I Wish I Still Had.....

[Duke]

Is there something, or a collection of somethings, from your childhood you wished you still had, and why?

Is its value to you monetary (like now valuable old baseball cards) or sentimental (maybe a doll/toy your grandmother gave you?)

Do you know what happened to the item(s) you'd like to reacquire?

 

[ozentity]

I had a collection of lead soldiers my grandad gave me. I don't know what happened to them but it's a good thing as the young grandsons would probably chew on them.

 

[Paulm]

theres a few things i wish i still had. just for the cool factor of certain toys, or comics...not for the monetary value though, i rarely even think of the actual value of stuff. i go through mid century furniture and antiques like water, find them, refinish them to new like status and then let them go dirt cheap.... so monetary value is rarely a thought...... just remembering back to that time or place would be a more meaningful reasoning....

 

[garnetsilver]

I wish I had a lot of the books that I collected when I was a child. They got lost in a move. I have managed to find the same titles of most of the books that i lost, but its not the same, of course.

 

[Ragnar0711]

I had a very thick/huge photo album full of pics of all of my family, many who have passed and photos of me growing up, from birth to highschool...it weighed at least 10 pounds or more I miss it and would be the happiest person on the planet to have again...

 

[garnetsilver]

I know what its like to lose one of a kind pictures. My brother took a bunch of family photos to his girlfriend's house, and there was a fire and they were gone forever.

 

[Lone]

I had an 1854 half dime in excellent condition - minus the hole at the top because somebody had worn it as a necklace that I wish I still had. Somehow, someway, it was lost in the shuffle and never seen again.

 

[Debi]

I had my mom's collection of miniature glass animals. Loved those things but lost them in the moves over time. Also had a ring of hers that I cherished but was "disappeared" by someone.

 

[Benway]

My younger relatives didn't appreciate my Transformers. I had some of the early metal ones and it doesn't look like anything like them will be made again, so no hope of buying anything similar. I'd just love to be able to play around with a replica cool car or gun than flips and twists about into a robot again! Even the plastic ones that also slotted together into a big robot would be a fun thing to mess around with now. As an older child I should have been more of a *******.
I'd also like back all the comics I wrote and drew as a child and teen, given that every page was stolen! Terry Pratchet (on hearing that he was the most shoplifted author) said it was flattering, and I do look at it that way, but... really I kick myself because we had an actual photocopier at home and limitless paper so I could have stashed the originals and given copies out. Though that wouldn't have stopped the theft of my comic box when I moved house. So I also wish I had a time machine so I could go back and take that box for myself before that thieving git got to it!

 

[Selectric]

Don't think there is an item i no longer have that i can't live without. I do miss my first car only for the fact that sense of adventure and freedom will never be duplicated. I can certainly live without that car because i do not miss repairing it on a weekly basis.