losing posssions as a child

[zzxxee]

I was chatting to the otherhalf last night, about this soft monkey toy i had when i was about six. After going on a train ride to the seaside with my nan, we left the train and it pulled away. To my horror my toy monkey went with it never to be seen again !!!!!!
what childhood toy/ possesion did you loose never to be seen again that you miss ?

[boxtops]

ZZxxee, I had forgotten - I left my teddy on the train once. The stationmaster was brilliant, he rang the next station and they put Teddy on the next train back.
Let's hope your monkey found a good adoptive home!

[horseshoes]

It's not that I lost them but the ones I remember with fondness, I've managed to buy again on places like eBay. My last purchase was a little mirrored dressing table, only about 4 inches tall, with little wooden chinese figures on. I've aslo managed to find a couple of my favourite books - one was in New Zealand! I'm now looking for a leather camel I had . I've seen one in a show case in the castle up the road, so I think I may have a fruitless search on this one. My husband thinks I'm mad.

[albaqwerty]

It's not really classed as lost, but when I was 10 my mum decided that we were downsizing and my older borthers had left home, but my dolls house didn't move with us.
My dad had made it when I was either 2 or 3 for a Christmas pressie.

[boxtops]

My one regret is that when I left home, I left my old Hornby train set in the shed. It was going rusty and when my parents moved, they chucked it out. It would have been worth a few bob now!
I still have a few of my old dollies and softies - Teddy's lost his leg now (my brother sat on him - gee, fifty years ago!) but three or four others are still lurking up in the loft somewhere.

[ummmm]

I don't remember ever having a toy that held any sentimental value.

My son, like you, had a monkey that was left on a train.

[zzxxee]

awwww alba thats heart breaking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[rowanwitch]

Our toys were regularly handed on to other children when mum decided we'd outgrown them only art stuff, board games and my sisters Barbies stayed in the house apart from my first teddybear I think he might be in a storage bag in the lock up

[albaqwerty]

zz it wasn't posh or fancy, a 2 up 2 down and a huge front hinged door to gain access to the 4 rooms. When shut each room had it's own windows and it's own little front (red) door and a plastic roof. Must have had an outside loo I think :D

[boxtops]

I do remember being distraught - aged about 3 - when my mother gave away a stuffed dog to something like Barnados, to help other little children. I didn't play with it, it sat on a shelf, but I still loved it. Mother tried to make us selfless by thinking of others, but even at that young age I would have liked to have made that decision myself - but when I went to my bedroom, it had gone. I still remember how upset I was, Mum didn't realise how attached to it I was. It's strange the things you remember from infancy.

[zzxxee]

there are other toys i didnt loose but remember with fondness like my rag doll rosie rasgs wonder what happened to her ???

[missnemesis]

When I was little my favourite thing was a little brass bell on a red ribbon. Sad I know but it was in the days of Chuck Berry's My Ding a Ling. I loved that bell with all my heart then when I was 5 we moved house and my mum said it got lost in the flitting. Sniff, sniff.

Years later she confessed to having thrown it out!!!!!!! :'(

[zzxxee]

naughty mum missnemesis !!!! x

[albaqwerty]

when we moved 6 years ago, I asked my children what they wanted to take/give to charity etc as I remember my pain.

[boxtops]

That's a nice idea, alba.

[missnemesis]

She knows that forgiveness ain't coming anytime soon zzxxee >:- [

Do you think 35 years too long to hold a grudge?

[albaqwerty]

you're only starting to warm up I'm on year 37 :D

[boxtops]

LOL @ missnemesis, I know what you mean!

[zzxxee]

wonder if my mum got rid of rosie rags ?? :( god thats got me thinking now !!!

[missnemesis]

Why would a mother do such a thing? Lost I could handle but a deliberate act to separate a child from it's ding-a-ling is, is......... just WRONG!!!

I'm going off to find my Chuck Berry CD and have a good cry!

[zzxxee]

(((((hugs))))) miss n x