was there anything as a child you really wanted but never got?

I too wanted to go to Disneyland, and never went, even as an adult. I also wanted to go to La Ronde (an amusement park here in Montreal) my dad said he'd bring one day...i ended up going by myself with some friends for the first time when i was 16 yrs old...i'd been waiting since i was 8! I wanted a leather jacket badly when i was in highschool, my dad bought me one, with his hard earned money and warned me not to wear it to school...i told him, but why would they steal mine if EVERYBODY has one? Well...next day, i came home crying and frozen (it was winter) cuz someone had busted into my locker and stole my brand new leather jacket with house keys and id cards in it...never got another one..

A kangaroo. Don't laugh, I swear this is true. You see, one time when my Dad went to Australia, he asked me what I wanted. I said I wanted a kangaroo. He said ok. So all the time when he was away, I was waiting for my very own kangaroo. When he got back, I didn't see my kangaroo. He tried to humor me by giving me a camera (which turned out to be a fake one that I believed was real - but that's another story) and I was somewhat mollified. So the one thing that I can recall off the cuff that I did not get but wanted as a child was a kangaroo. You know, that animal with pockets that bounces.:P

To be honest there wasa no money around when we were kids.I did want nice clothes as i grew up but i usually wore hand me downs from my big sisters.I try to get my children nice things but i dont overspoil them as they wont appreciate that.They want lots of things as they grow up but is it a good idea to give in? Am i any better a person for not getting nice things?I do'nt know the answer to that but i know i am not bitter about it. not in the least.I know people who are though and it just spoils their life.We grew up without a television in the house and that is the one thing i would have loved to have. In school everyone was discussing the programmes they had watched and i couldnt join in. Sometimes i pretended i had seen the programmes but there was one girl who knew i had no tv and she would give me a "look" and tell me off for telling lies.

Yes, there have been several items in which I found myself wanting and never receiving. I wanted designer brand name clothes and shoes and my family couldn't afford them so I lived with hand me downs from friends or clearance sale clothing from walmart or kmart. there was an ongoing joke about us kids in our family. My brother and our cousins would call ourselves the K-Mart Kids. We had a great sense of humor even though it was kind of embarrassing at school. I wanted a Cabbage Patch doll but never received one. I received a Cabbage Patch Koosa, which as less expensive...just not the same. I wanted a Barbie Doll, but I couldn't have one because the Darci Doll as cheaper and the Skipper Doll was on sale. Skipper lost her head in the toilet when my brother decided he wanted to make the toilet into a jacuzzi. She dove in and came out headless when he flushed the toilet. I wanted The Michael Jackson Thriller album, but instead my mom bought me the Thriller view-finder of the video which was much cheaper than the album. So, I could flip through the scenes to my hearts content. However, zombies just don't affect you the same way flipping through still shots as they do in motion, not to mention the effect is not the same when you have the song in your head and not in real life. those are just a few things that I never received as a child. I will say that I am glad that I didn't get everything I wanted. I give my daughter just about everything that she wants and she is spoiled rotten. She doesn't want to work for anything and she isn't motivated. She doesn't know how to want anything so badly that she will work to get it. My daughter just expects to get it on Christmas or her birthday.

I always have wanted a real drum set. See I had one when i was real young but it was a little trainer/junior, toddler drumset and what i did was played them ragedy. so they through it away.

When i'm a child, i really wanted to have an astronomical telescope. I am interested in the sky with millions stars.But,it was so expensive to my family. Now,i have this ability to own one,and i'm planning to get one. I also want to get some toys with remote control,and i don't have interest in it now.

i know what you mean about your son getting what ever he wanted. i have 3 boys and they really don't need for anything but there is a couple things my oldest wants but will cost us about $600 each. we have 2 others so it just don't seem fair to get him and not the others and we just don't have the money to get them both something for that much. he will get it though just it takes a while to save up that much money. i always wanted a power wheels. the barbie jeep,i owuld see other kids with one and get so upset but my parents never had the money for one until i got older and was to big for one. now my kids have about 4 of them. lol

