Did you keep any of your toys & pass them to your children?

Hi moonchild, my mother stitched/made some of the toys, she used to do doll making and painting on the cardboard etc., those are still with us, she kept with a cover to avoid dust and also to protect or not to get spoiled. I will show them to my son now. My mother is no more but what she made toys for us are still existing, those we kept like her remembrance.

My parents kept quite a few of my old toys. I passed on to my kids my Lego collection which is quite big as well as my Meccano set for my son. Other things apart from the board games that were saved were an old skateboard from the 1970's, my old cricket set, lots of my old Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars and a whole heap of marbles. My kids only got most of these things a couple of years ago when we were in Melbourne visiting the family and my parents came out with all this stuff. We ended up coming home with a car that was absolutely full!

I make a collection of dolls at home and all I can share with my children are the dolls which I think only the girls will be happy as for the boys I will ask my partner to share his toys which can be very useful too.

Sorry this is kind of out of topic. Hope you'd welcome my sharing this :-) From my childhood, what I managed to save are my story books. My parents bought me like an encyclopedia set of story books ranging from nursery rhymes to fairy tales to arabian nights to fables and folklore, etc. I admit I haven't read all of them yet, but my children now enjoys the same stories from these books. My son recently had to share a short story to his English class, so he used these books as reference. I'm so happy that I have passed on these books and knowledge as well to my kids.

I have a stuff animal that is pretty old but i perfer keeping it to myself (also due to the fact I don't have any kids :P). To me, if your at an old age and you have a toy from your child hood, I think it's best to keep it to yourself. You don't have forever to live and I think you should have mementos of the times when of your past. It's great to have to have mementos of the "good times" lol. I'm not saying it's wrong to give your child your child hood toys but you might want to keep atleast one to yourself. You would also be suprised of the value your toy may have due to the history of it. Some old toys can be quite valuable. Especially with the economic times we're going through. It's good to know you can make a few bucks with some useless old toys :)

i wish i could do so but all my toys have been passed to all of my 6 younger siblings so the toys suffered wear and tear and therefore not presentable to my future babies...but i do have a lot of baby clothes kept and i can't wait to see them worn by my babies someday... those are the things that has sentimental value to me..=)

I lost all my toys in the last move we did from Ohio to Calif after high school. So I have nothing to pass to my kids, but I did make sure I kept some of their toys to give to their children. They really like that! They think it is great to hear about their parents when they were young and to have something that was Daddy's when he was same age.. is really fun for the kids.

i still got my old match box cars, i passed them to my son. and wanted to pass them to the grandkids but.. yeah

Well I dont have any kids, but yes I did keep some of my childhood toys I kept my barbie and my action figures, and a few other things. and since I have no children yet, I'll probably pass some of my old toy items to my little niece when shes old enough to play with them.

I have one toy I am still keeping until now. I had it when I was 4 years old and it was my mom's friend who gave it to me during my birthday. I am hoping to pass it down to my first child. Its a stuffed animal, a bunny. I am already 27 years old now and I guess it has been with me for 23 years already. Wow! That's a keeper...=)

My mom always keep our toys for the future kids in the family and the oldest toys I guess we have is 12years old and it was my brother's toy which is now passed to our nephew, the good thing about using the old ones is that whenever it gets broken you wouldn't scold the kids since it was spent wisely...

Like most is the most suitable, if I have a toy, when I was a kid would get out on his children, if he (she) like I want to give him (her).

I've no toys.