched and not allowed to venture out into the fields and climb trees and what-not, although I did try whenever grandma or mom wasn't watching, but then, would kena spanked later!
  
  Never got to torture insects, though I gave many cockles 'injections' with toothpicks when grandma dumped them into this huge enamel basin, waiting for the water to boil before she flash-boiled them to eat. I used to wait till the cockles opened up their shells, then pricked them until some of them bled, and closed their shells. Didn't occur to me back then that that was cruel.
  
  

  Yuck
  I hate cockles. One of the items I won't eat followed by squid and liver
  
  I like to eat sea snails though (round shells not the pointy shells).....not sure what they are really called but we used to go to Port Dickson and pick them off the beach to cook along with white clams.
  
  My mum used to come from a village near the sea in Port Dickson and there was a huge mangrove there too near the sea. Lots of clams there and edible sea snails.
  
  Too bad everything there is gone now and the sea is polluted
  
  We could find Large tiger prawns and squid in the rock pools then and even nice huge fishes and crabs and stuff like that
• laurence82

  2 Mar 06, 12:18

  i just realised that my earlier post is at the wrong place
  
  i go correct that now
  
  
  
  
• Rhonda

  2 Mar 06, 13:22

  Originally posted by laurence82:

  i just realised that my earlier post is at the wrong place
  
  i go correct that now
  
  
  
  

  Yeah, I was wondering, "HUH?!"
• FireIce

  2 Mar 06, 13:27

  my LEGO
  
  or rather, watever is left............
• cornyfish2000

  2 Mar 06, 13:37

  For me it was my Sunshine Bear, the yellow one in the Care Bear series.
  
  And of course, my Lego sets... lots and lots of them...
  and my Tintin comics... i think i got the entire collection.
  
  As for bugs and stuff that some of you mentioned, my hobby in primary school was to catch those little ladybugs (or are they called ladybirds) from the school field with those transparent cassette tape holders.
  
  And marbles! My primary school teacher used to give the student who could answer her questions correctly a so-called 'crystal marble'..
• the Bear

  2 Mar 06, 13:46

  strangely, they're supposed to be called ladybirds (i think the person who named them was on drugs) but everyone calls them ladybugs
• choco B

  2 Mar 06, 14:22

  Hmm... nope nope. My toys are all disposed of, and I made my mom throw the soft toys away, never was a fan of them heheh
  
  I kept my barbie dolls for the longest time till it felt abit ridiculous after the wad, third house move that I still had 'em , and I didn't have a proper place to display them anyway, so I threw them away too
  
  I do have an old autograph book though, from primary and secondary school.
  
  "birds fly high, hard to catch
  friends like you, hard to forget!"
  
  Hahah poetic stuff.
• the Bear

  2 Mar 06, 14:25

  coulda flogged the barbie dolls on eBay
• elindra

  2 Mar 06, 14:27

  Originally posted by choco B:

  Hmm... nope nope. My toys are all disposed of, and I made my mom throw the soft toys away, never was a fan of them heheh
  
  I kept my barbie dolls for the longest time till it felt abit ridiculous after the wad, third house move that I still had 'em , and I didn't have a proper place to display them anyway, so I threw them away too
  
  I do have an old autograph book though, from primary and secondary school.
  
  "birds fly high, hard to catch
  friends like you, hard to forget!"
  
  Hahah poetic stuff.

  What about:
  
  Roses are Red
  Violets are blue
  Friends like me
  Will aways stay true
  
  Yeah I still have those but I think I need to dig for them
• The man who was death

  2 Mar 06, 19:31

  Got one wooden train with blocks still kept at mah mah's place.
  
  One toy bowling set and one timer thingy still left.
  
  all at mah mah's place