Hmmm I remember when I was young I really really wanted to go to England. Don't know why I liked to go when I was a kid. It was probably because of Princess Diana and she was sort of my idol then. Man I had such weird wants. I also wanted to visit the waterfalls and waterrapid somewhere. I was such a weird kid eh? I hope I can accomplish these things now. Hehe

I have not gone to Disneyland either, it's too far away from the Philippines then, but now, there's Hong Kong Disneyland much nearer than U.S.A., but as a child I didn't know about that. What I always wanted then were the Sanrio items that we can get from Gift Gate shops here but they were expensive, nevertheless I still was able to convince my mother then to buy me a hair brush with Little Twin Stars Characters which she bought for 100php, that's about less than 3dollars.

there are lot of things which i wanted and did not get, one being parrot, we wanted to keep a parrot in the house, but my uncle turned it down harshly. as he was more concerned for the cost of keeping it home. Than i wanted a bycycle, which i did not get it till very late in life. Now it seems it was a good decision by parents as i aloways had a risk of accident in the early age

Yes I have always wanted to go to adventureland and never got to go because we were poor also and I still haven't went and I am 51 and disabled so I guess it was just a dream of mine. and I always got my children things on a monthly basics because money was tight when I had my children to, and still to this day its still tight for my husband and me. so I know all to well what you are talking about

Oh god yes, I always always wanted a Mr frosty and every year I used to pray that he was under the tree but he never was (cry) even to this day I nag hubby to buy me a Mr frosty he never does though im sure that is why im scarred for life, all because of mr frosty!

When I was a child ,I wanted a tricycle strongly and crying to my mother.but I can't get it because of poor.It may be 20 years ago. So when my danghter was in the same situation,I bought it to her whithout any hesitate

i grew up in a family of thirteen kids ' we had the best of the best i had thousands of dolls but hated dolls , cause i was not allowed to play with them mum had pinned them to the walls all in line's , but one thing for sure was that i always wanted a metal-detecter i begged and pleaded but never got one . but i'am now 29 years old and my father finally brought me one two years ago ..... and guess what ive never used it since ive had it .... maybe cause im all grown up now and have no need for it...

I always wanted to go to Florida also but it never did happen. Disney World or Land would have been great too. I always wanted to go to Florida for spring break. My mom and dad were too poor back then also. We always went to Beach Bend Park every year though and it was alot of fun back then when my dad was living. We used to take our capmer and stay all night and we would also take grandma with us.

I remember wanting a bicycle so badly that I kept pestering my father to buy one for me. My father refused to buy saying it was a waste of money. One time, a good friend of my father asked him to buy a bicycle for his daughter. My father brought me and the girl to look for a bicycle. I just sat there in one corner feeling so forlorn and looking at the girl enviously. What makes matter worst was that my father paid it with his own money. To this day, I can still recall this sad memory and told myself never will I treat my girls with this kind of unfair treatment. :)

I really can not think of anything right now but I'm sure when I was a child I had wanted many things that I didn't get. I had a simple childhood. I grew up with animals, gardening, etc xoxoxoxoxoxo

I wanted one of those Jeep Barbie power wheels. Play kitchens. Disneyland of course. And im sure a few other things I cant think off the top of my head right now. We were also very poor growing up. Still poor now but not like that. I have a daughter and I try to get her everything she asks for. And I to try to get different family members to get it. Im working on getting an expensive play kitchen for her and having like 5 people pitch in for it. I do not want her to live the life I had. And I will do everything I can to make sure of it. (not just because we were poor and didnt get material things, but also other things as well, clothes, love, etc.)

There were alot of things I would have liked to have but like you my family wasn't rich...I always wanted the new doll that came out at christmas...But I never got it and always understood why...My parents always tried their best to come close to want I wanted though.

yes... so many things so to speak. The one thing that I can never forget was the art classes. When I was a child I always believed that I'm good in painting, like I can draw beautiful landscapes and even portraits. When I asked my mother if I can join the art classes which was only only offered during summer time, she turned me down. She said there are more important things in life than painting and that I don't have the talent at all. My heart was broken and I stopped my passion for the arts that very day.