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Other Toy Boards => Introductions & Welcomes => Topic started by: 80sgirl on Wednesday 26 February 2014, 07:02 pm
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Hello! I discovered this site a few years ago while trying to find some info on 80's toys. I kept coming back to it. If i did a google search and saw ghostofthedoll i would have to click and have a look. It's a perfect name. I always feel drawn to it. A few weeks ago i decided to get my own account. Finally. Don't know why I didn't do so earlier. Hey ho!
I am an 80's child and a 90's teen.
I fell out of love with my toys for a few years. Shame on me. Music fandom kind of took over & I was suddenly way too mature for them. Who was I trying to kid? :) A few years passed before my 80s-girl-heart began to thaw back through. My then mid-teen-90's-self began to pine for all my old toys, but they had gone. I was heartbroken to discover that my toys had been sold for mere pennies a piece at a carboot sale several years earlier. 'Nancy Drew' by Tuscadero (1994) is the perfect athemn for anyone who knows this feeling...& it was! I understand though. I was spoilt toy-wise as a kid, I couldn't expect my parents to hang onto them forever on the off-chance that my true future self might be an immature nostalgia head. :)
Luckily, a trip into the attic meant the discovery of a box or two of toys that the carboot goers didn't want (although they got their grubby mits on most of it. & there was alot. Lol.) These poor little toys have remained close by my side ever since. I felt sorry for them really. Poor little unwanted toys. :)
I am going to let selected items go though. This time I am in control and I will know that if I swap/sell them on here, they will be going to a good home and loved by a proper 80's toy fan. Better still, I get to absorb all the nostalgia on this wonderful site while raising some money for things I need.
My fave 80's things at the moment are Pob, Jem, She-Ra, Victoria Plum, Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake.
Thank you for reading!
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Hi 80sgirl and welcome to my forum! ;D