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Debi said:
The orange track that used to run through my living room? Remember it well...lol

Those Hot Wheels took a beating from you guys. I think I once found my kids playing wrecking yard with a hammer and a bunch of Hot Wheels.
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Life requires we hack our junk cars Debi. Your boys were simply following their inclination to “recycle”.
 
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Debi said:
Some of those little junkers are worth a fortune now! lol
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Unfortunately, you are very right. Who would have thought that people would pay really greAt money for our old toys.

So real story. In early 90s when my Mom died, I cleared some of my personal possessions from her home. This included throwing away an unopened plastic model I had in a closest. My brother-in-law asked me that same night if I wanted to join him and my nephew on a trip to a toy convention the very next day. We went and I saw a seller with that exact same plastic model - in an opened box which is less desirable than unopened state - for sale for $83.00. I so wanted to dive into the dumpster to see if I could recover my model and resell it.
 
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Remember amusing ourselves with a Coke bottle and a bunch of bottle rockets?
Firecrackers in empty soup cans?
 
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Paintman said:
Remember amusing ourselves with a Coke bottle and a bunch of bottle rockets?
Firecrackers in empty soup cans?
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My boys had more bottle rocket wars than I care to think about. I'm amazed nobody lost an eye. And my middle son blew up more than soup cans! lol
 
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You haven't truly lived until you give up your dining room for this 7'6" toy for your boys. Or the IKEA "some assembly required" of it's over 1,000 pieces.
 
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UK equivalent of GI Joe of which I had several over my younger years. One Christmas day I got a talking version (you pulled a string which was a dog tag), but, they also got me a diving suit suit to go with it. Sneaked upstairs and filled the bath and went diving, it never talked again. Next version was a paratrooper, dad launched it from the garden and it ended up on the roof with no access and didn't get it back for weeks.
 
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Debi said:
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You haven't truly lived until you give up your dining room for this 7'6" toy for your boys. Or the IKEA "some assembly required" of it's over 1,000 pieces.
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For boys, something like this was always the Holy Grail of the holiday - the bigger the better.
 
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